Since February 2023, several stakeholders, including the Coalition for Police Accountability, began to work on amending the Enabling Ordinance of Section 604, Article VI of the Oakland City Charter. The Enabling Ordinance was approved by 83.19% of Oakland voters and established the civilian membered Police Commission (the Commission), the Community Police Review Agency (CPRA) and the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). The recent process to amend was focused on addressing some of the inefficiencies and disruptions that have occurred with the Police Commission and to establish guard rails and procedures to mitigate such issues in the future. | By Coalition for Police Accountability Since February 2023, several stakeholders, including the Coalition for Police Accountability, began to work on amending the Enabling Ordinance of Section 604, Article VI of the Oakland City Charter. The Enabling Ordinance was approved by 83.19% of Oakland voters and established the civilian membered Police
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Another study of San Diego police data has found that people of color especially Black people are stopped, searched and subjected to force at higher rates than their White counterparts, even after accounting for factors like poverty and crime rates.
“The data is very clear. We have work to do,” Mayor Todd Gloria said Thursday while discussing the findings during a news conference outside the San Diego Police Department headquarters.
“We’ve known for some time about the racial disparities that exist in policing,” he said. “No matter the reasons behind them, these disparities can stir up pain for members of our San Diego city community. We as a city will own this and will work to be better.”
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For weeks after the death of George Floyd, protests across the country highlighting racial injustice and bias in policing were near daily. Hundreds and occasionally thousands of people marched San Diego’s streets last summer, demanding reform.
Change did come. Across San Diego, the heads of local law enforcement agencies agreed to a long-sought ban on using the carotid restraint, or sleeper hold, and it soon became state law. Some change came through the ballot box, like the voter-approved creation of an independent commission on police practices in San Diego.
But are they they right changes? Do they address the systemic disparities that have been highlighted by people who have long pushed for reforms? Some of them don’t think so.