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Smart Alec East Bay Express Writer Attacks Books Not Bombs, Ron Dellums, Indybay, and More
check this:
>Suffer the Little Children
>Dellums puts prison reformer in charge of public safety
> By Anneli Rufus
>This month, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums had to replace his outgoing public safety director, Victor Ochoa, who is considering a City Council run. So the old socialist appointed UC Berkeley alum Lenore Anderson, a public-interest lawyer and activist who won a Soros Justice Fellowship for giving "advocacy training to parents whose sons and daughters face incarceration," which, in turn, "is expected to reduce the likelihood of incarceration ... among Bay Area youth." Ah. Feel safe yet?
>Anderson seems to prioritize quelling punishment over quelling crime, as if the former might spawn the latter. She formerly headed the prison-reform nonprofit Books not Bars...
>Suffer the Little Children
>Dellums puts prison reformer in charge of public safety
> By Anneli Rufus
>This month, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums had to replace his outgoing public safety director, Victor Ochoa, who is considering a City Council run. So the old socialist appointed UC Berkeley alum Lenore Anderson, a public-interest lawyer and activist who won a Soros Justice Fellowship for giving "advocacy training to parents whose sons and daughters face incarceration," which, in turn, "is expected to reduce the likelihood of incarceration ... among Bay Area youth." Ah. Feel safe yet?
>Anderson seems to prioritize quelling punishment over quelling crime, as if the former might spawn the latter. She formerly headed the prison-reform nonprofit Books not Bars...
and there's more:
>BNB is one of three projects run by Oakland's Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Another is Bay Area Police Watch, devoted to "supporting victims and survivors." What, of crime? No, silly: of police abuse. Photos on its home page depict protesters whose placards read "Stop Killer Cops." ...
>Unsurprisingly, Infoshop, Indybay, and anarchist groups link to Anderson's BNB memos, as does PrisonActivist.com, which also links helpfully to BoycottIsraeliGoods.com, Mumia.org, and IraqIntifada.com. (Indybay files an Anderson piece under "California: Police State.") Granted, prison conditions are draconian...
Got that? "Granted, prison conditions are draconian," but this writer has no interest, in fact completely poo-poos, police brutality issues, obviously going no further than web surfing to explore the non-police perspective. Conversely, there are indications throughout the piece that this writer actually spoke to people associated with the OPD. This writer obviously has little clue about the historic issues with police brutality in Oakland. The police generally have done a poor job with building trust with the community and hence their low solve-rate for murders that number in the dozens and dozens yearly. This writer fails to make that connection and therefore misses the forest for the trees in a quest to set up a false black and white dichotomy of pro-police and anti-police, feigning the role of protector of Oakland's children.
see for yourself:
>BNB is one of three projects run by Oakland's Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Another is Bay Area Police Watch, devoted to "supporting victims and survivors." What, of crime? No, silly: of police abuse. Photos on its home page depict protesters whose placards read "Stop Killer Cops." ...
>Unsurprisingly, Infoshop, Indybay, and anarchist groups link to Anderson's BNB memos, as does PrisonActivist.com, which also links helpfully to BoycottIsraeliGoods.com, Mumia.org, and IraqIntifada.com. (Indybay files an Anderson piece under "California: Police State.") Granted, prison conditions are draconian...
Got that? "Granted, prison conditions are draconian," but this writer has no interest, in fact completely poo-poos, police brutality issues, obviously going no further than web surfing to explore the non-police perspective. Conversely, there are indications throughout the piece that this writer actually spoke to people associated with the OPD. This writer obviously has little clue about the historic issues with police brutality in Oakland. The police generally have done a poor job with building trust with the community and hence their low solve-rate for murders that number in the dozens and dozens yearly. This writer fails to make that connection and therefore misses the forest for the trees in a quest to set up a false black and white dichotomy of pro-police and anti-police, feigning the role of protector of Oakland's children.
see for yourself:
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http://eastbayexpress.com/2007-09-19/news/...
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more biased "reporting"/commentary from Anneli Doofus
Fri, Jan 11, 2008 11:13AM
More on Anneli Rufus' Poor Writing for East Bay Express About Dellums' Public Safety Dir.
Sat, Sep 22, 2007 3:48PM
Dellums is a corporate mayor
Thu, Sep 20, 2007 8:26PM
Violence: Oakland's #1 issue
Thu, Sep 20, 2007 1:05AM
express
Wed, Sep 19, 2007 2:45PM
pro-police brutality, mastermind loner Anneli Rufus is an editor at the east bay express
Wed, Sep 19, 2007 1:32PM
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