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New Chief Batts, In New Bay-Area Edition of NY Times
The New York Times has decided to create a couple of regional editions, and started this effort in the Bay Area because so many folks buy the paper here and because they have ten reporters on the ground.
To our surprise, the Grey Lady published a full article about Oakland (!) and our incoming Oakland Police Chief Tony Batts. Here are a few snippets:
New Oakland Police Chief Inherits a Force, and a City, in Turmoil
-- Long Beach and Oakland are both busy port cities with blue-collar roots and almost identical poverty levels. Each has large white, black, Asian and Latino communities.
-- “But when you look at the crime rate,” Mr. Batts said, “they are upside down.”
-- Not that the [police] force isn’t trying, and having some success. In fact, with the notable exception of rape, which is up 14 percent from this time last year.
-- But how will Mr. Batts keep the crime rate going down while convincing city residents that the police force is on their side? It seems almost certain that he will call for an expansion of community policing.
Once again, this article disses Oakland today but at least says we get a bad rap sometimes. Of course Mayor Dellums makes an appearance, as he has done with some news about incoming Chief Batts.
Nothing in the story is news for Oaklanders...only the decision to publish it by the NY Times.
P.S. Click on and read Today in Montclair's Our Take On Incoming Chief Batts, from mid-August.
To our surprise, the Grey Lady published a full article about Oakland (!) and our incoming Oakland Police Chief Tony Batts. Here are a few snippets:
New Oakland Police Chief Inherits a Force, and a City, in Turmoil
-- Long Beach and Oakland are both busy port cities with blue-collar roots and almost identical poverty levels. Each has large white, black, Asian and Latino communities.
-- “But when you look at the crime rate,” Mr. Batts said, “they are upside down.”
-- Not that the [police] force isn’t trying, and having some success. In fact, with the notable exception of rape, which is up 14 percent from this time last year.
-- But how will Mr. Batts keep the crime rate going down while convincing city residents that the police force is on their side? It seems almost certain that he will call for an expansion of community policing.
Once again, this article disses Oakland today but at least says we get a bad rap sometimes. Of course Mayor Dellums makes an appearance, as he has done with some news about incoming Chief Batts.
Nothing in the story is news for Oaklanders...only the decision to publish it by the NY Times.
P.S. Click on and read Today in Montclair's Our Take On Incoming Chief Batts, from mid-August.
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