The measurement is percent of OUSD students (in Grades 10, 11, and 12) by race/ethnicity who are not enrolled in a Linked Learning Pathway. According to OUSD, Linked Learning is a successful approach to education based on the idea that students work harder and dream bigger if their education is relevant to them. These pathways, also known as college and career pathways, are a set of high school courses and work-based learning experiences such as internships that link academic learning to real world careers and college majors.

This Indicator measures the attrition rate by race/ethnicity of police officers from the Oakland Police Department’s Field Training Program over the past 3 years (since the start of 2015). This includes the last five OPD academies (172nd-176th) as well as lateral academies and SFPD- managed academies. Officers are released from the program for different reasons ranging from termination, resignation, and/or failing to meet the performance dimensions required by the Field Training Program and the POST approved guidelines.

This Indicator measures the attrition rate by race/ethnicity of police officers from the Oakland Police Department’s Academies over the past 3 years (since the start of 2015). This includes the last six OPD academies (172nd-177th) as well as lateral academies and SFPD-managed academies.

Mortality is measured in years of lives lost (YLL). The YLL Method was developed from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study. This method compares the age for each death to the life expectancy for that person. This Indicator then takes the total number of YLL for each category and creates a rate of YLL per 100,000 people per year. Data is from 2014-2016.

This Indicator measures the percent of individuals who live in housing units that do not have complete kitchen facilities. Complete kitchen facilities include a stove or range, a refrigerator, and a sink with a faucet.

This Indicator measures the rate of sworn staff in OPD per 100,000 people of the same race/ethnicity in Oakland, in other words how representative are the sworn staff of the Oakland population? Numbers of sworn staff are as of February 28, 2018.