Termed-out police commissioners Ricardo Garcia Acosta and Omar Farmer, whom city council declined to reappoint, aim to send a statement to the federal judge who oversees Oakland's police department
If Oakland is going to have a redundant Police Commission, then the elected officials who select the commissioners are going to have to do a better job of recruiting and selecting the commissioners, and not just defaulting to whatever half-bright ideological cronies looking to make a name for themselves in progressive circles happen to be around. The departing commissioners’ proposed submission to the court is proof enough that they were not suitable for the job.
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Why hire a Chief of Police when that person’s ability to do his or her job is undermined by myriad committees whose members often have neither the time or necessary experience to support the Chief.
So they lied when the Chief quit and they said they had a great relationship and met “countless times” (what police chief wants to meet with a commission “countless times” over basic stuff?
But I digress….this is now saying the opposite and reinforces my original hypothesis: Floyd Mitchell quit due to our soggy police commission.
Oakland politics and the resulting misgovernance is a searing indicted of every leftist trope ever uttered. All three of their professional sports teams (Raiders, Warriors, and A's) left the city for safer pastures. The former mayor and several of her associates are under federal indictment for corruption. The city routinely devolves into open rioting over the slightest provocation. The crime rate is among the worst in the nation. The police are afraid to enforce the law. The local school system is a chaotic, dysfunctional mess. There is a palpable sense of unease and incipient violence in virtually every public area. There are huge areas crawling with homeless people living in tents and under the elevated freeway. Trash and other debris are scattered everywhere. Yet, to hear the locals tell it, the "real" problems are "racism" and "rich people." There are worse cities in America, but Oakland is in the top five in almost every bad category one can measure that makes a place a poor choice to live. To top it off, there is a complete lack of self-awareness among the politicians causing these issues as to how their own governance is the primary source of all of the above conditions. It is dystopia, not as a future-fictional novel, but as an actual place in in real life.
Why not bring in a commission of amateurs to oversee the city council, the city attorneys office and the budget department as well, they couldn’t do any worse.
Why do a nationwide search for a top notch professional police chief and have them answer to a group of political hacks and anti police activists.
Incompetence is rampant throughout city’s departments evidenced by them failing at every level of providing services to its citizens.
I believe Chief Floyd Mitchell quit because he realized what he was surrounded by — corruption at every level. He saw it for what it was: a criminal organization operating under the color of law. And once he recognized that, he wanted no part of it.
They are both just butt hurt that they've lost what they perceived to be positions of power. It's time to appoint folks with law enforcement experience, training and/or education. Former LEOs or prosecutors would be a great asset to the commission.
Putting aside all the obvious garbage of these assholes, what kind of idiot would say that "disciplinary action" is not "punishment?" These are absolutely equivalent terms.
If Oakland is going to have a redundant Police Commission, then the elected officials who select the commissioners are going to have to do a better job of recruiting and selecting the commissioners, and not just defaulting to whatever half-bright ideological cronies looking to make a name for themselves in progressive circles happen to be around. The departing commissioners’ proposed submission to the court is proof enough that they were not suitable for the job.
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Why hire a Chief of Police when that person’s ability to do his or her job is undermined by myriad committees whose members often have neither the time or necessary experience to support the Chief.
So they lied when the Chief quit and they said they had a great relationship and met “countless times” (what police chief wants to meet with a commission “countless times” over basic stuff?
But I digress….this is now saying the opposite and reinforces my original hypothesis: Floyd Mitchell quit due to our soggy police commission.
Oakland politics and the resulting misgovernance is a searing indicted of every leftist trope ever uttered. All three of their professional sports teams (Raiders, Warriors, and A's) left the city for safer pastures. The former mayor and several of her associates are under federal indictment for corruption. The city routinely devolves into open rioting over the slightest provocation. The crime rate is among the worst in the nation. The police are afraid to enforce the law. The local school system is a chaotic, dysfunctional mess. There is a palpable sense of unease and incipient violence in virtually every public area. There are huge areas crawling with homeless people living in tents and under the elevated freeway. Trash and other debris are scattered everywhere. Yet, to hear the locals tell it, the "real" problems are "racism" and "rich people." There are worse cities in America, but Oakland is in the top five in almost every bad category one can measure that makes a place a poor choice to live. To top it off, there is a complete lack of self-awareness among the politicians causing these issues as to how their own governance is the primary source of all of the above conditions. It is dystopia, not as a future-fictional novel, but as an actual place in in real life.
Why not bring in a commission of amateurs to oversee the city council, the city attorneys office and the budget department as well, they couldn’t do any worse.
Why do a nationwide search for a top notch professional police chief and have them answer to a group of political hacks and anti police activists.
Incompetence is rampant throughout city’s departments evidenced by them failing at every level of providing services to its citizens.
I believe Chief Floyd Mitchell quit because he realized what he was surrounded by — corruption at every level. He saw it for what it was: a criminal organization operating under the color of law. And once he recognized that, he wanted no part of it.
They are both just butt hurt that they've lost what they perceived to be positions of power. It's time to appoint folks with law enforcement experience, training and/or education. Former LEOs or prosecutors would be a great asset to the commission.
Putting aside all the obvious garbage of these assholes, what kind of idiot would say that "disciplinary action" is not "punishment?" These are absolutely equivalent terms.