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In fact, she was ignored.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case began in September of 2015 with the suicide of OPD officer Brendan O'Brien. The officer left a suicide note indicating that several other officers were involved with a young woman who went by the name \"Celeste Guap,\" some while she was under 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guap has since been identified as Jasmine Abuslin. Oakland recently \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/01/teen-tied-to-sexual-misconduct-case-relieved-by-oakland-settlement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">settled a legal claim\u003c/a> brought on her behalf for close to $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court-appointed investigator also found that the effort to keep the case secret went all the way to the top of the department, and once it came to light, the Oakland's mayor and city administrator \"did not do enough enough to determine why the Department had not investigated the case more thoroughly before the Court got involved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case and investigation stayed under wraps until March of 2016, according to the investigator's report, \"when the Monitoring Team learned, almost by accident and not from the Chief, about the investigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"fOtAODdVesGyKH4ZFxshVR65UNcx27lf\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sexual misconduct case became public last June, with former \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/09/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Police Chief Sean Whent's sudden resignation\u003c/a>. That was followed by a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">series of replacement chiefs\u003c/a> over the following week, and Mayor Libby Schaaf's ultimate decision to place the department under civilian control of City Manager Sabrina Landreth. That remained the case until Feb. 27, when Chief Anne Kirkpatrick was sworn in as the department's new chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/07/oakland-seeks-to-fire-4-police-officers-discipline-7-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moved to fire\u003c/a> four officers and to discipline a total of 12 last September, and Alameda County \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prosecutors announced criminal charges\u003c/a> for seven officers two days later. One of those officers was never formally charged, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The problem is that the investigatory work that led to much of the internal discipline and to all of the criminal prosecutions occurred only after the U.S. District Court intervened,\" the court-appointed investigator's report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If not for the court’s intervention, we have no confidence that correct discipline would have ever been imposed, criminal charges filed, or departmental shortcomings examined.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/lauraklivans/status/877642007648260096\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf agreed with that assessment at a press conference called by her office to respond to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do think this wouldn’t have been handled appropriately had this intervention not occurred,\" Schaaf said, noting \"many changes\" in the Police Department over the past year, including appointing Kirkpatrick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf acknowledged the report's findings that city leadership had allowed an independent investigation she initiated to stall at the end of last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those months we were very focused on the Ghost Ship fire recovery, as well as onboarding the new police chief, who is the most important part of addressing the concerns raised in this report,\" Schaaf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD investigators' attitude toward Abuslin led to major flaws in the department's probe, the report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[W]e found that OPD quickly assessed Ms. Abuslin as not credible and failed to pursue investigation of the allegations vigorously in part because of who Ms. Abuslin was and how she responded to being interviewed by OPD,\" the report says, acknowledging that Abuslin was initially a \"challenging witness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But she was a young woman who was alleged to have had repeated sexual contact with law enforcement officers – officers who took advantage of her age and vulnerability. Given the allegation that she had been sexually exploited by OPD officers, OPD owed her at least the same patience, concern, and investigative attention that they afford other victims.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Kirkpatrick she understood the report's recommendations, and that the problems it highlights are \"all repairable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Strong leadership, clear procedures, and a commitment on our part to treat all victims with care and attention,\" she said. \"Our past does indeed inform our future. My presence here is all about our future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the report's findings are most critical of former Police Chief Sean Whent, it references failings throughout the Police Department's command, including those in charge of homicide, internal affairs and criminal investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't even know who those people were in those roles and places,\" Kirkpatrick said. \"My entire command staff that I have in place today, from my personal assessment, I have confidence in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the internal affairs division now directly reports to her, and leadership of the criminal investigations division had changed since last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's not a reflection of old leadership,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was hardly a secret that in early 2016, all parties involved were close to ending over a decade of federal oversight of the Police Department. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris, one of the attorneys who litigated the lawsuit that initiated that oversight through a negotiated settlement agreement said the court investigator's findings are \"explosive,\" \"hurtful\" and \"a major setback to the department.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We thought that we had put together a strong effort where the internal affairs department would be in a position to uncover, investigate and monitor this type of activity. Clearly, it did not,\" he said. \"It will have a long-term impact on the potential ending of the NSA.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full report below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3870953-Court-Appointed-Investigators-Report-on-City-of\" notes=\"true\" text=\"true\" search=\"true\" sidebar=\"true\" pdf=\"true\" responsive=\"true\" page=\"1\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Laura Klivans of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Federal monitor learned 'almost by accident' about the case that led to the removal of Oakland's police chief and criminal charges for several officers.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1618878722,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1025},"headData":{"title":"Court: Oakland Police Investigation Into Sexual Misconduct 'Seriously Deficient' | KQED","description":"Federal monitor learned 'almost by accident' about the case that led to the removal of Oakland's police chief and criminal charges for several officers.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11524132 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11524132","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/21/court-oakland-police-investigation-into-sexual-misconduct-seriously-deficient/","disqusTitle":"Court: Oakland Police Investigation Into Sexual Misconduct 'Seriously Deficient'","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/news/11524132/court-oakland-police-investigation-into-sexual-misconduct-seriously-deficient","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday, 3:25 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal court investigation into the Oakland Police Department's handling of a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/police-sexual-exploitation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">widespread sexual exploitation case\u003c/a> centered in the OPD found the department's criminal and internal investigations were \"wholly inadequate\" and \"defective.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reasons include flawed investigative practices, a concerted effort from the department's leadership to keep the case quiet and investigators' attitude toward the young woman at the center of the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Officers were making judgments about who should be treated as a victim and who should not be and that went all the way up the ladder,\" said John Burris, a civil rights attorney who represents the woman and who is involved in federal court oversight of the Oakland Police Department. \"She wasn't treated as a normal victim of sexual misconduct. In fact, she was ignored.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case began in September of 2015 with the suicide of OPD officer Brendan O'Brien. The officer left a suicide note indicating that several other officers were involved with a young woman who went by the name \"Celeste Guap,\" some while she was under 18.