APTP in the News
The People’s Mayor is an Abolitionist: Cat Brooks Fights for Police Abolition in Oakland as the Defund Backlash Sets In
Piper French | Lux Magazine | October 25, 2022
“The organization that Brooks started, whose name (Anti! Police! Terror!) is itself a provocation, has a provocative slogan: All violence is state violence. The phrase is an invitation to draw back from the immediate and observe how the conditions for violence can incubate amid deprivation. Or as Brooks put it to me: ‘Our kids have PTSD by the age of eight, if not sooner. They’re locked out of every opportunity. They grow up with the strain of food insecurity and housing insecurity, with parents that are locked away in American concentration camps. What do we expect is going to happen?.”
Despite calls to defund police, Oakland PD's budget increased nearly 18% since 2019, I-Team found
Stephanie Sierra, Lindsey Feingold | ABC7 News | October 10, 2022
“‘It's reflective about being tone deaf,’ said Cat Brooks, the co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project. ‘We've had the longest defund campaign in Oakland in the country. We've been saying for years now to take money out.’"
Brontë Wittpenn, photographer / The Chronicle
Twelve Alameda County Sheriff’s deputies who failed psychological exams return to full duty
Sarah Ravani | San Francisco Chronicle | October 5, 2022
“Cat Brooks, the executive director of the Anti Police-Terror Project, was initially stunned when she heard that some of the deputies had returned to duty.
‘We are still going to continue to demand the release of the names, we are still going to continue to demand transparency and accountability,’ she said.”
Some Take Aim at Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf as Her 8 Years Wind Down
Bay City News | October 5, 2022
"Libby Schaaf will go down as one of the worst mayors in Oakland's history," said Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, which aims to end police terror in communities of color. "She unconditionally supported the police."
The Deadly Collision of Racism and Mental Illness
Eyal Press | The New York Times | October 4, 2022
“‘There was basically no place that was ready to take him,’ [Daniela Kanterova of the Anti Police-Terror Project] said. Members of the Anti Police-Terror Project had pooled together some resources to put Mr. Ramsey up in a hotel at the time of his release.”
Clara Mokri for The New York Times
Midnight Basketball Returns, and Brings Community With It
Joshua Needelman | The New York Times | October 3, 2022
“Cat Brooks, a local activist and co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, said it amounted to ‘putting lipstick on a pig.’
’Law enforcement is not a friend for Black and brown children,’ she said. ‘I guarantee you the same kids that are on that court right now are going to be profiled, targeted, arrested, beaten, incarcerated.’”