[more of Trump’s Freedumb] Can Indigent Defendants Get a Zealous Criminal Defense from a Broke, Overworked, Law Cropper? Court-Appointed Federal Criminal Attorneys have Gone Months without Pay
/
Court-appointed federal defense lawyers have not been paid since July.
Payment delays affect lawyers, paralegals, clerks, and expert witnesses.
Federal budget shortfalls may worsen if a government shutdown occurs.
Delays disrupt criminal cases and could threaten access to justice.
From [HERE] Lawyers appointed to represent poor criminal defendants in federal court have not been paid in months, and the delay may continue — causing dysfunction in the criminal justice system and financial harm to many people, not just lawyers — if the federal government shuts down next week.
Many court-appointed defense lawyers are owed tens of thousands of dollars, and while they are required to keep representing clients in pending cases, some are refusing to take on new ones until payments resume, according to a recent report by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
They are sometimes delaying their pending cases, unable to spend hundreds of dollars on transcripts or gas and hotel rooms, leaving defendants without resolutions to their cases.
Paralegals, clerks, expert witnesses, administrative assistants and others are affected in addition to lawyers.
The federal judiciary ran out of money in July to pay court-appointed criminal defense attorneys for defendants who can’t afford a lawyer, blaming the shortfall on its budget to pay them fiscal year 2025 being frozen to the prior year’s level. In a press release earlier this month, the judiciary said that at least $76 million in payments would have to be deferred to the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1, and that the budget crisis could deepen.
“I am really concerned about the stability of the entire program if this kind of funding crisis continues much longer,” said Gerald Ruter, a Baltimore criminal defense attorney, who is one of two lawyers who lead Maryland’s panel of court-appointed defense lawyers.
Court-appointed lawyers and the Federal Public Defender represent more than 90% of criminal defendants in federal court, according to multiple sources. [MORE]
Colombian President Drops Bombs at UN: 'The Purpose of Trump War and Drug Policy is White Domination and to Enrich Powerful Whites. An Army of Nations is Necessary to Stop Gaza Genocide'
/“White Supremacy is Leading the World to an Abyss.” From [HERE] World leaders gathered on Monday for the International Conference for the Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, organized under the auspices of the UN and led by France and Saudi Arabia.
Speech by Colombian President Gustavo Petro at the 80th United Nations General Assembly. September 23, 2025.
“We need to stop the genocide in Gaza. Humanity cannot allow a single day more of this genocide, for the genocidal Netanyahu and his allies in Europe and the United States to continue,” Petro stated in his last speech before the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.
He called on the UN to “uphold the decisions” of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), saying “International law is the basis of civilisation and of its wisdom as distilled in history.”
Diplomacy “has been tried in Gaza,” Petro said, but “it could not resolve the situation.”
He continued: “I’m sorry, President Macron. We can keep insisting and insisting when every single day, every single minute, a missile is fired and destroys the bodies of babies and children in the Arab state of Palestine.”
US ‘Kills Democracy’
The United States, Petro continued, “no longer teaches democracy, but rather kills democracy, especially among its immigrants, filled with greed.”
