0:08 – New UpFront series launch – I. Can’t. Breathe: The trial of Derek Chauvin
Alex Vitale (@avitale) is professor of sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College, and the author of “The End of Policing”
0:18 – The jury selection process
Mary Moriarty (@MaryMoriarty) was a public defender for 30 years, most recently for Hennepin County, Minnesota. She’s also a contributor to the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, based in Minneapolis, MN.
0:34 – Unemployment call-ins
Daniela Urban (@LegalAidAtWork) is Executive Director of the Center for Workers’ Rights and special counsel to Legal Aid At Work.
1:08 – What does the Oakland Police Department get called for? A new analysis released today looks at 911 calls to OPD in 2019. READ the new report here.
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Homicides in Oakland, California have surged 400% citywide in 2021, according to the latest crime analysis data shared by the city s police department.
The Oakland Police Department s Weekly Gunfire Summary for the week of Feb. 22-28 reported a total of 25 homicides citywide in 2021, compared to just five in 2020 and 13 in 2019.
Area 1, covering West and Downtown Oakland, has seen a 200% surge in homicides. Meanwhile Area 3, covering Fruitvale and Central Oakland, and Area 4, covering East Oakland, Mills and Leona, both have seen homicide surges of 100%, respectively.
Area 5, covering East Oakland and Knowland Park, have seen homicides surge 1300%.
Photo by John Anderson
The upcoming May 1 special election provides Austinites with an opportunity to fundamentally change the structure of city government. To some, these changes are revolutionary advances toward a more robust local democracy; to others, they threaten to cause a catastrophic collapse of Austin s current progressive consensus. Either way, a very big deal.
Five of the eight city propositions on the May 1 ballot – Propositions D through H – are charter amendments that began life last July in the mind of Andrew Allison, a local entrepreneur with previous lives as an attorney and political speechwriter. That was at the peak of public outcry against Austin police Chief Brian Manley for (among a slew of other missteps) the Austin Police Department s gross mishandling of the May 31 Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality, sparked by the killings of George Floyd in Minneapolis and, a month earlier, Mike Ramos here in Austin.
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