Oakland Residents for Peaceful Neighborhoods

Peace of mind in Oakland: Hello Everyone. I am really pleased and reassured to see how active our community is. It gives me peace of mind. I just moved in five months ago. Since then I have had my house shot at, drug deals near my home, prostitution, and suspicious individuals scoping out my street for the next burglary. My question is, what can I do about it? – from a Maxwell Park email list, Feb. 22, 2008

City Hall Ignores Storeowner's Safety Plea Temescal hardware store

Southern California Developer's Shills Exposed Promoting councilmember's pet project

Children's Hospital Overreaches with Tax for Tower Decisive defeat in round one

Why Did Dellums Leave Congress? Blames local crisis on nation

Cleaning Up After a Shooting Near MacArthur BART

Summit Meeting on Police Understaffing Question is, when?

From Piano Store to Taco Truck, Depolicing Kills Oakland

Attempted Break-In, Neighborhood Left Vulnerable North Oakland home

Don't Have Community Support? Fake It! Carlos Plazola shills for developer

As Councilmember Smiles, Dimond Peet's Store Hit Quan's chief of staff replies

Girl Robbed Next to Library Branch in the Hills No public safety around public facility

Oakland Remains a City of Homicides Kill rate five times greater than New York City

State Senator Perata Carjacked in Oakland Thugs wanted car for drag racing

Police Make Arrests in Asian Restaurant Robberies Stretched OPD's professional work

Useless Button Tries to Polish Measure Y Image

Daytime Killing Two Blocks from City Hall Near Dellums federal building

Teen Murderer Knew Oakland Doesn't Find Killers Alameda killing

Noise Laws Can Be Enforced Peoria gets results

Developer's Last-Minute Plans Insult Oakland Did Quan advise him?

Dellums' Outreach Plan Based on Misrepresentation More pork for Youth UpRising

City-Funded Agency Demonstrates Against Police AYPAL gets $200,000 a year

M.D. Says Oakland Must Silence the Noise Stress, high blood pressure, heart disease

Mayor, Let's Have That Conversation on Police Staffing Following town hall meeting

Youth UpRising's Cozy Deal with Oversight Chief $56,000 contract greases wheels

Factoid: Oakland had the highest rate of violent crime of any large city in California last year – 190.5 incidents for every 10,000 people, according to a Times analysis of recently released FBI data. That's nearly 2 1/2 times the rate in Los Angeles. (Los Angeles Times, Nov. 11, 2007)

City Resumes Role as Waste Management's Enforcer Pay bill right away or be liened

Alameda Police Nab Oakland Murder Suspects Shot 15-year-old girl in back

Well Dressed "Rat Pack" Attacks Bystander At noon on Piedmont Ave.

Mayor: "Want 1,100 police? Then Let's Go There" Exchange at town hall

Robbed Three Times, Subway Shop Closes While City does "outreach"

Community Service, not Glory, for This Gutter Rapper Snoop Dogg

Councilmembers: Got a Problem with 1,100 Police?

Forget Auto Theft, Let's Legislate on Dogs

Budget Flimflam, Public Danger Measure Y again

Waste Management Wins No-Penalty Deal from Dellums Plus insult to apartments

Stats Show Residents Fight Back Against Robbers Desperate in de-policed Oakland

Letter to Dellums: "My co-worker was mugged last night…"

Mayor of De-Policed City: "Recall me" Refuses to add police

Quan-AMG Anti-Senior Project Dealt Heavy Blow Polluted-air locale rejected

Home Break-ins Go Daytime in Montclair District Councilmember denies crimes

Youth UpRising Welcomes Gutter Rapper Too Short tries to scrub reputation

Numerical Gobbledygook About Police Understaffing Councilmember misinforms

Too Early To Give In To Waste Management City goes easy on corporation

Thugs Shoot at Police after Street Killing Officers duck for cover

Asst. Chief Admits Hundreds of Police Needed Goes halfway on need for staff

Auto Burglary at Grand Lake Farmers' Market Council gave vendors street parking

Dellums' "No Comment" Changes to a Comment Supported Bey mob to end

Gathering Acorns While the Forest Burns City Hall does National Night Out

Temescal District Wins Crime Wave Award Latest in endless series

New York Times Reports Oakland's Shame Bailey Murder and Raid on Bey Mob

Los Angeles Adds 330 Police in Two Years Net gain of officers

Council Wants to Clone Youth UpRising All Over Oakland

Maxwell Park Residents: Oakland Needs 1,100 Police Protest at city council meeting

Auto Thefts Blanket Oakland Oakland is huge chunk of Alameda County's vehicle crime

