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"We are Confused" | Oakland Police Officer's Association Open Letter to the Citizens of Oakland
This is NOT an Onion piece. The letter below is actually coming out of Oakland Police Officer’s Association…
An Open Letter to the Citizens of Oakland from the Oakland Police Officer’s Association
1 November 2011 – Oakland, Ca.
We represent the 645 police officers who work hard every day to protect the citizens of Oakland. We, too, are the 99% fighting for better working conditions, fair treatment and the ability to provide a living for our children and families. We are severely understaffed with many City beats remaining unprotected by police during the day and evening hours.
As your police officers, we are confused.
On Tuesday, October 25th, we were ordered by Mayor Quan to clear out the encampments at Frank Ogawa Plaza and to keep protesters out of the Plaza. We performed the job that the Mayor’s Administration asked us to do, being fully aware that past protests in Oakland have resulted in rioting, violence and destruction of property.
Then, on Wednesday, October 26th, the Mayor allowed protesters back in – to camp out at the very place they were evacuated from the day before.
To add to the confusion, the Administration issued a memo on Friday, October 28th to all City workers in support of the “Stop Work” strike scheduled for Wednesday, giving all employees, except for police officers, permission to take the day off.
That’s hundreds of City workers encouraged to take off work to participate in the protest against “the establishment.”
But aren’t the Mayor and her Administration part of the establishment they are paying City employees to protest? Is it the City’s intention to have City employees on both sides of a skirmish line?
It is all very confusing to us.
Meanwhile, a message has been sent to all police officers: Everyone, including those who have the day off, must show up for work on Wednesday. This is also being paid for by Oakland taxpayers. Last week’s events alone cost Oakland taxpayers over $1 million.
The Mayor and her Administration are beefing up police presence for Wednesday’s work strike they are encouraging and even “staffing,” spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars for additional police presence – at a time when the Mayor is also asking Oakland residents to vote on an $80 parcel tax to bail out the City’s failing finances.
All of these mixed messages are confusing.
We love Oakland and just want to do our jobs to protect Oakland residents. We respectfully ask the citizens of Oakland to join us in demanding that our City officials, including Mayor Quan, make sound decisions and take responsibility for these decisions. Oakland is struggling – we need real leaders NOW who will step up and lead – not send mixed messages. Thank you for listening.
SOURCE: Oakland Police Officer’s Association
www.4closureFraud.org
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No, these police officers are the Primary defenders of the Fed and crony capitalism!
They make a very nice living, thank you, enforcing unconstitutional laws and statutes at the expense of their neighbors, all while under OATH before nation and God to uphold that very same constitution.
They are Criminals all.
http://www.opdjobs.com/salaries-and-benefits.asp
"crony capitalism"
Stop calling it captilalism. It it anything but that. Being crony would imply a few thugs, but this is systemic and certainly has nothing to do with captitalism.
Good call IQ
Those overpaid mother fuckers I cry bullshit let the rocking start and the real men left standin
fuckme!! Bitchez
Common law is the past, Common law is the future, but in the Now we have confusion, A return to Common law is the remedy for the ill's of this nation,
If no injured party exists, and no harm or injuries are reported, then no crime has occured, it is a simple concept from our creator.
It is the foundation of the greatest nations on Earth,
If I am going about my business in peace and no good citizen has made a complaint against me, then i should be left in peace?
This is the basis of our national law, (Had it not been perverted).
This is what the police swore before God to uphold, the constitution.
Just because they have a few free chicken dinners at the local old folks home and raised $500 for children with rabies on their day off,it does not Forgive their sins,
Apparently they believe that a few citizens telling them that the sun shines out of their ass is enough to convince them that they are Batman, most citizens' despise' them and i glory in the knowledge that their pensions are about to vaporize and they do not even have the curiosity or acumen to discover that fact. Pathetic losers with a speed boat in the driveway, spotty halfwitts.
An open message to Oakland CA police department.
On 11/2/2011 call out sick. Put your civilian clothes on and join your brothers in protest. ALL OF YOU. Thank you for listening.
@HCSKnight
Were those DECLARED WARS ?
yeah they are confused, confused of who is paying their paychecks, the taxpayers or the banks...and if they side with the banks, who will pay their pensions when the retire for life at age 45....its all very confusing , to figure out who is going to give you the most money......FUCK ALL POLICE !
Nice letter...
Now what are they doing about that #uckin piece of shit that shot that ex soldier in the head... and the #uckin piece of shit that threw the percussion device into the crowd who tried to help that person. What about that, eh?
You want credibility to be restored, then deal with the issue at hand.
Well, they sorta told her to pound sand, but it would be BS if they don't strike tomorrow.
