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Oakland’s Top-Paid Employee is a Police Officer Who Earned $500,000 Last Year

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9 years ago

July 7, 2016

The City of Oakland’s highest paid employee is a police officer named Malcolm E. Miller, who earned a total of $489,662 in salary and benefits in 2015, according to information from the online database transparentcalifornia.com.

Miller’s nearly half-million-dollar compensation included $107,672 in regular pay, $192,108 in overtime pay, $117,755 in other pay and $72,127 in benefits.

By comparison, former Oakland Chief of Police Sean Whent was the city’s third-highest paid employee, earning $437,436 in 2015, $52,000 a year less than Miller.

An examination of Transparent California’s database shows that 83 City of Oakland employees earned – in salary and benefits – more than $300,000 a year in 2015, costing the city a total of nearly $28 million.

Almost all of the city’s top earning 83 employees work for the Oakland Police Department (OPD) or the Oakland Fire Department – 43 for OPD and 35 for the fire department.

Less than 10 percent of Oakland police officers live in the City of Oakland, according to reports.

For salaries of public employees in California, there are two main searchable statewide databases.

Those sites are TransparentCalifornia.com, which provides information on government payrolls and pensions, and the State Controller’s Office (SCO) Government Compensation website, www.publicpay.ca.gov/

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Mural showing the portrait of George Floyd in Mauerpark in Berlin. To the left of the portrait the lettering "I can't Breathe" was added, on the right side the three hashtags #GeorgeFloyd, #Icantbreathe and #Sayhisname. The mural was completed by Eme Street Art (facebook name) / Eme Free Thinker (signature) on 29 May 2020. (Wikimedia Commons)

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“The president’s been very clear he has no intentions of pardoning Derek Chauvin, and it’s not a request that we’re looking at,” confirms a senior staffer at the Trump White House. That White House response results from public hope, including from a close Trump ally, Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. The timing of Greene’s hopes coincides with the Justice Department’s recent decision to end oversight of local police accused of abuse. It also falls on the fifth anniversary of the police-involved death of George Floyd on May 25th. The death sparked national and worldwide outrage and became a transitional moment politically and culturally, although the outcry for laws on police accountability failed.

The death forced then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to focus on deadly police force and accountability. His efforts while president to pass the George Floyd Justice in policing act failed. The death of George Floyd also put a spotlight on the Black community, forcing then-candidate Biden to choose a Black woman running mate. Kamala Harris ultimately became vice president of the United States alongside Joe Biden. Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison prosecuted the cases against the officers involved in the death of Floyd. He remembers,” Trump was in office when George Floyd was killed, and I would blame Trump for creating a negative environment for police-community relations. Remember, it was him who said when the looting starts, the shooting starts, it was him who got rid of all the consent decrees that were in place by the Obama administration.”

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