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Created a new City Department to take over the duties. Our coverage, dan thorn live for us tonight in berkeley he joins us now with more on this idea. Dan. Well they can grant this proposal centers around the idea of essentially re imagining Public Safety. The mayor and City Council Members are proposing that Police Officers focus solely on solving crimes as opposed to handling traffic situations and they believe this could save the city. A lot of money as well as limiting the number of negative interactions between Police Officers and people of color. A new progressive proposal in berkeley could ban police from enforcing traffic stops the move being considered by City Government would instead create an unarmed civilian division to handle the job, you know the calvary trying to cut co sponsor of the proposal Council Member ben bartlett would like to see changes to Public Safety in his city. Bartlett believes a new department of transportation would be better suited then police to take
Save the city a lot of money as well as limiting the number of negative interactions between Police Officers and people of color. A new progressive proposal in berkeley could ban police from enforcing traffic stops the move being considered by City Government would instead create an unarmed civilian division to handle the job, you know the calvary threatened to cut co sponsor of the proposal Council Member ben bartlett would like to see changes to Public Safety in his city. Bartlett believes a new department of transportation would be better suited then police to take care of broken tail lights fender benders and the like its like going to Fire Department lot of mass. Its not necessary. Some transportation advocates have been taking a more serious tone. What were trying to do is prevent an escalation of minor Traffic Violation in 2 that meeting number being or nelly gauche with walk bike berkeley says a new department made up of traffic experts would go beyond what armed Police Officer
Meeting on what to do with this trail of Homeless People living in tents. Heainoa to coast. The dont is hoping to find a safe place for those living along the trail from santa rosa to sabastopol. Wayne . Reporter good evening. The supervisors have been discussing this all day and getting an earful and fair still talking about it. Public comment just ended. Lets show you a few moments ago. One of the sights theyve been looking at, this is 15 feet from a preschool. Those sights remain under discussion. This morning, they pulled the trigger on buying two homes. Lets begin with that. Where to shelter the homeless. For three weeks, Sonoma County has looked at a Storage Facility near the airport and the campus in Silicon Valley and even inside the county administration campus. It has divided the community. I understand that people have concerns. But people who dont have places toley need places to live. She lives three doors down. This morning supervisors voted to purchase it as an indoor sh
You to our speakers to start meaning tonight we have with us dr. Bettina becker, a distinguished professor emerita, feminist studies, university of california, santa. She has taught for more than 40 years an activist scholar. She coled the Free Speech Movement uc berkeley in 1964 and the National Student Mobilization Committee to end and the war in vietnam. She played a leading role in the International Movement to free angela davis. But she was a member of the communist party. From 1962 to 1981, and she has been of the lgbt movement. The late 1970s and has published several, including the morning breaks, the trial of angela davis tapestry, the life, womens work, womens consciousness and meaning of daily experience, and a memoir politics how i grew up. Read and fought for free speech and became a feminist rebel, which was nominated for lambda literary award in 2006. We also have with us tonight dr. Estelle friedman. Shes the Edgar Robinson professor in u. S. History emerita at stanford