SF News Oakland City Council Approves Additional Police Academies to Staff Up Amid Spike In Violence The Oakland City Council on Tuesday voted to authorize two additional police academies over the next two years in order to help fill vacancies and address attrition in the police department.
SF News Data Shows Black People Are Pulled Over By SF Cops at an Even Higher Rate Than Three Years Ago Data from a recent KGO/ABC 7 investigation shows that Black people continue to be pulled over by SF police at a much higher rate than white people — and higher than even a few years ago.
SF News Op-Ed: Restructuring Police Department Oversight If the George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests are to have a lasting impact on police practices in this country, they must be accompanied by legislative action.
SF Politics Breed’s New Budget Defunds Police by $120 Million to Cut $1.5 Billion Deficit SFPD and the sheriff’s department get defunded by the tune of $120 million in Mayor Breed’s just-announced, $26 billion two-year budget.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Berkeley Approves Removing Cops From Traffic Stops The SF School Board is moving ahead with a distance-learning plan, arsons have been ticking up in the city during the pandemic, and the Berkeley City Council voted last night on a measure to create a new non-police department in charge of traffic stops.
SF News Berkeley May Become the First City in the U.S. to Ban Police From Making Traffic Stops The City of Berkeley, which has often in its history been at the forefront of progressive movements, is considering a proposal that would remove all police from traffic enforcement, and create a new department that would use unarmed personnel to make traffic stops and issue tickets.
SF News SF To Pay Nearly Half a Million Dollars to Settle Alleged Police Misconduct Cases It will surely interest the “Defund the Police” movement that San Francisco is paying out a combined $455,000 in settlements to a man SFPD shot in the back, and another they injured during the 2017 skateboard “hill bomb.”
