It turns out that the Oakland City Council will approve $7.7 Million to spend on police recruiting.I like that advertising has been reduced to $1M instead of the ludacris $1.5M bucks.
Great.
OPD is still not on the ball marketing online. According to a post on the Rockridge Crimewatch group, there have been NO ads for hiring OPD officers on craigslist. You won't find any ads except one for an $8-10k/month HR manager fatcat position. (Perhaps split that into three positions: one coordinator, and two neighborhood walking recruiters?)
Check craigslist for OPD jobs
You will find job postings on monster.com, but monster costs 4x what a job posting costs on craigslist ($495 instead of $75) and monster ads are seen by far fewer people.
I spoke with SFPD officers over the weekend who noted that *every* PD in the country is having trouble staffing up right now. Same with the military. Who wants to die for low pay, or nothing to show for it?
These guys also commented that hiring bonuses are not good for this reason, because they steal officers from other cities who need them. For sure, they can replace said officers more easily than OPD can. Oakland has plenty of violent crime. On the other hand, San Francisco has more homicides per year than Oakland. Do you hear that in the media?
Rebecca Kaplan's IDEAS
OPD marketing/recruiting needs to hear Rebecca Kaplan's ideas of hiring more people from within Oakland. If the police are your brothers and neighbors, you can't really well call them "pigs" can you? Plus, many households in West and East Oakland could use the money!
Also, most people who aced all our OPD tests but were screened out at the 11th hour, failed because of:
-- low credit scores (who cares? what about goldman sachs' and alan greenspan's "scores"?)
-- past drug use, long ago (who cares? who in our newer generations has NOT used drugs? I know I have, but I didn't keep up because that's not my style of addiction. C'mon now people. If we want more police, make the standards realistic!)
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