Ron Dellums invites PUEBLO to forum at Grand Lake

PUEBLO was invited to bring our questions and issues to Ron Dellums' "Neighbor to Neighbor" forum at the Grand Lake Theatre on Saturday, April 22nd.

Rashidah was able to share with him some of the more startling findings of our police survey and asked him to comment. She mentioned that the survey revealed that only 1 out of 10 Oakland residents who reported having a negative interaction with police had filed a complaint, and that the satisfaction or dissatisfaction that Oakland residents felt about their experience with Oakland police was directly correlated to their ethnicity and class.

Mr. Dellums responded with the observation that "911 style policing" tends to reflect bias: depending on where the calls for service originate, police tend to respond differently. He suggested that community policing, a shift in approach, would tend to "equalize" the delivery of police services to a greater extent, and encouraged us to move toward implementing community policing to a greater extent.

Created: 04-24-2006