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This is how you know that Sam Singer is a professional liar. He knows the recruitment pool for OPD gets smaller every year because he works for them. He knows he’s lying saying “hire more police” when there are literally no more police to hire.
Weird timing on this given the OPOA's recent troubles on their overtime millionaire scam getting aired out, and pretty suggestive that their flunky media go-tos are the first ones off the block with the story and went straight to the OPOA for a comment.
As people come to San Francisco and see how lovely it is, I want EVERYONE TO KNOW it’s the SAME guys in the Epstein Files that have been funding the Doom Loop narrative about our city. This is a fact. This has a money trail. It has a paper trail. It was an influence operation.
Ken Houston has nominated himself for the Vice Chair position of Public Safety Committee. During a recent PSC meeting, he was recorded by viewers sleeping through most of it---but I doubt reality-based criteria will intrude into any Council processes for years to come
If you're wondering why police oversight is important, OPD was out there like Border Patrol less than a decade ago. It took years of protests to create meaningful reforms and to instill a sense of repercussions at OPD so that they'd stop killing people on the streets.
I've confirmed today with the CAO that the HHAP funding rounds are not over. Ken Houston was misleading the public last night when he made the claim that Oakland isn't getting HHAP 6 funds. And it's clear the EAP itself may be the central factor in any delay. Shameful behavior.
What gets lost in the pearl-clutching over the empty threat of capital flight is that if California or NYC had less techie ghouls and therefore less income inequality, we wouldn’t need the tax revenue from the rich because fewer people would need social services to survive.
On the uniqueness of the Gaza Genocide
The West not only supports a genocide in Gaza, but it simultaneously seeks to silence & punish anyone who opposes this genocide.
This is historically unprecedented.
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Loren Taylor's complaints about RCV are more laughable today than they were three years ago. He only began complaining about it because he lost, he had no complaints when it benefitted him in 2018; fake anti-rcv org he helped found funneled money from Dreyfuss to a dark $ network
A THIRD Oakland murder conviction involving Homicide Sgt Phong Tran has been overturned - Tran bribed a witness to convict 2 men in a separate 187 case & is currently facing his own criminal case. Over the course of his career, he worked 100s of murders (story below)
With three weeks left in the year, Oakland is on track to have among the lowest, if not the lowest, violent crime rate in decades, while it had one of the fewest number of officers in OPD's history.
The FBI’s Oakland corruption case relies heavily on the word of one man with a “checkered past.”
We examined his long history of business meltdowns, bankruptcies, ferocious lawsuits, and criminal investigations….
https://t.co/M0WtWfbY6N