Turning to the UN, he stressed that the world body “should begin its change by stopping the genocide in Gaza with an army of liberation and salvation.” [MORE]
According to FUNKTIONARY:
“War on Drugs” – War and Drugs—B.C.C.I. C.I.A. D.E.A. I.O. 2) War on (some) drugs and not on others. CIA—Cash In Advance—Counter Insurgent Activity—to secure the most favorable conditions overseas for the global pillage by owners of multinational corporations. 3) War on the poor. There’s more profit in pretending that they’re stopping it than selling it. Think about it…if it required a constitutional amendment to impose national prohibition against alcohol, and national prohibition was lifted with the repeal of the amendment, wouldn’t it require a constitutional amendment to impose national prohibition against controlled substances or anything else? Does such an amendment exist? The answers are obvious, yet 60% of those in federal custody are incarcerated on drug-related charges and 35-40% of those in State penal colonies are there on drug-related charges. Decriminalization will never happen because illegal drugs are too profitable for the various powerful criminal elements known as “Mafias,” “Warlords,” and Intelligence Agencies. How else do Black Operations get funded? (See: CIA, Narcotic Rhyme, Dope Dog, Totalitarian Patriotism & War on Terrorism)
unenslaved people – those who are either killed or left alone. (See: Dangerous, Right to Life, Gun Control, FBI & CIA)
SARC – Self-Appointed Ruling Class—the noblesse oblige. 2) the overruling class elite. SARC controls the Corporate federal and state levels of stationary bandits and territorial gangsters better known as or doing business as “government,” university systems, political machines (as evidenced by the 2000 & 2004 Presidential selections), mainline dependent media, the gangbanking system and most major multi-national corporations. Through its political and financial prowess, it is able to create (and impose) a collective virtual bozone layer reality conjured up and sustained by ritual white magic. (See: Statutory Oppression, Stationary Bandits, Corporate State, Involuntary Servitude, Bozone Layer & Territorial Gangsters)
Trump and WAR [White Authoritarian Rhetoric]: He Promised to End Wars but Now says He Will Annihilate Routinely [WAR]- Threatens Venezuela, Bombs Somalia, Complicit in Gaza, Endless Ukraine War, etc
/
LARRY JOHNSON explains, Beyond all Trump’s rhetoric, What we ought to be paying attention to is the dramatic buildup of US military assets off the coast of Venezuela. This mirrors the kind of activity we saw after the 13 June attack on Iran by Israel, as the United States deployed naval and air assets to the region in preparation for the US attack on 24 June. As of September 2025, the United States has deployed a substantial naval and military force off the coast of Venezuela in the southern Caribbean. The deployment includes:
Navy Ships:
• Guided-missile destroyers: USS Jason Dunham, USS Gravely, USS Sampson, USS Stockdale
• Missile cruiser: USS Lake Erie
• Littoral combat ship: USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul
• Amphibious ships: USS Iwo Jima, USS Fort Lauderdale, USS San Antonio (comprising the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group)
• Fast-attack submarine: USS Newport News
Military Units:
• Marine Expeditionary Unit: 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, with approximately 4,500 personnel, including 2,200 Marines and sailors, deployed aboard the amphibious ships
• Air assets: F-35B fighter jets, MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, MQ-9 Reaper drones, and P-8 Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft
• Special Operations Forces: Reported secret deployments for targeted strikes and commando operations in support of anti-cartel missions
I cannot rule out that this show of military force is part of an intelligence operation — i.e., use the saber rattling as leverage over key members of the Venezuelan military to persuade them to launch a US-backed coup and eliminate President Maduro. But Maduro is not alone… He has the backing of Russia, China and Iran by virtue of his membership in BRICS.
Maduro and Venezuela have more than verbal assurances from Russia. Venezuela concluded a significant defense and strategic cooperation agreement with Russia in mid-September 2025, when the Venezuelan National Assembly preliminarily approved a Strategic Partnership and Cooperation Treaty with Russia. This agreement is designed to deepen existing bilateral ties in defense, energy, technology, and includes provisions for regular high-level political dialogue and oversight commissions for implementation.
Key features of the agreement:
• The treaty expands Venezuela’s military cooperation with Russia, building on the already substantial relationship, such as domestic manufacturing of AK-103 rifles and joint defense technology initiatives.
• Venezuelan cadets are training in Russia in advanced military specialties, including drone technology and electronic warfare.
• The agreement was advanced in direct response to the recent deployment of US warships, submarines, and fighter jets in the Caribbean, which Venezuela views as a threat to its sovereignty.
• The pact, which still requires a final parliamentary vote for formal ratification, is explicitly framed by Venezuelan officials as part of their rejection of “hegemonic” US influence and an effort to build a multipolar world order in partnership with Russia.
• Earlier this year, Presidents Maduro and Putin signed a 10-year strategic alliance, which lays the foundation for this further-deepened cooperation and also encompasses arms control, energy sector collaboration, and joint efforts to bypass sanctions.
Putin is sending Trump a not-so-subtle reminder that Russia still has some global reach.
Black School Superintendent of Des Moines, a former Olympian, Arrested by ICE [hypocritical Racist Republicans Claim 'He is a Criminal b/c he Possessed a Firearm,' a Right Only Guaranteed to Racists]
/
Federal authorities on Friday arrested the superintendent of the Des Moines public school system, saying he is in the country illegally from Guyana and has an outstanding immigration removal order.
