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Oakland police staffing
is a fancy concern
If we’re going to have a dialog about Oakland’s scarcity of police, it should be grounded in goal info.
First, it’s not correct to say that leaders in Oakland don’t have any concern for public security. Mayor Sheng Thao really useful funding for six police academies in her first finances. This clearly exhibits that she could be very involved.
Second, the town of Oakland affords new police recruits one of many highest signing bonuses within the state, however the division nonetheless has a tough time discovering certified candidates. San Francisco can be having recruitment points.
Lastly, the Anti-Police Terror Venture supplies a verify to the typically unchecked energy and authority of rogue police in Oakland. Federal screens are in place for a superb purpose.
This can be a complicated concern with no straightforward options.
Malik Washington
Dublin
Environmental value
of nukes is simply too excessive
Re: “New focus for Berkeley ‘nuclear free zone’” (Web page B1, July 25).
Nuclear vitality isn’t “clear” vitality. It doesn’t make the most of carbon sources. It does require uranium and produces extremely radioactive waste on an ongoing foundation in any respect crops, some on earthquake faults. It’s saved at these crops within the open in non permanent storage.
The U.S. has no answer to retailer this waste, which will likely be radioactive for 1,000 years plus, safely. There have solely been three nuclear plant crises so far however even yet another is an excessive amount of.
Fukushima, a complete meltdown, has bordered off massive swaths of land that are actually radioactive. It impacted a whole bunch of sq. miles and greater than 300,000 individuals. Lives are completely disrupted. Lengthy-term well being impacts are being watched.
We should be proactive to take care of international warming. Increasing nuclear vitality isn’t the answer. It has severe dangers that wind and photo voltaic would not have.
Judy Flum
Hercules
Airport growth will
hinder local weather struggle
Re. “Officers set sights excessive with growth plans” (Web page A1, July 25).
Oakland Airport historical past is fascinating, however historical past isn’t future.
Including 16 gates to “meet growing air journey demand” completely ignores the necessity to scale back greenhouse fuel emissions by 45% by 2030 to maintain international warming to not more than 1.5°C as referred to as for within the Paris Settlement.
Flying is an elite privilege with excessive prices for everybody else. Simply 12% of U.S. households take 66% of flights, however all of us pay. Extremely-fine particles from jet gas combustion trigger bronchial asthma, coronary heart illness and different well being issues in a 10-mile radius from airports, as examined in Seattle. For OAK, that’s from Emeryville to Hayward.
We have to study as an alternative of repeating the historical past of a time after we didn’t know higher. It’s time to scale back leisure flying to cease contributing to the acute climate and wildfire results of the Anthropocene.
Lin Griffith
Oakland
Elevating households will
relight state’s glow
Re: “Golden State’s glow is fading” (Web page A1, July 26).
California urgently wants you to boost households. “Golden State’s glow is fading” is a prophetic portrait of California’s plummeting inhabitants positioning the Golden State to turn out to be America’s subsequent “rust belt.” Solely households will change this dystopian prediction.
America’s core battle is between depopulators and populators. I’m from a local California household of 9. My spouse and I’ve three kids. People should not born to be served, however to serve. My siblings and kids are first responders, lecturers and veterans.
I assure that in case you can compassionately govern household dinner, you’ll be able to govern a state. It’s onerous to listen to, however kids have associates, whereas adults have households. Let’s increase our youngsters to be humanitarians with a ardour to serve others, not a checking account.
Such as you, my family members are escaping California’s turmoil. Assist me make California glow once more. Be part of the counterculture … turn out to be a modern-day hippie and vote.
Mark R. Clifford
Moraga
Time has soured
Bay Space’s candy life
The grey-haired geezer sits alone within the rocking chair on the entrance porch and ponders life.
