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She rejected the list entirely and asked the Commission to draw up new candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peterson addressed the reappearance of Pridgen’s name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the candidates tonight was on the list that we sent in December because we believe in the merit of his candidacy and because we understood that the mayor’s office was still interested in vetting him,” Peterson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contentious search to fill the position’s vacancy has led some critics to attribute increases in certain types of crime in Oakland to the lack of a permanent chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11977438 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1466896342-1020x680.jpg']In 2023, violent crime surged by 21%, compared to the previous year when the number of homicides plateaued at 120. 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And as chief, I will be leaning into those situations, and I will be transparent while at the same time respecting the investigative process and due process of individuals.’[/pullquote]The assistant deputy mayor also vowed to send more calls to the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11971369/is-oaklands-community-response-team-a-successful-alternative-to-police\">MACRO office\u003c/a>, a community response program for nonviolent, non-emergency 911 calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how he’d change the culture within Oakland’s troubled police department, Molina referenced his experience leading New York City’s Department of Corrections to demonstrate his ability to hold those accountable under his leadership. Molina said during his time there, he worked through a backlog of thousands of disciplinary cases and decided to “forcibly separate over 300 individuals from service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Staff absenteeism dropped over 80%. Use of force dropped in our first year 14%. So there are a lot of positive outcomes that can happen when we have standards,” Molina said. “There’s going to be times where we’re going to make mistakes. And as chief, I will be leaning into those situations, and I will be transparent while at the same time respecting the investigative process and due process of individuals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/31/nyregion/louis-molina-deputy-mayor-safety.html\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported last year, however, that Molina was criticized by a federal monitor of the city’s jails for a perceived lack of transparency and active efforts to conceal certain incidents of violence under his watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Lisa Davis\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In her responses, Davis focused on improving the experiences of police officers as a means of bringing positive change to the department. She began her remarks by offering her condolences to city police for the death of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11971175/oakland-police-officer-shot-and-killed-on-duty-near-jack-london-square\">Officer Tuan Le\u003c/a>, who was fatally shot while responding to a burglary call in late December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her first 100 days, Davis said she would engage in a listening tour with members of the community and the department to ensure a smooth transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Organizational change is very hard inside of a police department. … and certainly, when you’re bringing in an outside chief to lead the department, it can be hard on the officers. So I think a couple of things have to be done,” Davis said. “And that is meeting the officers, addressing their concerns, addressing any rumors that they hear, and just letting them know what your expectations are, what your plan is for the department, and just being as transparent as you can be with them when doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lisa Davis\"]‘Morale is something that absolutely affects recruiting and retention. It affects officer wellness, all of those things. So morale has to be addressed.’[/pullquote]Davis said she believes there are three types of officers: About 10% are highly motivated and engaged, 80% aren’t very motivated but still do their jobs and 10% are never happy to be at work. She hopes to get the 80% reengaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Morale is something that absolutely affects recruiting and retention. It affects officer wellness, all of those things. So morale has to be addressed,” Davis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that she intends to raise morale by giving officers support, training and resources essential to their roles while also minimizing the stigma associated with seeking counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she spoke, Davis also shared formative experiences with police during her childhood, including one traumatic incident when officers entered her home looking for her uncle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The next thing I know, I see my uncle flying off of the second-floor banister. They threw him over a set of stairs,” Davis said. “But I had other experiences with police. I had a school resource officer that was so kind and so involved in school that I knew all cops were not this way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said these experiences propelled her to work in public service and also made her right for the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Abdul Pridgen\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pridgen pointed to his years of experience in various aspects of law enforcement, including as finance and personnel assistance chief in Fort Worth, Texas. There, Pridgen said he ensured the department never exceeded its budget and implemented recruiting strategies that led to an increase in diversity of over 80% in an academy class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the four candidates, Pridgen is the only one who lives in the Bay Area or even the state, having most recently served as police chief in San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Abdul Pridgen\"]‘I’m a person of unimpeachable integrity with strong principles, and I always do the right thing. I’m fair, I’m honest, and I’m just. And that’s what I want my employees to do when they interact with people inside the department and outside the department.’[/pullquote]“I have been in California for six years, so I’m very familiar with the way California policing works, and I can hit the ground running in Oakland,” Pridgen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pridgen said he would change OPD’s culture by focusing on accountability, including positive accountability — regularly recognizing officers for exceptional work and also leading by example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a person of unimpeachable integrity with strong principles, and I always do the right thing,” Pridgen said. “I’m fair, I’m honest and I’m just. And that’s what I want my employees to do when they interact with people inside the department and outside the department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pridgen also observed that officers are usually the ones within departments that are held accountable for wrongdoing, rather than higher-ups. He outlines an idea he called “trickle-down accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When assistant chiefs and deputy chiefs and captains recognize that their missteps or their oversight to address things that are occurring with their direct reports will ultimately cause them to be held accountable, they’re more likely to hold those below them accountable,” Pridgen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worth noting that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11977438/these-are-the-4-oakland-police-chief-candidates-mayor-sheng-thao-will-consider-for-the-job\">Pridgen resigned from his post in San Leandro\u003c/a> last week amid allegations that he violated department policies. City officials have not said which policies were violated.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Floyd Mitchell\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mitchell pointed to his background, growing up in a diverse metropolitan area with policing issues related to Black and brown communities, as instructive in helping him learn about “true constitutional and procedurally just policing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Floyd Mitchell\"]‘I feel comfortable that I would be able to come into this situation and understand that all of us have our individual parts and pieces that we bring to the table in regards to how we hold people accountable and work together.’[/pullquote]Mitchell said in his time as police chief in the cities of Lubbock and Temple, Texas, he learned to work effectively with neighborhood and community groups like the NAACP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar to Davis, Mitchell expressed belief in the idea that increased personal and professional support of officers will translate into better treatment of residents. Mitchell said he also believes that officers must be instilled with the idea that accountability is their responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our officers have to know that there is a duty to intervene. If they see someone violating policy, it’s their responsibility to make sure that that information is reported to their supervisor,” Mitchell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11974985,news_11976748,news_11975161\"]Mitchell drew parallels between his experience with the Kansas City Police Department in Missouri and Oakland’s ongoing federal monitor’s work and civilian oversight provided by the Police Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand the process and all the parties that are involved in the Oakland pyramid,” Mitchell said. “I feel comfortable that I would be able to come into this situation and understand that all of us have our individual parts and pieces that we bring to the table in regards to how we hold people accountable and work together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, local reports indicate that Mitchell resigned from his recent position as chief shortly after \u003ca href=\"https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/lpd-chief-to-be-subject-of-closed-door-city-council-meeting/\">a closed-door city council session\u003c/a> where he was the subject, although details of the meeting remain undisclosed. Under his leadership, Lubbock’s 911 response operations were also criticized for the increased number of abandoned calls, where callers hung up before reaching a dispatcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The results of the Police Commission survey, which closes Monday, would be shared with Mayor Sheng Thao, who will decide who will be Oakland police chief.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1709589381,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":47,"wordCount":2029},"headData":{"title":"Oakland Police Commission Seeks Resident Input on OPD Chief Candidates After Public Forum | KQED","description":"The results of the Police Commission survey, which closes Monday, would be shared with Mayor Sheng Thao, who will decide who will be Oakland police chief.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11977871/oakland-police-commission-survey-seeks-resident-input-on-opd-chief-candidates-after-public-forum","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Oakland Police Commission is seeking residents’ input after a public forum on Thursday where four police chief candidates shared their visions for the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the meeting, the candidates answered questions about why they believed they were right for the job and how they would change the culture of a department with a long history of impropriety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although residents in attendance were not given time to ask questions or share comments during the meeting, Police Commission Chair Marsha Peterson invited them to fill out a survey where they could rank the candidates and share comments or concerns. Peterson said the results of the survey would be shared with Mayor Sheng Thao, who will make the final decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsDiljN_qgEN4vA6weGpM8UQXLRR4P-rL1YvSuTNZBH_cWBA/viewform\">The survey closes on Monday at noon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first candidate to appear virtually Thursday night was Louis Molina, a former Las Vegas police chief and currently assistant deputy mayor for public safety in New York City. Others vying for the role include Lisa Davis, an assistant police chief of the Cincinnati Police Department; Abdul Pridgen, the former police chief in San Leandro; and Floyd Mitchell, a former police chief in Lubbock, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pridgen was included in the previous list of entrants the Commission recommended to Mayor Thao late last year. She rejected the list entirely and asked the Commission to draw up new candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peterson addressed the reappearance of Pridgen’s name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the candidates tonight was on the list that we sent in December because we believe in the merit of his candidacy and because we understood that the mayor’s office was still interested in vetting him,” Peterson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contentious search to fill the position’s vacancy has led some critics to attribute increases in certain types of crime in Oakland to the lack of a permanent chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11977438","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1466896342-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In 2023, violent crime surged by 21%, compared to the previous year when the number of homicides plateaued at 120. Yet robberies spiked 38%, and motor vehicle theft jumped 45%, according to Oakland Police Department end-of-year data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, Mayor Thao’s office said she would “take the time that is necessary to select the person that will lead the Oakland Police Department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She did not rule out the possibility of once again rejecting the list in its entirety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dissatisfaction with how the city has handled crime has also contributed to recall efforts against both Mayor Thao and Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the forum, many of the candidates shared common themes in their responses, such as a commitment to address residents’ concerns, collaborating with the Police Commission and federal monitor to complete the reform goals for the department — and a desire to boost officer morale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet responses differed in their approaches to these goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Louis Molina\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Molina emphasized the importance of not relying on police to solve every problem within a city. He said he would work with social service and public health agencies to divert cases of individuals suffering from mental health or substance abuse problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you come from a totally enforcement strategy to deal with crime and overly populating the justice system with individuals that are driven to that because of other issues, you’re not doing any help but having the person cycle through a justice system, when what they really need is more of a public health solution,” Molina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘There’s going to be times where we’re going to make mistakes. And as chief, I will be leaning into those situations, and I will be transparent while at the same time respecting the investigative process and due process of individuals.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Louis Molina","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The assistant deputy mayor also vowed to send more calls to the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11971369/is-oaklands-community-response-team-a-successful-alternative-to-police\">MACRO office\u003c/a>, a community response program for nonviolent, non-emergency 911 calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how he’d change the culture within Oakland’s troubled police department, Molina referenced his experience leading New York City’s Department of Corrections to demonstrate his ability to hold those accountable under his leadership. Molina said during his time there, he worked through a backlog of thousands of disciplinary cases and decided to “forcibly separate over 300 individuals from service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Staff absenteeism dropped over 80%. Use of force dropped in our first year 14%. So there are a lot of positive outcomes that can happen when we have standards,” Molina said. “There’s going to be times where we’re going to make mistakes. And as chief, I will be leaning into those situations, and I will be transparent while at the same time respecting the investigative process and due process of individuals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/31/nyregion/louis-molina-deputy-mayor-safety.html\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported last year, however, that Molina was criticized by a federal monitor of the city’s jails for a perceived lack of transparency and active efforts to conceal certain incidents of violence under his watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Lisa Davis\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In her responses, Davis focused on improving the experiences of police officers as a means of bringing positive change to the department. She began her remarks by offering her condolences to city police for the death of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11971175/oakland-police-officer-shot-and-killed-on-duty-near-jack-london-square\">Officer Tuan Le\u003c/a>, who was fatally shot while responding to a burglary call in late December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her first 100 days, Davis said she would engage in a listening tour with members of the community and the department to ensure a smooth transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Organizational change is very hard inside of a police department. … and certainly, when you’re bringing in an outside chief to lead the department, it can be hard on the officers. So I think a couple of things have to be done,” Davis said. “And that is meeting the officers, addressing their concerns, addressing any rumors that they hear, and just letting them know what your expectations are, what your plan is for the department, and just being as transparent as you can be with them when doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Morale is something that absolutely affects recruiting and retention. It affects officer wellness, all of those things. So morale has to be addressed.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Lisa Davis","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Davis said she believes there are three types of officers: About 10% are highly motivated and engaged, 80% aren’t very motivated but still do their jobs and 10% are never happy to be at work. She hopes to get the 80% reengaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Morale is something that absolutely affects recruiting and retention. It affects officer wellness, all of those things. So morale has to be addressed,” Davis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that she intends to raise morale by giving officers support, training and resources essential to their roles while also minimizing the stigma associated with seeking counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she spoke, Davis also shared formative experiences with police during her childhood, including one traumatic incident when officers entered her home looking for her uncle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The next thing I know, I see my uncle flying off of the second-floor banister. They threw him over a set of stairs,” Davis said. “But I had other experiences with police. I had a school resource officer that was so kind and so involved in school that I knew all cops were not this way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said these experiences propelled her to work in public service and also made her right for the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Abdul Pridgen\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pridgen pointed to his years of experience in various aspects of law enforcement, including as finance and personnel assistance chief in Fort Worth, Texas. There, Pridgen said he ensured the department never exceeded its budget and implemented recruiting strategies that led to an increase in diversity of over 80% in an academy class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the four candidates, Pridgen is the only one who lives in the Bay Area or even the state, having most recently served as police chief in San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I’m a person of unimpeachable integrity with strong principles, and I always do the right thing. I’m fair, I’m honest, and I’m just. And that’s what I want my employees to do when they interact with people inside the department and outside the department.