Ian Roberts, who has led the 31,000-student system since 2023, was detained after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers approached him in a vehicle and he drove away, authorities said. Officers discovered his abandoned vehicle, and state police helped apprehend him. He was in possession of a loaded handgun, $3,000 in cash and a fixed-blade hunting knife, ICE said in a statement.
Roberts entered the United States in 1999 on a student visa, the agency said. He had a final order of removal from an immigration judge in May 2024 and lacked a work authorization visa, according to ICE, which said Roberts has an existing weapon possession charge.
In 2022, Roberts, then serving as Millcreek Township schools chief, pleaded guilty and paid a $100 fine plus administrative costs after being cited by the Pennsylvania Game Commission for having a loaded firearm in his car, according to the Erie Times-News. [MORE]
Freedom for Racists Only: Republicans Robotically Pledge Jesisized Worship to ICE While a New Class Action Claims ICE is Detaining Non-White Migrants in DC w/o Probable Cause or Warrants
/
PHOTO FROM DC LAST MONTH. FEDERAL COPS FUCK WITH A MAN SITTING OUTSIDE HIS HOME DRINKING A BEER. If you NEED PERMISSION FROM GOVERNMENT JACK-OFFICERS TO sit outside your FUCKIN house TO drink a MF beer AND HAVE NO MEANINGFUL RIGHT TO BE left THE FUCK ALONE then you LIVE IN A FREE RANGE PRISON, NOT A SO-CALLED ‘FREE DEMOCRACY!’ IS THIS WHAT MAGA OBLIVITRONS HAVE IN MIND WHEN THEY PROFESS ON AND ON ABOUT FREEDOM? [MORE] ACcORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:
freedumb – the state of unrecognized psychological captivity (brain hemispheric hostage) that sheeple remain in because they don’t speak the language of reality nor constantly edit truth from perfecting heart to perfecting power—and when truth is spoken around them, refrain from being open, or impervious to it thus being forever chained to its distortions and limitations. 2) the mindset that proposes “since we are liberated, we are also free.” 3) the mindset that operates upon the notion that you can have individuality without accountability or responsibility. 4) the pretense that reality is truth and viceversa. People cherish unwarranted assumptions and relish their freedumb because they have been socialized into selfcensorship along with misidentification with the ego-mind—the absence of knowledge of Self. (See: Phfreedom, Truth, Unfreedom, Dumbelievers, Self, Belief Systems, Objective Truth, Individuality, Objective Reality, True Self & Reality)
Four D.C. residents and the Maryland-based immigrant rights’ organization CASA sued the Trump administration Thursday, alleging that federal officials violated immigration law by systematically arresting people in the District whom they perceived to be Latino without warrants or probable cause.
The lawsuit follows a sharp surge in immigration arrests across the nation’s capital since President Donald Trump in August seized temporary control of the D.C. police department, mobilized the National Guard and ramped up federal law enforcement. Although Trump said he launched the surge to tamp down on violent crime, immigration enforcement became a highly visible focus.
Federal officers, sometimes working alongside D.C. police, arrested hundreds of immigrants they said were in the United States illegally — as well as some with open asylum cases or other protections against being detained or immediately deported.
The class-action lawsuit, filed in federal court in D.C., said ICE has been bypassing two statutory requirements its officers must meet before making an immigration-related arrest without a warrant: probable cause that the person being arrested is in the U.S. illegally, and probable cause that they are likely to escape before law enforcement can obtain a warrant.
“They’re not even doing the bare minimum as far as asking individual questions about a person’s immigration status,” said Ama Frimpong, legal director at CASA. Their actions, she added, have sent a chill through immigrant communities in and around D.C.
Detentions surged dramatically during Trump’s crackdown. In its first 29 days, law enforcement officials arrested more than 943 immigrants in D.C., according to figures released by the White House. That’s more than twice the number of people ICE arrested in the District during the first six months of Trump’s presidency, according to a Washington Post analysis of figures from the Deportation Data Project at the University of California at Berkeley. [MORE]
In Latest Constitutional Theater Globocop Trump Imposes Troops on Portland; Intimidates Citizens and Inhibits Their Play Freedoms Under the Guise of 'Fighting Terrorism,' MAGA Freedumb Lovers Excited
/
President Donald Trump announced the deployment of U.S. troops to Portland, Oregon, and federal immigration facilities nationwide Saturday, claiming he is defending the country against “domestic terrorists.”
