An Open Letter to the Citizens of Oakland from the Oakland Police Officers Association

1 November 211 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 Mayors 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.

Thats hundreds of City workers encouraged to take off work to participate in the protest against the establishment. But arent the Mayor and her Administration part of the establishment they are paying City employees to protest? Is it the Citys 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 weeks events alone cost Oakland taxpayers over $1 million.

The Mayor and her Administration are beefing up police presence for Wednesdays 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 $8 parcel tax to bail out the Citys 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.

It shouldn’t be too confusing when one realizes that the FOUNDATION that directs O.W.S. is headquartered at the PRESIDIO, and the TIDES just up the road from Oakland. This is pure MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE MANIPULATION – bipolar lunacy – just as their controllers are demanding.
I will be surprised if blood doesn’t run in the streets of Oakland California today, Wednesday, Nov. 2. Hegelian Dialectic in action!!!!