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Abdul Pridgen","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I have been in California for six years, so I’m very familiar with the way California policing works, and I can hit the ground running in Oakland,” Pridgen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pridgen said he would change OPD’s culture by focusing on accountability, including positive accountability — regularly recognizing officers for exceptional work and also leading by example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a person of unimpeachable integrity with strong principles, and I always do the right thing,” Pridgen said. “I’m fair, I’m honest and I’m just. And that’s what I want my employees to do when they interact with people inside the department and outside the department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pridgen also observed that officers are usually the ones within departments that are held accountable for wrongdoing, rather than higher-ups. He outlines an idea he called “trickle-down accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When assistant chiefs and deputy chiefs and captains recognize that their missteps or their oversight to address things that are occurring with their direct reports will ultimately cause them to be held accountable, they’re more likely to hold those below them accountable,” Pridgen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worth noting that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11977438/these-are-the-4-oakland-police-chief-candidates-mayor-sheng-thao-will-consider-for-the-job\">Pridgen resigned from his post in San Leandro\u003c/a> last week amid allegations that he violated department policies. City officials have not said which policies were violated.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Floyd Mitchell\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mitchell pointed to his background, growing up in a diverse metropolitan area with policing issues related to Black and brown communities, as instructive in helping him learn about “true constitutional and procedurally just policing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I feel comfortable that I would be able to come into this situation and understand that all of us have our individual parts and pieces that we bring to the table in regards to how we hold people accountable and work together.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Floyd Mitchell","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mitchell said in his time as police chief in the cities of Lubbock and Temple, Texas, he learned to work effectively with neighborhood and community groups like the NAACP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar to Davis, Mitchell expressed belief in the idea that increased personal and professional support of officers will translate into better treatment of residents. Mitchell said he also believes that officers must be instilled with the idea that accountability is their responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our officers have to know that there is a duty to intervene. If they see someone violating policy, it’s their responsibility to make sure that that information is reported to their supervisor,” Mitchell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11974985,news_11976748,news_11975161"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mitchell drew parallels between his experience with the Kansas City Police Department in Missouri and Oakland’s ongoing federal monitor’s work and civilian oversight provided by the Police Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand the process and all the parties that are involved in the Oakland pyramid,” Mitchell said. “I feel comfortable that I would be able to come into this situation and understand that all of us have our individual parts and pieces that we bring to the table in regards to how we hold people accountable and work together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, local reports indicate that Mitchell resigned from his recent position as chief shortly after \u003ca href=\"https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/lpd-chief-to-be-subject-of-closed-door-city-council-meeting/\">a closed-door city council session\u003c/a> where he was the subject, although details of the meeting remain undisclosed. Under his leadership, Lubbock’s 911 response operations were also criticized for the increased number of abandoned calls, where callers hung up before reaching a dispatcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11977871/oakland-police-commission-survey-seeks-resident-input-on-opd-chief-candidates-after-public-forum","authors":["11761"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_32578","news_416","news_1526"],"featImg":"news_11977879","label":"news"},"news_11961636":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11961636","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11961636","score":null,"sort":[1695066507000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"report-recommends-oakland-mayor-consider-reinstating-former-police-chief-leronne-armstrong","title":"Report Recommends Oakland Mayor Consider Reinstating Former Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong","publishDate":1695066507,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Report Recommends Oakland Mayor Consider Reinstating Former Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A new report claims to have found significant inaccuracies in the investigation that led to Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong’s firing, calling it unreliable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing that investigation’s alleged lack of credibility, the report urges Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao to meet with Armstrong to discuss “the possibility of reinstatement.” Armstrong was fired in February for allegedly mishandling misconduct charges against an officer. His dismissal prompted at least one rally of about 100 people in his support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/7665.htm\">Retired California judge Maria P. Rivera\u003c/a> authored the Sept. 7 report, in her role as an administrative hearing officer. Rivera’s report largely rebuts an investigation into OPD that was called for by Oakland’s federal oversight monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, Rivera stopped short of explicitly calling for the chief to be reinstated, which she emphasized is not her role. She also poked holes in Armstrong’s arguments that he was fired as a whistleblower, and found no evidence to substantiate his allegations that the federal monitor is improperly padding his own pocket by continuing to oversee the department’s reform efforts. And Rivera also did not fully endorse Armstrong’s claims that he was fired for exercising his First Amendment rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera does, however, take space in the report to praise Armstrong’s role in moving his department toward independence, writing, “it is noteworthy that, after twenty years of oversight under more than ten police chiefs, the sustainability period was finally entered during chief Armstrong’s tenure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, Armstrong hailed the findings as vindication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This report is not a surprise to me. The outcome is consistent to what I have said from the beginning: I should not have been disciplined or fired,” he said. “I want the public to know that I told the truth, that I am the same chief they remember and respect. And in light of this report I want the opportunity to sit down with the city and be considered for reinstatement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/08/14/opd-chief-armstrong-accuses-mayor-thao-of-retaliation-monitor-corruption/\">filed an administrative claim\u003c/a> against Oakland last month, alleging Thao fired him in retaliation for whistleblowing against the police department’s federal monitor. That claim is a precursor to a potential lawsuit, but also prompted the report by Rivera, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.adrservices.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Rivera-Maria.pdf\">works for ADR Services\u003c/a>, a dispute resolution firm, that helps facilitate the regular administrative hearing process for officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be wise for both parties, and of great benefit to the citizens of Oakland, to avoid the costs and related toll of protracted litigation,” Rivera wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera’s report also explicitly calls for Thao’s initial 30-day suspension of Armstrong to be removed from his record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are limits to the impact of the report and to the authority of Rivera, who cannot compel Oakland to do anything, let alone take back Armstrong. As Rivera notes, it’s a report, not an adjudication — there were no witnesses, no cross-examination, no discovery of evidence — only an evaluation of the text of the actual investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the report may provide political ammunition for Armstrong’s supporters to urge Thao to consider rehiring him.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"oakland-police-department\"]“The chief did nothing wrong here,” said John Burris, the longtime civil rights attorney, who supports Armstrong. “And that’s the point that I was arguing at the very outset, is that the investigative report reached by the lawyers and the investigators really jumped to conclusions and made assertions, made assumptions, that when you analyzed the report, the facts did not support it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said Armstrong’s firing heavily slowed OPD’s efforts to get out from under federal oversight, which began in 2003 after a group of officers were exposed for misconduct, including the beatings of Black people in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This [firing] became a major stumbling block and set us back,” he said, adding that if Armstrong is not reinstated, it could send a message that any police chief can be fired without due process or cause, which could harm future hiring efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s City Charter doesn’t allow for a mayor to re-hire a police chief. Instead, the chief must go through the police commission’s hiring process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Thao told KQED that her decision to fire Armstrong was because he immediately dismissed the investigation’s allegations as mistakes, and he insisted the officer had already been held accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland needs leaders, including at OPD, who will stand up and make tough decisions in the name of accountability and community trust,” she said. “By immediately and prematurely standing up for himself personally, Mr Armstrong failed to stand up for accountability at OPD.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His conduct forced me to make one of the most difficult decisions I have ever had to make. I am proud that I, with the support of my administration, faced the decision head on and did what I knew in my heart was right for Oakland, fully understanding the controversy that might follow,” Thao added. “I will continue working hard and making tough decisions to improve our police department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940412/oaklands-police-chief-and-the-long-road-to-police-reform\">placed Armstrong on paid administrative leave in January\u003c/a>, the same month allegations emerged that the Oakland Police Dept. improperly investigated misconduct charges against Sgt. Michael Chung, who was accused of a hit-and-run collision in 2021 and of discharging a firearm in an OPD elevator in 2022. He also admitted to subsequently throwing the bullet’s shell casing off the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in a bid to cover his tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incidents were found to have been minimized and mishandled by OPD’s internal affairs investigators, according to a report by law firm Clarence Dyer & Cohen, LLP. That firm was retained by the city of Oakland at the behest of Robert Warshaw, the federal monitor overseeing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891855/oakland-police-departments-brutality-corruption-and-cover-up-and-long-road-toward-reform\">OPD’s negotiated settlement agreement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelations in the firm’s report found “systemic failures far larger and more serious than the actions of one police officer,” including efforts in the internal affairs division to edit an investigative report into Chung that hid his misconduct, allowing him to avoid consequences for his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sealed documents \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/02/08/confidential-files-oakland-police-chief-leronne-armstrong-leave-car-crash-gunshot-elevator-internal-affairs/\">obtained by The Oaklandside\u003c/a> painted a picture of Chung’s importance to the department: He led patrols in Oakland’s Chinatown that were vital to groups like the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce during the height of anti-AAPI hate incidents. The group was vocally against cutting funds to OPD amid national protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. And the chamber’s leader, Carl Chan, was a vocal supporter of Armstrong’s in the wake of his firing, and is a lead proponent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955812/alameda-county-da-pamela-price-calls-recall-proponents-election-deniers\">in the recall effort of Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao fired Armstrong the next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has yet to hire a new police chief, despite a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/oakland-bay-area-rates-18259788.php\">rise in homicides, armed robberies and property crime\u003c/a> that has residents on edge. Crime in Oakland, however, is still lower than it has been at peaks in the 1990s and in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao has pointed a finger at the Oakland Police Commission for the slow pace of the hiring process, with the commission in turn \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/sheng-thao-oakland-state-of-emergency-police-chief-commission/\">admonishing Thao for her public statements\u003c/a>, alleging she hampered their efforts by refusing to meet with commission leadership and not providing immediate support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if the commission would consider selecting Armstrong in its hiring process, Oakland Police Commission Chair Tyfahra Milele said in a statement, “If Chief Armstrong would be willing to consider returning to Oakland and taking that last hard mile to reform, while very much making the city safe again, the Police Commission would welcome that conversation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera’s report doesn’t explicitly take Thao to task. The mayor generally has the right to fire the police chief, an at-will employee, for any reason. The report does, however, point out an exception to that rule. Employees are still granted due process in cases where their termination is a result of misconduct, “especially if this misconduct would ‘stigmatize’ [Armstrong’s] reputation or ‘seriously impair’ his opportunity to earn a living,” or might impact Armstrong’s community standing, Rivera wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the city of Oakland has claimed it had the right to terminate the chief based on the law firm’s report ordered by the federal monitor and Armstrong’s disagreement with them, Rivera said, “that kind of circular reasoning effectively eviscerates the chief’s rights,” particularly “if the reports are questionable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And should Thao and Armstrong not arrive at a settlement together, Rivera’s report’s findings could become the basis for the former chief to bring a suit against the city for wrongful termination. Oakland has been down this road before, awarding former Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/police-lawsuits-oakland-government-and-politics-629e700c17779733bda06e7dcf88ba2e\">a $1.4 million payout in a whistleblower claim\u003c/a> just last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, Rivera wrote in her report that it is within her purview to evaluate if the findings of the law firm’s investigation into Armstrong were “supported by the record,” but, ultimately, “there are no findings of any wrongdoing or dereliction of duty by the chief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law firm’s report into the alleged failures of OPD to investigate misconduct by Sgt. Chung is lengthy and complex. But the allegations against Armstrong essentially boil down to a failure to properly investigate Chung and to hold police staff accountable who mishandled that investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law firm’s investigation asserted the chief was “not credible” when saying, in interviews, he could not recall if video was shown of Chung’s hit-and-run; that the chief failed to perform his duties as a supervisor by not reading an OPD investigative report into Chung before signing it; and that the chief refused to answer a question pertinent to Chung’s investigation during a key disciplinary meeting, and had a negligent lack of awareness that an alleged cover up was taking place in the internal affairs investigation into Chung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera underscored that her job is solely to evaluate the law firm’s report, not investigate the alleged misconduct, but she said she found that the firm’s allegations weren’t backed up by the presented evidence and that it made assumptive leaps based on speculation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera said the firm’s investigation lacked a more contextualized assessment of the shortcomings of OPD’s internal affairs procedures, which would have provided greater perspective on OPD’s shortcomings to Thao and to the federal monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The narrow focus on only the two investigations may well have resulted in overstating the significance of the deficits found in the two cases,” Rivera wrote. “Nothing in the record suggests that these failures or shortcomings were pervasive, repeated, persistent, or anything other than isolated incidents.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The report urges Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao to meet with Armstrong to discuss 'the possibility of reinstatement.' Armstrong was fired in February for allegedly mishandling misconduct charges against an officer.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1695139903,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":37,"wordCount":1877},"headData":{"title":"Report Recommends Oakland Mayor Consider Reinstating Former Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong | KQED","description":"The report urges Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao to meet with Armstrong to discuss 'the possibility of reinstatement.' Armstrong was fired in February for allegedly mishandling misconduct charges against an officer.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11961636/report-recommends-oakland-mayor-consider-reinstating-former-police-chief-leronne-armstrong","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A new report claims to have found significant inaccuracies in the investigation that led to Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong’s firing, calling it unreliable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing that investigation’s alleged lack of credibility, the report urges Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao to meet with Armstrong to discuss “the possibility of reinstatement.” Armstrong was fired in February for allegedly mishandling misconduct charges against an officer. His dismissal prompted at least one rally of about 100 people in his support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/7665.htm\">Retired California judge Maria P. Rivera\u003c/a> authored the Sept. 7 report, in her role as an administrative hearing officer. Rivera’s report largely rebuts an investigation into OPD that was called for by Oakland’s federal oversight monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, Rivera stopped short of explicitly calling for the chief to be reinstated, which she emphasized is not her role. She also poked holes in Armstrong’s arguments that he was fired as a whistleblower, and found no evidence to substantiate his allegations that the federal monitor is improperly padding his own pocket by continuing to oversee the department’s reform efforts. And Rivera also did not fully endorse Armstrong’s claims that he was fired for exercising his First Amendment rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera does, however, take space in the report to praise Armstrong’s role in moving his department toward independence, writing, “it is noteworthy that, after twenty years of oversight under more than ten police chiefs, the sustainability period was finally entered during chief Armstrong’s tenure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, Armstrong hailed the findings as vindication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This report is not a surprise to me. The outcome is consistent to what I have said from the beginning: I should not have been disciplined or fired,” he said. “I want the public to know that I told the truth, that I am the same chief they remember and respect. And in light of this report I want the opportunity to sit down with the city and be considered for reinstatement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/08/14/opd-chief-armstrong-accuses-mayor-thao-of-retaliation-monitor-corruption/\">filed an administrative claim\u003c/a> against Oakland last month, alleging Thao fired him in retaliation for whistleblowing against the police department’s federal monitor. That claim is a precursor to a potential lawsuit, but also prompted the report by Rivera, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.adrservices.