Oakland Police Commission 3/25 6:30 PM
https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/Police-Commission-3.25.21-Agenda-Packet.pdf
Interesting Agenda Items:
V. 2021 California Police Reform Legislation Former Commissioner Tara Anderson and Gabriel Garcia of Youth Alive will review 2021 bill language currently being considered by the State of California. The Commission will discuss and may vote to send letters of support for these bills.
VI. Reimagining Public Safety Task Force Update Former Commissioner Ginale Harris will share an update on the Reimagining Public Safety Task Force.
VII. Resolution on Sunsetting the Use of the BearCat The Commission will review, and may vote to approve, a resolution regarding the sunsetting the use of the BearCat.
RESOLVED, the Oakland Police Department shall, within six (6) months, return to the Oakland Police Commission with a proposed replacement for the Department’s BearCat armored vehicle that satisfies the Department’s needs for sufficient protective capacity, the Department’s needs for sufficient storage capacity, and the community’s need for police equipment that can be accepted as appropriate for use by civilian law enforcement agencies; and be it
FURTHER RESOLVED, the Oakland Police Commission shall, within sixty (60) days of the Department’s identification of a potential replacement vehicle(s), convene a public hearing, on the appropriateness of the Department’s proposed replacement vehicle(s); and be it
FURTHER RESOLVED, the Oakland Police Department shall, within twenty-four (24) months, cease its use of the BearCat armored vehicle and instead use the Department’s armored Suburban and/or replacement armored vehicles as authorized by policy unless the Department and the Commission jointly concur and report to the Council that a replacement vehicle cannot be realistically acquired in time, and a new deadline is enacted; and be it
FURTHER RESOLVED, the Oakland Police Department shall not, absent exigent circumstances, seek, solicit, or accept the deployment and use of overtly militarized armored vehicles by outside agencies under mutual aid agreements, overtly militarized for the purposes of this resolution, meaning any vehicle that a reasonable resident might perceive as emblematic of a militarized approach to policing in our community.