Shane Williams
Commissioner, Mayoral Appointee, Oakland Police CommissionWe identified Williams’ voice at eight meetings.
Next Police Commission meeting: Thu, Nov 12, 5:30 pm · Clerk’s calendar
Talk time, and Williams’ other bodies
- Police Commission: talk time not compared. We could name only 18% of the speech they may have given; we compare members at 30%.
Every meeting where we identified Williams’ voice
- Sep 24, 2026Police Commission1.9 min3:06:36
- Jul 23, 2026Police Commission0.1 min3:51:23
- Jun 18, 2026Police Commission1.4 min1:19:43
- Mar 12, 2026Police Commission0.9 min1:36:31
- Feb 26, 2026Police Commission0.7 min3:16:14
- Feb 12, 2026Police Commission3.5 min1:47:10
- Jan 8, 2026Police Commission2.8 min2:28:50
- Dec 11, 2025Police Commission0.4 min3:40:20
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 Williams was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Shane Williams’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 Williams 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 Williams or of Oakland alone.