Can This Program Prevent Violence? Pathways to Change is expensive drop in bucket

Not Hit by Stray Bullet Yet, Residents Write to Council Photo of thug's shrine

City Outsources Public Planning for Trade Center

Councilmembers Don't Care About Prosecuting Crime Larry Reid, John Russo reply

Fireworks Canceled - Get Ready for Fireworks

Corruption of Culture, Culture of Corruption Budget game, campaign money, no library

Downtown Oakland; Neighborhood Oakland

Three Steps to Public Safety ORPN commentary in Montclarion

Mayor Gives Up Airport Rent-a-Cop Business Years of putting profit before safety

City Hall Plugs Hole in Rockridge Dike After crime wave washes over

All the Garbage Waste Management and councilmember Quan

Fees Up, Services Down in Dellums' Budget Seven pointed questions for City Hall

Couple's First Visit to Oakland Is Last Nightmare at Veteran's Hall

PUEBLO Shown Campaigning Against Peaceful Neighborhoods Documents show

Guardian Angels Come to Oakland Sign of total failure of City government

Brunner's Excellent Evasion Youth would escort BART passengers through danger zones

Merchant Alert in Oakland's Dimond District Warning posters up over a month

Oakland Thugs Boast for YouTube Video

Dellums' Top Staffer Is Also Clorox Director But leaves office after ORPN exposé

City Raises Alarm Fee Police Still Arrive Too Late

Dellums' Rhetoric Boils Down to Tax Increase Mayor wants another LLAD vote

Chamber Survey of Business Demands Public Safety Policy ideas fall short

Carjack in Oakland, Get Caught in Union City Oakland's huge auto theft problem

A Holdup, A Killing, A Library Pizzeria owner shoots back

The Blight of Gutter Rap Purple City album with Too Short

Cafe Employee Beaten: How Councilmember Reports MacArthur Blvd. crime wave

Sideshow Homicide – Everyone Packs a Gun?

Get Rid of Imus – and Sexist Rap, Too Youth agency welcomes gutter rapper

Mayor Seeks More Police Officers (Sorry, that's Los Angeles)

City Staff Starts Campaign for LLAD Tax Hike After voters said No in 2006

Lobbyist Firm Donates to City Campaign, Gets No-Bid Contract Measure N

Gunplay for the Seniors Councilmember doesn't care

Dellums Doubletalk Ignores Police Shortage Reorganizing instead of hiring

Attacks on Oaklanders Up More than 29 Percent

Quan Digs In Against Constituents For Encino developer

Brunner Pits Oaklander Against Oaklander – Again

Councilmember, Developer Dump Refried Beans on Laurel District

City Hall Talks While Police Crisis Worsens

City Council Holds Back East Oakland Library Two years late, maybe never

Councilmember's Oakland must be in alternate universe: Councilmember Jane Brunner, trying to comment on public safety issues, writes, "I have heard frustration from neighbors who see young people dealing drugs or harassing their neighbors. The police often come by, put them in the car, take them away and, within four hours, they are back out on the streets." (Oakland Tribune, Feb. 12, 2007) Oakland police do not "often come by," because the city council persists in maintaining only half a police department. Does councilmember Brunner really believe the unreal premise she needs for yet another evasion of the council's responsibility?

Police Shut Down Rapper's Liquor Store Show Youth UpRising favorite Too Short

Neighborhoods in the Hills Lose Public Safety Montclair, Claremont, Hiller Highlands

Police Chief Tucker Misleads Residents About Fingerprints Maxwell Park meeting

Mayor's Inauguration Includes Hyphy Celebration Socially conscious thizzin'

For Oakland, a Calm New Year's Eve – Police Presence Works

Listen, Oakland Officials, to National Debate Over Rap

Oakland Thugs Riot in Concord Not tolerated there

Live in this "city" at your own risk: Four youth tried to break into my house today around noon. My neighbor called the police and said that it took them around an hour to respond. The youth were chased down the street, and one fired a gun at the ground to warn my neighbor off. (About an area near freeway 580 and west of High St. From an email list.)

KRON News: Crime Hurting Dimond Commercial District

Police Department Has No Fingerprint Staff Councilmember makes excuses

Berkeley Homicides Double – From 2 to 4 Other crime categories down

Assaults and Thefts Surround City-Funded Senior Housing Lincoln Court

Neighborhoods in Hills Lose Public Safety Citywide solution is at least 1,100 police

Defend Our NSCs and Access to Police Dept.! Safety mission watered down

Nightly shooting battle at house: From an Oakland email list, reporting on nightly shots into a house because of a feud or dispute over street business: The innocent neighbor next door after over 40 years cannot stay at her house at night because bullets come through the windows. Her tenant downstairs who has a small child moved out. Several bullets have penetrated her apartment. This has been going on for some time now. Hey, maybe they should watch TV and learn how to do stakeouts or something. Something has to be done – this has gone on far too-o-o-o long.
[The location is near MacArthur and High. The police, not the residents, should do the stakeout, but these people are not important enough, and Oakland has only half a police department.]