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Rivera-Maria.pdf\">works for ADR Services\u003c/a>, a dispute resolution firm, that helps facilitate the regular administrative hearing process for officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be wise for both parties, and of great benefit to the citizens of Oakland, to avoid the costs and related toll of protracted litigation,” Rivera wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera’s report also explicitly calls for Thao’s initial 30-day suspension of Armstrong to be removed from his record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are limits to the impact of the report and to the authority of Rivera, who cannot compel Oakland to do anything, let alone take back Armstrong. As Rivera notes, it’s a report, not an adjudication — there were no witnesses, no cross-examination, no discovery of evidence — only an evaluation of the text of the actual investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the report may provide political ammunition for Armstrong’s supporters to urge Thao to consider rehiring him.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"oakland-police-department"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The chief did nothing wrong here,” said John Burris, the longtime civil rights attorney, who supports Armstrong. “And that’s the point that I was arguing at the very outset, is that the investigative report reached by the lawyers and the investigators really jumped to conclusions and made assertions, made assumptions, that when you analyzed the report, the facts did not support it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said Armstrong’s firing heavily slowed OPD’s efforts to get out from under federal oversight, which began in 2003 after a group of officers were exposed for misconduct, including the beatings of Black people in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This [firing] became a major stumbling block and set us back,” he said, adding that if Armstrong is not reinstated, it could send a message that any police chief can be fired without due process or cause, which could harm future hiring efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s City Charter doesn’t allow for a mayor to re-hire a police chief. Instead, the chief must go through the police commission’s hiring process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Thao told KQED that her decision to fire Armstrong was because he immediately dismissed the investigation’s allegations as mistakes, and he insisted the officer had already been held accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland needs leaders, including at OPD, who will stand up and make tough decisions in the name of accountability and community trust,” she said. “By immediately and prematurely standing up for himself personally, Mr Armstrong failed to stand up for accountability at OPD.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His conduct forced me to make one of the most difficult decisions I have ever had to make. I am proud that I, with the support of my administration, faced the decision head on and did what I knew in my heart was right for Oakland, fully understanding the controversy that might follow,” Thao added. “I will continue working hard and making tough decisions to improve our police department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940412/oaklands-police-chief-and-the-long-road-to-police-reform\">placed Armstrong on paid administrative leave in January\u003c/a>, the same month allegations emerged that the Oakland Police Dept. improperly investigated misconduct charges against Sgt. Michael Chung, who was accused of a hit-and-run collision in 2021 and of discharging a firearm in an OPD elevator in 2022. He also admitted to subsequently throwing the bullet’s shell casing off the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in a bid to cover his tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incidents were found to have been minimized and mishandled by OPD’s internal affairs investigators, according to a report by law firm Clarence Dyer & Cohen, LLP. That firm was retained by the city of Oakland at the behest of Robert Warshaw, the federal monitor overseeing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891855/oakland-police-departments-brutality-corruption-and-cover-up-and-long-road-toward-reform\">OPD’s negotiated settlement agreement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelations in the firm’s report found “systemic failures far larger and more serious than the actions of one police officer,” including efforts in the internal affairs division to edit an investigative report into Chung that hid his misconduct, allowing him to avoid consequences for his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sealed documents \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/02/08/confidential-files-oakland-police-chief-leronne-armstrong-leave-car-crash-gunshot-elevator-internal-affairs/\">obtained by The Oaklandside\u003c/a> painted a picture of Chung’s importance to the department: He led patrols in Oakland’s Chinatown that were vital to groups like the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce during the height of anti-AAPI hate incidents. The group was vocally against cutting funds to OPD amid national protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. And the chamber’s leader, Carl Chan, was a vocal supporter of Armstrong’s in the wake of his firing, and is a lead proponent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955812/alameda-county-da-pamela-price-calls-recall-proponents-election-deniers\">in the recall effort of Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao fired Armstrong the next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has yet to hire a new police chief, despite a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/oakland-bay-area-rates-18259788.php\">rise in homicides, armed robberies and property crime\u003c/a> that has residents on edge. Crime in Oakland, however, is still lower than it has been at peaks in the 1990s and in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao has pointed a finger at the Oakland Police Commission for the slow pace of the hiring process, with the commission in turn \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/sheng-thao-oakland-state-of-emergency-police-chief-commission/\">admonishing Thao for her public statements\u003c/a>, alleging she hampered their efforts by refusing to meet with commission leadership and not providing immediate support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if the commission would consider selecting Armstrong in its hiring process, Oakland Police Commission Chair Tyfahra Milele said in a statement, “If Chief Armstrong would be willing to consider returning to Oakland and taking that last hard mile to reform, while very much making the city safe again, the Police Commission would welcome that conversation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera’s report doesn’t explicitly take Thao to task. The mayor generally has the right to fire the police chief, an at-will employee, for any reason. The report does, however, point out an exception to that rule. Employees are still granted due process in cases where their termination is a result of misconduct, “especially if this misconduct would ‘stigmatize’ [Armstrong’s] reputation or ‘seriously impair’ his opportunity to earn a living,” or might impact Armstrong’s community standing, Rivera wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the city of Oakland has claimed it had the right to terminate the chief based on the law firm’s report ordered by the federal monitor and Armstrong’s disagreement with them, Rivera said, “that kind of circular reasoning effectively eviscerates the chief’s rights,” particularly “if the reports are questionable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And should Thao and Armstrong not arrive at a settlement together, Rivera’s report’s findings could become the basis for the former chief to bring a suit against the city for wrongful termination. Oakland has been down this road before, awarding former Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/police-lawsuits-oakland-government-and-politics-629e700c17779733bda06e7dcf88ba2e\">a $1.4 million payout in a whistleblower claim\u003c/a> just last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, Rivera wrote in her report that it is within her purview to evaluate if the findings of the law firm’s investigation into Armstrong were “supported by the record,” but, ultimately, “there are no findings of any wrongdoing or dereliction of duty by the chief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law firm’s report into the alleged failures of OPD to investigate misconduct by Sgt. Chung is lengthy and complex. But the allegations against Armstrong essentially boil down to a failure to properly investigate Chung and to hold police staff accountable who mishandled that investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law firm’s investigation asserted the chief was “not credible” when saying, in interviews, he could not recall if video was shown of Chung’s hit-and-run; that the chief failed to perform his duties as a supervisor by not reading an OPD investigative report into Chung before signing it; and that the chief refused to answer a question pertinent to Chung’s investigation during a key disciplinary meeting, and had a negligent lack of awareness that an alleged cover up was taking place in the internal affairs investigation into Chung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera underscored that her job is solely to evaluate the law firm’s report, not investigate the alleged misconduct, but she said she found that the firm’s allegations weren’t backed up by the presented evidence and that it made assumptive leaps based on speculation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera said the firm’s investigation lacked a more contextualized assessment of the shortcomings of OPD’s internal affairs procedures, which would have provided greater perspective on OPD’s shortcomings to Thao and to the federal monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The narrow focus on only the two investigations may well have resulted in overstating the significance of the deficits found in the two cases,” Rivera wrote. “Nothing in the record suggests that these failures or shortcomings were pervasive, repeated, persistent, or anything other than isolated incidents.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11961636/report-recommends-oakland-mayor-consider-reinstating-former-police-chief-leronne-armstrong","authors":["11690"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_29295","news_412","news_1526","news_31962"],"featImg":"news_11942048","label":"news"},"news_11910447":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11910447","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11910447","score":null,"sort":[1649285845000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"from-scandal-to-scrutiny-how-vigilant-citizen-oversight-helped-reshape-oaklands-police-force","title":"From Scandal to Scrutiny: How Vigilant Citizen Oversight Helped Reshape Oakland's Police Force","publishDate":1649285845,"format":"standard","headTitle":"CALmatters | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The man was screaming, but the beating didn’t stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was June 27, 2000, and the Oakland Police Department’s vaunted gang task force was at work in West Oakland. The officers worked one of the most dangerous beats in one of the most violent parts of the city. They called themselves the Riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One member of the task force beat Delphine Allen on the soles of his feet with batons, according to trial testimony. Police pepper-sprayed him and drove him under a freeway overpass, where the beating continued, a rookie officer who witnessed the beating would later testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen called out for his mother, who lived nearby. “I thought they were going to kill me,” he said in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rookie police officer who witnessed the assault on Allen filed a complaint in July 2000. The resulting scandal upended the department and touched off a massive overhaul in how the department judges its own officers’ conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Oakland has arguably become the state’s most watched police department, under the guise of both a federal monitor and strong civilian oversight. In this city of 435,000, civilians have the power to overrule the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"opd\"]“The direction that Oakland is taking is the inevitable path for a modern-day progressive police department,” said Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf. “And so I believe that we’re on the front lines, we’re the vanguard of police reform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide data helps tell that story. The Oakland Police Department \"sustains\" complaints against its officers at a rate higher than that of any other major law enforcement entity, except the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, according to a CalMatters analysis of California Department of Justice data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complaints originate with citizens, or from the department’s internal affairs unit. \u003ca href=\"https://infogram.com/sustained-complaints-ratio-1hdw2jpkmelkj2l\">A sustained complaint\u003c/a> indicates the department believed the person who complained, and could discipline those officers involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, law enforcement agencies marked as sustained 7.6% of complaints against their officers from 2016 to 2020. In those years, the Oakland Police Department \"sustained\" complaints at an average rate of 11.3%, the data shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018 and 2020, the department sustained more than 15.2% of complaints, double the state average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we’re doing a much more thorough evaluation,” said Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong. “I also think when you have a community with very low trust in law enforcement, it means that law enforcement has to make sure that they have legitimate and professional processes so we can build trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/9d7a218a-38b0-4d06-b912-8e91e348d2c0?src=embed\" title=\"Oakland Police sustained complaints\" width=\"800\" height=\"837\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's DOJ has collected the number of complaints and those sustained since 2016, the result of a bill that ordered agencies to establish a procedure to investigate complaints by the public against officers and publish the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland police complaint process is now handled by both its internal affairs division and a civilian panel that oversees the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And among the rank and file, there has been fallout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, officers are leaving the department in higher numbers, from an average of about four per month late last year to 10 or 15 a month since then, according to Armstrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t seen these type of numbers since I’ve been at the department, and that’s been over two decades,” he said. “When you work in a big city that’s under the microscope like Oakland, I’m sure that can be challenging to some officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been pushing the same message to officers, that you can’t escape the calls for reform,” he added. “No matter where you go, you’re going to see more community involvement, the community paying more attention to the actions of officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The website \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/03/09/police-officers-leaving-oakland-attrition-diversity/\">Oaklandside reported that\u003c/a>, in a sample of 30 exit interviews with Oakland police officers, half were leaving because of dissatisfaction with leadership at the police department or city, and seven cited “heavy discipline.” Others cited family reasons, low morale and better jobs, among other factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been doing some exit interviews with officers that are choosing to go to other departments, and what I tell them is the Oakland way is going to be the American way any minute now,” Schaaf told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-the-oakland-riders-legacy\">The Oakland Riders' legacy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before the Oakland rookie police officer blew the whistle on the Riders, he was told that beating, kidnapping and planting drugs on people was simply how police work was done, he later testified in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/OAKLAND-Riders-lied-brutalized-man-2629441.php\">trial in 2004\u003c/a>, the former rookie, Keith Batts, testified that he didn’t immediately report what he saw. He was new to the department and feared repercussions for reporting excessive use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three members of the Riders would eventually be fired, but juries would later acquit them of some criminal charges and deadlock on many others. A fourth member, Riders leader Frank Vazquez, fled the city in November 2000, and prosecutors have said they \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2012/12/12/oakland-where-the-riders-are-today/\">believe he’s in hiding in Mexico\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 people sued the police department in federal court. The cases were combined into a negotiated settlement agreement, in which the police department consented to reforms and accepted a federal monitoring team. The team would oversee dozens of proposed reforms at the department, especially concerning its use-of-force policy and the process by which complaints are treated.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf\"]'The direction that Oakland is taking is the inevitable path for a modern-day progressive police department. And so I believe that we're on the front lines, we're the vanguard of police reform.'[/pullquote]The original monitoring team and its successor, appointed in 2010, have both praised and condemned the Oakland police for their conduct since 2003. But in the ensuing two decades, one fundamental change has made the biggest difference: Oakland residents have garnered a lot more power over their police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/learn-more-about-measure-ll\">a 2016 ballot measure\u003c/a>, the city’s voters put the whole department under civilian oversight. Then, in 2020, the civilian police commission fired the city’s police chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, the city hired its first inspector general for the police department, a civilian position overseen by the civilian board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocky Lucia, an attorney for the Oakland Police Officers’ Association and several other Bay Area police department unions, said the level of oversight in Oakland exceeds what he’s seen anywhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They pay a lot more attention to police conduct in Oakland,” Lucia said. “There’s more eyes on people. There’s policies, software programs, there’s resources committed. It’s more than I’ve ever seen anywhere else in the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucia wonders if Oakland should be spending the amount of money it does on oversight, given \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2021/opd-addresses-a-challenging-year-in-crime-with-year-end-data\">rising crime rates\u003c/a> that began during the pandemic and the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2020/city-of-oakland-faces-possible-62m-shortfall#:~:text=The%20report%20shows%20that%20the,indicates%20this%20shortfall%20is%20widening.