\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>Guap has since been identified as Jasmine Abuslin. Oakland recently \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/01/teen-tied-to-sexual-misconduct-case-relieved-by-oakland-settlement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">settled a legal claim\u003c/a> brought on her behalf for close to $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court-appointed investigator also found that the effort to keep the case secret went all the way to the top of the department, and once it came to light, the Oakland's mayor and city administrator \"did not do enough enough to determine why the Department had not investigated the case more thoroughly before the Court got involved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case and investigation stayed under wraps until March of 2016, according to the investigator's report, \"when the Monitoring Team learned, almost by accident and not from the Chief, about the investigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sexual misconduct case became public last June, with former \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/09/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Police Chief Sean Whent's sudden resignation\u003c/a>. That was followed by a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">series of replacement chiefs\u003c/a> over the following week, and Mayor Libby Schaaf's ultimate decision to place the department under civilian control of City Manager Sabrina Landreth. That remained the case until Feb. 27, when Chief Anne Kirkpatrick was sworn in as the department's new chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/07/oakland-seeks-to-fire-4-police-officers-discipline-7-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moved to fire\u003c/a> four officers and to discipline a total of 12 last September, and Alameda County \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prosecutors announced criminal charges\u003c/a> for seven officers two days later. One of those officers was never formally charged, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The problem is that the investigatory work that led to much of the internal discipline and to all of the criminal prosecutions occurred only after the U.S. District Court intervened,\" the court-appointed investigator's report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If not for the court’s intervention, we have no confidence that correct discipline would have ever been imposed, criminal charges filed, or departmental shortcomings examined.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"877642007648260096"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf agreed with that assessment at a press conference called by her office to respond to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do think this wouldn’t have been handled appropriately had this intervention not occurred,\" Schaaf said, noting \"many changes\" in the Police Department over the past year, including appointing Kirkpatrick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf acknowledged the report's findings that city leadership had allowed an independent investigation she initiated to stall at the end of last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those months we were very focused on the Ghost Ship fire recovery, as well as onboarding the new police chief, who is the most important part of addressing the concerns raised in this report,\" Schaaf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD investigators' attitude toward Abuslin led to major flaws in the department's probe, the report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[W]e found that OPD quickly assessed Ms. Abuslin as not credible and failed to pursue investigation of the allegations vigorously in part because of who Ms. Abuslin was and how she responded to being interviewed by OPD,\" the report says, acknowledging that Abuslin was initially a \"challenging witness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But she was a young woman who was alleged to have had repeated sexual contact with law enforcement officers – officers who took advantage of her age and vulnerability. Given the allegation that she had been sexually exploited by OPD officers, OPD owed her at least the same patience, concern, and investigative attention that they afford other victims.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Kirkpatrick she understood the report's recommendations, and that the problems it highlights are \"all repairable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Strong leadership, clear procedures, and a commitment on our part to treat all victims with care and attention,\" she said. \"Our past does indeed inform our future. My presence here is all about our future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the report's findings are most critical of former Police Chief Sean Whent, it references failings throughout the Police Department's command, including those in charge of homicide, internal affairs and criminal investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't even know who those people were in those roles and places,\" Kirkpatrick said. \"My entire command staff that I have in place today, from my personal assessment, I have confidence in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the internal affairs division now directly reports to her, and leadership of the criminal investigations division had changed since last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's not a reflection of old leadership,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was hardly a secret that in early 2016, all parties involved were close to ending over a decade of federal oversight of the Police Department. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris, one of the attorneys who litigated the lawsuit that initiated that oversight through a negotiated settlement agreement said the court investigator's findings are \"explosive,\" \"hurtful\" and \"a major setback to the department.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We thought that we had put together a strong effort where the internal affairs department would be in a position to uncover, investigate and monitor this type of activity. Clearly, it did not,\" he said. \"It will have a long-term impact on the potential ending of the NSA.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full report below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"documentcloud","attributes":{"named":{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3870953-Court-Appointed-Investigators-Report-on-City-of","notes":"true","text":"true","search":"true","sidebar":"true","pdf":"true","responsive":"true","page":"1","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Laura Klivans of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11524132/court-oakland-police-investigation-into-sexual-misconduct-seriously-deficient","authors":["3206","258"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_19542","news_6905","news_416","news_19969","news_6305"],"featImg":"news_11524304","label":"news_6944"},"news_11064872":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11064872","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11064872","score":null,"sort":[1472517713000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oakland-has-plum-job-for-reform-minded-leader-as-opd-seeks-new-chief","title":"Oakland Has 'Plum Job' for 'Reform-Minded Leader,' as OPD Seeks New Chief","publishDate":1472517713,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A couple of months after a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\">rapid succession of police chiefs\u003c/a> amid allegations of \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/badge-of-dishonor-top-oakland-police-department-officials-looked-away-as-east-bay-cops-sexually-exploited-and-trafficked-a-teenagerdepartmen/Content?oid=4832543\" target=\"_blank\">sexual exploitation\u003c/a> involving several city police officers, Mayor Libby Schaaf officially announced the city's search for a new permanent chief Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I remain very, very optimistic that this remains one of the plum jobs in law enforcement in the country.'\u003ccite>Sabrina Landreth,\u003cbr>\nOakland city administrator\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She made the announcement flanked by a group of Oakland youth, stressing that they will be heard throughout the search process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that the young people behind me are the future of this city,\" Schaaf said. \"This is the group that often feels most vulnerable and least connected to what our city currently has been doing around safety and justice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has been without an official police chief since June 17, when the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/15/oakland-mayor-fires-new-interim-police-chief-after-four-days-on-job/\" target=\"_blank\">replacement's\u003c/a> acting replacement, Paul Figueroa, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\">suddenly resigned\u003c/a> and asked to return to the department at the lower rank of captain. Schaaf placed City Administrator Sabrina Landreth in charge of police \"administrative and personnel decisions,\" while placing \"tactical and operational decisions\" in the hands of Acting Assistant Chief David Downing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's last permanent police chief, Sean Whent, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/09/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say/\" target=\"_blank\">suddenly resigned\u003c/a> via \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/315374187/Resignation-letter-from-Chief-Whent-to-City-Administrator\" target=\"_blank\">late-night email\u003c/a> on June 9. His role is still unknown in directing an internal probe into officers' relationship with a now 19-year-old woman who appears to have been a sexually exploited minor, but a federal judge overseeing the Police Department pointed out \"irregularities\" related to the internal investigation in March. Judge Thelton Henderson took that investigation out of Whent's hands and put the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/15/federal-monitor-police-crisis-could-be-most-trying-time-in-opds-history/\" target=\"_blank\">court-appointed independent monitor\u003c/a> in charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11065080\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11065080 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2670-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland City Administrator Sabrina Landreth and Mayor Libby Schaaf formally announce a national search for a new police chief Monday, Aug. 29.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2670-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2670-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2670-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2670-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2670-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Administrator Sabrina Landreth and Mayor Libby Schaaf formally announce a national search for a new police chief Monday, Aug. 29. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schaaf repeatedly \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/24/oakland-mayor-libby-schaaf-defends-handling-of-police-scandals/\" target=\"_blank\">called allegations\u003c/a> emerging from the shadows of the OPD \"disturbing.