Why The Bratton / Wasserman Proposal Should Be Adopted By Oakland’s City Council
Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, Oakland City Council’s Public Safety Committee will vote on whether to forward to Council a proposal to add $250,000 to the City’s public safety consulting contract with Strategic Policy Partnership. This is the Robert Wasserman, Chief William Bratton proposal that we discussed here. We strongly encourage Oaklanders to come and support this proposal.
The proposal is starting to run into opposition based on two arguments that either misstate or misunderstand what the proposal is: The first argument goes something like this: Oakland has already spent, is already spending or going to spend millions on outside Occupy investigators, on a a Federal Court monitor, on a Compliance Director, why do we have to spend money on this as well?
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