\">always-muddy financial situation\u003c/a>, only 18 months removed from a $62 million budget shortfall. But he also acknowledges that the department is identifying potentially problematic officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re catching these things early,” Lucia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-a-tale-of-two-scandals\">A tale of two scandals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two years before the beating of Delphine Allen, a different and more infamous gang task force controversy erupted 350 miles south: the Los Angeles Police Department’s Rampart scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums — or CRASH — unit was to Los Angeles what the Riders were to Oakland: an elite group of cops on a special detail that made big busts in the LAPD’s Rampart Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CRASH unit officers also were accused of robbing a bank, stealing cocaine from the evidence room and replacing it with Bisquick, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/lapd/scandal/cron.html\">beating a suspect until he vomited blood\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, in 1998 the LAPD instituted a new policy: Any complaints against an officer would trigger an investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complaints against officers piled up, major crimes arrests dropped, and officers started to complain that the system treated them unfairly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Complaints against officers soared,” wrote University of Chicago economics professor Canice Prendergast in \u003ca href=\"https://bfi.uchicago.edu/insight/research-summary/drive-and-wave-the-response-to-lapd-police-reforms-after-rampart/\">a 2021 paper analyzing the scandal’s fallout\u003c/a>. “These were sustained at high rates, resulting in suspensions, resignations and terminations at levels far higher than before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any complaint tied up officers’ promotions and transfers. Prendergast found that the level of sustained complaints was even more damaging to police morale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, the officers radically reduced their engagement with the public, according to Prendergast’s paper, “Drive and Wave,” which is named after the practice of nonengagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arrests plummeted. The LAPD accepted a federal monitor from the U.S. Department of Justice in 2000 and nearly 90% of LAPD officers interviewed by the monitor in 2001 said a fear of discipline stopped them from “proactively” doing their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the LAPD was handed a big win by, of all things, the federal monitor itself, which encouraged the department to clear up its backlog of complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prendergast found the police department’s solution in long-buried LAPD archives, a decision that was put out among the department’s employees but never publicized: The LAPD gave its commanding officers the power to dismiss complaints against their subordinates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That meant complaints could be dismissed moments after they were filed by an officer’s superior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, sustained complaints fell dramatically, beginning in 2003, and penalties for sustained complaints were much more rare, Prendergast found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2016 to 2020, the last year for which statistics are available, the LAPD sustained complaints at a rate of 5.2%, below the statewide average for that period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Disciplinary measures across the board became less likely,” Prendergast wrote, “even when an investigation ruled against the officer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-some-officers-just-tired\">Some officers 'just tired'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Under California law, there are four outcomes for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-crime-numbers/\">a complaint against a police officer\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Complaints can be sustained, meaning the investigation proved the allegation to be true by a preponderance of evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— An officer can be exonerated, meaning the officer did what was described, but that action didn’t violate department law or policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Complaints can be ruled “unsustained,” meaning the investigation failed to clearly prove or disprove the allegation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Complaints can be determined “unfounded,” meaning the investigation clearly showed the allegation was untrue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For much of the Oakland Police Department’s time under a federal monitor, most complaints were relegated to the “unfounded” bin, said John Burris, one of two lead plaintiff attorneys in the settlement agreement between the police department and the city following the Riders scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with increased civilian oversight since 2016, he said far fewer complaints were dismissed as unfounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said cases dismissed as “unfounded” were the ones that bothered him the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Complainants are] not lying. I may not be able to prove it, but something happened,” Burris said, and noted that unfounded complaints also disappear from officers’ personnel files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, when a complaint is filed, the Oakland police and the Civilian Police Review Agency launch parallel investigations. Each draws its own conclusions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When there’s a difference of opinion, the question goes to another set of civilian monitors — the civilian Police Commission — which holds final authority on questions of officer misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyfahra Milele, chair of the commission, said she can empathize with officers who feel they are over-policed by their civilian overseers. She said that officers tell her they’re more afraid to engage residents because they’re worried about a complaint, which can tie up their promotions and damage their careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the recent police-related killings of Ahmaud Arbery in Atlanta, Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, and George Floyd in Minneapolis, “there’s much more of a vigilance around police and accountability,” Milele said. “Some officers are like, ‘OK, I’m gonna go to work and ride this wave. Some [officers say], this isn’t the role for me, all these other factors are making it difficult.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then “we have some officers that are just tired,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite what Burris, the attorney, described as widespread opposition among the department’s rank and file to civilian oversight, it has resulted in a higher level of scrutiny of officer behavior, according to lawyers on both sides of the city’s 2003 negotiated settlement agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys representing Allen, who originally brought the lawsuit in Oakland, expect the settlement agreement with the police department to end in 2023 or 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A hearing before a U.S. District Court in San Francisco to determine the department’s progress is set for April 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s taken a long time, but we’re finally getting traction,” said Burris. “Our hope is we’ll fundamentally ingrain things in the culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “It’s my worst nightmare about the case, that it’s all for naught. That it goes back to the way it was.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A 22-year-old scandal exposing abuses by Oakland police resulted in a higher rate of complaints against officers, many of whom are now leaving the department. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1649292721,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://e.infogram.com/9d7a218a-38b0-4d06-b912-8e91e348d2c0"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":67,"wordCount":2240},"headData":{"title":"From Scandal to Scrutiny: How Vigilant Citizen Oversight Helped Reshape Oakland's Police Force | KQED","description":"A 22-year-old scandal exposing abuses by Oakland police resulted in a higher rate of complaints against officers, many of whom are now leaving the department. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11910447 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11910447","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/04/06/from-scandal-to-scrutiny-how-vigilant-citizen-oversight-helped-reshape-oaklands-police-force/","disqusTitle":"From Scandal to Scrutiny: How Vigilant Citizen Oversight Helped Reshape Oakland's Police Force","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/nigelduara/\">Nigel Duara\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11910447/from-scandal-to-scrutiny-how-vigilant-citizen-oversight-helped-reshape-oaklands-police-force","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The man was screaming, but the beating didn’t stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was June 27, 2000, and the Oakland Police Department’s vaunted gang task force was at work in West Oakland. The officers worked one of the most dangerous beats in one of the most violent parts of the city. They called themselves the Riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One member of the task force beat Delphine Allen on the soles of his feet with batons, according to trial testimony. Police pepper-sprayed him and drove him under a freeway overpass, where the beating continued, a rookie officer who witnessed the beating would later testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen called out for his mother, who lived nearby. “I thought they were going to kill me,” he said in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rookie police officer who witnessed the assault on Allen filed a complaint in July 2000. The resulting scandal upended the department and touched off a massive overhaul in how the department judges its own officers’ conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Oakland has arguably become the state’s most watched police department, under the guise of both a federal monitor and strong civilian oversight. In this city of 435,000, civilians have the power to overrule the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"opd"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The direction that Oakland is taking is the inevitable path for a modern-day progressive police department,” said Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf. “And so I believe that we’re on the front lines, we’re the vanguard of police reform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide data helps tell that story. The Oakland Police Department \"sustains\" complaints against its officers at a rate higher than that of any other major law enforcement entity, except the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, according to a CalMatters analysis of California Department of Justice data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complaints originate with citizens, or from the department’s internal affairs unit. \u003ca href=\"https://infogram.com/sustained-complaints-ratio-1hdw2jpkmelkj2l\">A sustained complaint\u003c/a> indicates the department believed the person who complained, and could discipline those officers involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, law enforcement agencies marked as sustained 7.6% of complaints against their officers from 2016 to 2020. In those years, the Oakland Police Department \"sustained\" complaints at an average rate of 11.3%, the data shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018 and 2020, the department sustained more than 15.2% of complaints, double the state average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we’re doing a much more thorough evaluation,” said Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong. “I also think when you have a community with very low trust in law enforcement, it means that law enforcement has to make sure that they have legitimate and professional processes so we can build trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/9d7a218a-38b0-4d06-b912-8e91e348d2c0?src=embed\" title=\"Oakland Police sustained complaints\" width=\"800\" height=\"837\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's DOJ has collected the number of complaints and those sustained since 2016, the result of a bill that ordered agencies to establish a procedure to investigate complaints by the public against officers and publish the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland police complaint process is now handled by both its internal affairs division and a civilian panel that oversees the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And among the rank and file, there has been fallout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, officers are leaving the department in higher numbers, from an average of about four per month late last year to 10 or 15 a month since then, according to Armstrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t seen these type of numbers since I’ve been at the department, and that’s been over two decades,” he said. “When you work in a big city that’s under the microscope like Oakland, I’m sure that can be challenging to some officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been pushing the same message to officers, that you can’t escape the calls for reform,” he added. “No matter where you go, you’re going to see more community involvement, the community paying more attention to the actions of officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The website \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/03/09/police-officers-leaving-oakland-attrition-diversity/\">Oaklandside reported that\u003c/a>, in a sample of 30 exit interviews with Oakland police officers, half were leaving because of dissatisfaction with leadership at the police department or city, and seven cited “heavy discipline.” Others cited family reasons, low morale and better jobs, among other factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been doing some exit interviews with officers that are choosing to go to other departments, and what I tell them is the Oakland way is going to be the American way any minute now,” Schaaf told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-the-oakland-riders-legacy\">The Oakland Riders' legacy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before the Oakland rookie police officer blew the whistle on the Riders, he was told that beating, kidnapping and planting drugs on people was simply how police work was done, he later testified in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/OAKLAND-Riders-lied-brutalized-man-2629441.php\">trial in 2004\u003c/a>, the former rookie, Keith Batts, testified that he didn’t immediately report what he saw. He was new to the department and feared repercussions for reporting excessive use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three members of the Riders would eventually be fired, but juries would later acquit them of some criminal charges and deadlock on many others. A fourth member, Riders leader Frank Vazquez, fled the city in November 2000, and prosecutors have said they \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2012/12/12/oakland-where-the-riders-are-today/\">believe he’s in hiding in Mexico\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 people sued the police department in federal court. The cases were combined into a negotiated settlement agreement, in which the police department consented to reforms and accepted a federal monitoring team. The team would oversee dozens of proposed reforms at the department, especially concerning its use-of-force policy and the process by which complaints are treated.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'The direction that Oakland is taking is the inevitable path for a modern-day progressive police department. And so I believe that we're on the front lines, we're the vanguard of police reform.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The original monitoring team and its successor, appointed in 2010, have both praised and condemned the Oakland police for their conduct since 2003. But in the ensuing two decades, one fundamental change has made the biggest difference: Oakland residents have garnered a lot more power over their police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/learn-more-about-measure-ll\">a 2016 ballot measure\u003c/a>, the city’s voters put the whole department under civilian oversight. Then, in 2020, the civilian police commission fired the city’s police chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, the city hired its first inspector general for the police department, a civilian position overseen by the civilian board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocky Lucia, an attorney for the Oakland Police Officers’ Association and several other Bay Area police department unions, said the level of oversight in Oakland exceeds what he’s seen anywhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They pay a lot more attention to police conduct in Oakland,” Lucia said. “There’s more eyes on people. There’s policies, software programs, there’s resources committed. It’s more than I’ve ever seen anywhere else in the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucia wonders if Oakland should be spending the amount of money it does on oversight, given \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2021/opd-addresses-a-challenging-year-in-crime-with-year-end-data\">rising crime rates\u003c/a> that began during the pandemic and the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2020/city-of-oakland-faces-possible-62m-shortfall#:~:text=The%20report%20shows%20that%20the,indicates%20this%20shortfall%20is%20widening.\">always-muddy financial situation\u003c/a>, only 18 months removed from a $62 million budget shortfall. But he also acknowledges that the department is identifying potentially problematic officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re catching these things early,” Lucia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-a-tale-of-two-scandals\">A tale of two scandals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two years before the beating of Delphine Allen, a different and more infamous gang task force controversy erupted 350 miles south: the Los Angeles Police Department’s Rampart scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums — or CRASH — unit was to Los Angeles what the Riders were to Oakland: an elite group of cops on a special detail that made big busts in the LAPD’s Rampart Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CRASH unit officers also were accused of robbing a bank, stealing cocaine from the evidence room and replacing it with Bisquick, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/lapd/scandal/cron.html\">beating a suspect until he vomited blood\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, in 1998 the LAPD instituted a new policy: Any complaints against an officer would trigger an investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complaints against officers piled up, major crimes arrests dropped, and officers started to complain that the system treated them unfairly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Complaints against officers soared,” wrote University of Chicago economics professor Canice Prendergast in \u003ca href=\"https://bfi.uchicago.edu/insight/research-summary/drive-and-wave-the-response-to-lapd-police-reforms-after-rampart/\">a 2021 paper analyzing the scandal’s fallout\u003c/a>. “These were sustained at high rates, resulting in suspensions, resignations and terminations at levels far higher than before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any complaint tied up officers’ promotions and transfers. Prendergast found that the level of sustained complaints was even more damaging to police morale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, the officers radically reduced their engagement with the public, according to Prendergast’s paper, “Drive and Wave,” which is named after the practice of nonengagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arrests plummeted. The LAPD accepted a federal monitor from the U.S. Department of Justice in 2000 and nearly 90% of LAPD officers interviewed by the monitor in 2001 said a fear of discipline stopped them from “proactively” doing their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the LAPD was handed a big win by, of all things, the federal monitor itself, which encouraged the department to clear up its backlog of complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prendergast found the police department’s solution in long-buried LAPD archives, a decision that was put out among the department’s employees but never publicized: The LAPD gave its commanding officers the power to dismiss complaints against their subordinates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That meant complaints could be dismissed moments after they were filed by an officer’s superior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, sustained complaints fell dramatically, beginning in 2003, and penalties for sustained complaints were much more rare, Prendergast found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2016 to 2020, the last year for which statistics are available, the LAPD sustained complaints at a rate of 5.2%, below the statewide average for that period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Disciplinary measures across the board became less likely,” Prendergast wrote, “even when an investigation ruled against the officer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-some-officers-just-tired\">Some officers 'just tired'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Under California law, there are four outcomes for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-crime-numbers/\">a complaint against a police officer\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Complaints can be sustained, meaning the investigation proved the allegation to be true by a preponderance of evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— An officer can be exonerated, meaning the officer did what was described, but that action didn’t violate department law or policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Complaints can be ruled “unsustained,” meaning the investigation failed to clearly prove or disprove the allegation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Complaints can be determined “unfounded,” meaning the investigation clearly showed the allegation was untrue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For much of the Oakland Police Department’s time under a federal monitor, most complaints were relegated to the “unfounded” bin, said John Burris, one of two lead plaintiff attorneys in the settlement agreement between the police department and the city following the Riders scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with increased civilian oversight since 2016, he said far fewer complaints were dismissed as unfounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said cases dismissed as “unfounded” were the ones that bothered him the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Complainants are] not lying. I may not be able to prove it, but something happened,” Burris said, and noted that unfounded complaints also disappear from officers’ personnel files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, when a complaint is filed, the Oakland police and the Civilian Police Review Agency launch parallel investigations. Each draws its own conclusions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When there’s a difference of opinion, the question goes to another set of civilian monitors — the civilian Police Commission — which holds final authority on questions of officer misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyfahra Milele, chair of the commission, said she can empathize with officers who feel they are over-policed by their civilian overseers. She said that officers tell her they’re more afraid to engage residents because they’re worried about a complaint, which can tie up their promotions and damage their careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the recent police-related killings of Ahmaud Arbery in Atlanta, Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, and George Floyd in Minneapolis, “there’s much more of a vigilance around police and accountability,” Milele said. “Some officers are like, ‘OK, I’m gonna go to work and ride this wave. Some [officers say], this isn’t the role for me, all these other factors are making it difficult.