League of Women Voters Approves Campaign Corruption Forget clean government

KTVU Expose: Arrests Down 45%, Crime Up 25%

Father Attacks Rec Center Director Police unable to protect City employees

Woman Exits Mingles, Is Shot Dead City Hall compromises with culture of disrespect

Voters to Council: No Palace Library Huge bond proposal defeated

3/12 Schedule No Substitute for Enough Police

City Stages New Raid on Measure Y Funds Not authorized under "violence prevention"

Fewer Police; Chief's More Desperate Spin While he mocks hiring goal that he endorsed

300 Oakland Children March against Crime

City Commission Tells Developer: Change It At MacArthur and High

Councilmember Brooks' Mistake on Police Understaffing

Unpoliced Oakland: Aiming to reduce vehicle theft, Berkeley officials and activists discussed whether to offer residents a device like The Club or a hidden LoJack tracking transmitter. Activist Vincent Casalaina favors the latter: "Unobservable systems make thieves think, 'Would it be better if I just went over to Oakland?'" (Daily Californian, Sept. 25, 2006)

City Places Teens In Cockroach-Infested Apartments Outsourcing to agencies fails

Oakland Sideshows Go Regional West Sacramento thrill-seeker shot

Councilmember Campaigned for Tax with Public Money Quan raided City treasury

Airport Rejects National Guard Oakland wants Rent-A-Cop profit

A "Top 100" Squad – or a Walking Officer?

Committee Prefers Politics to Oversight Supposed to watch Measure Y funds

Jail Closed, and Results Are In Police work slowed, wasted

Sign the Oak to Ninth Petition! Ensure public safety for current Oaklanders first

Measure Y Money Promotes Sideshows At Youth UpRising

Politicians Squabble Over Crime, Ignore Understaffing

Resident Blogs Street Crime in Cry for Help

Quan's Misinformation on Violence Funds

Questions About Kaiser Center

Despite Cheery Tribune, Police Staffing Shrinks Further

MacArthur-High Project Arouses Community Opposition

One-Eyed Councilmember Remains Blind to Public Safety It's Jean Quan

The city council voted itself a pay raise at its June 27, 2006 meeting. The buddies at the Ethics Commission say inflation was 3.2% but authorized a 4% raise. The first job of City government is public safety. Do you feel 4% safer than last year – or any safer?

Civic Honor to the "Enough Is Enough!" Signers With list of 1,100

De La Fuente Concedes

Congratulations, Mayor Dellums!

Wed., June 14, 2006, 10 p.m.: A crowd of 20 to 30 teenagers at Foothill and 55th Ave. stops cars, surrounds them, and jumps on them. Drivers desperately try to back up and get away.

Politicians and Board Agree on Stiffing Oakland Residents

Gunplay Up Close

Teacher Urges No on Measure B Bonds

Oakland's Auto Theft Syndrome

Council Rushes Five Tax Hikes

Councilmember Peddles Phony Staffing Numbers and City Hall tries to help her

Eliminating Park Rangers While Raising LLAD Tax

De La Fuente Boldly Sells Failure as Success

Oakland's do-it-yourself police service: Resident emails a report to neighbors about her stolen car. Councilmember Quan's full reply: "Sorry. Drive around...80 percent found within a mile from home. Within a week."

The Moxie of an Oakland Armed Robbery Victim

City Pulls Community Police Out of Community Policing

Grand-Lake Killings, Grand Folly at City Hall

Police Board Exposes Crisis and Scandal

Oakland Fails State Audit of Tax-Credit Handouts Scandal of enterprise zones

Playground for Punks

City: Have a Budget Surplus, So Let's Raise Taxes

Don't File This One Under 'Stupid'

Council's Cop Recruiting Shortchanges Oakland

On Tuesday, Emergency; On Friday, All Is Well

SF Can Recruit Police; Why Not Oakland?