\" On June 17, she committed the city to rooting out \"what is clearly a toxic, macho culture\" in the OPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s very important to understand the context in which we launch this search for Oakland’s permanent police chief,\" Schaaf said Tuesday, but she didn't address the ongoing criminal and administrative investigations into alleged OPD sexual misconduct and questions around the department's internal probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know that there is a critical national conversation happening about policing, asking critical questions about both safety and justice. ... Oakland has been at the forefront of this discussion, both in terms of the police reforms we have made in recent years as well as the community-led demands to do even more,\" Schaaf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/10/opds-fast-release-of-info-on-police-shooting-may-signal-broader-trend/\" target=\"_blank\">Under Whent\u003c/a>, Oakland was an early adopter of body cameras, and the city saw years of declining violent crime as well as police use of force and citizen complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the department has also struggled with accountability and an inability to rid its ranks of problem officers. The recent sexual-exploitation crisis notwithstanding, the department's \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/01/27/federal-judge-reinstates-court-appointed-investigator-to-examine-oaklands-police-officer-discipline-system\" target=\"_blank\">problems imposing discipline\u003c/a>, and the city's hit-or-miss ability to defend that discipline through arbitration, is a major reason OPD remains under federal oversight more than a decade after a lawsuit stemming from the \"Riders case\" exposed systemic constitutional violations by a group of officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Accountability is something that all American police chiefs are going to have to be prepared to address,\" Schaaf said, \"and enhanced citizen accountability is a trend that’s happening all over America.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Difficulties of running a chronically understaffed Police Department in a city with a relatively high rate of violent crime, a unique political landscape and federal oversight in the mix aren't detracting from likely applicants, according to city administrator Landreth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have been fielding inquiries from some of the top chiefs in the country,\" she said at Tuesday's press conference. \"I remain very, very optimistic that this remains one of the plum jobs in law enforcement in the country.\"\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"Gdszy5XnFDJqILhCNSRtGPfD1KJsjgER\"]\u003cbr>\nIf so, it's not the only one. Oakland's going to be competing for applicants with its big sister across the bay. San Francisco is searching for its own replacement police chief following a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/02/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-a-new-list-of-issues-facing-department/\" target=\"_blank\">string of scandals\u003c/a> and the resignation of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings/\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Suhr in May\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same recruiting firm, Ralph Andersen & Associates, is conducting both national searches. The San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Despite-reform-pressure-at-least-25-want-to-be-9189662.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle reports\u003c/a> that the city has attracted 25 applicants, including acting Chief Toney Chaplin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite San Francisco's oft-repeated distinction of having the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/s-f-police-paid-a-pretty-penny/\" target=\"_blank\">highest-paid police chief\u003c/a> in the country, compensation for the two top-cop positions is comparable if you include benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, former SFPD Chief Greg Suhr took home $308,901 in regular pay and $410,938 in total pay and benefits, according to public employee salary data from \u003ca href=\"http://transparentcalifornia.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Transparent California\u003c/a>. In 2015, former OPD Chief Whent took home $235,798 in regular pay -- more than $70,000 less than Suhr. But with almost $60,000 in \"other pay\" and $122,998 in benefits, Whent's total pay and benefits topped Suhr's by nearly $7,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fact that San Francisco is recruiting at the same time could be a challenge and it could be a bonus,\" Schaaf said. \"Certainly, a lot of people are paying attention to the Bay Area right now, as a great place to live, and a place that is rife for opportunity for a reform-minded leader to really make their mark.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is hosting 10 community meetings through September to gather public input on who its next police chief should be. The city's \"Police Chief Recruitment\" \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/government/o/CityAdministration/OAK043196\" target=\"_blank\">website\u003c/a> lists the dates and links to an online survey in four languages. Landreth said the job should post in the next 10 days and the city will accept applications for a month and a half. She said the city aims \"to have a permanent chief in place at the beginning of the year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Sandhya Dirks contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'It’s very important to understand the context in which we launch this search,' Schaaf said.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1472517713,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":983},"headData":{"title":"Oakland Has 'Plum Job' for 'Reform-Minded Leader,' as OPD Seeks New Chief | KQED","description":"'It’s very important to understand the context in which we launch this search,' Schaaf said.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11064872 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11064872","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/29/oakland-has-plum-job-for-reform-minded-leader-as-opd-seeks-new-chief/","disqusTitle":"Oakland Has 'Plum Job' for 'Reform-Minded Leader,' as OPD Seeks New Chief","nprStoryId":"491882250","path":"/news/11064872/oakland-has-plum-job-for-reform-minded-leader-as-opd-seeks-new-chief","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A couple of months after a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\">rapid succession of police chiefs\u003c/a> amid allegations of \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/badge-of-dishonor-top-oakland-police-department-officials-looked-away-as-east-bay-cops-sexually-exploited-and-trafficked-a-teenagerdepartmen/Content?oid=4832543\" target=\"_blank\">sexual exploitation\u003c/a> involving several city police officers, Mayor Libby Schaaf officially announced the city's search for a new permanent chief Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I remain very, very optimistic that this remains one of the plum jobs in law enforcement in the country.'\u003ccite>Sabrina Landreth,\u003cbr>\nOakland city administrator\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She made the announcement flanked by a group of Oakland youth, stressing that they will be heard throughout the search process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that the young people behind me are the future of this city,\" Schaaf said. \"This is the group that often feels most vulnerable and least connected to what our city currently has been doing around safety and justice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has been without an official police chief since June 17, when the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/15/oakland-mayor-fires-new-interim-police-chief-after-four-days-on-job/\" target=\"_blank\">replacement's\u003c/a> acting replacement, Paul Figueroa, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\">suddenly resigned\u003c/a> and asked to return to the department at the lower rank of captain. Schaaf placed City Administrator Sabrina Landreth in charge of police \"administrative and personnel decisions,\" while placing \"tactical and operational decisions\" in the hands of Acting Assistant Chief David Downing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's last permanent police chief, Sean Whent, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/09/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say/\" target=\"_blank\">suddenly resigned\u003c/a> via \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/315374187/Resignation-letter-from-Chief-Whent-to-City-Administrator\" target=\"_blank\">late-night email\u003c/a> on June 9. His role is still unknown in directing an internal probe into officers' relationship with a now 19-year-old woman who appears to have been a sexually exploited minor, but a federal judge overseeing the Police Department pointed out \"irregularities\" related to the internal investigation in March. Judge Thelton Henderson took that investigation out of Whent's hands and put the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/15/federal-monitor-police-crisis-could-be-most-trying-time-in-opds-history/\" target=\"_blank\">court-appointed independent monitor\u003c/a> in charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11065080\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11065080 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2670-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland City Administrator Sabrina Landreth and Mayor Libby Schaaf formally announce a national search for a new police chief Monday, Aug. 29.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2670-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2670-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2670-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2670-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2670-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Administrator Sabrina Landreth and Mayor Libby Schaaf formally announce a national search for a new police chief Monday, Aug. 29. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schaaf repeatedly \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/24/oakland-mayor-libby-schaaf-defends-handling-of-police-scandals/\" target=\"_blank\">called allegations\u003c/a> emerging from the shadows of the OPD \"disturbing.\" On June 17, she committed the city to rooting out \"what is clearly a toxic, macho culture\" in the OPD.