{"id":343580,"date":"2026-06-02T23:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343580\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T23:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:16:08","slug":"911-please-hold-kqed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343580\/","title":{"rendered":"911 &#8230; Please Hold | KQED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We talk about why, despite a decade of audits and grand jury reports, Oakland\u2019s emergency response system still lags behind national and state standards.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/oakland-police-dispatcher.jpg\"  alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Julie Harbor, a police communications dispatcher, looks over calls to the Oakland dispatch center in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, April 27, 2010.\u00a0(San Francisco Chronicle\/Hearst Newspapers\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Guests:<\/p>\n<p>Byard Duncan, investigative journalist, Type Investigations; his piece, &#8220;911&#8230; Please Hold&#8221; was done in partnership with Reveal\/Center for Investigative Reporting<\/p>\n<p>Michael Houston, city auditor, City of Oakland<\/p>\n<p>Antoinette Blue, dispatcher, Oakland Police; president, SEIU Local 1021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We talk about why, despite a decade of audits and grand jury reports, Oakland\u2019s emergency response system still&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-343580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}