City of Oakland hires Bratton, "stop and frisk" and "broken windows theory" proponent [View all]

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Oakland has hired Bratton, champion of "stop and frisk" and the so-called "broken windows theory", by a 7-1 vote. The BWT has given us in Los Angeles, $6,000,000 spent on more cops on Skid Row (versus $4,700,000 spent yearly city-wide to help the homeless), to criminalize the homeless so that the CCA, a rich lobbying firm intent upon taking over downtown, can gentrify Skid Row. On CCA's web site, they brag about their influence in City Hall. Dictator Mussolini said "Fascism should better be called Corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." So there you go. Look for an expansion of the rich in Oakland and all their little rich plans, such as the for--profit prison industrial complex, criminalizing the homeless, etc.

Watching comments on Twitter, it certainly appeared as though Oakland had already made this decision and that the public meeting was merely to get people used to the idea, not to give them a part in the vote.

Remember that mayor Jean Quan and police chief Jordan had on their desks a study showing that during Occupy Oakland's encampment, that crime had fallen in Oakland by 19%. The continued to attack OO and have ever since. This is where their priorities are. They are completely unfit for their jobs and must leave.