Oakland, CA officials voted to defund their police, homicides spike – IOTW Report

Oakland, CA officials voted to defund their police, homicides spike

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Oakland’s city council in July unanimously voted to form a task force to figure out a way to reduce the police department budget by 50% over the next two years.

The move was a response to “the urgency of the Black Lives Matter movement,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported, adding that a 17-member Reimagining Public Safety Task Force was created to get things going.

But the paper said the desire to defund the police and the need for police butted right up against each other.

You see, since the beginning of 2020 to the end of October, homicides in Oakland numbered 84 — an increase of 26 over the same time period last year, SFist reported.

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