Oakland is facing a public safety crisis – our community must come together to improve 911 emergency response times, reduce crime, and combat gun violence. We cannot afford to wait.
Measure NN was developed by a broad coalition of Oakland community leaders, small businesses, doctors, public health experts, firefighters, and first responders. This coalition carefully drafted a balanced, smart-on-crime measure and, by gathering 37,800 signatures, bypassed the City Council to place this measure on the ballot through a citizen’s initiative.
The Oaklanders Together Coalition includes hundreds of neighbors across Oakland, small and large businesses, doctors, public health professionals, the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, labor unions, social impact non-profits, youth leadership organizations, crime prevention councils, and the Oakland Firefighters.
This unprecedented coalition agrees on this urgent need: we must act now to make Oakland safer. Together, we have crafted a data-driven, balanced, and comprehensive plan that focuses on reducing crime, gun violence, and human trafficking by supporting more community police officers, first responders, and proven violence prevention programs.
Measure NN improves public safety in Oakland by renewing and enhancing Measure Z - an existing public safety measure. Specific investments include:
Measure NN must pass. If it doesn't, we will lose funding for community police officers, proven youth programs, and critical emergency response services.
Join our coalition of Oakland neighbors, small businesses, doctors, public health professionals, and community leaders. Together, we can make Oakland safer. Please, vote YES on Measure NN for a safer Oakland.
This community-based measure requires strict accountability requirements to ensure the funds are spent as desired by our coalition. These requirements include:
“Shall the measure to: (1) fund Citywide violence reduction services, such as a 9-1-1 dispatch, community policing, mobile crisis responders, and violence interruption, and (2) increase police and fire minimum staffing, by extending and increasing both the existing parking tax surcharge to 10% and the existing parcel tax to $198 annually for single-family parcels, and other parcels as specified, with exemptions and reductions for 9 years, raising approximately $47,400,000 annually, with oversight and auditing, be adopted?”
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Together we can make Oakland safer!