Despite no widespread recent reports confirming that narrative, Trump described Portland as a city “under siege” in his announcement.
“At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. “I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary.”
The announcement triggered immediate backlash in Portland, as state and city leaders say a surge of federal agents has begun arriving — but the state and city never called for them.
“We have been provided no information on the reason or purpose of any military mission. There is no national security threat in Portland,” Governor Tina Kotek (D) told Democracy Docket in a statement. “Our communities are safe and calm. I ask Oregonians to stay calm and enjoy a beautiful fall day. We will have further comment when we have more information.”
Oregon U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D) meanwhile warned residents not to be drawn into provocation by federal agents.
“We now have a sudden influx of federal agents in our city. We did not ask for them to come,” Mayor Keith Wilson said in a press briefing Friday. “They are here without precedent or purpose.” [MORE]
Billboards Aimed at Troops ask ‘is this what you signed up for?’ Posted Signs Question Trump’s Unlawful, Unwanted Use of Troops Against US Citizens Under the Guise of Crime Fighting
/
“Did you go to Airborne just to pull security for ICE?” a billboard asks in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The billboard is one of two put up last week in North Carolina outside of two of the largest military bases, the Army’s Fort Bragg and the Marine Corps’ Camp Lejeune.
The signs are part of a campaign run led by veterans, About Face: Veterans Against The War and Win Without War, that wants to reach troops who may have questions on the legality of current or future orders as the Trump administration increasingly uses the military for domestic duties that include immigration and law enforcement.
The billboards direct viewers to a website titled: “Not What You Signed Up For” with encrypted email and messaging platforms where service members can access resources and experts with link to the GI Rights Hotline and the National Lawyers Guild’s task force focused on military law.
“We have several cities that the administration has threatened or announced to send the National Guard into, or to have those governors send the National Guard into,” said Harrison Mann, the associate director for policy and campaigns for Win Without War. Mann was an Army major when he resigned from the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2024 over the Biden administration’s use of American military hardware to support Israel’s military in its war with Hamas. [MORE]
Troop Deployment in the US Climbs to 35,000 Boots On The Ground, Intimidating and Inhibiting the Play Freedoms of Trump’s Subjects
/THE BLIGHT HOUSE has deployed roughly 35,000 federal troops within the United States this year, according to exclusive figures provided to The Intercept by official military sources. That marks a 75 percent increase on the previous count offered by The Intercept in July.
These occupation forces, drawn from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and National Guard, have been operating under Title 10 authority, or federal control, in at least five states — Arizona, California, Florida, New Mexico, and Texas — in service of the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant agenda.
The true number of federal troops deployed may be markedly higher. When asked directly, Northern Command, which oversees military operations in North America, said it has no running tally of how many troops have operated under Title 10. The Office of the Secretary of War has, for weeks, dodged questions about the total number, refusing to say if they even know it themselves. The increase of 15,000 troops since July could reflect better accounting, as opposed to a marked spike in Title 10 deployments over the last two months, but it’s impossible to know for certain due to efforts by the Department of War to conceal basic information about the forces.
Experts say that the increasing use of military troops in the interior of the U.S. represents an extraordinary violation of Posse Comitatus, a bedrock 19th-century law banning the use of federal military forces to execute domestic law enforcement that is seen as fundamental to the democratic tradition in America. The deployments continue to nudge the United States closer to a genuine police state. [MORE]
In Trump's Economy Many Americans Can’t Buy Homes, Get jobs, Move or Quit McJobs
/
A mix of high borrowing costs, dwindling job openings and growing economic and political uncertainty have left many U.S. households at a standstill, with many Americans saying they feel unable to buy new homes, take new jobs or move to new cities.
The Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut last week — the first of the year, with the expectation that more will follow — may have boosted stock prices, but it isn’t likely to make much of a difference to everyday Americans, economists say. While the economy is generally in good shape, many people feel stuck.
“Consumers have been increasingly paralyzed by economic uncertainty, tariffs, rising inflation, chances of a recession — and a quarter-point change in the Federal Funds Rate rates isn’t going to solve those problems,” said Jessica Riedl, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank. “There are much larger headwinds holding back the economy that must be addressed first.”
