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Oakland’s Police Officer Numbers Fall Below the Voter Mandated Measure Z (Public Safety) Minimums - Yet the City Council Continues to Collect the Tax for Police Service not Provided.
Mar 01, 2022
Contact: Oakland Police Officers' Association
Phone: (510) 834-9670
Email: policeofficers@opoa.org
March 1, 2022
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Oakland’s Police Officer Numbers Fall Below the Voter Mandated Measure Z (Public Safety) Minimums - Yet the City Council Continues to Collect the Tax for Police Service not Provided.
Oakland Residents Deserve Better Than the Skelton Police Services this City Council Provides.
OAKLAND – In a letter to Oakland’s City Council President Nikki Bas yesterday the President of the Oakland Police Officers again sounded the alarm about dangerously shrinking police officer numbers. Oakland Police Officers are leaving the department in droves amid a crisis of confidence in Oakland’s leaders. Oakland lost eighty-six (86) police officers last year, thirty-seven (37) left for other police departments. A further eighteen (18) have left so far this year. Oakland is losing well-trained and experienced police officers at such a pace that the city may never make up the difference in officers with prospective police academies.
“Oakland’s City Council President and her colleagues continue to vilify hardworking, dedicated Oakland Police Officers, and then they are surprised when scores of well trained and experienced Oakland Police Officers leave to work elsewhere. Oakland police officers are the best, but this council has allowed the number of police officers to fall to dangerously low levels, where our residents don’t receive the quality police response they deserve and should expect,” said Oakland Police Officers' Association President Barry Donelan.
The letter to Council Member Bas and her colleagues is attached. The letter included suggested steps the Council President could take to help stem attrition.
About the Oakland Police Officers’ Association: The Oakland Police Officers’ Association (OPOA) represents all sworn members at all ranks within the Oakland Police Department. Representing the hardest working Police Officers in America. The OPOA can be found on the Web at www.opoa.org.
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