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Omar Farmer

Commissioner, Oakland Police Commission

We identified Farmer’s voice at 15 meetings.

15 of 17transcribed meetings with their voice identified

Next Police Commission meeting: Thu, Nov 12, 5:30 pm · Clerk’s calendar

Talk time, and Farmer’s other bodies
  • Police Commission: talk time not compared. Fewer than four members can be compared fairly.
Neighborhoods Farmer named

2 places Farmer named in meetings

Lines where Farmer named the place, read by two AI readers that both agree it means that place. Each dot plays the newest one; brighter means named more often.

Oakland
  • East Oakland 1 time
  • North Oakland 1 time

Places are drawn at the centre of their own boundary in the city’s neighborhoods (CEDA) file (City of Oakland Open Data Portal); a well-known area with no boundary of its own sits at its OpenStreetMap point. A dot says the place was named, not where Farmer was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Farmer’s voice

15, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Farmer’s first remark.

  1. Oct 8, 2026Police Commission3.1 min1:42:51
  2. Sep 10, 2026Police Commission16.0 min1:34:19
  3. Aug 13, 2026Police Commission4.0 min1:32:53
  4. Jul 23, 2026Police Commission5.5 min1:48:09
  5. Jun 25, 2026Police Commission5.4 min2:25:10
  6. Jun 18, 2026Police Commission7.2 min1:20:39
  7. May 28, 2026Police Commission5.0 min34:28
  8. May 14, 2026Police Commission14.6 min3:05:58
  9. Mar 26, 2026Police Commission18.9 min1:27:32
  10. Mar 12, 2026Police Commission1.5 min2:53:19
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  1. Feb 26, 2026Police Commission10.3 min2:27:58
  2. Feb 12, 2026Police Commission10.7 min2:25:24
  3. Jan 22, 2026Police Commission11.6 min1:25:02
  4. Dec 11, 2025Police Commission8.0 min2:00:36
  5. Nov 20, 2025Police Commission15.0 min2:20:30
How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 340 commission lines drawn, 260 right, 4 wrong, 1 unclear, 75 couldn’t be judged

A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Farmer was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Omar Farmer’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Farmer said. For commissions, of 340 lines drawn, 260 were right, 4 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 75. We have since removed the voices behind 64 of those lines (3 wrong, 0 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 276 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 228: 226 right, 1 wrong and 1 unclear (90% lower bound 0.97). They couldn’t judge the other 48. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Farmer or of Oakland alone.