Just in time for Black History Month, state of California wants to occupy #Oakland, and mayor Sheng Thao is "grateful for the help."
This is ultimately a flimsy article, that waves an ambivalent hand at "macroeconomic factors" but salivates all over right wing recall efforts and petty crime hysteria.
Oakland doesn't need a new goon squad, it needs wealth redistribution and genuine democracy.
Oaklandside:
"Newsom sends 120 CHP officers Oakland due to 'alarming' crime"
The really wild thing about this whole initiative is that it already implicitly acknowledges its own failure. Police don't prevent crimes, they don't solve crimes, and they don't produce public safety. If they did, Oakland wouldn't be in the position of making this decision in the first place. Handing over policing to some even less accountable police force will have the same outcome, if not worse.
Likewise, mass surveillance inevitably leads to vulnerability and abuse. City of Oakland couldn't keep their surveillance data safe, so why would handing even more data over to another agency with even shoddier regulation be any better?
Oaklandside:
CHP to control Oakland’s 300-camera vehicle surveillance network
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