The Oakland City Council rejected a proposal to take $2.75 million in funding from the police department, which has already seen its budget cut by $14.3 million this year. (Photo by Gregory Veen/Flickr)

Oakland city councilmembers failed this week to take millions of dollars in funding away from the city’s Police Department even though it appears many residents were demanding it.

The council was evenly split on a proposal by Councilmembers Dan Kalb and Sheng Thao to take $2.75 million in funding from the department. Mayor Libby Schaaf broke the tie by voting “no.”

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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.