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then “we have some officers that are just tired,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite what Burris, the attorney, described as widespread opposition among the department’s rank and file to civilian oversight, it has resulted in a higher level of scrutiny of officer behavior, according to lawyers on both sides of the city’s 2003 negotiated settlement agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys representing Allen, who originally brought the lawsuit in Oakland, expect the settlement agreement with the police department to end in 2023 or 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A hearing before a U.S. District Court in San Francisco to determine the department’s progress is set for April 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s taken a long time, but we’re finally getting traction,” said Burris. “Our hope is we’ll fundamentally ingrain things in the culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “It’s my worst nightmare about the case, that it’s all for naught. That it goes back to the way it was.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11910447/from-scandal-to-scrutiny-how-vigilant-citizen-oversight-helped-reshape-oaklands-police-force","authors":["byline_news_11910447"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_416","news_1526","news_20081","news_20625"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11910449","label":"news_18481"},"news_11898477":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11898477","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11898477","score":null,"sort":[1639002398000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"on-second-thought-2","title":"On Second Thought ...","publishDate":1639002398,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18515,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/funding_120821_final.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11898490\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/funding_120821_final.png\" alt='Cartoon: Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf holds a sign that reads, \"Defund the Police\" with the \"de\" crossed out and replaced with \"re.\" We see police tape, shell casings, a flower memorial and sad residents in the background.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1343\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/funding_120821_final.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/funding_120821_final-800x560.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/funding_120821_final-1020x713.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/funding_120821_final-160x112.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/funding_120821_final-1536x1074.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>Oakland's \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/fioreoaklandgunviolence\">rise in gun violence prompted Mayor Libby Schaaf last week to ask the city council to reverse scheduled funding cuts\u003c/a> and hire more police officers — a request it approved Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is not the only city facing a jump in homicides: The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/06/953254623/massive-1-year-rise-in-homicide-rates-collided-with-the-pandemic-in-2020\">murder rate surged across the country last year\u003c/a> amid the pandemic, and is on track this year to be at least as bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a tough time to reduce the number of police on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, adding more police shouldn't be the only approach to preventing violence in our communities, which is why we also need robust funding for violence prevention, job training and mental health programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surely in a region as wealthy as the Bay Area, we shouldn't have to choose between hiring good cops and investing in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The rise in gun violence in Oakland prompted Mayor Libby Schaaf to ask the city council to reverse scheduled funding cuts and hire more police officers. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1639017845,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":7,"wordCount":144},"headData":{"title":"On Second Thought ... | KQED","description":"The rise in gun violence in Oakland prompted Mayor Libby Schaaf to ask the city council to reverse scheduled funding cuts and hire more police officers. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11898477 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11898477","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/12/08/on-second-thought-2/","disqusTitle":"On Second Thought ...","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11898477/on-second-thought-2","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/funding_120821_final.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11898490\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/funding_120821_final.png\" alt='Cartoon: Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf holds a sign that reads, \"Defund the Police\" with the \"de\" crossed out and replaced with \"re.\" We see police tape, shell casings, a flower memorial and sad residents in the background.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1343\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/funding_120821_final.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/funding_120821_final-800x560.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/funding_120821_final-1020x713.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/funding_120821_final-160x112.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/funding_120821_final-1536x1074.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>Oakland's \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/fioreoaklandgunviolence\">rise in gun violence prompted Mayor Libby Schaaf last week to ask the city council to reverse scheduled funding cuts\u003c/a> and hire more police officers — a request it approved Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is not the only city facing a jump in homicides: The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/06/953254623/massive-1-year-rise-in-homicide-rates-collided-with-the-pandemic-in-2020\">murder rate surged across the country last year\u003c/a> amid the pandemic, and is on track this year to be at least as bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a tough time to reduce the number of police on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, adding more police shouldn't be the only approach to preventing violence in our communities, which is why we also need robust funding for violence prevention, job training and mental health programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surely in a region as wealthy as the Bay Area, we shouldn't have to choose between hiring good cops and investing in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11898477/on-second-thought-2","authors":["3236"],"series":["news_18515"],"categories":["news_457","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_28105","news_18246","news_1393","news_6905","news_20949","news_18","news_416","news_1526"],"featImg":"news_11898490","label":"news_18515"},"news_11879404":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11879404","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11879404","score":null,"sort":[1624668414000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oakland-just-redirected-18-million-away-from-police-into-violence-prevention-programs","title":"Oakland Just Redirected $18 Million Away From Police — Into Violence Prevention Programs","publishDate":1624668414,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Oakland city councilmembers redirected $18 million proposed for police spending from the mayor's budget to alternative methods of violence prevention when the council passed a $3.8 billion budget Thursday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote came at about 5:30 p.m. following hours of public comment and discussion at a virtual meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"James Burch, policy director for the Anti Police-Terror Project\"]'We're talking about a police budget that is well over $300 million every year consistently and continues to increase — even this year.'[/pullquote]The cuts to police spending were made from Mayor Libby Schaaf's proposed budget for fiscal years 2021-2023 released in May, which would have added two police academy classes to the usual four over the two-year budget cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor's budget proposal was then amended by Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas and Councilmembers Carroll Fife, Dan Kalb and Noel Gallo. The amendment was what passed on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The budget passed today by the Oakland City Council makes bold investments to reimagine public safety through violence prevention and non-police strategies that I strongly support,\" Schaaf said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, it also cuts 50 police officers who respond to Oaklanders' 911 calls and enforce traffic safety,\" Schaaf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879475\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879475\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50148_011_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50148_011_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50148_011_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50148_011_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50148_011_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50148_011_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A few hundred people gathered at Lake Merritt for a vigil calling for peace on June 22, 2021, following the Juneteenth shooting that wounded seven people and left one man dead. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Six councilmembers voted in favor of the new budget, while Councilmembers Loren Taylor and Treva Reid opposed it because of concerns over an equitable distribution of city funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Taylor and Reid represent East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes come amid a historic increase in violence in the city, with at least 61 homicides so far this year — nearly all by firearms — up about 90% from a year ago, Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The violence was palpable last weekend when gunfire killed one and wounded at least six others in a shooting near Lake Merritt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Armstrong reportedly said no number of officers at the lake would have prevented the tragedy and some councilmembers used that statement to bolster their argument for less spending on police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879449\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879449\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50143_006_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50143_006_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50143_006_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50143_006_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50143_006_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50143_006_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas speaks at Lake Merritt during a vigil calling for peace on June 22, 2021, following the Juneteenth shooting that wounded seven people and left one man dead. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many Oakland residents have been demanding less spending since the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, calling on city leaders to cut the Police Department's budget by 50% and invest that money in alternatives to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such group was the Anti Police-Terror Project. James Burch, policy director for the group, said the vote marked a tremendous victory after a six-year campaign. “And it speaks to how difficult it has been for us to gain traction and demand common sense out of the city council,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Burch highlighted that while police won't be seeing that $18 million, it's \"a drop in the bucket.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're talking about a police budget that is well over $300 million every year consistently and continues to increase — even this year. And so it's important that we maintain that perspective,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Oakland Councilmember Loren Taylor\"]'We are asking people to jump out of an airplane without a parachute, promising to get to them before they need it to land.'[/pullquote]The previous two-year budget spent $665 million for police and constituted 19.6% of the city budget. The mayor's proposed budget had slightly increased the total dollars for police to $692 million but decreased the percentage police use from the city budget to 17.9%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>APTP has been calling on investments like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874272/build-something-powerful-oakland-aims-to-remove-police-from-some-nonviolent-911-calls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland\u003c/a>, also known as MACRO, which the council also supports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a pilot program, trained MACRO personnel will respond to non-violent, non-criminal mental and behavioral health calls instead of police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget passed Thursday will invest $4 million in MACRO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879450\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879450\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Councilmember Carol Fife speaks at Lake Merritt during a vigil calling for peace on June 22, 2021, following the Juneteenth shooting that wounded seven people and left one man dead. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although the investments in alternatives to police are expected to reduce violence, Taylor expressed concern that they are not proven or in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"opd\" label=\"More on Oakland police\"]\"We are asking people to jump out of an airplane without a parachute, promising to get to them before they need it to land,\" Taylor said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the final vote, Reid put forth an amendment to add a third police academy class in the first year of the budget and reduce the number of classes to one in the second year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reid expressed concern about redirecting the proposed police spending when bullets are flying into the homes of East Oaklanders who she represents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reid's amendment failed by a vote of 6-3, with Kalb, Taylor and Reid as the three votes in favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from Bay City News and KQED's Raquel Maria Dillon and Julie Chang.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Many Oakland residents have been calling on city leaders to cut the police department's budget in half and invest that money in alternatives to police.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1624668414,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":888},"headData":{"title":"Oakland Just Redirected $18 Million Away From Police — Into Violence Prevention Programs | KQED","description":"Many Oakland residents have been calling on city leaders to cut the police department's budget in half and invest that money in alternatives to 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5:30 p.m. following hours of public comment and discussion at a virtual meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We're talking about a police budget that is well over $300 million every year consistently and continues to increase — even this year.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"James Burch, policy director for the Anti Police-Terror Project","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The cuts to police spending were made from Mayor Libby Schaaf's proposed budget for fiscal years 2021-2023 released in May, which would have added two police academy classes to the usual four over the two-year budget cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor's budget proposal was then amended by Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas and Councilmembers Carroll Fife, Dan Kalb and Noel Gallo. The amendment was what passed on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The budget passed today by the Oakland City Council makes bold investments to reimagine public safety through violence prevention and non-police strategies that I strongly support,\" Schaaf said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, it also cuts 50 police officers who respond to Oaklanders' 911 calls and enforce traffic safety,\" Schaaf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879475\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879475\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50148_011_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50148_011_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50148_011_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50148_011_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50148_011_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50148_011_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A few hundred people gathered at Lake Merritt for a vigil calling for peace on June 22, 2021, following the Juneteenth shooting that wounded seven people and left one man dead. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Six councilmembers voted in favor of the new budget, while Councilmembers Loren Taylor and Treva Reid opposed it because of concerns over an equitable distribution of city funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Taylor and Reid represent East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes come amid a historic increase in violence in the city, with at least 61 homicides so far this year — nearly all by firearms — up about 90% from a year ago, Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The violence was palpable last weekend when gunfire killed one and wounded at least six others in a shooting near Lake Merritt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Armstrong reportedly said no number of officers at the lake would have prevented the tragedy and some councilmembers used that statement to bolster their argument for less spending on police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879449\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879449\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50143_006_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50143_006_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50143_006_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50143_006_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50143_006_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50143_006_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas speaks at Lake Merritt during a vigil calling for peace on June 22, 2021, following the Juneteenth shooting that wounded seven people and left one man dead. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many Oakland residents have been demanding less spending since the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, calling on city leaders to cut the Police Department's budget by 50% and invest that money in alternatives to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such group was the Anti Police-Terror Project. James Burch, policy director for the group, said the vote marked a tremendous victory after a six-year campaign. “And it speaks to how difficult it has been for us to gain traction and demand common sense out of the city council,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Burch highlighted that while police won't be seeing that $18 million, it's \"a drop in the bucket.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're talking about a police budget that is well over $300 million every year consistently and continues to increase — even this year. And so it's important that we maintain that perspective,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We are asking people to jump out of an airplane without a parachute, promising to get to them before they need it to land.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Oakland Councilmember Loren Taylor","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The previous two-year budget spent $665 million for police and constituted 19.6% of the city budget. The mayor's proposed budget had slightly increased the total dollars for police to $692 million but decreased the percentage police use from the city budget to 17.9%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>APTP has been calling on investments like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874272/build-something-powerful-oakland-aims-to-remove-police-from-some-nonviolent-911-calls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland\u003c/a>, also known as MACRO, which the council also supports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a pilot program, trained MACRO personnel will respond to non-violent, non-criminal mental and behavioral health calls instead of police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget passed Thursday will invest $4 million in MACRO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879450\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879450\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Councilmember Carol Fife speaks at Lake Merritt during a vigil calling for peace on June 22, 2021, following the Juneteenth shooting that wounded seven people and left one man dead. