Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf: Not Just ‘Defund the Police,’ but ‘Replace the Police’

[mystery-ak]

Joel B. Pollak 23 Jun 2020

LOS ANGELES, California — Mayor Libby Schaaf of Oakland, California, told a meeting of Democratic mayors on Tuesday morning that it was necessary not just to “defund the police,” but to “replace the police.”

Schaaf joined Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and several other Democratic mayors on a Zoom meeting to discuss police reform.

The meeting included Stockton, California, Mayor Michael Tubbs; and Columbia, South Carolina Mayor Steve Benjamin, along with Schaaf and Garcetti. It also included Rep. Karen Bass (D-LA), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, who is considered a potential vice presidential candidate for presumptive Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden.

Schaaf talked about “the evil of structural racism, that is everywhere, including in our justice system.” She said that “snap decisions” by police were more likely to be influenced by racial bias.

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[mystery-ak]

Schaaf meet Lightfoot

[PeteS in CA]

I haven't set foot in Oakland since May, 1996, but I have driven through it on I-880 quite a few times for running events in the NE Bay Area. If she actually does what she says, even travel on I-880 could get dangerous.

Why are Prog pols going to have to learn the stupid and bloody way?! (OPB! Other People's Blood!)

[GtHawk]

It’s Oakland, I suggest she goes with something in her comfort zone to replac she them like the Black Panthers

[Smokin Joe]

So this is how the Left will get its gestapo in the streets.

[mountaineer]

She added that Oakland planned not only to “reform the police,” but to “replace the police” with other forms of intervention, such as using trained mental health professionals.

Ten minutes of this, and her trained mental health professionals will be demanding armed guards or, at the very least, the right to carry their own firearm.

[PeteS in CA]

Ten minutes of this, and her trained mental health professionals will be demanding armed guards or, at the very least, the right to carry their own firearm.

In my nastier moods, I kind of hope DSS social workers get sent into volatile situations ... thin the arrogant mini-tyrant herd.

[Smokin Joe]

In my nastier moods, I kind of hope DSS social workers get sent into volatile situations ... thin the arrogant mini-tyrant herd.

THIS!