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coolwalker
04-25-2013, 10:58 AM
On April 24th, 2013, scores of Federal Agents alongside the Oakland Police, California Highway Patrol, and other law enforcement agencies descended upon the Acorn Projects in West Oakland, executing multiple simultaneous raids. According to ABC 7, residents along with main stream media outlets were given no immediate explanation for the raids. At 1:am OPD released a press release stating that they had participated in hi risk weapons and narcotics warrants search warrants.


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waltky
06-21-2016, 07:28 AM
Sex scandal roils Oakland Police Dept...
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Oakland Police to Operate Without a Chief
June 19, 2016 - The Oakland Police Department will now operate under civilian control after the agency parted ways with its third police chief in the span of nine days.


The Oakland Police Department will now operate under civilian control after the agency parted ways with its third police chief in nine days, Mayor Libby Schaaf announced Friday. Acting Chief Paul Figueroa tendered his resignation to Schaaf on Friday, and the department's command staff will now report to City Administrator Sabrina Landreth, Schaaf said during a news conference Friday evening. Figueroa was appointed to replace Interim Chief Ben Fairow on Wednesday, after Schaaf said she had received information that made her question Fairow's ability to lead. Fairow's tenure as Oakland's top cop lasted just six days. He had been appointed to replace Chief Sean Whent, who resigned in the wake of a widening sexual misconduct scandal that has ensnared more than a dozen city police officers and members of three other East Bay law enforcement agencies. "I'm hoping to not have to fire anyone else anytime soon," said the mayor, laughing in response to a question from a reporter. Schaaf did not say why Figueroa resigned.

In a statement released Friday, Figueroa said, "I thank the city for the opportunity, and I am deeply sorry that I was unable to fulfill the functions of acting chief of police." Figueroa voluntarily went on leave after resigning the chief's post Friday, Schaaf said. The Oakland department is currently reeling from allegations that officers were having inappropriate relationships with a teenage sex worker, possibly while she was underage. Schaaf also said Friday that the department was close to finishing an investigation into an exchange of racist text messages between officers. The text message inquiry does not involve Figueroa, according to Schaaf , who said that situation was "not as widespread" as the sexual misconduct scandal. According to Schaaf, several African American officers sent and received messages that were "wholly inappropriate and not acceptable from anyone who wears the badge of the Oakland Police Department."


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Oakland police chiefs Paul Figueroa, Ben Fairow and Sean Whent have all resigned from the post within nine days.

She would not name the officers or disclose their ranks, but the situation is eerily similar to a scandal that recently roiled the San Francisco Police Department, one of several that led to the resignation of Police Chief Greg Suhr. Schaaf said the investigation of the text messages would be completed within two weeks. "As the mayor of Oakland I am here to run a Police Department, not a frat house. Today continues to be a day where we are sharing disturbing information with you," said Schaaf, adding later that she hoped to "root out what is clearly a toxic, macho, culture" within the city's police. The revolving door of chiefs has become the latest source of embarrassment for a department that has remained under federal oversight for 13 years and is now embroiled in a widening sex scandal.

Whent resigned on June 9, in what city officials termed a "personal choice." But three sources with knowledge of the situation told The Times that Whent was let go over his mishandling of an investigation into the sex scandal. Two officers have resigned and three were placed on administrative leave as a result of the sex scandal, city officials have said. John Burris, the attorney who negotiated the 2003 settlement that placed Oakland police under federal oversight, said he hoped all of the department's skeletons can be revealed at one time in order to clear a path to real reform. "It appears to be a cesspool here," he said. "But you gotta keep working at it to drain the swamps."

http://www.officer.com/news/12222244/oakland-police-to-operate-without-a-chief

exotix
06-21-2016, 07:30 AM
Coolwalker ?

That wacko left this forum years ago to go to greener-pastures ... Trinnitys' right-wing wackadoo website.

Peter1469
06-21-2016, 03:49 PM
Coolwalker ?

That wacko left this forum years ago to go to greener-pastures ... Trinnitys' right-wing wackadoo website.

Greener pastures?

exotix
06-21-2016, 03:51 PM
Greener pastures?Yeah, if you're a RW wackadoo then Trimmtys' site is a green pasture.

waltky
01-05-2017, 12:17 AM
Oakland finds a new police chief...
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Oakland Mayor Hires New Police Chief
January 4, 2017 - Ending some seven months without a police chief, Oakland's mayor has chosen Anne Kirkpatrick.


Anne Kirkpatrick, who most recently led reform efforts within the Chicago Police Department, will relocate from Chicago to serve as Oakland’s police chief, becoming the troubled department’s first-ever female chief. The appointment by Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf of Kirkpatrick, the former police chief in Spokane, Wash., ends months of speculation about who would be selected to the East Bay city’s top police post. A spokeswoman for Schaaf and another with the Oakland Police Department did not immediately return requests for comment.

Councilman Dan Kalb said he couldn’t confirm the selection of Kirkpatrick, adding that the mayor’s office planned to brief council members Wednesday morning on the process. “Independent of this person possibly being the mayor’s choice, just in general, I could say I’ve heard good things about her as a law enforcement leader,” Kalb said. Kirkpatrick, a licensed attorney, has spent almost 30 years in law enforcement, including stints around Washington, according to her LinkedIn profile.


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New Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick

In Chicago, she took charge of a department designated by Mayor Rahm Emanuel to work to reform the force, and she was one of three finalists to replace an ousted Chicago police superintendent in 2015, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Schaaf recently named Venus D. Johnson, who advised outgoing Attorney General Kamala Harris, as Oakland’s director of public safety — a position designed to oversee law enforcement in the absence of a standing police chief,

The mayor announced her national search for a new chief in August following a revolving door of internal scandals that escalated to the point of Schaaf saying civilian control of the department was temporarily needed to eradicate the “macho” culture she said continued to pervade its ranks. In November, Oakland voters overwhelmingly approved a new citizen-led police commission that would have the power to mete out discipline to officers and even fire the chief if five of its seven members voted for dismissal.

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