Reddit provides the latest evidence of anti-police ignorance in Oakland. A while back, somebody posted something about the Oakland Police Officers Association (the union) opposing huge budget cuts to OPD. Here’s a sampling of some of the crap the woke left put up in response.
I follow each comment with the truth.
OPD is one of the primary problems in our city, ineffectual at their jobs, year after year of gross budget overruns, refusal to implement improvements, terrible leadership, and entitlement with respect to their own self interest.
This is an example of the insanity that woke politicians have stoked in our dumbest citizens. The “budget overruns” are because the City Council has consistently and deliberately underfunded OPD. By my estimate, the amount of underfunding has been growing, until it’s currently about 40 percent. As a consequence, in order to get anything done, OPD has to rely on overtime from its officers. It’s not “self-interest” if a cop working 80 hours a week is paid a lot. It’s deserved.
Make the cops start picking up trash since they aren't solving crime.
I’d like to make the moron who wrote this pick up trash. He/she/it/them/they are typical of the school dropouts who don’t have a clue how a city works.
No they have important overtime work to do at their desk and at home and in their patrol car while being paid by a business at the same time.
Ditto what I just said, above. The cynic who wrote this should be chained to a chair and made to sit in OPD headquarters and personally witness what cops actually do, instead of what he/she/it/them/they think cops do.
It’s crazy they can overspend $26M and not receive a single critical story in the media.
This person is either mentally retarded or doesn’t know how to read. The media is filled with criticism of police overtime. It’s all that Oaklandside and the Chronicle do, slam the cops’s budgets without ever telling the public about how the City Council is underfunding OPD.
What the actual fuck. OPD doesn't do shit and most of its overspending is overtime??
I hope the person who wrote this is mugged and injured real soon and has to call the police for help. Then we’d see him/her/it complaining, “How come it took them more than 20 minutes to help me?”
Make the cops fix potholes since crime isn't on their agenda.
See my response to the previous question.
OPD is the worst! They can’t track overtime expenditures, they have officers making over $500,000 a year… Not to mention officers drinking while on the job. No repercussions, no oversight no improvements on the horizon… Just a bunch of excuses about lack of funding and being handcuffed by their oversight board
Instead of being mugged and injured, I hope the person who wrote this comes home from wherever he/she/it goes at night and finds every single damned possession it owns gone. Stolen. Pilfered. And its dwelling burned down. He/she/it would obviously call the police for help. Then I hope the person would get a recorded message: “This is OPD. Sorry, we’re out getting drunk. We’ll get back to you another day. Buh-bye!”
Get fucked OPOA
So eloquent a comment! Just what we’d expect from the droolers.
High poverty causes crime which causes high police costs which in turn is causing more poverty.
No, schmuck head, high poverty doesn’t cause crime. Immoral people cause crime. Many, many populations have been very poor in America without becoming vicious criminals. Stop making excuses for stupid people making bad choices.
Man, I just wish Councilmember Bas were staying so she could help us get out of this mess!
Thank God we’re rid of Bas. She was one of the most hideous cop-haters in Oakland history. An angry, vengeful woke, wholly owned by the unions. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
There is every incentive and opportunity for the police to just do a money grab while letting Oakland suffer. It benefits them financially and politically. There is no upside to them actually trying to help.
Dear person who wrote this, you have the intelligence of a dumpster mess. Sorry to get personal, but you’re beyond helpful criticism. Who is making Oakland suffer? It’s not the cops. It’s the criminals and idiots like you.
[This is Steve] So these are just a few examples of why Oakland keeps electing disasters like Carroll Fife and Barbara Lee, and tolerating a nazi-like star chamber like the Police Commission. The thing to understand is, most of our politicians would never say anything as bluntly as the Reddit commenters did. But they think the same way; and through winks and nods they let the public know it. They therefore tacitly encourage the anti-police stupidity rampant in Oakland. I’d love to see the media call them out on it—but they won’t, of course, because the media also is complicit.
Steve Heimoff