\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>\"It’s very important to understand the context in which we launch this search for Oakland’s permanent police chief,\" Schaaf said Tuesday, but she didn't address the ongoing criminal and administrative investigations into alleged OPD sexual misconduct and questions around the department's internal probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know that there is a critical national conversation happening about policing, asking critical questions about both safety and justice. ... Oakland has been at the forefront of this discussion, both in terms of the police reforms we have made in recent years as well as the community-led demands to do even more,\" Schaaf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/10/opds-fast-release-of-info-on-police-shooting-may-signal-broader-trend/\" target=\"_blank\">Under Whent\u003c/a>, Oakland was an early adopter of body cameras, and the city saw years of declining violent crime as well as police use of force and citizen complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the department has also struggled with accountability and an inability to rid its ranks of problem officers. The recent sexual-exploitation crisis notwithstanding, the department's \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/01/27/federal-judge-reinstates-court-appointed-investigator-to-examine-oaklands-police-officer-discipline-system\" target=\"_blank\">problems imposing discipline\u003c/a>, and the city's hit-or-miss ability to defend that discipline through arbitration, is a major reason OPD remains under federal oversight more than a decade after a lawsuit stemming from the \"Riders case\" exposed systemic constitutional violations by a group of officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Accountability is something that all American police chiefs are going to have to be prepared to address,\" Schaaf said, \"and enhanced citizen accountability is a trend that’s happening all over America.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Difficulties of running a chronically understaffed Police Department in a city with a relatively high rate of violent crime, a unique political landscape and federal oversight in the mix aren't detracting from likely applicants, according to city administrator Landreth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have been fielding inquiries from some of the top chiefs in the country,\" she said at Tuesday's press conference. \"I remain very, very optimistic that this remains one of the plum jobs in law enforcement in the country.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nIf so, it's not the only one. Oakland's going to be competing for applicants with its big sister across the bay. San Francisco is searching for its own replacement police chief following a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/02/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-a-new-list-of-issues-facing-department/\" target=\"_blank\">string of scandals\u003c/a> and the resignation of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings/\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Suhr in May\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same recruiting firm, Ralph Andersen & Associates, is conducting both national searches. The San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Despite-reform-pressure-at-least-25-want-to-be-9189662.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle reports\u003c/a> that the city has attracted 25 applicants, including acting Chief Toney Chaplin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite San Francisco's oft-repeated distinction of having the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/s-f-police-paid-a-pretty-penny/\" target=\"_blank\">highest-paid police chief\u003c/a> in the country, compensation for the two top-cop positions is comparable if you include benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, former SFPD Chief Greg Suhr took home $308,901 in regular pay and $410,938 in total pay and benefits, according to public employee salary data from \u003ca href=\"http://transparentcalifornia.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Transparent California\u003c/a>. In 2015, former OPD Chief Whent took home $235,798 in regular pay -- more than $70,000 less than Suhr. But with almost $60,000 in \"other pay\" and $122,998 in benefits, Whent's total pay and benefits topped Suhr's by nearly $7,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fact that San Francisco is recruiting at the same time could be a challenge and it could be a bonus,\" Schaaf said. \"Certainly, a lot of people are paying attention to the Bay Area right now, as a great place to live, and a place that is rife for opportunity for a reform-minded leader to really make their mark.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is hosting 10 community meetings through September to gather public input on who its next police chief should be. The city's \"Police Chief Recruitment\" \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/government/o/CityAdministration/OAK043196\" target=\"_blank\">website\u003c/a> lists the dates and links to an online survey in four languages. Landreth said the job should post in the next 10 days and the city will accept applications for a month and a half. She said the city aims \"to have a permanent chief in place at the beginning of the year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Sandhya Dirks contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11064872/oakland-has-plum-job-for-reform-minded-leader-as-opd-seeks-new-chief","authors":["3206"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_1300","news_6905","news_416","news_6305"],"featImg":"news_11065026","label":"news_6944"},"news_11031041":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11031041","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11031041","score":null,"sort":[1469492608000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"da-signs-off-on-suicide-findings-in-2-deaths-tied-to-opd-sexual-exploitation","title":"DA Signs Off on Suicide Findings in 2 Deaths Tied to OPD Sexual Exploitation","publishDate":1469492608,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department's investigations into the death of an officer now at the center of a sexual exploitation scandal, and the death of that officer's wife the previous year, were professional and thorough, according to a review released Monday by the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/275470479\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's \"critical incident team,\" convened to \u003ca href=\"http://www.alcoda.org/newsroom/files/2016_CIR_HuertaLopez_and_Ofc_OBrien.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">review\u003c/a> the investigations, found that police investigators reached the \"appropriate determination to classify each death a suicide.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It is like reading a table of contents alone with no book. ... It says virtually nothing about the contents of any of the documents or tapes they saw, the results of any of the examinations they did, or the testimony of anyone they talked to.'\u003ccite>Jim Chanin,\u003cbr>\nCivil rights attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But civil rights attorney Jim Chanin, who has been involved in federal court monitoring of the department as part of the settlement to a lawsuit he co-litigated in 2003, said the district attorney's review contains little to no evidence on which its conclusions are based.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is like reading a table of contents alone with no book,\" he said. \"It says virtually nothing about the contents of any of the documents or tapes they saw, the results of any of the examinations they did, or the testimony of anyone they talked to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Alameda-County-D-A-conducts-parallel-Oakland-7468441.php\" target=\"_blank\">said in May\u003c/a> that the shooting death of Irma Huerta-Lopez had raised concerns, but the department's investigation found that she had taken her own life. He said he welcomed the district attorney's review of that investigation, plus the investigation into the death of her husband -- Officer Brendan O'Brien -- who killed himself in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Brien left a two-page typed letter discovered on a coffee table in front of his body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The letter appeared to be signed by Officer O'Brien,\" the district attorney's review says. \"The letter discussed Officer O'Brien's reasons for committing suicide. The letter did not contradict any of Officer O'Brien's previous statements about Ms. Huerta Lopez's death.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The note, which has not been made public, said \"a series of events regarding his wife and work prompted him to commit suicide,\" according to a coroner's report on O'Brien's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Based on information in the printed suicide note on the coffee table and the investigation, Sgt. Anderson and Sgt. Baker interviewed an 18-year-old woman, Jane Doe, on September 30, 2015 at the Oakland Police Department for over two hours,\" the district attorney's review of O'Brien's death investigation concludes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The note is believed to be the beginning of a sprawling internal affairs investigation that the federal judge in charge of overseeing the court-mandated reform effort of the OPD called out for \"irregularities\" and possible violations of the city's agreement with the court. Judge Thelton Henderson put court-appointed \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/15/federal-monitor-police-crisis-could-be-most-trying-time-in-opds-history/\" target=\"_blank\">federal monitor Robert Warshaw\u003c/a> in charge of the investigation via court order in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The most valuable thing about this report is its suggestion, by facts, that OPD knew about this case in September of 2015, didn’t tell the monitor at all, and the monitor had to go to court and get the case taken away from internal affairs,\" Chanin said. He said it's unclear whether obscuring the investigation was the fault of internal affairs or Whent, whose \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/09/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say\" target=\"_blank\">sudden resignation\u003c/a> June 10 started a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\">quick succession\u003c/a> of temporary police chiefs.