The shooter seems to have been identified as not OPD, the link was posted here yesterday, any confirmation Bergstressor is the name? Think it said he was a rent a sheriff deputy from another county? This one has the makings of the entire government joining the protest and having heads roll, lose the mayor, COP and any other that violated the people's rights. Oakland is the kind of place where the people could force them all to resign immediately and get their way.
Could just start the fire that cleanses.
Police should be careful or someone might go out and buy a thousand or something assault rifles and hand them out to those who get to keep what they kill.
just more pinko commie shit from the bay area of calif. bankrupt the city/county/state and us goverments. these jackasses think they can just pickup the pieces later. history shows that what they think they will get, will probably be very very ugly. ruled by people with phd's...at the fed...in the schools...in goverment. and yet not one has ever picked up a history book, not one ever worked for a living. didn't the nazi's kill teachers? didn't the communist kill teachers? it will get ugly
"We were only following orders"
Great googamooga can't you hear me talking to you
Just a ball of confusion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miZWYmxr8XE
And the band played on....................
If the Oakland Police Association are able to issue a letter like this one, they should be able to get their collective shit together enough to tell the Mayor that they will work on Wednesday but they will not respond to any calls to police the protestors. They'll only be on duty for other matters. As far as Occupy, goes, they will stand down. I realize it's not that simple but you have to start somewhere.
That way, they go to work as ordered but draw the line at policing a protest endorsed by the Mayor. Just my opinion. But it really sounds as though the police have had a change of heart and are beginning to see what the rest of the 99% see. A vacuum of leadership.
Disobey.
Loose,
Haven't, and never will see the # of emails the Mayor recieved nationwide over this, I m sure that put the spotlight on her,BIG time.
The officers will have to do as ordered or lose their jobs,as long as it doesn't invove violence w/out provocation, no reason not to.
BUT,these people's right to free speech cannot be impeded.
If you act the ass, expect to get treated as one. Otherwise the LE are the top of the food chain there, and should set the example.
Oakland needs a real police force which will investigate felony assaults committed either by them or under their "protection."
"Oakland is struggling – we need real leaders NOW who will step up and lead – not send mixed messages."
Hear, hear.
Good post.
"Ring-a-ring o' roses,
A pocket full of posies..."
Celebrate the Fraud!
Celebrate the Criminality!!
Just like New York's Finest DO!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVGVBhiN96c&list=FLbRZZAixeFXZfqszvKisEdQ&index=2&feature=plpp_video
NYPD Fake Drug Charges for Arrest Quotas
Eight officers from the New York Police Department are facing trial for allegedly fabricating drug charges to make their arrest quotas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMbBUgnlVsY
FBI arrest NYPD Officers for gun running and smuggling cigarettes into New York.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8y6Rm9snFY
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/10/financial-giants-put-new-york-city-cops-on-their-payroll/
Who Do the White Shirt Police Report to at Occupy Wall Street Protests?
Financial Giants Put New York City Cops On Their Payroll
If you’re a Wall Street behemoth, there are endless opportunities to privatize profits and socialize losses beyond collecting trillions of dollars in bailouts from taxpayers. One of the ingenious methods that has remained below the public’s radar was started by the Rudy Giuliani administration in New York City in 1998. It’s called the Paid Detail Unit and it allows the New York Stock Exchange and Wall Street corporations, including those repeatedly charged with crimes, to order up a flank of New York’s finest with the ease of dialing the deli for a pastrami on rye.
The corporations pay an average of $37 an hour (no medical, no pension benefit, no overtime pay) for a member of the NYPD, with gun, handcuffs and the ability to arrest. The officer is indemnified by the taxpayer, not the corporation.
New York City gets a 10 percent administrative fee on top of the $37 per hour paid to the police. The City’s 2011 budget called for $1,184,000 in Paid Detail fees, meaning private corporations were paying wages of $11.8 million to police participating in the Paid Detail Unit. The program has more than doubled in revenue to the city since 2002.
The taxpayer has paid for the training of the rent-a-cop, his uniform and gun, and will pick up the legal tab for lawsuits stemming from the police personnel following illegal instructions from its corporate master. Lawsuits have already sprung up from the program.
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/ny-supreme-court-appellate-division/1483040.html
Pardner, this town ain't big enough for two 99 percents.
“protect the citizens of Oakland” – what kind of protection was Scott Olsen afforded that gave him a 2-3 inch fracture to his skull ?
he took that shot for everyone of us..
he stood in front of violence trying to protect the people..
we owe him, he deserves better than any of us have done since.
it is ok.. the war is coming.. and I am like a kid at Christmas! I just cant wait!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvqtWjN7lOI&feature=relmfu
I love the guy but the guy doesn't need it. He's a damn marine. And I'm more worried about the oakland police's gradual yet unrelenting pathway to the I just fucked up big time didn't I conclusion at the end of the yellow brick road.
If you want to help. I'd think it would be better to email the oakland police and tell them it would be a really damn good time to say you're sorry. Next time shoot an army guy in the head. It's not a 9 on the stupid richter scale.
