Failed Social Experiment: After Cutting Police Funding and a Spike in Crime, Oakland’s City Council Votes to Hire More Cops

By Janie Har, AP The Oakland City Council, a longtime leader in the Black Lives Matter movement to cut police funding, reversed course Tuesday and voted to hire more officers as it grapples with a surge in homicides and gun violence. The proposal by Mayor Libby Schaaf to add two new police academies and unfreeze … Read more