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"nB0uX5FJnU17beh3bVBg7XNZ6dg3Wipv\"]\u003cbr>\nAn 18-year-old woman who goes by the name \"Celeste Guap\" \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/news/i-team-exclusive-woman-at-center-of-opd-scandal-speaks-out/1403842/\" target=\"_blank\">told ABC 7\u003c/a> last month that she was in communication with O'Brien shortly before he killed himself. She previously shared text messages with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/badge-of-dishonor-top-oakland-police-department-officials-looked-away-as-east-bay-cops-sexually-exploited-and-trafficked-a-teenagerdepartmen/Content?oid=4832543\" target=\"_blank\">East Bay Express\u003c/a> detailing a sexual relationship with O'Brien and other OPD officers that began after O'Brien encountered her on a stretch of Oakland's International Boulevard, and before she turned 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guap says she later had sex with approximately 30 law enforcement officers from multiple jurisdictions, including the Richmond, San Francisco and Livermore police departments and the Alameda and Contra Costa County sheriff's departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sexual exploitation crisis also involves at least one former employee of the Alameda District Attorney's Office. Richard Orozco, who is also a former Oakland police captain, was \u003ca href=\"http://kron4.com/2016/07/07/alameda-county-da-investigator-rick-orozco-fired-source-say/\" target=\"_blank\">fired\u003c/a> from the district attorney's office in early July after being implicated by online interactions with Guap. A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/14/at-least-2-dozen-sfpd-officers-tied-to-teen-at-center-of-sexual-exploitation\" target=\"_blank\">KQED review\u003c/a> of Guap's Facebook page turned up more than two-dozen current and former San Francisco police officers with ties to her on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is gratuitous criminal misconduct, if true, by police officers,\" Stanford law professor Robert Weisberg said Monday in an interview. He said typical cases of crimes by police officers may involve theft or, at worst, extortion that doesn't involve sex. \"Systematic sex trafficking is unbelievably off the charts for American police departments,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda Public Defender Brendon Woods reiterated concerns Monday about the integrity of prosecutions relying on testimony of officers tied to alleged sexual exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We currently do not know the exact number of cases impacted by this scandal,\" Woods said in a written statement. \"We remain concerned that, because of the behavior reported by the media, these officers are not credible in the courtroom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as suspicions surrounding Huerta-Lopez's death, Weisberg said the district attorney's review will \"carry a lot of weight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This isn’t a legal finding,\" he said. \"It doesn’t render judgment in any way. But I think it will be useful in squelching some of the more speculative inferences about what happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf called for the district attorney's review in May \"in response to questions raised about the integrity of two closed police investigations,\" according to an emailed response from the mayor's office, which also notes an executive order Schaaf issued at the same time that requires any allegation of criminal misconduct by an Oakland police officer be immediately reported to local prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This third-party review serves to reinforce the integrity of our police investigations,\" Schaaf said in a written statement. \"The public deserves to have confidence that we take any allegations of wrongdoing seriously and that our Police Department continues to operate with the highest level of professional and ethical standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read the district attorney's report below:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=319259889 key=key-IrgXJIT17SDoobXWSCE0 mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Review includes the shooting deaths of Irma Huerta-Lopez in 2014 and that of her husband, Oakland Officer Brendan O'Brien, a year later.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1474678050,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1105},"headData":{"title":"DA Signs Off on Suicide Findings in 2 Deaths Tied to OPD Sexual Exploitation | KQED","description":"Review includes the shooting deaths of Irma Huerta-Lopez in 2014 and that of her husband, Oakland Officer Brendan O'Brien, a year later.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11031041 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11031041","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/25/da-signs-off-on-suicide-findings-in-2-deaths-tied-to-opd-sexual-exploitation/","disqusTitle":"DA Signs Off on Suicide Findings in 2 Deaths Tied to OPD Sexual Exploitation","customPermalink":"%3Fp%3D11031041","nprStoryId":"495262619","path":"/news/11031041/da-signs-off-on-suicide-findings-in-2-deaths-tied-to-opd-sexual-exploitation","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department's investigations into the death of an officer now at the center of a sexual exploitation scandal, and the death of that officer's wife the previous year, were professional and thorough, according to a review released Monday by the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/275470479&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/275470479'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's \"critical incident team,\" convened to \u003ca href=\"http://www.alcoda.org/newsroom/files/2016_CIR_HuertaLopez_and_Ofc_OBrien.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">review\u003c/a> the investigations, found that police investigators reached the \"appropriate determination to classify each death a suicide.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It is like reading a table of contents alone with no book. ... It says virtually nothing about the contents of any of the documents or tapes they saw, the results of any of the examinations they did, or the testimony of anyone they talked to.'\u003ccite>Jim Chanin,\u003cbr>\nCivil rights attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But civil rights attorney Jim Chanin, who has been involved in federal court monitoring of the department as part of the settlement to a lawsuit he co-litigated in 2003, said the district attorney's review contains little to no evidence on which its conclusions are based.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is like reading a table of contents alone with no book,\" he said. \"It says virtually nothing about the contents of any of the documents or tapes they saw, the results of any of the examinations they did, or the testimony of anyone they talked to.\"\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>Former Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Alameda-County-D-A-conducts-parallel-Oakland-7468441.php\" target=\"_blank\">said in May\u003c/a> that the shooting death of Irma Huerta-Lopez had raised concerns, but the department's investigation found that she had taken her own life. He said he welcomed the district attorney's review of that investigation, plus the investigation into the death of her husband -- Officer Brendan O'Brien -- who killed himself in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Brien left a two-page typed letter discovered on a coffee table in front of his body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The letter appeared to be signed by Officer O'Brien,\" the district attorney's review says. \"The letter discussed Officer O'Brien's reasons for committing suicide. The letter did not contradict any of Officer O'Brien's previous statements about Ms. Huerta Lopez's death.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The note, which has not been made public, said \"a series of events regarding his wife and work prompted him to commit suicide,\" according to a coroner's report on O'Brien's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Based on information in the printed suicide note on the coffee table and the investigation, Sgt. Anderson and Sgt. Baker interviewed an 18-year-old woman, Jane Doe, on September 30, 2015 at the Oakland Police Department for over two hours,\" the district attorney's review of O'Brien's death investigation concludes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The note is believed to be the beginning of a sprawling internal affairs investigation that the federal judge in charge of overseeing the court-mandated reform effort of the OPD called out for \"irregularities\" and possible violations of the city's agreement with the court. Judge Thelton Henderson put court-appointed \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/15/federal-monitor-police-crisis-could-be-most-trying-time-in-opds-history/\" target=\"_blank\">federal monitor Robert Warshaw\u003c/a> in charge of the investigation via court order in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The most valuable thing about this report is its suggestion, by facts, that OPD knew about this case in September of 2015, didn’t tell the monitor at all, and the monitor had to go to court and get the case taken away from internal affairs,\" Chanin said. He said it's unclear whether obscuring the investigation was the fault of internal affairs or Whent, whose \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/09/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say\" target=\"_blank\">sudden resignation\u003c/a> June 10 started a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\">quick succession\u003c/a> of temporary police chiefs.