Monthly home sales have recently bottomed out, reaching lows last seen after the Great Recession in the 2000s. Americans aren’t leaving their jobs or getting new ones. Hiring has stalled considerably this year, with employers adding 88,000 jobs in the past three months, roughly one-third of last summer’s count. And census data shows that Americans are generally moving less — to new homes or cities — than they have in decades.
For the Americans who have locked in low mortgage rates and are happy in their jobs, economic inertia may not be a problem. But for many others — including recent graduates and the unemployed — the lack of opportunities is making it difficult to find a foothold in this economy. [MORE]
Suit Filed Over the Columbus Police Murder of Ta’Kiya Young: 7 Mos Pregnant Black Woman Shot thru the Windshield as She Slowly Drove Toward White Cop who Was Not in Imminent Danger, Shoplifting Arrest
/
A white Ohio police officer accused of shooting to death a pregnant Black mother two years ago was not trained or supervised properly, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday against the police chief and the township that employed him.
The estate of Ta’Kiya Young sued Blendon Township and its police chief over her August 2023 fatal shooting in the parking lot of a grocery store in the Columbus suburbs. She had been suspected of shoplifting bottles of alcohol when Officer Connor M. Grubb and another officer approached her car. Young, 21, partially lowered her window and the other officer ordered her to get out of the vehicle.
When she moved her car to the right, it slowly rolled toward Grubb, who is accused of shooting her through the windshield. Young and the unborn daughter she was expecting as her third child were both pronounced dead at a hospital. Grubb was charged with murder, involuntary manslaughter and assault last year.
Grubb has pleaded not guilty, and a hearing in his criminal case is scheduled for next week.
“Without reasonable verification or investigation, the officers recklessly escalated their response, singling out Ms. Young and treating her as a dangerous criminal despite the minor nature of the allegations," the lawsuit claims. Grubb has had other “aggressive encounters with community members” but faced no meaningful discipline, the complaint alleges.
The lawsuit makes a single claim of municipal liability and seeks damages along with an injunction to stop policies that deprived Young and her unborn child of their constitutional rights.
Young's estate also sued Grubb, supermarket chain Kroger Company and one of the store's employees last month. That earlier lawsuit, filed in Franklin County, makes claims of wrongful death and negligence. [MORE]
Crump Demands Video of the Government's Murder of Charles Adair, a Black Man in a Wheel Chair Crushed to Death by Wyandotte County Prison Cops as He Begged For Life. Held Pre-Trial for Traffic Charge
/
From [HERE] Attorney Ben Crump likened the death of a Wyandotte County inmate he saw on video for the first time Tuesday to that of George Floyd.
“When you all get to see that video you are going to be as shocked as anybody who saw the George Floyd video,” Crump said at a news conference Tuesday night at Kansas City’s Friendship Baptist Church flanked by several members of Charles Adair’s family.
Wyandotte County Deputy Richard Fatherley is charged with second-degree murder for Adair’s death. If the case goes to a jury trial, it could also be presented an option to consider charges in the alternative of involuntary manslaughter.
Adair died while in custody at the Wyandotte County Detention Center July 5, a day after he was jailed for outstanding traffic violations.
Crump and the other family attorneys Harry Daniels and Sue-Ann Robinson said watching the video was both horrifying and heartbreaking. Adair was Black. The attorneys say the deputy seen on video is white.
“Because of the color of your skin a traffic violation should not equal a death sentence,” Crump said.
Family, who have not yet been able to view the video, say Adair was a 50-year-old diabetic in a wheelchair facing amputation of his leg.
According to Crump and Daniels, Adair got into a confrontation with the person wheeling him back to his cell and deputies placed him face down on his bed. They say he still had his handcuffs on but deputies were trying to remove them. That’s when they say Deputy Fatherley kneeled on Adair’s back for one minute and twenty-four seconds.
“When Charles was trying to survive as anybody would do he doubled down and put more body weight on him,” Daniels said.
Crump pointed out Fatherley had his knee on Adair for just four seconds less than Floyd had on his neck.
“When a human being is crying out for help, why would you keep your knee on him with your full body weight that caused his ribs to be crushed?” Crump asked.
The hour long news conference included chants of “be fair for Charles Adair” and “show the video”
“Aint that what body cameras are for? So it can be transparent? It shouldn’t just be lawyers and law enforcement seeing the video. No, the public needs to see the video,” Crump said.