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although the investments in alternatives to police are expected to reduce violence, Taylor expressed concern that they are not proven or in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"opd","label":"More on Oakland police "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"We are asking people to jump out of an airplane without a parachute, promising to get to them before they need it to land,\" Taylor said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the final vote, Reid put forth an amendment to add a third police academy class in the first year of the budget and reduce the number of classes to one in the second year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reid expressed concern about redirecting the proposed police spending when bullets are flying into the homes of East Oaklanders who she represents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reid's amendment failed by a vote of 6-3, with Kalb, Taylor and Reid as the three votes in favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from Bay City News and KQED's Raquel Maria Dillon and Julie Chang.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11879404/oakland-just-redirected-18-million-away-from-police-into-violence-prevention-programs","authors":["237"],"categories":["news_28250","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_2109","news_18","news_2253","news_412","news_416","news_1526"],"featImg":"news_11879410","label":"news"},"news_11873608":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11873608","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11873608","score":null,"sort":[1621429200000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"dozens-of-oakland-police-officers-collect-6-figure-overtime-payments-straining-citys-budget","title":"Dozens of Oakland Police Officers Collect 6-Figure Overtime Payments, Straining City's Budget","publishDate":1621429200,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s\u003ca href=\"https://stories.opengov.com/oaklandca/published/lTrMIWK3R\"> proposed budget\u003c/a> for the coming fiscal year would nearly double the amount of money for police overtime, increasing the city’s law enforcement spending by almost 8% — even as city leaders last summer pledged to slash the department’s budget amid widespread racial justice protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf's proposed budget for the 2021-23 budget cycle, which\u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/05/11/oakland-mayors-proposed-budget-increases-police-spending/\"> she presented last Monday\u003c/a> to the Oakland City Council, includes about $61 million over the next two years for police overtime — up from roughly $32 million in the last two-year budget cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Ed Reiskin, Oakland city administrator\"]'If people are working so much that they can’t be effective and work safely, that’s my concern.'[/pullquote]That would increase total police spending from about $317 million this fiscal year to $341 million starting in July — or roughly 41% of the city's general fund — and then up to nearly $352 million the year after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf's proposal, which she says “aligns with historical spending,” comes after a year of already hefty police overtime expenditures. In the 2020 calendar year, the city spent more than $35 million on police overtime, enabling more than 100 officers to more than double their base salaries, which raised total police personnel costs well above $250 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Overtime Windfall\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That year, 73 officers and 63 sergeants earned more than Schaaf herself, whose own compensation package, including pay and benefits, was $337,140, according to city salary data obtained through a public records request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Topping that list was Officer Timothy S. Dolan, who was the highest compensated employee in the department and the second-highest in all of city government. On top of his reported 2020 base salary of $134,080, Dolan earned more than $301,000 in overtime pay. That put his total compensation package, including health care and payments the city made into his pension fund, at $589,809.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has investigated the possibility that some of the highest-earning Oakland Police Department employees were taking advantage of the overtime system, said Oakland City Administrator Ed Reiskin. But he said no abuse has been found, as far as he is aware. Rather, he pointed to short staffing as the primary driver of overtime spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My concern isn’t one officer making a lot of money. That’s not inherently problematic,” Reiskin said. “If people are working so much that they can’t be effective and work safely, that’s my concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, 64 OPD employees made over $100,000 in overtime alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show that many OPD employees brought in significant portions of their income through overtime work, in addition to lump-sum payments and other types of compensation. The data show that 107 OPD employees were paid more than double their base salary in 2020, including 17 who were paid more than triple, and five who were paid about quadruple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes Officer Malcolm E. Miller, who brought home $362,000 last year (not including benefits), though his base salary was only $82,925.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller, Dolan and all other police personnel named in this story did not respond to emails requesting comment. OPD also would not comment and declined our requests to interview the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘You’re Making a Choice’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Barry Donelan, president of the Oakland Police Officers' Association, said logging this many overtime hours suggests that these top earners volunteered for many additional assignments. The department regularly sends out emails to staff looking for officers willing to work overtime on special details or at public events, like Oakland A’s games, he noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"opd\"]“When you get to those kinds of numbers, you’re making a choice,” Donelan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has policies intended to prevent officers from working too often. For example, OPD’s overtime policy states that department members who are ordered to work beyond their regular shifts are entitled to eight hours of rest before their next assignment begins. Members who work voluntary overtime are also supposed to have at least eight hours of rest between work periods, unless otherwise authorized by a commander. They are also supposed to take one day off each week, but a commander can override that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overtime policy places the burden of tracking rest periods on the officers, who are supposed to notify their managers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donelan said that OPD management waives overtime restrictions to meet demands for services, especially during periods of frequent mass demonstrations, like the Black Lives Matter protests last summer after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those same protests led to mounting pressure to scale back police funding. In response, city leaders formed a task force to rethink the department's operations and make recommendations for cutting its annual budget by $150 million — or roughly half.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>History of Spending Over Budget\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A 2019 city auditor’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandauditor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/20190610_Performance-Audit_OPD-Overtime_Report.pdf\"> investigation\u003c/a> into OPD’s overtime use found that many officers worked a staggering number of off-duty hours. The report noted that police officers in San Francisco were not allowed to work more than 520 overtime hours each year. But in Oakland, 30% of officers exceeded that limit in the 2017-2018 fiscal year, when 24 sworn officers worked more than 1,249 overtime hours, and one member logged at least 2,600 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor recommended OPD establish an annual limit on how many overtime hours employees can work in one year. But the Schaaf administration disagreed, and when OPD implemented its new overtime policy in December, it did not include an annual limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For over a decade, OPD has consistently spent millions more than the amount allotted by the city, mostly driven by overtime hours and other personnel spending. For example, in the 2019-2020 fiscal year, OPD spent a total of nearly $338 million, according to the city’s comprehensive annual financial \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/CAFR-2020.pdf\">analysis\u003c/a>. And in a report to the City Council \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/FY-2019-20-Q4-Rev-Exp-Agenda-Report-FINAL120720-002.pdf\">last October, \u003c/a>Oakland Director of Finance Margaret O’Brien wrote that OPD exceeded its general-purpose fund budget by more than $32 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in recent years, the department has regularly paid out more than twice as much for overtime as the council has budgeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11874450\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"873\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2.png 1640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-800x426.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-1020x543.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-160x85.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-1536x818.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Data from a March 2021 memo sent by Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong showing the difference between how much overtime the Oakland City Council approved in its budget versus how much OPD actually spent on overtime pay. The FY 2020-21 actual amount is a projection because the fiscal year has not ended. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As OPD continued to exceed its overtime budget in 2020, the city’s revenue plummeted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting O’Brien to write \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/FY-2020-21-Q2-RE-Report.pdf\">in a February memo\u003c/a> that the city was “experiencing a financial crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the city continued to spend at the rate it did in 2020, she cautioned, it would drain its emergency reserves. “This situation puts the City in jeopardy of being unable to pay for its daily operations,” O’Brien wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that “personnel costs in the Police Department (OPD) is the primary area of overspending in the City’s budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, the city spent over $257 million on police department employee compensation, including base salaries, overtime, benefits, and other pay. That made up over 35% of citywide personnel spending that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Councilmember At Large Rebecca Kaplan said that last year’s OPD spending is the latest example of how Schaaf and Reiskin disregard spending restrictions laid out in the city’s budget and adopted by the council. They have given some city departments more than they were budgeted, and others less than they were budgeted, skirting the public budget process, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only are they spending money that wasn’t authorized, and not only is this a violation of democracy, but the extra things that the administrator has been giving [OPD] without council approval are largely things that have nothing to do with public safety,” Kaplan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed out that OPD’s overtime spending was particularly egregious in 2020, blaming the department's heavy-handed response to Black Lives Matter protests in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a December 2020 memo, then-interim Police Chief Susan Manheimer, who has since been replaced by LeRonne Armstrong, wrote that the department spent nearly $2.5 million on protest activity “associated with Minneapolis Solidarity” by the end of June, and another $1.28 million on protest activity throughout the rest of the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Steep Costs of Backfilling \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Demonstrations, however, weren’t the biggest reason for overtime spending last year. Manheimer’s December memo shows that backfill and shift extensions, which are largely used to maintain minimum patrol staffing of 35 officers per shift, had a much larger price tag. Those two categories cost the city $12.8 million in fiscal year 2019-20 and another $9.8 million so far in 2020-21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiskin, the city administrator, said that OPD’s reliance on overtime to maintain minimum staffing levels speaks to a core problem: The department is too understaffed to fulfill all the services the city is demanding of its police. The city is budgeted to have 786 sworn police personnel, which he noted is significantly lower than in other cities of comparable population and level of violent crime. And that, he said, forces OPD to fill in the gaps by assigning overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further compounding the problem, the department last year had 47 sworn vacancies and 62 professional staff vacancies, Manheimer wrote in her memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, an uptick in homicides this year prompted Armstrong, the police chief, to recently create a\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandnorth.net/2021/04/05/oakland-police-create-new-division-to-address-murder-spike/\"> special division on violent crime\u003c/a>, which he filled by reassigning 60 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]In a March memo to the Oakland City Council, Armstrong wrote that as the department struggles to maintain its minimum patrol staff at 35 officers per shift, there is little capacity to assign officers to special assignments on their regular shift time. For that reason, he said, the department has “become almost entirely reliant on overtime” to address many specialized police details. That includes response teams focused on sideshows, areas with high levels of violent crime, homicide operations, Lake Merritt patrols, and traffic investigations, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many overtime assignments come from superiors as orders, Donelan, the union president, said. “The gripe I get more than anything is the guy who \u003cem>doesn’t \u003c/em>want to work overtime,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donelan explained that overtime orders can come in different forms. A watch commander might hold an officer on the clock after realizing that not enough officers are coming in for the next shift. Or the chief might order a “one call” phone notification, in which an officer is reached at home and ordered to report to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Comp Time\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The 2019 city audit identified another big reason for OPD's glut in overtime: Officers can choose to receive compensatory time off (comp time) instead of money as reimbursement for working overtime. Since overtime work is compensated at time and a half, an officer working 10 hours of overtime can elect to receive 15 hours of comp time. When an officer takes that paid time off, another officer has to fill in, most likely using more overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1007px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11873804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1007\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_.png 1007w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_-800x354.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_-160x71.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1007px) 100vw, 1007px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This figure, published in a 2019 report by the Oakland city auditor, shows how reimbursing overtime work with comp time can make overtime hours, and costs, soar. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Oakland City Auditor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 2019 audit reported that OPD officers are capped at 300 hours of comp time, the highest limit of any major city in California. Despite previous warnings from the city auditor about the comp time issue, the city did not address OPD’s high comp time accrual limit during its \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/documents/union-contracts\">most recent negotiation\u003c/a> with the police officers union, which went into effect in December 2018. Since comp time accrual is part of the city’s agreement with the union, this system is set in stone until the next contract negotiation in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit noted that one specific officer was mostly responsible for determining the number of officers needed to staff events. It didn’t name the officer, but said he regularly assigned himself to work special events, and that he was the department’s second-highest overtime earner for five years in a row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, the Schaaf administration implemented service cuts across departments to get a handle on the city’s overspending. Many of those cuts were to OPD overtime work, including sideshow enforcement, as well as some homicide and ceasefire operations, with personnel re-assigned to supplement understaffed patrol squads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those cuts also included a reduction of police patrols in Oakland's Chinatown shortly before a streak of attacks against the Asian community in Oakland and other cities across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sgt. Barry Donelan, president of the Oakland Police Officers' Association\"]'The challenge within the police department is that everything every day is the highest community priority. Our service load is continuing to rise.'[/pullquote]On April 12, the City Council passed a resolution to use federal relief funding to reverse some of the service cuts. After a four-month hiatus, the city said it would restore funding for OPD community safety ambassadors in Chinatown and other neighborhoods, foot-patrol officers and ceasefire operations. This came amid a wave of violence that hit the city in the first quarter of 2021, resulting in 34 homicides, triple the number recorded in the first quarter of 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The challenge within the police department is that everything every day is the highest community priority,” Donelan said. “Our service load is continuing to rise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could change if the Oakland City Council adopts the recommendations of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/reimagining-public-safety\">Reimagining Public Safety Taskforce\u003c/a> that it created after last summer's protests. Among the task force’s proposals are shifting staffing from police to civilian workers for a range of services, including responses to mental health calls and internal affairs investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>An Uncertain Future\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Schaaf’s proposed $341 million police budget for next year is a far cry from the Oakland City Council’s pledge last summer to cut OPD funding in half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed budget would fund six police recruiting academies in the next two years, bringing additional officers onto the force — a move Chief Armstrong argues will reduce overtime expenses by increasing the department’s capacity to cover assignments on regularly assigned time. It would also transfer OPD’s vehicle enforcement unit to the city’s transportation department, as recommended by the task force, and add $2.6 million in funding over two years to launch a program to dispatch community responders, instead of police, to non-violent emergency calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the proposed budget does not incorporate other key recommendations of the task force, including staffing the 911 call center with employees from other departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next six weeks, the Oakland City Council will decide what changes to make to Schaaf’s proposal before adopting the final two-year city budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I fully agree with the Reimagining Public Safety Taskforce recommendation that we need to cap OPD overtime,” said Councilmember Loren Taylor, who co-chairs the task force, at the May 10 council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I want to do is roll up sleeves and figure out what is a realistic overtime to hold ourselves to,” Taylor added. “That's something we have never been able to do because we have never been honest about what past overtime expenditures were and therefore, we were setting ourselves up for failure the entire time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story comes to KQED through a partnership with the\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://journalism.berkeley.edu/programs/mj/investigative-reporting/\"> \u003cem>Investigative Reporting Program\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. A version of the story first appeared in the publication\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandnorth.net/2021/04/28/oakland-police-overtime-payments/\"> \u003cem>Oakland North\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> on April 28, 2021.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Oakland Police Department has for years spent far more than its allotted budget, a factor largely due to its heavy use of overtime amid perennial understaffing.