At Reimagining Public Safety Taskforce. On mobile so my tweets will be more sporadic. We have 2 #oakmtg (Appreciation) Club members on Advisory boards. But there are also 120 people on the Advisory Boards.
Aman Sebahtu says they are extending the timeline, but advisory boards are meeting 3x in 2020 & 1x in 2021. Still concerning. Rocky start to this meeting included not having enough space for all AB members as panelists & approval of mtg notes misinterpreted as roll call. #oakmtg
Ok, I was wrong. It's 130 advisory board members. #oakmtg
James Burch will be chairing this AB #oakmtg 
Nicky (Nikki?) Den will be chairing this one #oakmtg
Ginale Harris asks why D7 isn't well-repped on the advisory boards. My zoom dropped and I missed the response. Folks are concerned about limited touch points and the sheer number of people. David M says there are 130 people "and more will be added" (?!) #oakmtg
Jennifer Epps-Addison of the Center for Popular Democracy is the guest speaker. Immediately praises Harris for calling out the lack of D7 representation. She caught right away that Harris is the voice of her community. #oakmtg
Since the first map was developed, Oakland's budget for policing has gone up 4%. #oakmtg
So this speech was inspirational, but it feels like all the conversations we've had before. I would prefer to give time to the TF members to offer ideas during that time. We're running over time and there was an hour allotted for discussion, which will be cut short now. #oakmtg
This feels like 30-second timed speeches for a high school debate club. This is not going to be productive. #oakmtg
David Muhammad just shut down the Advisory Board members who were in the queue and wanted to speak, limiting it to TF members only. CM Bas takes up more time saying the presentation was good and everyone should refer to the presentation when they answer the questions. #oakmtg
I appreciate when TF members call out the issues with this structure and the hoops they are being forced to jump through during this whole process. There's a constant sense of community gaslighting and these folks won't let it deter them. #oakmtg
Brooklyn asks about commitment forms, as some people didn't complete them. City Admin has apparently reached out to the people who did not respond.
Antoine Towers asks if we can stop with the intros that waste time and get to work. #oakmtg
Antoine Towers asks if we can stop with the intros that waste time and get to work. #oakmtg
@astropuffin asks to make use of the chat feature and breakout rooms to try to make better use of time. David Muhammad straight up ignores the request. It's true that this is not really a discussion. #oakmtg
(I know I'm biased. But other callers agree.)
Love the comments from Nikki Dinh. Says that we went from reimagining to line edits with this conversation. Also wants closed captioning to be more accessible. As someone who relies heavily on captioning, sometimes it's very hard to keep up and play stenographer on calls. #oakmtg
Someone brings up the multi-cop car problem again with another anecdote, responding to a woman with mental health issues without pants. Literally the solution would have been one person bringing her a pair of pants as a stop gap, and get her some resources. #oakmtg
DV and sexual assault, sexual trafficking have been brought up repeatedly. OPD officers are often perpetrators of sexual and domestic violence. #oakmtg
I don't want to add to the noise but I'm considering adding myself to the queue to complain about how David M is facilitating, which is adding time. It is a quandary, spending time to talk about wasting time. #oakmtg
Too late. Maybe I will send an email to Taylor & Bas. Taylor literally calls the process unwieldy in his closing remarks. #oakmtg
Email sent, thread on that here. #oakmtg
https://twitter.com/tasha_mente/status/1316596693547192320?s=19
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