Stories you shouldn’t miss:
1. Oakland Councilmembers Ignacio De La Fuente and Desley Brooks requested and received special treatment from the Oakland police department when each of their cars were burglarized, the Bay Citizen reports. The councilmembers both used their influence to call high-ranking OPD officials to get police to respond to their problems — in possible violation of city law. In addition, the understaffed police department normally makes car burglaries a very low priority and often doesn’t respond to them, but the department sent sergeants to investigate both councilmembers’ burglaries. The incidents also occurred at a time when both De La Fuente and Brooks refused to hire more police officers than the 22 cops that Mayor Jean Quan plans to bring back.
But our favorite detail: What was De La Fuente doing with a briefcase in his car stuffed with $1,000 in cash and twenty Rihanna and Sade concert tickets?