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nAn 18-year-old woman who goes by the name \"Celeste Guap\" \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/news/i-team-exclusive-woman-at-center-of-opd-scandal-speaks-out/1403842/\" target=\"_blank\">told ABC 7\u003c/a> last month that she was in communication with O'Brien shortly before he killed himself. She previously shared text messages with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/badge-of-dishonor-top-oakland-police-department-officials-looked-away-as-east-bay-cops-sexually-exploited-and-trafficked-a-teenagerdepartmen/Content?oid=4832543\" target=\"_blank\">East Bay Express\u003c/a> detailing a sexual relationship with O'Brien and other OPD officers that began after O'Brien encountered her on a stretch of Oakland's International Boulevard, and before she turned 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guap says she later had sex with approximately 30 law enforcement officers from multiple jurisdictions, including the Richmond, San Francisco and Livermore police departments and the Alameda and Contra Costa County sheriff's departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sexual exploitation crisis also involves at least one former employee of the Alameda District Attorney's Office. Richard Orozco, who is also a former Oakland police captain, was \u003ca href=\"http://kron4.com/2016/07/07/alameda-county-da-investigator-rick-orozco-fired-source-say/\" target=\"_blank\">fired\u003c/a> from the district attorney's office in early July after being implicated by online interactions with Guap. A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/14/at-least-2-dozen-sfpd-officers-tied-to-teen-at-center-of-sexual-exploitation\" target=\"_blank\">KQED review\u003c/a> of Guap's Facebook page turned up more than two-dozen current and former San Francisco police officers with ties to her on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is gratuitous criminal misconduct, if true, by police officers,\" Stanford law professor Robert Weisberg said Monday in an interview. He said typical cases of crimes by police officers may involve theft or, at worst, extortion that doesn't involve sex. \"Systematic sex trafficking is unbelievably off the charts for American police departments,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda Public Defender Brendon Woods reiterated concerns Monday about the integrity of prosecutions relying on testimony of officers tied to alleged sexual exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We currently do not know the exact number of cases impacted by this scandal,\" Woods said in a written statement. \"We remain concerned that, because of the behavior reported by the media, these officers are not credible in the courtroom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as suspicions surrounding Huerta-Lopez's death, Weisberg said the district attorney's review will \"carry a lot of weight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This isn’t a legal finding,\" he said. \"It doesn’t render judgment in any way. But I think it will be useful in squelching some of the more speculative inferences about what happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf called for the district attorney's review in May \"in response to questions raised about the integrity of two closed police investigations,\" according to an emailed response from the mayor's office, which also notes an executive order Schaaf issued at the same time that requires any allegation of criminal misconduct by an Oakland police officer be immediately reported to local prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This third-party review serves to reinforce the integrity of our police investigations,\" Schaaf said in a written statement. \"The public deserves to have confidence that we take any allegations of wrongdoing seriously and that our Police Department continues to operate with the highest level of professional and ethical standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read the district attorney's report below:\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\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ciframe\n class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\"\n src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/319259889/content?start_page=1&view_mode=&access_key=key-IrgXJIT17SDoobXWSCE0\"\n title=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/319259889\"\n data-auto-height=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"scribd_319259889\"\n width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n \u003ca class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__scribdShortcode__scribd_footer\"\n href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/319259889\"\n target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View this document on Scribd\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11031041/da-signs-off-on-suicide-findings-in-2-deaths-tied-to-opd-sexual-exploitation","authors":["3206"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_19708","news_416","news_19969","news_6305"],"featImg":"news_11031303","label":"news_6944"},"news_11000284":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11000284","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11000284","score":null,"sort":[1466818589000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oakland-mayor-libby-schaaf-defends-handling-of-police-scandals","title":"Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Defends Handling of Police Scandals","publishDate":1466818589,"format":"video","headTitle":"KQED Newsroom | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":7052,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf sat down with \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/programs/kqed-newsroom\">KQED Newsroom\u003c/a>\u003c/em> for an exclusive Bay Area interview about the ongoing police sexual misconduct scandal and other events that have rocked the Oakland Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In less than two weeks, the department \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed\">burned through three police chiefs\u003c/a> -- from the sudden resignation of Sean Whent to the sacking of Ben Fairow for unspecified reasons to the departure of Paul Figueroa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairow’s tenure as Oakland’s top cop lasted just six days. Figueroa’s tenure was even shorter -- two days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made decisions that we thought were the best at the moment,” Schaaf said about the swiftness with which she appointed Fairow as interim chief, only to quickly remove him. “I have said that it was a mistake on my part to bring Ben Fairow in without having completely vetted him prior to announcing his appointment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding Figueroa’s speedy exit, Schaaf would only say, “His decision to leave his post was personal. He felt he could not perform the duties. That is what his letter said and there is nothing more than that involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I have been as open and transparent as I'm legally allowed to be.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Mayor Schaaf has said repeatedly that state privacy laws prevent her from saying more about personnel decisions, but suggested to KQED that there is a lot more than what has been reported in the media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been as open and transparent as I'm legally allowed to be, but it is frustrating that the public will never understand all the details,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Schaaf has put City Administrator Sabrina Landreth in charge of the Police Department as the city conducts a national search for a new chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several community activist groups, including Oakland's Anti Police-Terror Project, have called for an outside agency -- perhaps the U.S. Department of Justice -- to investigate the police scandals. They say they have lost confidence in the Police Department to hold its own accountable and they’re demanding Schaaf’s resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor says she respects the right of protesters to criticize her, but remains defiant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel very good about every decision that I have made. I feel great about the leadership team around me,” Schaaf said. “I am not planning to resign at this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the allegations of sexual misconduct involving a teenager who calls herself Celeste Guap have continued to build over the course of several months. There are now at least 14 officers under investigation in the Oakland Police Department alone, while other law enforcement agencies in Richmond and Alameda County have also become implicated. Oakland is also investigating racist text messages sent by officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Schaaf says she supports more \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/22/oakland-police-scandal-could-lead-to-statewide-vote-on-opening-cops-personnel-records\">openness in police personnel files\u003c/a>, she stopped short of fully endorsing the idea that they be made public, saying only, “I believe that the public does have a right to know more than they are getting to know right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like her predecessor Jean Quan, Schaaf adamantly opposes the idea of placing Oakland’s Police Department under federal receivership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland residents are best served when the people that they elected to run the city are in fact running it,” Schaaf said. “This is an appropriate time to exert some civilian oversight over the department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">'I feel very good about every decision that I have made.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Read the interview transcript here:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thuy Vu: When and how did you first learn about the alleged sexual relationships between the Oakland police officers and the teenage sex worker?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Libby Schaaf: I learned about them in March from the city administrator Sabrina Landreth, but this is a type of incident that I should have been briefed on earlier. That's why we are not just investigating the misconduct but also the investigative process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: Oakland has had three police chiefs in nine days, and currently has no chief. The city administrator is overseeing the department. Did you have a succession plan in place when you let Chief Sean Whent go?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: The fact that Sean Whent went very quickly, that was not anticipated. We made decisions that we thought were the best at the moment. I have said that it was a mistake on my part to bring Ben Fairow in without having completely vetted him prior to announcing his appointment. But I do have confidence in our city administrator. Again, this is an appropriate time to exert some civilian oversight over the department. Also, of the men and women of the Police Department itself. They are just as outraged and disgusted by this scandal as I am.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: Can you tell us why the third chief, Paul Figueroa, quit?