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1621539985,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":53,"wordCount":2709},"headData":{"title":"Dozens of Oakland Police Officers Collect 6-Figure Overtime Payments, Straining City's Budget | KQED","description":"The Oakland Police Department has for years spent far more than its allotted budget, a factor largely due to its heavy use of overtime amid perennial understaffing.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11873608 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11873608","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/05/19/dozens-of-oakland-police-officers-collect-6-figure-overtime-payments-straining-citys-budget/","disqusTitle":"Dozens of Oakland Police Officers Collect 6-Figure Overtime Payments, Straining City's Budget","source":"UC Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program","sourceUrl":"https://journalism.berkeley.edu/programs/mj/investigative-reporting/","nprByline":"Noah Baustin","path":"/news/11873608/dozens-of-oakland-police-officers-collect-6-figure-overtime-payments-straining-citys-budget","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s\u003ca href=\"https://stories.opengov.com/oaklandca/published/lTrMIWK3R\"> proposed budget\u003c/a> for the coming fiscal year would nearly double the amount of money for police overtime, increasing the city’s law enforcement spending by almost 8% — even as city leaders last summer pledged to slash the department’s budget amid widespread racial justice protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf's proposed budget for the 2021-23 budget cycle, which\u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/05/11/oakland-mayors-proposed-budget-increases-police-spending/\"> she presented last Monday\u003c/a> to the Oakland City Council, includes about $61 million over the next two years for police overtime — up from roughly $32 million in the last two-year budget cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'If people are working so much that they can’t be effective and work safely, that’s my concern.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Ed Reiskin, Oakland city administrator","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That would increase total police spending from about $317 million this fiscal year to $341 million starting in July — or roughly 41% of the city's general fund — and then up to nearly $352 million the year after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf's proposal, which she says “aligns with historical spending,” comes after a year of already hefty police overtime expenditures. In the 2020 calendar year, the city spent more than $35 million on police overtime, enabling more than 100 officers to more than double their base salaries, which raised total police personnel costs well above $250 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Overtime Windfall\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That year, 73 officers and 63 sergeants earned more than Schaaf herself, whose own compensation package, including pay and benefits, was $337,140, according to city salary data obtained through a public records request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Topping that list was Officer Timothy S. Dolan, who was the highest compensated employee in the department and the second-highest in all of city government. On top of his reported 2020 base salary of $134,080, Dolan earned more than $301,000 in overtime pay. That put his total compensation package, including health care and payments the city made into his pension fund, at $589,809.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has investigated the possibility that some of the highest-earning Oakland Police Department employees were taking advantage of the overtime system, said Oakland City Administrator Ed Reiskin. But he said no abuse has been found, as far as he is aware. Rather, he pointed to short staffing as the primary driver of overtime spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My concern isn’t one officer making a lot of money. That’s not inherently problematic,” Reiskin said. “If people are working so much that they can’t be effective and work safely, that’s my concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, 64 OPD employees made over $100,000 in overtime alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show that many OPD employees brought in significant portions of their income through overtime work, in addition to lump-sum payments and other types of compensation. The data show that 107 OPD employees were paid more than double their base salary in 2020, including 17 who were paid more than triple, and five who were paid about quadruple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes Officer Malcolm E. Miller, who brought home $362,000 last year (not including benefits), though his base salary was only $82,925.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller, Dolan and all other police personnel named in this story did not respond to emails requesting comment. OPD also would not comment and declined our requests to interview the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘You’re Making a Choice’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Barry Donelan, president of the Oakland Police Officers' Association, said logging this many overtime hours suggests that these top earners volunteered for many additional assignments. The department regularly sends out emails to staff looking for officers willing to work overtime on special details or at public events, like Oakland A’s games, he noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"opd"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“When you get to those kinds of numbers, you’re making a choice,” Donelan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has policies intended to prevent officers from working too often. For example, OPD’s overtime policy states that department members who are ordered to work beyond their regular shifts are entitled to eight hours of rest before their next assignment begins. Members who work voluntary overtime are also supposed to have at least eight hours of rest between work periods, unless otherwise authorized by a commander. They are also supposed to take one day off each week, but a commander can override that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overtime policy places the burden of tracking rest periods on the officers, who are supposed to notify their managers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donelan said that OPD management waives overtime restrictions to meet demands for services, especially during periods of frequent mass demonstrations, like the Black Lives Matter protests last summer after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those same protests led to mounting pressure to scale back police funding. In response, city leaders formed a task force to rethink the department's operations and make recommendations for cutting its annual budget by $150 million — or roughly half.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>History of Spending Over Budget\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A 2019 city auditor’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandauditor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/20190610_Performance-Audit_OPD-Overtime_Report.pdf\"> investigation\u003c/a> into OPD’s overtime use found that many officers worked a staggering number of off-duty hours. The report noted that police officers in San Francisco were not allowed to work more than 520 overtime hours each year. But in Oakland, 30% of officers exceeded that limit in the 2017-2018 fiscal year, when 24 sworn officers worked more than 1,249 overtime hours, and one member logged at least 2,600 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor recommended OPD establish an annual limit on how many overtime hours employees can work in one year. But the Schaaf administration disagreed, and when OPD implemented its new overtime policy in December, it did not include an annual limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For over a decade, OPD has consistently spent millions more than the amount allotted by the city, mostly driven by overtime hours and other personnel spending. For example, in the 2019-2020 fiscal year, OPD spent a total of nearly $338 million, according to the city’s comprehensive annual financial \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/CAFR-2020.pdf\">analysis\u003c/a>. And in a report to the City Council \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/FY-2019-20-Q4-Rev-Exp-Agenda-Report-FINAL120720-002.pdf\">last October, \u003c/a>Oakland Director of Finance Margaret O’Brien wrote that OPD exceeded its general-purpose fund budget by more than $32 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in recent years, the department has regularly paid out more than twice as much for overtime as the council has budgeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11874450\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"873\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2.png 1640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-800x426.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-1020x543.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-160x85.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-1536x818.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Data from a March 2021 memo sent by Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong showing the difference between how much overtime the Oakland City Council approved in its budget versus how much OPD actually spent on overtime pay. The FY 2020-21 actual amount is a projection because the fiscal year has not ended. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As OPD continued to exceed its overtime budget in 2020, the city’s revenue plummeted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting O’Brien to write \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/FY-2020-21-Q2-RE-Report.pdf\">in a February memo\u003c/a> that the city was “experiencing a financial crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the city continued to spend at the rate it did in 2020, she cautioned, it would drain its emergency reserves. “This situation puts the City in jeopardy of being unable to pay for its daily operations,” O’Brien wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that “personnel costs in the Police Department (OPD) is the primary area of overspending in the City’s budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, the city spent over $257 million on police department employee compensation, including base salaries, overtime, benefits, and other pay. That made up over 35% of citywide personnel spending that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Councilmember At Large Rebecca Kaplan said that last year’s OPD spending is the latest example of how Schaaf and Reiskin disregard spending restrictions laid out in the city’s budget and adopted by the council. They have given some city departments more than they were budgeted, and others less than they were budgeted, skirting the public budget process, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only are they spending money that wasn’t authorized, and not only is this a violation of democracy, but the extra things that the administrator has been giving [OPD] without council approval are largely things that have nothing to do with public safety,” Kaplan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed out that OPD’s overtime spending was particularly egregious in 2020, blaming the department's heavy-handed response to Black Lives Matter protests in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a December 2020 memo, then-interim Police Chief Susan Manheimer, who has since been replaced by LeRonne Armstrong, wrote that the department spent nearly $2.5 million on protest activity “associated with Minneapolis Solidarity” by the end of June, and another $1.28 million on protest activity throughout the rest of the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Steep Costs of Backfilling \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Demonstrations, however, weren’t the biggest reason for overtime spending last year. Manheimer’s December memo shows that backfill and shift extensions, which are largely used to maintain minimum patrol staffing of 35 officers per shift, had a much larger price tag. Those two categories cost the city $12.8 million in fiscal year 2019-20 and another $9.8 million so far in 2020-21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiskin, the city administrator, said that OPD’s reliance on overtime to maintain minimum staffing levels speaks to a core problem: The department is too understaffed to fulfill all the services the city is demanding of its police. The city is budgeted to have 786 sworn police personnel, which he noted is significantly lower than in other cities of comparable population and level of violent crime. And that, he said, forces OPD to fill in the gaps by assigning overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further compounding the problem, the department last year had 47 sworn vacancies and 62 professional staff vacancies, Manheimer wrote in her memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, an uptick in homicides this year prompted Armstrong, the police chief, to recently create a\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandnorth.net/2021/04/05/oakland-police-create-new-division-to-address-murder-spike/\"> special division on violent crime\u003c/a>, which he filled by reassigning 60 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In a March memo to the Oakland City Council, Armstrong wrote that as the department struggles to maintain its minimum patrol staff at 35 officers per shift, there is little capacity to assign officers to special assignments on their regular shift time. For that reason, he said, the department has “become almost entirely reliant on overtime” to address many specialized police details. That includes response teams focused on sideshows, areas with high levels of violent crime, homicide operations, Lake Merritt patrols, and traffic investigations, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many overtime assignments come from superiors as orders, Donelan, the union president, said. “The gripe I get more than anything is the guy who \u003cem>doesn’t \u003c/em>want to work overtime,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donelan explained that overtime orders can come in different forms. A watch commander might hold an officer on the clock after realizing that not enough officers are coming in for the next shift. Or the chief might order a “one call” phone notification, in which an officer is reached at home and ordered to report to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Comp Time\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The 2019 city audit identified another big reason for OPD's glut in overtime: Officers can choose to receive compensatory time off (comp time) instead of money as reimbursement for working overtime. Since overtime work is compensated at time and a half, an officer working 10 hours of overtime can elect to receive 15 hours of comp time. When an officer takes that paid time off, another officer has to fill in, most likely using more overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1007px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11873804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1007\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_.png 1007w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_-800x354.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_-160x71.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1007px) 100vw, 1007px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This figure, published in a 2019 report by the Oakland city auditor, shows how reimbursing overtime work with comp time can make overtime hours, and costs, soar. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Oakland City Auditor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 2019 audit reported that OPD officers are capped at 300 hours of comp time, the highest limit of any major city in California. Despite previous warnings from the city auditor about the comp time issue, the city did not address OPD’s high comp time accrual limit during its \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/documents/union-contracts\">most recent negotiation\u003c/a> with the police officers union, which went into effect in December 2018. Since comp time accrual is part of the city’s agreement with the union, this system is set in stone until the next contract negotiation in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit noted that one specific officer was mostly responsible for determining the number of officers needed to staff events. It didn’t name the officer, but said he regularly assigned himself to work special events, and that he was the department’s second-highest overtime earner for five years in a row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, the Schaaf administration implemented service cuts across departments to get a handle on the city’s overspending. Many of those cuts were to OPD overtime work, including sideshow enforcement, as well as some homicide and ceasefire operations, with personnel re-assigned to supplement understaffed patrol squads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those cuts also included a reduction of police patrols in Oakland's Chinatown shortly before a streak of attacks against the Asian community in Oakland and other cities across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'The challenge within the police department is that everything every day is the highest community priority. Our service load is continuing to rise.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Sgt. Barry Donelan, president of the Oakland Police Officers' Association","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On April 12, the City Council passed a resolution to use federal relief funding to reverse some of the service cuts. After a four-month hiatus, the city said it would restore funding for OPD community safety ambassadors in Chinatown and other neighborhoods, foot-patrol officers and ceasefire operations. This came amid a wave of violence that hit the city in the first quarter of 2021, resulting in 34 homicides, triple the number recorded in the first quarter of 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The challenge within the police department is that everything every day is the highest community priority,” Donelan said. “Our service load is continuing to rise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could change if the Oakland City Council adopts the recommendations of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/reimagining-public-safety\">Reimagining Public Safety Taskforce\u003c/a> that it created after last summer's protests. Among the task force’s proposals are shifting staffing from police to civilian workers for a range of services, including responses to mental health calls and internal affairs investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>An Uncertain Future\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Schaaf’s proposed $341 million police budget for next year is a far cry from the Oakland City Council’s pledge last summer to cut OPD funding in half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed budget would fund six police recruiting academies in the next two years, bringing additional officers onto the force — a move Chief Armstrong argues will reduce overtime expenses by increasing the department’s capacity to cover assignments on regularly assigned time. It would also transfer OPD’s vehicle enforcement unit to the city’s transportation department, as recommended by the task force, and add $2.6 million in funding over two years to launch a program to dispatch community responders, instead of police, to non-violent emergency calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the proposed budget does not incorporate other key recommendations of the task force, including staffing the 911 call center with employees from other departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next six weeks, the Oakland City Council will decide what changes to make to Schaaf’s proposal before adopting the final two-year city budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I fully agree with the Reimagining Public Safety Taskforce recommendation that we need to cap OPD overtime,” said Councilmember Loren Taylor, who co-chairs the task force, at the May 10 council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I want to do is roll up sleeves and figure out what is a realistic overtime to hold ourselves to,” Taylor added. “That's something we have never been able to do because we have never been honest about what past overtime expenditures were and therefore, we were setting ourselves up for failure the entire time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story comes to KQED through a partnership with the\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://journalism.berkeley.edu/programs/mj/investigative-reporting/\"> \u003cem>Investigative Reporting Program\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. A version of the story first appeared in the publication\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandnorth.net/2021/04/28/oakland-police-overtime-payments/\"> \u003cem>Oakland North\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> on April 28, 2021.