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Community Police on Your Block 
Oakland subscribes to a Community Policing philosophy -- a policing strategy based on the notion that community and police interaction facilitates collaborative problem solving and can help control crime. Community members help to identify and bring problems to the attention of police, and police officers are likewise involved as members of the community. In Oakland, all police officers are trained in the Community Policing philosophy and certain officers, called Problem Solving Officers (PSOs), are assigned to work with community members in a specific geographic area to help solve neighborhood issues. Measure Y supports the hiring of PSOs until there is a PSO in every single beat. Today there are 22 more Problem Solving Officers working in Oakland neighborhoods than there were before Measure Y. Learn more about the police services supported by Measure Y, and how to contact your officer, by checking out our web site at www.MeasureY.org. |
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Getting Off the Streets: Samantha's Story  Staff met "Samantha" when she was being brought in by a Child Welfare Worker after she went AWOL from her Oakland group home placement. She had been AWOL for quite some time and had basically been AWOL off and on for several years while being sexually exploited. She then connected with the program case manager "Marisela". Soon after connecting with Marisela, she ran away from her Oakland group home placement and returned to a life of being sexually exploited on the streets. But she kept in touch with Marisela... Read more about Samantha... |
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Did You Know?  Through the funds raised through Measure Y, Youth ALIVE!'s Caught in the Crossfire program is able to connect with every youth at Highland Hospital who has been injured in an act of violence. Caught in the Crossfire supports victims and their families while reducing retaliation and re-injury, and promoting positive alternatives to violence.
Learn more about the public safety improvements paid for through Measure Y. |
