Jimmie Wilson - Hastings - a podcast by Louis J Goodman

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Jimmie Wilson:

Growing up in Bayview-Hunter’s Point, a historically under-served community in San Francisco’s south bay, I have seen firsthand the way that crime - particularly violent crime - can harm families and communities. Too many people in my neighborhood did not trust that the police or prosecutors would help. I was personally the victim of racial profiling, and so too were a majority of the people of color I grew up with. I saw friends and neighbors join gangs, get mixed up with drugs and end up in jail or prison. Without the support of a strong family, organized sports, mentors and some good fortune along the way, I may have suffered the same fate. 

I came into the legal profession late in life. For over a decade, I worked as a union plumber with the Local 38 Plumbers and Pipe-Fitter’s Union after a season-ending football injury at San Jose State University caused me to leave school early. A second back injury on the job led me to night school at Laney College and ultimately a scholarship to UC Berkeley in 1998 to finish my undergraduate studies as a father of three. I graduated with honors in 2000, and earned my juris doctorate from UC Hastings College of the Law in 2004. 

I studied criminal justice at Berkeley and served on five criminal juries before I sat for my first law school class. This service to my community led me to the realization that the District Attorney's Office in general, and the District Attorney specifically, had the power to dictate how the criminal justice system worked in a community. 

I am a long-time resident of Oakland, having moved to Alameda County from my native San Francisco in 1985. I married my wife Trish over 25 years ago and together we have raised three children. 

Outside of the courtroom, I sit on the executive board of the NAACP Hayward-South Alameda County branch; sat on the board of directors of the Elizabeth House in Oakland, a transitional residential program for women with children who have experienced homelessness, domestic violence, addiction or poverty; oversaw our office’s involvement in the Ceasefire program at the Oakland Police Department, a nationally recognized violence intervention initiative that seeks to stop violent crimes before they occur through targeted community outreach; and served as a member of the office’s Officer Involved Shooting (OIS) team, responding to the scene of officer involved shootings, interrogating officers and conducting independent investigations. 

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