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DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday, January 22nd, come on back out to City Hall as the full City 
 Council weighs what to do now that the Public Safety Committee has 
 recommended moving forward on the Wasserman/Bratton consultancy proposal. 
 In addition, the 22nd will be the 2 year anniversary of the murder of 
 Raheim Brown by OUSD police officers Barhim Bhatt and Jonathan Bellusa. 
 Please join us to come together for a rally to honor the lives of all of 
 Oakland's sons and daughters murdered by the police. The City Council 
 meeting will begin at 5:30 and the rally will start at 5:00.\n\nAlthough 
 Wasserman vehemently denied that he or the City Council were in any way 
 trying to bring Stop and Frisk or gang injunctions or youth curfews or zero 
 tolerance policing to Oakland, it is impossible to deny that the choice of 
 a contract with Bill Bratton suggests the opposite. Bratton was on air the 
 night before the Public Safety Committee meeting proudly proclaiming yet 
 again his support of Stop and Frisk and his belief that any city that 
 doesn't have a Stop and Frisk policy is "doomed to failure." Wasserman also 
 kept repeating the importance of community involvement and bringing the 
 community together (and even seemed to take credit for the hundreds who 
 came out to protest the Bratton contract), but neither in his time 
 consulting with the OPD nor when he and the city announced a month ago that 
 the Bratton hiring was a done deal (it wasn't) did he ever bring the 
 community in. How are we as a community supposed to believe what Wasserman 
 says when he's been so clearly dishonest this far?\n\nPerhaps more 
 importantly, why is the city even thinking about spending $250,000 dollars 
 from public coffers that are dryer than dry when they haven't taken the 
 much more obvious step of simply listening to the community?\n\nSo I'm 
 suggesting that we, as the community, head on back out to City Hall and 
 give them some free advice.\nWant to know how to improve trust with the 
 community?\nHow about you start by not lying.\n\nWant to know how to 
 improve community relations?\nHow about not treating the community like a 
 diseased monster that needs to be beaten into submission or simply 
 murdered.\n\nWant to know how to solve the problem of deficient 
 leadership?\nHow about firing the leadership.\n\nWant to know how to not 
 deplete the budget?\nHow about stop trying to throw money at the problem by 
 spending on fancy gadgets that don't work or that you never learn how to 
 use. How about not paying hundreds of officers insane overtime to abuse 
 nonviolent protesters or stand around city council meetings or sit around 
 the house on paid medical leave after executing an unarmed teenager and 
 shooting your own dumb self in the foot? How about training your police 
 properly so that they don't keep getting sued every 5 minutes? How about 
 not hiring Wasserman and Bratton?\n\nWant to know how to get the community 
 on your side?\nHow about they're not supposed to be on YOUR side. You're 
 supposed to be on THEIR side. You're the employees. You're the public 
 servants. You work for us (or at least you're supposed to).\n\nWant to know 
 how to bring down crime?\nHow about offering people alternatives to crime 
 like jobs and healthcare and housing and food instead of shutting down 
 schools and social programs left and right to further pad the OPD budget. 
 How about not trying to shove people out of their own neighborhood so that 
 they don't feel like they're already the enemy.\n\nSo come on out and bring 
 your solutions. Don't forget to sign up for a speaker card and give City 
 Hall a piece of your mind. Hell, a piece of your mind is probably the only 
 thing they haven't yet tried to take from you. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/01/16/18730349.php
SUMMARY:Protest the Bratton/Wasserman Contract at Oakland City Hall
LOCATION:1 Oscar Grant Plaza, Rm 201
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/01/16/18730349.php
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