Why in hell are people arguing and trying to obstruct the necessity for the increase in the police force to an appropriate and essential number for proper policing of the Oakland area? I mean the force is so low in numbers they had to call in the Sheriff's from the unincorporated areas.... it seems like they're just stalling so they can work things out behind the scenes to screw the whole process so it wont or wont be able to go through if you ask me.... I may not be a sterling societal example of the perfect citizen but I recognize the necessity for a properly functional police force, even I do.... I mean people say, "yeah, yeah, yeah, police.... but life isn't like prison behind bars and the walls and all"........ But Hello..... if the police don't have even man power to do their job appropriately I'm just straight up sorry.... the streets themselves that every single human being in Oakland has to walk on, including the children, could very well be just as unsafe and risky to be on and even downright dangerous for anyone as it is in those prisons.... the police are the only thing that keep the sidewalks from being a free territory for predators that don't care about anyone whatsoever and does indeed include anyone and everyone.... including the prominent citizens in their vehicles driving down the street.... if the police can't even maintain the sidewalks for public safety, then the streets and roads between those sidewalks are equally unsafe because at any intersection on them whatsoever someone could straight up walk off those sidewalks and carjack anyone from the person that barely can afford his gas, oil, maintenance and insurance all the way up to the anyone else of any affluence whatsoever, whether local political of any kind at all, business influential of any sort, any income bracket regardless of social position and status, and even school buses if they took a twisted turn of mind to do it.... wouldn't matter who you were really.... if the sidewalks, streets and city aren't secured with an appropriate and functional number of officers and supporting law inforcement personnel then such could be the case.... and if someone is carjacked.... what if the person or persons who do it decide they have a use for the passengers in addition to the vehicle itself? kidnapping for the purposes of anything whatsoever of a criminal nature could be carried out with impunity.... forced prostitution, human trafficking, rape, any form of abuse whatsoever.... it could happen to anyone on the sidewalk or straight out of their vehicle on the street, and in their home or their businesses, in the restaurants, etc. etc. etc..... why would someone want to obstruct such a vital thing as the proper staffing of a very, very necessary thing such as an efficient police force and legal arm of city government which a city cannot do without in order to maintain itself properly for the safety of all it's citizenry and local businesses.... why would they? $7.7 million.... maybe if the reasons are typical they're wanting to divert the funds to programs that they can rather use for other purposes without concern for public safety.... like their own paychecks and their own use for their unvoiced purposes.... it seems like there would be things behind the scenes going on if they were trying to obstruct and divert such a vital thing as proper funding for law enforcement for the city..... just seems irresponsible to the "n'th" degree to obstruct such a thing as that.... personal sentiment.... but that's the way I see it.....