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: Chief Figueroa submitted his resignation stating that he was unable to perform the duties of the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: Did he say why?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: He did not go into details and I know that it has been frustrating for the public. Believe me, it's frustrating for me --\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: Did you ask him for details?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: Can I finish answering your question without interruption?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: Sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: Thank you. It has been frustrating for the public and it is frustrating for me that state law prohibits the sharing of personnel information of a police officer. That protection extends to the chief. I have been as open and transparent as I'm legally allowed to be, but it is frustrating that the public will never understand all the details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: Do you think sexual misconduct personnel files should be made available to the public? Currently state law bars it from it being made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: I believe that there's a lot of room for improvement to the current levels of protection that police officers have to their privacy. I believe that the public does have a right to know more than they are getting to know right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: State Sen. Mark Leno now is considering putting forth a measure before voters that would allow that -- give more public access to misconduct and discipline files for law enforcement officers. Is that something you would campaign for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: It's something that I will give careful consideration to, particularly in light of the experience that I have had over the last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: We do now have a situation where there are three officers whose reputations have been tarnished in some respects because of this. Do you have any second thoughts about how you handled the situation?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: I do things that I believe are in the best long-term interest of the city of Oakland. Sometimes that feels painful in the short term but I always look to the long-term interests of my hometown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: You speak often about openness and transparency but your office is now investigating who leaked information, particularly to the media. Is that the best way to use resources and time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: Typically the public learns about these types of offenses when someone is arrested or charges are brought. We are still in the middle of this investigation. But because the media has publicized a certain version of events, when we conduct an interview of a witness after that publicity has been released, a lawyer can later use that fact to discredit the testimony of the witness. And that is why we believe it's in the public's interest to not share these types of details about the investigation until it's completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: It's become evident that this sexual misconduct had been going on for a while and a lot of people within the department seem to know about it. Yet no one came forth to tell you about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: I have talked a lot this week about what I believe is a toxic macho culture. That's why it's important we not just look at our recruiting and screening practices -- just at who is becoming a police officer -- but the culture once they’re in the department. A culture of not coming forward and reporting this conduct, that is something that I'm very serious about getting underneath and reforming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: Some community groups are also calling for your resignation. Your response?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: This is a great democracy. I love being an American because people are free to protest, to criticize their elected officials. That is part of the democratic process. I similarly am hearing tremendous amounts of support from the community, who appreciate the stance that I've taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: I take then, for the record, you have no plans to resign?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: I am not planning to resign at this time, no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: This scandal comes as the department is still trying to end 13 years of federal monitoring. That's due to the brutality and false police reports that were brought forth in the Riders case. Why should Oakland residents have any confidence that the department's problems can be fixed under your administration?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: It is frustrating. I think it is known that we were actually in negotiations around ending the court oversight when this scandal broke. Obviously, this does set back those discussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: Do you think that perhaps it's time for the Police Department to be placed under federal receivership? Would the Oakland residents be better served?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: No, the Oakland residents are best served when the people that they elected to run the city are in fact running it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: Looking back over your past year and a half as mayor, especially over the past two weeks, is there anything that you wish you had done differently?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: I feel very good about every decision that I have made. We have continued to make our decisions in the best long-term interest of this city and through our values of openness, honesty and integrity. That clarity of vision and commitment has very much helped guide me through these last difficult two weeks, and will continue to guide me in everything I do as the mayor Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: Mayor of Oakland Libby Schaaf, thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated to include the fact that City Administrator Sabrina Landreth is now in charge of the Police Department as the city conducts a national search for a new chief.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'I feel very good about every decision that I have made. I feel great about the leadership team around me. I am not planning to resign at this time.'","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1474678175,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":52,"wordCount":1746},"headData":{"title":"Oakland Mayor Schaaf Defends Handling of Police Scandals","description":"Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf talks to KQED Newsroom about ongoing police sexual misconduct scandals and other recent events","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11000284 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11000284","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/24/oakland-mayor-libby-schaaf-defends-handling-of-police-scandals/","disqusTitle":"Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Defends Handling of Police Scandals","videoEmbed":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0946BusdX8&feature=youtu.be","nprByline":"KQED Newsroom Staff","nprStoryId":"495262904","path":"/news/11000284/oakland-mayor-libby-schaaf-defends-handling-of-police-scandals","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf sat down with \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/programs/kqed-newsroom\">KQED Newsroom\u003c/a>\u003c/em> for an exclusive Bay Area interview about the ongoing police sexual misconduct scandal and other events that have rocked the Oakland Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In less than two weeks, the department \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed\">burned through three police chiefs\u003c/a> -- from the sudden resignation of Sean Whent to the sacking of Ben Fairow for unspecified reasons to the departure of Paul Figueroa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairow’s tenure as Oakland’s top cop lasted just six days. Figueroa’s tenure was even shorter -- two days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made decisions that we thought were the best at the moment,” Schaaf said about the swiftness with which she appointed Fairow as interim chief, only to quickly remove him. “I have said that it was a mistake on my part to bring Ben Fairow in without having completely vetted him prior to announcing his appointment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding Figueroa’s speedy exit, Schaaf would only say, “His decision to leave his post was personal. He felt he could not perform the duties. That is what his letter said and there is nothing more than that involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I have been as open and transparent as I'm legally allowed to be.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Mayor Schaaf has said repeatedly that state privacy laws prevent her from saying more about personnel decisions, but suggested to KQED that there is a lot more than what has been reported in the media.\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>“I have been as open and transparent as I'm legally allowed to be, but it is frustrating that the public will never understand all the details,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Schaaf has put City Administrator Sabrina Landreth in charge of the Police Department as the city conducts a national search for a new chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several community activist groups, including Oakland's Anti Police-Terror Project, have called for an outside agency -- perhaps the U.S. Department of Justice -- to investigate the police scandals. They say they have lost confidence in the Police Department to hold its own accountable and they’re demanding Schaaf’s resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor says she respects the right of protesters to criticize her, but remains defiant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel very good about every decision that I have made. I feel great about the leadership team around me,” Schaaf said. “I am not planning to resign at this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the allegations of sexual misconduct involving a teenager who calls herself Celeste Guap have continued to build over the course of several months. There are now at least 14 officers under investigation in the Oakland Police Department alone, while other law enforcement agencies in Richmond and Alameda County have also become implicated. Oakland is also investigating racist text messages sent by officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Schaaf says she supports more \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/22/oakland-police-scandal-could-lead-to-statewide-vote-on-opening-cops-personnel-records\">openness in police personnel files\u003c/a>, she stopped short of fully endorsing the idea that they be made public, saying only, “I believe that the public does have a right to know more than they are getting to know right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like her predecessor Jean Quan, Schaaf adamantly opposes the idea of placing Oakland’s Police Department under federal receivership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland residents are best served when the people that they elected to run the city are in fact running it,” Schaaf said. “This is an appropriate time to exert some civilian oversight over the department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">'I feel very good about every decision that I have made.