An Oakland city councilmember thinks the council will have enough votes later this month to provide more police officers to the Police Department.

Following a separate councilmember’s decision to support a third police academy this fiscal year, that may give the council four votes on the matter, creating a tie on the council that Mayor Libby Schaaf is likely to break.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.