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12 20-0478 Subject: Pedestrian And Bicyclist For "Non-Violent" Violations From: Council President Kaplan Recommendation: Adopt A Resolution Seeking A Policy Recommendation From The Oakland Police Commission For Bicycle And Pedestrian Stops; And Adopting An Interim Moratorium On The Of Arrest Of Persons For Bicycle And Pedestrian Violations By The Oakland Police Department; And Requesting An Informational Report From The Oakland Police Department Regarding The Circumstances And Number And Demographics Of Bicycle And Pedestrian Stops, Tickets And Related Actions

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    Ashleigh Halverstadt over 4 years ago

    As a resident of District 3, I strongly support this resolution and urge you to take further action to decriminalize minor pedestrian and bicyclist infractions and shift responsibility for handling these infractions away from OPD.

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    Christoph Neyer over 4 years ago

    I strongly support this measure. Police do not need to be involved in pedestrian interactions for minor offenses. Arrests are completely unnecessary in these cases and should be stopped.

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    Aima Paule over 4 years ago

    I'm a resident of D1 and fully support thus measure. Pedestrian and bicycling stops/arrests disproportionately affect our Black and Brown community.

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    Ashley Davidson over 4 years ago

    I strongly support this policy.

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    Anne Spevack over 4 years ago

    I support this, and further ask the council to move these functions out of the police department to prevent unnecessary interactions with the police.

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    Liz Binning over 4 years ago

    I'm a resident of D1 and fully support thus measure. Pedestrian and bicycling stops/arrests disproportionately affect our Black and Brown community.

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    Ellen Smrekar over 4 years ago

    Resident of District 2 and absolutely support this measure - arresting people for such minor infractions is often a gateway to larger trumped up charges and to police brutality.

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    Kyle Kubas over 4 years ago

    Support this measure (resident of D1) - less arrests please!

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    Mari Swim over 4 years ago

    Resident of District 4 and absolutely support this measure - arresting people for such minor infractions is often a gateway to larger trumped up charges and to police brutality.

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    Amy Fourrier over 4 years ago

    I support this measure.

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    Tim Minezaki over 4 years ago

    I support this measure and suggest council should consider permanently removing OPD from enforcing non-violent pedestrian violations.

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    A Turner over 4 years ago

    I support this measure.

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    Andrew Morales over 4 years ago

    No more use of bicycle violations to profile and used to ramp up larger charges! I support the moratorium on arrests of people for bicycle and pedestrian violations!!

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    Ryan Harrison over 4 years ago

    I fully support this measure. Pedestrian and bicycle violations are a joke, and an easy tool that can be used by the police to profile people and criminalize them. This has been noted by police officers themselves that riding a bike on a sidewalk or jaywalking are easy violations that can be used to drum up larger charges. These laws disproportionally affect those who are of vulnerable populations. I fully support the moratorium on arrests, and I would encourage the city council to look further to decriminalizing some of these offenses and removing them from the books entirely.

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    Olivia G over 4 years ago

    I support the moratorium on police harassment of pedestrian abs bicyclists.

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    Nicholas Elizabeth Faby over 4 years ago

    This will help make our community safer. Police should not be involved at all in this issue.

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    Anne Mav over 4 years ago

    D1 resident and voter. I support and agree with this. Too many officers are uninformed about actual bicycle traffic and safety laws and used these stops/arrests as excuses to harass citizens doing no harm/no wrong.

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    Angelica San Jose over 4 years ago

    Another small way to bring embrace equity in our community. More measures like this, please! -a resident of D5

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    Laura Bekes over 4 years ago

    I support this and all efforts to restrict OPD's ability to harass and do violence to people.

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    Justin deWolfe over 4 years ago

    I completely agree with this measure and support it fully. Thank you