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 positions within the department to add 60 new officers passed with six members voting yes, one voting no and one abstention.

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