Crime Platform
Recently, a child was shot and paralyzed while taking piano lessons on Piedmont Avenue. Restaurant patrons on Grand Avenue and in Montclair have been victims of takeover style robberies. A young woman with a one-year old child was killed by a stray bullet while she slept in her bed. There have been over 46 murders already this year in our city. Every person who lives and works in Oakland deserves to feel safe.
I have been honored to represent you on Oakland's Board of Education for the past eight years. I'm working with others in the city to make our neighborhoods safer. Here's what needs to be done:
- Hire more police officers. We have too few police officers for a city of our size. The City of Oakland should increase the number of police officers until crime levels have decreased substantially.
- Mandate the use of a public safety management and accountability system. Other cities around the country have implemented systems to track crime in neighborhoods and these systems have proven effective in reducing crime.
- Reassign uniformed police officers from clerical jobs to community crime reduction assignments in neighborhoods
- Equip police and emergency vehicles with GPS. This allows police commanders to know the location of emergency vehicles and more efficiently deploy police officers to the closest emergency situation.
- We need an audit of Measure Y funds. Enforcement needs to be balanced with prevention and Oakland voters supported Measure Y to do just that. However we need an audit so taxpayers know how these $6 million are being spent to improve public safety.
