I got a call last week from a woman who identified herself as being with a T.V. news crew from Sweden. They were working on a documentary about Oakland, and wished for my help. Evidently our troubled city has made international headlines for crime and murder, and the news has even reached far-away Sweden.

I just want to share this San Francisco Chronicle article from this morning. It says that Pamela Price “has not yet made the required data available to us, nearly a year after we first asked them for it.”

There’s a rumor afoot that the Council is going to try to defund the Oakland Police Department by up to $50 million, which represents about 1/6 of their annual budget.

There’s a big, flashy new poster downtown on lampposts and walls. It says:

The Coalition for a Better Oakland is proud to announce that former Chief of Police LeRonne Armstrong, who was unjustly fired by Sheng Thao, is our person of the year, for his inspirational leadership of OPD during his tenure.