“Such technology can multiply law enforcement efforts in a focused, intelligence-based manner, while still balancing the important privacy interests of the community,” Schaaf wrote Newsom. This is on top of the Oakland City Council’s decision to add two police academies, in hopes of recruiting officers to a department that’s the smallest it has been in a decade.Īt all of this, Brooks is outraged and disappointed, but not surprised. “We knew that dead Black bodies were very soon not going to be the ‘it’ thing to rally around,” she told me. “White people are going to go back to business as usual. So we need to brace ourselves for that.”įor months after George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis in May 2020, Brooks and other activists had many Americans convinced that law enforcement agencies were utterly broken, steeped in racism and in dire need of reform. The calls to invest in Black communities and right the wrongs of systemic racism were at an all-time high. In fact, a year ago this month, I published a column about the widespread embrace of Black Lives Matter.
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