+++++++ one million. Aside from the social aspect of having police live in your city is an economic one: Oakland is poor, it's cant afford to be sending money to other cities in the form of high salaries. The $200,000 cops make should be taxed here and spent here. <div>
I'm from Philadelphia where no city employees are allowed to live outside the city. It used to be the case in CA that cities could make rules like that, but now there is a state law prohibiting cities from doing that !!</div>
<div>State law or no, the city could maybe decide to prioritize hiring and promoting candidates that live in Oakland. Idk if that is illegal. <br><br><br>On Monday, May 13, 2013, Andrew wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Given OPDs record, I don't think adding more police will solve anything.<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_23151173/oakland-police-too-quick-fire" target="_blank">http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_23151173/oakland-police-too-quick-fire</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>What we need is a residency requirement In order to work for the Oakland Police Department you need to live in Oakland. You can even live in the hills if you don't want to mingle with the common folk. But coming in to work from Concord to try and police a community that struggles with extreme poverty and broken social services is not right.</div>
<div><br></div><div>--Andrew</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div>On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Marina Kukso <span dir="ltr"><<a>marina.kukso@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>hey eddan and others who are following this, it would be great if we could add details about the current situation with the police chief to the wiki: <a href="http://oaklandwiki.org/Three_Police_Chiefs_in_Three_Days" target="_blank">http://oaklandwiki.org/Three_Police_Chiefs_in_Three_Days</a><span><font color="#888888"><br>
<br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888">- marina<br></font></span></div><div><div><div><br><br><div>On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 5:21 PM, GtwoG PublicOhOne <span dir="ltr"><<a>g2g-public01@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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YOs-<br>
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It's well known in cog sci & experimental psych, that adverse
scrutiny causes a decline in many human performance measures. This
should come as no surprise: trying to accomplish any task becomes
more difficult when someone in the background is laughing at you,
saying you can't do it, finding fault, and ready to impose some kind
of penalty for mistakes. <br>
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It's also the case in employment situations: employees who are under
adverse scrutiny tend to make more mistakes on the job. Some
attention that would otherwise be focused on the primary task, is
diverted to being aware of the boss who might suddenly impose a
punishment.<br>
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So here we are in the robbery capital of America, with our police
department in a logical double-bind (damned if you do, damned if you
don't) between four conflicting demands: <br>
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a) stop the crime wave, b) but do it with 1/4 to 1/3 fewer officers
than a comparable-sized city should have, c) and don't go overboard
on suspects, d) all of this while we keep you under adverse
scrutiny.<br>
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So is it any surprise that OPD isn't functioning as it should? <br>
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The first response of a culture with deep roots in puritanism is to
assert moral righteousness and seek to punish. This is true in our
response to crime, and it's also true in our response to police
misconduct and other faults of LE agencies. These dynamics can
become more extreme when their underlying causes are more extreme:
Oakland has a long history as a violent town, and America has a long
history as a violent culture. Our popular entertainment ceaselessly
offers up a river of gore for our "viewing pleasure." <br>
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So, a few modest proposals:<br>
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One: <br>
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A major source of crime is in systematic denial of opportunity to
urban youth, beginning with inadequate education, followed by no
access to college, systemic unemployment, and no opportunities for
small business start-ups. What's needed here is reform on all three
fronts. <br>
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One thing that can be done from the community level, is
microenterprise development: helping people get started in small
business that employ a up to a half dozen people. Very often this
takes relatively little capital, but much hands-on to educate people
who are seeking to start microenterprises, and work with them over
time to help them succeed. When it succeeds, it has a multiplier
effect: it also attracts conventional capital to an area, as a "good
bet" for more conventional small business startups. <br>
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Two:<br>
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The fact that Oakland needs to hire approx. another 200 officers, is
also an opportunity for a culture change at OPD. An incentive
structure should be put in place to hire officers who have 4-year
college degrees in any field that's even remotely relevant,
including history and the social sciences. The same incentives
should be offered to current employees of OPD: including payment of
tuition as well as higher pay upon completion of a 4-year degree. <br>
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If that sounds unrealistic, add up the cost of the crime itself, and
compare to the cost of a college-educated police department.<br>
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There's one other change that might bring in more candidates from
backgrounds that are more suitable to the realities of the Bay
Area. This is going to sound like a liberal stereotype, but none
the less the reasoning is sound: <br>
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At present, OPD rejects any applicant with a history of illegal drug
use, and fires any employee who tests positive for illegal drugs.
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