Out of Control: More Than Homicides

Petition and Rally Jam City Hall

Young Workers Speak Out on Crime

"Yes, we're armed at this store. This is Oakland." So said the manager of a cell phone outlet on Telegraph Avenue. Two pistol-armed robbers attacked him. After being slammed to the floor, the manager shot before they did. They fled. Oakland Tribune, March 5

"Safety First" Group Defames Oakland Activist

Short-term Gimmicks Doomed to Fail

Image Crisis Stirs City Hall to Frenzy

Factoid: Sideshows never went away, but the Tribune reports a heavy night Feb. 26, 2006. Sideshows erupted at 14th and Franklin, Jack London Square, and High and San Leandro St. Public safety should be number one priority for city government, but the council is too busy dealing in political pork.

March 7 Rally Has Council Scrambling

Police Crisis: Tribune Lets Voice of People In

Public Safety Demand Hits Mayoral Candidates

Police Recruiting Spirals Downward

Bureaucratic Bloat Undermines Community Policing NSCs re-organized

Patrick McCullough: Triumph of a Hero

Teens Did NOT Rob for Food

City Adds Hundreds of Staff But No Police From 1994 to 2005

Councilmembers Feel Heat for Neglecting Public Safety

Merchants Across Oakland Report Increased Crime

Petition, March 7 Rally for Peaceful Neighborhoods!

North Oakland Meeting Demands Safe Neighborhoods

Clorox to City Hall: Clean up the crime

Factoid: "The cost for a seismic retrofit permit in Oakland is 10 percent of the construction cost, with a minimum permit fee of $750. Other cities average about $310; San Leandro charges $250." – John Bouey, letter to Oakland Tribune, Jan. 30, 2006

Reviewing Mayor Brown's Failure to Staff the Police Department

Dirty Tricks for Another Regressive Parcel Tax [LLAD]

Edes Avenue Made Safe for a Day

The List of Tax Swindles

More Tax Cheating: Measure Q This Time More money, reduced staff

Whose Spin, Brunner's or Tucker's?

He Can't Speak Straight on Latino Homicides

Police Staffing Plummets in 2005

City Delays; Dealers Use Neighbor's Property

The Difference in Community Leaders Jacquee Castain calls for community policing

Do We Have a City Hall or an Insane Asylum?

Columnist Stinnett: Council Should Add More Police

Dirty Tricks for Another Regressive Parcel Tax

Fruitvale Adds Demand for Peaceful Neighborhood

Factoid: Nearly 40% of traffic collisions in Oakland become hit and runs. Welcome to the lawless city. (OPD Traffic Operations Section statistics)

City Inflates Police Count at Town Hall

2005 Homicides Surpass 2004

Police Understaffing Drives Businesses out of Oakland

City Unable to Recruit Police?

City Abolishes Patrol Beats

With Police Understaffed, Black Muslims Take Down Two Liquor Stores

One "Major Incident" Brings Police Service to Halt

Auto Theft: Oakland #6 in United States

Police Department Issues Letter on Crime Reduction Teams

Councilmember Protests Cutback of Crime Reduction Teams

Across US, Only Oakland Has Halloween Crime Spree

Councilmember's Housing Project Hit by Vandalism

Riot at OHA Property on 58th Street

City Disbands Police Beat Health Unit

Ishmael Reed on the Peace-and-Quiet Bandits

Adams Point Kidnapping Not Oakland Police's Top Priority

Political Squabbling Over Measure Y Pork Begins De La Fuente versus Nadel

Thug-Culture Riot at City's Kaiser Auditorium

Oakland's Toleration of Boom Cars Drives Couple to Oregon

Understaffed OPD Cannot Shut Down 23rd Avenue Drug Bazaar

City Council Lavishes Money on Nonprofit Slumlord Grants to OCH

Park Rangers Cut; Evening Patrol Slashed

Filmgoer Says Held Hostage to Mayhem Vehicle Stereos Overwhelm Public Cinema

"The responsibility for the chaos in Oakland due to rampant vicious crime rests squarely on the Oakland City Council. ... It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the police are understaffed.... Further, the Oakland City Council does nothing but undercut the authority of the Oakland Police Department in performing its duties, while taking generous amounts of money for themselves and their petty concerns."

– J.W. Yager, Letter to editor (excerpts), Montclarion, Aug. 5, 2005

July Police Academy Sells Training Slots to Other Cities

Council Queen to Dimond Residents: You're Imagining Crime

Mandatory Overtime Leaves OPD Near Collapse

City Grants Used to Campaign Against More Police PUEBLO broke the law

LA Mayor Villaraigosa Calls for 1,300 More Police

A Trivial Exchange

Council Tells July 6 hearing: No 802 Police, Now Pay Up

Coming July 6: Council Does Damage Control

Councilmember Stumbles on Prostitution

Staffing Figures in City Budget Are Fiction

"Stop the Bleeding"

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