You may be familiar with the Grand Lake neighborhood, where, just across the street from the Grand Lake Theater there’s a parking lot nestled below the 580 freeway that hugs the east end of Lakeside Park.

When we started the Coalition for a Better Oakland three years ago, we decided to focus on two issues: cops and encampments. Concerning the former, we were insulted by the hostility exhibited toward the Oakland Police Department from so many quarters of the city: the mayor, the City Council, the Police Commission, the media, and from too many ignorant residents, whose views had been contaminated by all the above.

As Pamela Price becomes increasingly desperate to keep her job, she’s doubling down on unproven allegations against the Oakland Police Department, and particularly its union, the Oakland Police Officer’s Association.

On Fridays, I like to review the past week and play a sort of game. Who won the week? Who lost? When it comes to the Pamela Price Recall, I can definitely state that Madame D.A. lost the week. Badly.

What could possibly go wrong? A new multi-billion dollar regional housing bond, paid for by parcel taxes, and overseen in Oakland by Libby Schaaf and Sheng Thao—two of the most incompetent mayors in our history, who gave us our homeless crisis and other disasters on a silver platter.