{"id":574493,"date":"2021-06-26T11:35:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=574493"},"modified":"2021-06-26T11:35:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:35:57","slug":"oakland-city-council-votes-to-reallocate-police-funding-despite-spike-in-violent-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oakland-city-council-votes-to-reallocate-police-funding-despite-spike-in-violent-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland City Council Votes To Reallocate Police Funding Despite Spike In Violent Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foakland-city-council-votes-to-reallocate-police-funding-despite-spike-in-violent-crime%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=574493&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Defund-Oakland-PD.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Despite a recent spike in violent street crimes and homicides, the Oakland City Council approved a two-year budget on Thursday night that shifts more than $18 million from the police department to relatively new city programs and social services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this particular budget we are showing that we can not only reimagine, we can take action,\u201d said Oakland City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas after the 7-2 vote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/local\/article\/Oakland-council-adopts-budget-that-cuts-police-16272993.php\">According<\/a> to the San Francisco Chronicle, the $3.8 billion adopted budget was a counterproposal to Democratic Mayor Libby Schaff\u2019s plan to increase police funding slightly. She said the cuts would \u201cforce our officers to work even more overtime shifts, which are expensive and unsafe for officers and residents alike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The dissenting votes came from Councilmembers Treva Reid and Loren Taylor, who represent districts in East Oakland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole problem is the focus on defunding,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/oakland-police-funding-city-council-cuts-opd\/10832163\/\">said<\/a> Councilman Taylor in an interview with KGO News. \u201cMy residents in East Oakland overwhelmingly say let\u2019s make sure we have a solid baseline of support until these alternatives are in place in a way we can depend on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The head of the police union <a href=\"https:\/\/sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com\/2021\/06\/24\/oakland-city-council-votes-defund-police-stripping-17-million-department-budget\/\">told KPIX News<\/a> that City Council\u2019s decision means about 50 vacant positions on the force will not be filled, predicting that would result in slower 911 response times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two no votes are from council members in districts that are most impacted by violent crime,\u201d said Barry Donelan, president of the Oakland Police Officers Association. \u201cThe message they\u2019re saying is \u2018we may support your programs but we do not want less public safety at a time of skyrocketing violent crime.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Donelan told KGO that \u201ccities from coast to coast have looked at and discarded \u2018defund the police,\u2019 but here in Oakland, we seem to have doubled-down on this experiment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an email to constituents, Councilmember Bas said, \u201c75% of those 911 calls are for low-level, non-criminal incidents.\u201d She said a new program would support \u201calternative crisis responders\u201d to answer some calls related to mental health episodes. In addition, the Department of Transportation would relieve the police of handling situations such as blocked driveways, she said.<\/p>\n<p>KPIX <a href=\"https:\/\/sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com\/2021\/06\/24\/oakland-city-council-votes-defund-police-stripping-17-million-department-budget\/\">reported<\/a>, \u201cThe more than $17 million that the City Council budget team would redirect to the Department of Violence Prevention doubles that department\u2019s budget,\u201d adding, \u201cIt would also quadruple the amount the city allocates to the department from the general fund.\u201d According to the outlet, \u201cThat added money would employ violence interrupters and community ambassadors in flatland neighborhoods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than $300,000 shifted from policing will go to the Youth Employment Program in East Oakland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that until we have proven alternatives, we cannot destroy Oakland\u2019s current public safety system at a time when we are losing so many to gun violence,\u201d Mayor Schaff said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Activist groups praised Councilmember Bas and Carroll Fife for \u201cpushing back against Schaff\u2019s blank check\u201d for the police department.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released after Thursday\u2019s vote, the Anti Police-Terror Project said the move gave \u201cmuch-needed hope\u201d to organizers and allies \u201cacross the city working to defund the police and invest in community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a recent spike in violent street crimes and homicides, the Oakland City Council approved a two-year budget on Thursday night that shifts more than $18 million from the police &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281414,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Defund-Oakland-PD.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Oakland City Council Votes To Reallocate Police Funding Despite Spike In Violent Crime","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Defund-Oakland-PD.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Oakland City Council Votes To Reallocate Police Funding Despite Spike In Violent Crime","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}