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Police Reform, and Street Poetry

Published June 10, 2026 at 6:00 AM PDT
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A poet wearing jeans and a jean jacket, with curly shoulder-length hair, reading for an audience in the window at Medicine for Nightmares.
Courtesy of Medicine for Nightmares
A poet reading in the window at Medicine for Nightmares.

After more than two decades, Oakland’s Police Department is on track to be released from federal oversight. Today, the future of Oakland’s PD. Then, the Flor Y Canto literary festival returns to San Francisco’s Mission District.

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