Oakland Officials Fail to Recognize 19% Crime Drop During Occupy Encampment

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Last edited Fri Oct 5, 2012, 10:41 PM - Edit history (2)

Twitter Rant by @PunkBoyInSF

Somehow, last year, I have a vague recollection of a relatively small amount of time in #Oakland when the community rallied together, set aside their differences and tried to do this. There was a place that rose as a community center, of sorts, that consisted of people coming together around a common purpose.

A place that empowered the residents to feel like they had a hand in their own future. A place where citizens felt, and rightly so, that they were having a positive impact on their lives and the lives of their neighbors. Part of a phenomena that was having impact on the very structure of our microcosm of society. Even by a firm hired by @oaklandpoliceca and @jeanquan’s office confirmed that, for the ONLY TIME in my memory, crime actually went down by 19% in just a few weeks. Something @jeanquan and @oaklandpoliceca should have been ecstatic about, and worked with to continue to foster. But what did Santana, @jeanquan and @oaklandpoliceca decide was the best response to follow up this report with?

“Not sure how you want to share this good news,” he wrote. “It may be counter to our statement that the #Occupy movement is negatively impacting crime in Oakland.” Read the full article here.

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The East Bay Express reported recently that Santana “wanted to redact portions of Frazier’s report that included strong criticisms of #OPD” and that she “also requested that Frazier send a draft of his report in Microsoft Word format to Santana to make it easier for city officials to alter the report’s contents.”

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Ali Winston ‏@awinston

This is a killer. #DeannaSantana tried to get Frazier report redacted by arguing that (Scott) Olsen shooting was "outside the scope" of contract



capitalismsucks ‏@socialistlib510

Santana and Quan Depos are highly redacted. But here they are. http://www.scribd.com/doc/109137487/Deanna-Santana-deposition-Redacted … http://www.scribd.com/doc/109137397/Quan-Deposition-Redacted …
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capitalismsucks ‏@socialistlib510

When asked if she knew that only African Americans and Hispanics were killed by OPD last year, Santana said they are involved in violence.