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11873608/dozens-of-oakland-police-officers-collect-6-figure-overtime-payments-straining-citys-budget","authors":["byline_news_11873608"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_28066","news_27626","news_6905","news_18","news_416","news_1526","news_20081","news_20625","news_17968"],"featImg":"news_11823006","label":"source_news_11873608"},"news_11866770":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11866770","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11866770","score":null,"sort":[1616806387000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"opd-chief-leronne-armstrong-sfpd-chief-willam-scott","title":"OPD Chief LeRonne Armstrong | SFPD Chief Willam Scott","publishDate":1616806387,"format":"video","headTitle":"KQED Newsroom | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":7052,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cb>Bay Area Police Reform\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Safer cities and equal justice for all? We talk to Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong and San Francisco Police Chief William Scott about their efforts to reform policing in their cities. We also speak with Lisa McNair, a social justice activist whose sister was one of the four girls killed in the Birmingham church bombing of 1963, as she visits San Francisco to contribute her perspective on police reform efforts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guests:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chief LeRonne Armstrong, Oakland Police Department\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chief William Scott, San Francisco Police Department\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lisa McNair, social justice activist\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Something Beautiful: Sea Lions at Pier 39\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the Loma Prieta earthquake rocked the San Francisco Bay Area in October 1989, sea lions began hanging out at Pier 39's K-Dock, where they found an abundance of food and safety from predators. Over the years, it's become an attraction for tourists and locals alike, and it’s this week’s look at Something Beautiful.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1616806387,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":5,"wordCount":164},"headData":{"title":"OPD Chief LeRonne Armstrong | SFPD Chief Willam Scott | KQED","description":"Bay Area Police Reform Safer cities and equal justice for all? We talk to Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong and San Francisco Police Chief William Scott about their efforts to reform policing in their cities. 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We also speak with Lisa McNair, a social justice activist whose sister was one of the four girls killed in the Birmingham church bombing of 1963, as she visits San Francisco to contribute her perspective on police reform efforts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guests:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chief LeRonne Armstrong, Oakland Police Department\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chief William Scott, San Francisco Police Department\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lisa McNair, social justice activist\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Something Beautiful: Sea Lions at Pier 39\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the Loma Prieta earthquake rocked the San Francisco Bay Area in October 1989, sea lions began hanging out at Pier 39's K-Dock, where they found an abundance of food and safety from predators. 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The agreement settles a wrongful death lawsuit filed by his mother, Kelly Pawlik, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/oakland-agrees-to-pay-1-4m-to-mother-of-homeless-man-killed-by-police\">KTVU-TV reported\u003c/a> Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"joshua-pawlik\"]Pawlik's death prompted the Oakland Police Commission to call for the firing of the five officers involved in the shooting. The commission also voted in February to oust former Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick over her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11731203/federal-monitor-calls-opd-chiefs-take-on-shooting-disappointing-wants-stiffer-discipline\">handling of the incident\u003c/a> — a move supported by Mayor Libby Schaaf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkpatrick has vowed to sue the city over her firing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police on March 11, 2018 responded to reports of Pawlik, 31, holding a gun as he lay unconscious on the ground between two houses in West Oakland. Officers said they tried to wake him up, shouting at him to take his hands off the gun and firing after he failed to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting was captured on multiple police body cameras — including at least one video showing the gun on the ground next to Pawlik. The footage was used by police commissioners and a federal monitor to determine that the man did not pose an immediate threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2018/11/01/oakland-police-release-video-of-officers-fatally-shooting-a-homeless-man\">body-camera video\u003c/a>, released by the Oakland Police Department eight months after the shooting, Pawlik attempted to lift himself off the ground when four of the officers opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The video also confirms that at no time did Mr. Pawlik raise the handgun towards the officers or otherwise in a threatening manner towards Officers. Mr. Pawlik attempted to raise his head and sit up by using his right elbow for leverage,” police commissioners wrote in their 2019 report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the head of Oakland's police officers’ union ripped those findings, calling them “inexplicable” and an “injustice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These Police Officers responded to a citizen’s call for help concerning an armed suspect in their neighborhood,” Oakland Police Officers' Association President Barry Donelan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762228/oakland-police-commission-recommends-firing-five-officers-in-deadly-shooting\">wrote in a 2019 statement\u003c/a>. “The officers tried to defuse the situation but the armed suspect engaged our officers putting their lives and the lives of our residents in danger. The Police Commission ignored these facts and a multitude of investigations to reach a predetermined and unjust outcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pawlik's family filed the lawsuit last year, arguing that the victim's civil rights had been violated. When announcing the suit, civil rights attorney John Burris, who represented the family, claimed that Pawlik “never got a chance to live” when he was shot by a “barrage of gunfire.” He described him as a man with some mental health issues, but no history of violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Councilman Noel Gallo told KTVU that he voted for the settlement after a consultant told the council that a jury award could cost the fiscally troubled city up to $5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was based on reporting by the Associated Press and KQED.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Oakland police officers shot and killed Joshua Pawlik, 31, in 2018, after finding him sleeping on the ground in West Oakland with a gun in his hand. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1588034395,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":538},"headData":{"title":"Oakland to Pay $1.4M to Mom of Homeless Man Killed by Police | KQED","description":"Oakland police officers shot and killed Joshua Pawlik, 31, in 2018, after finding him sleeping on the ground in West Oakland with a gun in his hand. 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The agreement settles a wrongful death lawsuit filed by his mother, Kelly Pawlik, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/oakland-agrees-to-pay-1-4m-to-mother-of-homeless-man-killed-by-police\">KTVU-TV reported\u003c/a> Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"joshua-pawlik"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Pawlik's death prompted the Oakland Police Commission to call for the firing of the five officers involved in the shooting. The commission also voted in February to oust former Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick over her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11731203/federal-monitor-calls-opd-chiefs-take-on-shooting-disappointing-wants-stiffer-discipline\">handling of the incident\u003c/a> — a move supported by Mayor Libby Schaaf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkpatrick has vowed to sue the city over her firing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police on March 11, 2018 responded to reports of Pawlik, 31, holding a gun as he lay unconscious on the ground between two houses in West Oakland. Officers said they tried to wake him up, shouting at him to take his hands off the gun and firing after he failed to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting was captured on multiple police body cameras — including at least one video showing the gun on the ground next to Pawlik. The footage was used by police commissioners and a federal monitor to determine that the man did not pose an immediate threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2018/11/01/oakland-police-release-video-of-officers-fatally-shooting-a-homeless-man\">body-camera video\u003c/a>, released by the Oakland Police Department eight months after the shooting, Pawlik attempted to lift himself off the ground when four of the officers opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The video also confirms that at no time did Mr. Pawlik raise the handgun towards the officers or otherwise in a threatening manner towards Officers. Mr. Pawlik attempted to raise his head and sit up by using his right elbow for leverage,” police commissioners wrote in their 2019 report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the head of Oakland's police officers’ union ripped those findings, calling them “inexplicable” and an “injustice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These Police Officers responded to a citizen’s call for help concerning an armed suspect in their neighborhood,” Oakland Police Officers' Association President Barry Donelan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762228/oakland-police-commission-recommends-firing-five-officers-in-deadly-shooting\">wrote in a 2019 statement\u003c/a>. “The officers tried to defuse the situation but the armed suspect engaged our officers putting their lives and the lives of our residents in danger. The Police Commission ignored these facts and a multitude of investigations to reach a predetermined and unjust outcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pawlik's family filed the lawsuit last year, arguing that the victim's civil rights had been violated. When announcing the suit, civil rights attorney John Burris, who represented the family, claimed that Pawlik “never got a chance to live” when he was shot by a “barrage of gunfire.” He described him as a man with some mental health issues, but no history of violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Councilman Noel Gallo told KTVU that he voted for the settlement after a consultant told the council that a jury award could cost the fiscally troubled city up to $5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was based on reporting by the Associated Press and KQED.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11814522/oakland-to-pay-1-4m-to-mom-of-homeless-man-killed-by-police","authors":["236"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_25127","news_416","news_1526"],"featImg":"news_11729893","label":"news"},"news_11802743":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11802743","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11802743","score":null,"sort":[1582312975000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"time-for-change-surprise-disappointment-reactions-in-wake-of-oakland-police-chiefs-firing","title":"Surprise, Disappointment, 'Time for Change': Reactions in Wake of Oakland Police Chief's Firing","publishDate":1582312975,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Oakland's Police Commission voted unanimously to dismiss Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick in a closed session meeting Thursday evening, a decision joined by Mayor Libby Schaaf, who said the trust between the civilian oversight body and the chief had been \"irrevocably lost.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Commission, created by voter approval of Measure LL in 2016, has the power to unilaterally fire a police chief for cause. Kirkpatrick was terminated without cause, which requires Schaaf's sign-off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Libby Schaaf, Oakland Mayor\"]'I must respect the authority and the role of our independent Police Commission. I must respect key stakeholders who must have trust in our police chief.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I must respect the authority and the role of our independent Police Commission,\" Schaaf said at a press conference Thursday evening. \"I must respect key stakeholders who must have trust in our police chief.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said she did not regret hiring Kirkpatrick, who took the job in early 2017 with a bold pledge to satisfy federal court oversight of the Police Department, which has been in place for 17 years. Since then, the federal court's monitor has repeatedly found Kirkpatrick's leadership lacking, notably \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11731203/federal-monitor-calls-opd-chiefs-take-on-shooting-disappointing-wants-stiffer-discipline\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">clashing\u003c/a> with the chief over her attempt to reduce discipline for officers who fatally shot a homeless man as he began to wake up in March 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal monitor Robert Warshaw did not oppose Kirkpatrick's removal, Schaaf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since the Commission's inception, the Commissioners, along with the rest of the citizens of the City of Oakland, observed the Oakland Police Department's failure to increase compliance with the court-ordered reforms,\" Police Commission Chair Regina Jackson said in a written statement. \"Our new Chief must address use-of-force issues and end the need for a court-appointed monitor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, in an interview, Jackson said the decision was not a dramatic move. \"Over the last two and a half years of working with the chief, we have become increasingly uncomfortable to the point that we've lost confidence in her ability to get us where we needed to go.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson added that the community \"never had much trust\" in Kirkpatrick and that they continually asked for the chief's termination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor noted that Kirkpatrick was hired \"in the wake of a shameful episode\" — several OPD officers' \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11078483/oakland-seeks-to-fire-4-police-officers-discipline-7-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">sexual exploitation\u003c/a> of a teenager — and praised her for bringing steady leadership that stabilized the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland hired Kirkpatrick after former Police Chief Sean Whent, and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10992840/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">succession\u003c/a> of two replacements left the post within a week in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police Officers' Association President Barry Donelan called the decision disappointing. He also criticized the Police Commission and mayor in a written statement, calling the city's police chief position \"the most difficult Chief's job in the nation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[F]ighting for Oakland's residents and Police Officers alike does not endear you to Oakland's unelected Police Commissioners and our Mayor,\" Donelan said. \"These events don't bode well for public safety in Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney Jim Chanin, who brought forward the Oakland Riders case that resulted in the Police Department needing to make reforms, said it was time for change when asked about his reaction to Kirkpatrick's firing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Barry Donelan, Oakland Police Officers' Association President\"]'These events don't bode well for public safety in Oakland.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[Kirkpatrick] was not moving the department in the right direction,\" Chanin said. \"We were going further and further from full compliance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Kalb, the Oakland City councilmember who authored Measure LL, which allowed the Police Commission to fire Kirkpatrick with the mayor's blessing, said he was surprised by the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I knew there was some disagreements or some even some tension between many of the commissioners and the police chief, but I did not expect the firing of our police chief,\" Kalb said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kalb said he respects the commission's decision. He also said Kirkpatrick's three years in the police chief position is a \"decent amount of time\" for the department to make mandated reforms, and in recent years, he said there's been concern that the department was regressing in some areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Under this chief they made progress on one or two [of the reforms], but they also backtracked on a couple,\" Kalb said. \"So I think the commission was feeling frustrated that, in a couple of areas, the department was backtracking ... and that's a problem.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some observers raised concerns that Kirkpatrick's firing illustrates the lack of leadership consistency within the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Jim Chanin, civil rights attorney\"]'You're going to have to do things that some people don't like in order to make this department go in the direction that we want it to go, it's not about pleasing everybody.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a cost in turnover, but there is also a cost in keeping someone when we're not making progress,\" Chanin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Weisberg, co-chair of Stanford's Criminal Justice Center, said Kirkpatrick had to walk a fine line when trying to meet the demands of the federal monitor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's sad because I think she is a very well-regarded police chief and had a fair amount of trust, from the line officers,\" Weisberg said. \"It seems that she just had trouble navigating her way through the conflicting forces aligned against her.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Weisberg and Chanin said whoever steps into the police chief position will have a difficult job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're going to have to do things that some people don't like in order to make this department go in the direction that we want it to go, it's not about pleasing everybody,\" Chanin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weisberg said the position is an \"extremely unattractive job\" and a \"no-win situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You walk in with a shadow over what you’re doing because you’re walking into a court injunction,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because she was dismissed without cause, Kirkpatrick may be eligible for a year's salary in severance pay, Schaaf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Chief Darren Allison will serve as acting police chief while Oakland conducts a national search for a permanent replacement for Kirkpatrick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Raquel Maria Dillon, Alex Emslie, Marnette Federis, Mina Kim and Tara Siler contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said trust between the Police Commission and Chief Anne Kirkpatrick has been 'irrevocably lost.'","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1582401759,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1066},"headData":{"title":"Surprise, Disappointment, 'Time for Change': Reactions in Wake of Oakland Police Chief's Firing | KQED","description":"Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said trust between the Police Commission and Chief Anne Kirkpatrick has been 'irrevocably lost.'","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11802743 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11802743","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/02/21/time-for-change-surprise-disappointment-reactions-in-wake-of-oakland-police-chiefs-firing/","disqusTitle":"Surprise, Disappointment, 'Time for Change': Reactions in Wake of Oakland Police Chief's Firing","path":"/news/11802743/time-for-change-surprise-disappointment-reactions-in-wake-of-oakland-police-chiefs-firing","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland's Police Commission voted unanimously to dismiss Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick in a closed session meeting Thursday evening, a decision joined by Mayor Libby Schaaf, who said the trust between the civilian oversight body and the chief had been \"irrevocably lost.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Commission, created by voter approval of Measure LL in 2016, has the power to unilaterally fire a police chief for cause. Kirkpatrick was terminated without cause, which requires Schaaf's sign-off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I must respect the authority and the role of our independent Police Commission. I must respect key stakeholders who must have trust in our police chief.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Libby Schaaf, Oakland Mayor","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I must respect the authority and the role of our independent Police Commission,\" Schaaf said at a press conference Thursday evening. \"I must respect key stakeholders who must have trust in our police chief.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said she did not regret hiring Kirkpatrick, who took the job in early 2017 with a bold pledge to satisfy federal court oversight of the Police Department, which has been in place for 17 years. 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