Daniels said after seeing the video he believed without a doubt the deputy should have been arrested. Fatherley was issued a summons to appear in court on the second-degree murder charge in November.
Wyandotte County District Attorney Mark Dupree said at a news conference last week he issued the summons because he did not consider Fatherley to be a flight risk.
Comptroller Finds NYPD Force Complaints are Way up Under Black Strawboss Eric Adams. At Highest Level Since 2013 in a City Run by Elite, White Liberals
/
Complaints filed against NYPD officers for excessive or unnecessary force jumped by more than 50% since the first year of Mayor Eric Adams’ administration, largely in Black and Latino precincts, according to a new report released Tuesday by city Comptroller Brad Lander.
The report reviewed force complaints filed with the city’s Civilian Complaint Review Board, legal settlements and precinct demographics in order to identify precinct-level and department-wide trends. The analysis found complaints were submitted to CCRB 3,700 times in 2022, Adams' first year in office, and increased to more than 5,500 in 2023 and 5,600 in 2024.
The report also argued for precinct-level oversight to curb potential abuses. City Hall spokesperson Kayla Mamelak criticized the report as full of inaccurate data and said the jumps could be explained by both an expansion in the review board’s authority and the administration putting more cops on the streets to address safety.
But the expansion of the CCRB’s authority did not affect excessive-force complaints, according to an agency press release at the time. Rather, it gave the board the power to investigate racial profiling, body-worn camera misuse, self-initiated complaints and boost transparency for the public.
NYC last week
NYC 2 weeks ago
Lander’s report comes the same week the city Department of Investigation acknowledged it is probing deaths in NYPD custody and just days after Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch served charges on officers who fatally shot a 19-year-old during a mental health crisis at his Queens home.
Discipline of officers is an important component of accountability, yet “equally important are the proactive steps the NYPD takes to prevent excessive or unnecessary use of force in the first place, through measures such as training, supervision, and early intervention,” Lander’s office wrote in a summary of the report.
The report found four precincts with the most complaints in the last three years — the 40th, 44th, 73rd and 75th, together making up portions of East New York and Cypress Hills in Brooklyn and Mott Haven, Melrose, Concourse and Highbridge the Bronx. Those precincts each had more than 100 excessive-force complaints in that period. More than 85% of residents in those precincts are Black or Latino, and all 10 precincts with the most force complaints were majority Black or Latino, according to the comptroller's office.
In the fiscal year that ended this summer, “police action” claims were the most common tort claims against the city, with more than 6,000 claims filed and $113 million in settlements, the report found.
“Our goal must be to prevent misconduct before it happens — rather than leaving communities to pay the price in harm, trauma and costly settlements after the fact,” said Lander, who challenged Adams in the Democratic mayoral primary and cross-endorsed its winner, Zohran Mamdani.
The comptroller’s office said the NYPD’s early intervention system, which aims to curb problematic policing practices without disciplining officers, is not doing enough to detect precinct and department-wide trends by analyzing lawsuits and filed claims, which the inspector general for the NYPD recommended in 2018. Lander's office recommended the department go beyond flagging individual officers for intervention and implement precinct-level analysis.
His office also recommended targeting high-risk precincts with use-of-force training and reforms and increasing transparency and accountability through quarterly public reports on department-wide misconduct. [MORE]
[Elite Liberals Pretend the Number of Cops is Related to Crime Prevention] Oakland Police collaborate with NAACP to Hire More Cops to Surveil and Control Blacks and Latinos
/The push to get new officers is a collaborative effort, says the Oakland Police Officers' Association.
Besides the police department itself, the Oakland chapter of the NAACP as well as some city councilmembers, are the leading forces behind it.
Sgt. Huy Nguyen is the president of the police officers' association.
"We need everybody to get to this. We need every city leadership to get to this," Sgt. Nguyen said.
Sgt. Nguyen says OPD currently has 511 officers, but he expects that number to drop in the coming months.
Nguyen says the department is losing about six people a month. If that continues, the department won't be able to replace them fast enough even with new academies set to graduate.
"This is the lowest number I've seen in my 26-year career being a police officer here in Oakland," Nguyen said.
The alarming statistics are one reason why the Oakland chapter of the NAACP is supporting the new drive to recruit more officers. [MORE]