Damn Oakland Police!!!!, You Scary kind of Stupid!!!!!
I will pull machine guns and shoot army guys with a fuck you t-shirt. But if I'm going to kill a marine. It's going to be in the dark, where no one see's with a pillow over his damn mouth wearing a mask dressed like howard stern so they kill that mother fucker instead of me. Because I may be crazy as hell but I'm not stupid.
Which palm frond do you plan on hiding under?
"Today... is Christmas! There will be a magic show at zero-nine-thirty! Chaplain Charlie will tell you about how the free world will conquer Communism with the aid of God and a few Marines! God has a hard-on for Marines because we kill everything we see! He plays His games, we play ours! To show our appreciation for so much power, we keep heaven packed with fresh souls! God was here before the Marine Corps! So you can give your heart to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the Corps! Do you ladies understand?" - Gunny Hartman
To serve and protect. What about this dont you understand? Next time how about the people just hire some local crackheads im sure they would understand.
I've got an idea! How about treating non-violent protesters as you'd like to be treated when you have a grievance, and not shooting them in the head with a tear gas canister when all they are doing is standing there? Then, you know, don't lob a flash bang into the group coming to his aid. What do you think? Revolutionary concept or what?
I call bullshit on this whole letter. Try talking to the idiots that were involved in last weeks attack on the marine and perhaps consider an official reprimand/assault charges instead of putting out some letter to make yourselves look like innocent bystanders with ambiguous orders. The Mayor of Oakland sounds like a complete idiot as well.
I'm confused too: where's the psycho who tried to assassinate Scott Olsen right under your noses?
Hey Oakland cops-
What did you swear an oath to uphold and defend? Was it the Mayor's wishes? I don't think so - it was the US Constitution and it's amendments. Try reading that first one again, and then go back and review your actions.
Confusion my ass.
I'm with the captain.
CaptA,
Well said. Actually the oath asks to defend the Constitution, its amendments, then Californa law, in that order of precedence.
Very well said.
"While the Occupy protests are an encouraging sign that Americans are not completely oblivious to the creeping despotism that is overtaking the nation, time alone will tell whether the Occupy Wall Street movement and its companion protests throughout the country amount to anything more than an expression of discontent on the part of the 99% with the so-called 1%. What has been made clear, however, by the naked aggression of the corporate-state against these protesters is that the 1% is protected by its own security force—the police—funded ironically enough by the very 99% against whom they are waging war with pepper spray, rubber bullets, tear gas and other instruments of compliance'....
http://www.rutherford.org/articles_db/commentary.asp?record_id=738
I think these protestors who have articulated virtually no coherent message beyond "Justice" are exposing something that folks have only talked about until now. The US "Police State."
We all know that the Patriot Act is wrong. We bitch about TSA groping, yet there are no rebellions among the air travel set.
When we see people being assaulted by hundreds of para-military policement equipped and deployed in uber-tech fascist fashion, the case is taken to a whole new level.
Right to peaceful assembly?
These guys are laying it out for everyone to see. And it's apparently alot worse than we truly believed. It ain't a metaphor no more.
Whaddya know--right here in the Homeland.
u b at the crux, n'est ce pas?
- Ned
The video is typical political leftist BS.
I am a retired vet who served during two wars.
The sailor in the video needs to be taken to Mast and stripped of his crow.
"I am a retired vet who served during two wars."
I'm going to guess Franco-Prussian and Russo-Japanese.
"The video is typical political leftist BS."
The comment is typical grumpy old dude drawing a government pension and health benefits yet bitching about "lefties" BULLSHIT.
Voluntary killer? And you want to harm someone standing at salute, wearing the US uniform, acting for legal change under his constitutional rights, and his oath to the Navy?
What country's army did you serve?
Stripped of his crow? That sailor needs one of ADM Paul Yost's "2-week specials"!
be men, stop taking orders and be the leadership
you seek.
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Beyond Genesis – The Revolution of the Mind
http://verbewarp.blogspot.com/
JP MORGAN..... WHERE ARE YOU?!!
very fascinating
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covert:
Give it a break! Why the hell would a person read anything on your blog with that fucked up background? Human eyes just aint made to read print in shit like that.
At least lose that ameriKlan Neo-Nazi flag!
I know you are but what am I?
Hey--I'm confused too! Can I haz badge n club now?
"we were ordered by Mayor Quan to clear out the encampments"
That doesn't explain the violence.
It's much easier to just tell them to crush some skulls and keep crushing skulls, as this is much less confusing for police officers.
Divide and Conquer bitches. The Mayor is a politician. This is not so confusing.
The Mayor is a community organizer and way in over her head. Unlike the community organizer in chief, she doesn't have handlers.
That's your first reasoned opinion on this topic.