INBOX: This is a long post so get your tea and popcorn. 🍿🫖

California: The Oakland Police Commission is controlled by the Coalition for Police Accountability (CPA), whose president, Cathy Leonard, is a former lawyer who was disbarred for stealing money from her clients.

When I was on the Police Commission, I and former commissioners, Dr. ✨Tyfahra🪐 Milele✨ and Ginale Harris courageously and vocally fought against former Commissioners Regina Jackson and Marsha Peterson, who allowed Leonard and Rashidah Grinage and Millie Cleveland and other CPA operatives to meet secretly with Jackson and try to dictate the actions of the Police Commission. The CPA also always wanted to meet with new commissioners to indoctrinate them on what the CPA expected of them. I declined to meet with them for an indoctrination session.

The CPA would be furious when we refused to follow their agenda and made our decisions independently and in the best interests of the entire Oakland community. The CPA even wanted to pick the Commission’s chair and vice chair in 2023, who would be their puppets, but we thwarted their efforts and re-elected Milele for a second term.

What CPA desired was often at odds with the best interests of the entire community, but Jackson and Peterson would never cross the CPA. They also wanted Commission staff to bow down to the CPA as well, which staff objected to. Eventually excellent staffer Rania Adwan resigned rather than continue to be abused by Jackson, Peterson and the CPA.

We also railed against plaintiff’s Attorney Jim Chanin, the former Chair of the police Commission Selection Panel, who had a clear financial conflict of interest because he was making approx $100K a year from continued federal oversight of OPD and he never advocated for the end of oversight. Chanin had been making that money since oversight began in 2023 or so and he will continue to make money until oversight is ended.

Chanin decided who would serve on the Commission and fill the seats reserved for the Selection Panel. Chanin never filed financial disclosure forms and never disclosed to the public that he was making money off the continued oversight. We brought that information to light when Milele and Harris sued the City and Chanin in 2023. Needless to say, the public was shocked.

City Attorney Ryan Richardson and then- councilmember Nikki Bas refused to remove Chanin from the Selection Panel even though he was serving unlawfully from 2022-2023 because he had reached his 5-year maximum term of service. Bas’s excuse for ignoring the City Charter was that she could not find one person out of the many thousands in her district to fill Chanin’s vacancy. Ryan Richardson either did not know the law or willfully decided to let the selection panel violate it. It took the lawsuit filed by Milele and Harris to get Chanin removed.

For our efforts to make the Commission more transparent and accountable to the public, we were attacked by CPA, Jackson, Peterson, Chanin, and their enablers, and the Oaklandside’s Darwin BondGraham and Eli Wolfe gleefully vilified us and published negative articles about us filled with lies. In 2023 Chanin made sure Milele was not reappointed to the Commission, and Thao decided not to let me continue to serve.

The police Commission will never act to reform the pursuit policy or otherwise act in the best interests of the entire Oakland community unless the outsized influence of the CPA is eliminated. This kind of corruption needs to be exposed and eliminated if Oakland is ever to rise again."

Thoughts?

JUST IN: Tom Homan, at @TPUSA gala, tells me ICE will be doing their job “all across the country” and that the executive actions Trump is issuing tomorrow will be “game changers.”

A large chunk of the expected executive actions will be focused on the border and energy.

Diana Glebova

A devastating report from the Department of Defense Inspector General stated unequivocally that the tight secrecy that surrounded the medical treatment and allegations of incapacity of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

Read more: https://lawenforcementtoday.com/lloyd-austins-medical-treatment-secrecy-increased-risks-to-national-security-unnecessarily-did-not-meet-notification-requirements

Watch: President Donald J Trump has acknowledged FEMA failures in Western North Carolina and vowed to fix it!

“They have been treated very badly by FEMA… we are going to get it rocking and rolling again!”

Matt Van Swol

Michael Letts, a LEO advocate, political analyst, and CEO/Founder of the nonprofit organization InVest USA has been advocating for a secure American border for years. He understands the complex nature of unchecked illegal immigration and how it impacts national security.

Read more: https://lawenforcementtoday.com/nonprofit-invest-usa-equipping-border-patrol-to-take-on-cartels-and-secure-the-border

Chicago, Illinois: Two robbery suspects were arrested in Lincoln Park after an armed robbery spree rolled from Wicker Park into Old Town yesterday evening.

Unfortunately, it appears that at least one more crew is still working the streets.

Read more: https://cwbchicago.com/2025/01/2-in-custody-after-armed-robbery-spree-rolls-from-wicker-park-to-old-town-at-least-one-more-crew-on-the-loose.html

🔥Incident Updates (1/19/2025 PM)

#PalisadesFire
https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/1/7/palisades-fire

* Pacific Palisades (LA County)
* 23,713 acres, 56% contained

#EatonFire
https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/1/7/eaton-fire

* North Pasadena and Altadena  (LA County)
* 14,021 acres, 81% contained

🚨A Red Flag Warning is in effect from Monday morning through Tuesday evening over much of Los Angeles, Ventura, Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, and San Diego Counties due to strong gusty offshore winds and low relative humidity. CAL FIRE and local partners continue to surge resources to attack new fires.

For the most up-to-date emergency information and evacuation updates, please visit: 🔗 http://www.fire.ca.gov

CAL FIRE

Tonight, @houmayor and HPD Chief Diaz joined HPD's Homeless Outreach Team (HOT) to ensure those in need have a warm place to stay. 🚔❄️

HOT officers transported anyone who wanted a ride to a warming centers.

Warming centers are open for anyone who needs a warm place to shelter.

Houston Police

Starting TOMORROW! 🇺🇸

Margo Martin

Could we stop paying taxes if Trump creates the External Revenue Service?

Tune in as we discuss this and more of today's biggest stories in this new episode!
https://ept.ms/ExternalRevenueS

Average Texas night at Rodeo Cold 🤠

*NEWS INTERRUPTION*

(Via ryzone IG)

Prayers for the Philadelphia Police officer who was injured in the line of duty tonight. 🙏🏻

A Philadelphia police officer is in the hospital after they say the officer was struck by a civilian vehicle in South Philly Sunday evening.

At around 5:57 p.m., at 1000 Pattison Avenue, police say an officer assigned to the Traffic Division was on location for a traffic post when they were struck by a civilian vehicle.

Medics transported the officer to Jefferson Hospital. The condition of the officer has not been announced at this time.

https://www.fox29.com/news/officer-struck-vehicle-south-philly-police

Prayers for the Tuolumne County Sheriff’s deputy who was injured in the line of duty yesterday evening. 🙏🏻

California: The Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Office reports that one of its deputies was hurt in a crash on Highway 108 near Jamestown Saturday evening.

The deputy was traveling home in a patrol vehicle when the incident happened near the intersection of Rawhide Road. Limited details have been released, but the deputy, along with the driver in the other vehicle, were flown to hospitals out of the area for medical treatment.

The CHP is investigating the crash and reports that it happened at around 7:30 pm. Traffic was impacted in the area until just after 9 pm. No additional details are immediately available.

https://www.mymotherlode.com/news/local/3488617/two-injured-including-deputy-in-jamestown-crash.html

ICYMI: Hundreds of pro-Hamas supporters & Leftists march in downtown San Francisco earlier today.