BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//74.207.253.46//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.12// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Occupy Oakland X-WR-CALDESC:#OccupyOakland X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20131103T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20140309T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http://occupyoakland.org/?post_type=ai1ec_event&p=46051&insta nce_id= DTSTAMP:20130524T100640Z CONTACT:JAB Coalition DESCRIPTION:

Join the Justice for Alan Blue ford Coalition and allies on Tuesday 1/15 to tell City Council that we rej ect Bill Bratton and his racist\, fascist policies. Meet up at 5:00 for a rally with the meeting at 5:30. Make sure to fill out speaker cards online beforehand or at City Hall (http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/CityClerk/s/Speak erCard/SpeakerCard/OAK032373).

If you can’\;t attend in s olidarity with the JAB Coalition\, here’\;s a petition for you to sig n\, voicing your discontent with the cities plans:

http://www.change.org/petitions/oaklanders-against-william-bratto n-and-racial-profiling

As some of you may have heard\, OPD has a new strategy to reduce crime in Oakland. This plan is to ask City Counc il for an additional $250\,000 to hire Bill Bratton as a consultant for on e year. They have happily announced that they are bringing in the man resp onsible for NYC’\;s dramatic drop in crime and the man who helped the LAPD work through their own federal difficulties after the Ramparts case.

Here’\;s what they’\;re not telling you about Bratton&# 8217\;s multi-pronged approach to crime reduction:

1) Bratton take s credit for implementing NY’\;s broken window policy. On the surface \, the policy sounds great –\; if you repair minor damage then you do n’\;t send the message that an area is worthless and thus raise civic pride and prevent crime. But Oakland has already instituted a new policy along these lines that exposes a key flaw. It is not the city that pays fo r this damage but home owners and business owners. Businesses and homes th at fail to remove graffiti promptly can be fined. So it is the homeowner w ho is punished for the police’\;s ineptitude at preventing vandalism in the first place. Moreover\, one can no longer simply leave the graffiti up and appreciate the art because the city sees it as counter-economic to have graffiti anywhere. Ultimately\, broken windows forces civilians to t ake on police roles they already pay others to do regardless of whether th ey personally believe in the laws or not.

2) Bratton believes in a zero tolerance policy for all crime. This means harsher punishment and mo re policing of minor infractions (including public protest\, public distur bance\, vagrancy\, public intoxication\, smoking marijuana\, etc). This so rt of strategy takes a way a cop’\;s (meager) rationality and forces them to further criminalize the public. For those police who already have no problem seeing Oakland residents as criminals\, zero tolerance encourag es them to punish as harshly as they can to deter crime.

3) In a r ecent interview\, Bratton talked up the importance of stop and frisk and c ompared it to chemotherapy (http://www.dnainfo.com/n ew-york/20120322/manhattan/former-nypd-chief-bill-bratton-compares-stop-an d-frisks-chemotherapy). That’\;s right. Bratton thinks the people being stopped are like a cancer\, and the rest of the city (the innocent ones) simply need to endure the poison (in this case the unlawful stops an d searches) in order to make the city healthy again. There is no doubt tha t bringing a de jure Stop and Frisk policy (to replace the already existen t de facto policy) will only encourage police racism and police violence. Moreover\, with recent comments by Fruitvale’\;s new City Councilmemb er Noel Gallo in which he proclaimed his own desire for a “\;search a nd frisk”\; policy\, there is no doubt that the Council will be movin g in this direction.

4) Bratton has also been vocal in his disgust with cities that have tolerated Occupy camps. In regard to NYC\, he repor tedly almost ran for mayor because he was so angry at how tepidly Bloomber g had responded to the Zuccotti Park Camp. Bratton despises the tents for the same reason as the broken windows and encourages harsh response to pop ulist movements to preserve the status quo.

So what’\;s reall y going on here? The last two consultants\, Frazier (who they chose) and W arshaw (who was forced on them by Judge Henderson)\, both wrote scathing r eports of OPD that Deanna Santana tried to cover up and edit. So now they found someone to say exactly what she wants to hear. They’\;re not ou t of control\, they’\;re too controlled. They’\;re not too viole nt\, they’\;re not violent enough. Also\, with the new Federal Compli ance Director coming in with a clear mandate to stop Stop and Frisk as it already exists off the books in Oakland and to work against racial profili ng\, the Police and City Officials want to make it harder to change their backwards\, racist policies. Oakland has become the epicenter of anti-brut ality campaigns\, so those who want the brutality to continue are bringing in their big guns. They know that in the wake of Oakland’\;s crime a nd murder spike\, that the people of Oakland will be much easier to bully into whatever program they recommend.

We say no.
\nNo to zero tolerance!
\nNo to “\;broken windows”\; policies!
\nN o to Stop and Frisk!
\nNo to racial profiling!
\nNo to Bill Brat ton!!

Come out and tell the Public Safety Committee that we want n one of this and that we will be heard. Get a speaker card\, bring a banner \, get rowdy. Remind City Council whose city this is.

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