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Read the interview transcript here:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thuy Vu: When and how did you first learn about the alleged sexual relationships between the Oakland police officers and the teenage sex worker?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Libby Schaaf: I learned about them in March from the city administrator Sabrina Landreth, but this is a type of incident that I should have been briefed on earlier. That's why we are not just investigating the misconduct but also the investigative process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: Oakland has had three police chiefs in nine days, and currently has no chief. The city administrator is overseeing the department. Did you have a succession plan in place when you let Chief Sean Whent go?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: The fact that Sean Whent went very quickly, that was not anticipated. We made decisions that we thought were the best at the moment. I have said that it was a mistake on my part to bring Ben Fairow in without having completely vetted him prior to announcing his appointment. But I do have confidence in our city administrator. Again, this is an appropriate time to exert some civilian oversight over the department. Also, of the men and women of the Police Department itself. They are just as outraged and disgusted by this scandal as I am.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: Can you tell us why the third chief, Paul Figueroa, quit?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: Chief Figueroa submitted his resignation stating that he was unable to perform the duties of the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: Did he say why?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: He did not go into details and I know that it has been frustrating for the public. Believe me, it's frustrating for me --\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: Did you ask him for details?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: Can I finish answering your question without interruption?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: Sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: Thank you. It has been frustrating for the public and it is frustrating for me that state law prohibits the sharing of personnel information of a police officer. That protection extends to the chief. I have been as open and transparent as I'm legally allowed to be, but it is frustrating that the public will never understand all the details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: Do you think sexual misconduct personnel files should be made available to the public? Currently state law bars it from it being made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: I believe that there's a lot of room for improvement to the current levels of protection that police officers have to their privacy. I believe that the public does have a right to know more than they are getting to know right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: State Sen. Mark Leno now is considering putting forth a measure before voters that would allow that -- give more public access to misconduct and discipline files for law enforcement officers. Is that something you would campaign for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: It's something that I will give careful consideration to, particularly in light of the experience that I have had over the last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: We do now have a situation where there are three officers whose reputations have been tarnished in some respects because of this. Do you have any second thoughts about how you handled the situation?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: I do things that I believe are in the best long-term interest of the city of Oakland. Sometimes that feels painful in the short term but I always look to the long-term interests of my hometown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: You speak often about openness and transparency but your office is now investigating who leaked information, particularly to the media. Is that the best way to use resources and time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: Typically the public learns about these types of offenses when someone is arrested or charges are brought. We are still in the middle of this investigation. But because the media has publicized a certain version of events, when we conduct an interview of a witness after that publicity has been released, a lawyer can later use that fact to discredit the testimony of the witness. And that is why we believe it's in the public's interest to not share these types of details about the investigation until it's completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: It's become evident that this sexual misconduct had been going on for a while and a lot of people within the department seem to know about it. Yet no one came forth to tell you about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: I have talked a lot this week about what I believe is a toxic macho culture. That's why it's important we not just look at our recruiting and screening practices -- just at who is becoming a police officer -- but the culture once they’re in the department. A culture of not coming forward and reporting this conduct, that is something that I'm very serious about getting underneath and reforming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: Some community groups are also calling for your resignation. Your response?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: This is a great democracy. I love being an American because people are free to protest, to criticize their elected officials. That is part of the democratic process. I similarly am hearing tremendous amounts of support from the community, who appreciate the stance that I've taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: I take then, for the record, you have no plans to resign?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: I am not planning to resign at this time, no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: This scandal comes as the department is still trying to end 13 years of federal monitoring. That's due to the brutality and false police reports that were brought forth in the Riders case. Why should Oakland residents have any confidence that the department's problems can be fixed under your administration?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: It is frustrating. I think it is known that we were actually in negotiations around ending the court oversight when this scandal broke. Obviously, this does set back those discussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: Do you think that perhaps it's time for the Police Department to be placed under federal receivership? Would the Oakland residents be better served?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: No, the Oakland residents are best served when the people that they elected to run the city are in fact running it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: Looking back over your past year and a half as mayor, especially over the past two weeks, is there anything that you wish you had done differently?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf: I feel very good about every decision that I have made. We have continued to make our decisions in the best long-term interest of this city and through our values of openness, honesty and integrity. That clarity of vision and commitment has very much helped guide me through these last difficult two weeks, and will continue to guide me in everything I do as the mayor Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vu: Mayor of Oakland Libby Schaaf, thank you.\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>\u003cem>This post has been updated to include the fact that City Administrator Sabrina Landreth is now in charge of the Police Department as the city conducts a national search for a new chief.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11000284/oakland-mayor-libby-schaaf-defends-handling-of-police-scandals","authors":["byline_news_11000284"],"programs":["news_6944","news_7052"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_19592","news_19177","news_6905","news_416","news_19591","news_19969","news_6305"],"featImg":"news_11000292","label":"news_7052"},"news_10992840":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10992840","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10992840","score":null,"sort":[1466217878000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed","title":"A Department in Crisis: Yet Another Oakland Police Chief Removed","publishDate":1466217878,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>In eight days, Oakland has shattered its \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/10/96792/\" target=\"_blank\">previous record\u003c/a> and burned through three police chiefs. The city's also seen several extreme cases of police misconduct come to light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest department head, former Assistant Chief and short-lived interim Chief Paul Figueroa has left the post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf began a Friday evening press conference to address the continued shakeup with this: \"I am here to run a police department and not a frat house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she dropped another bomb. A group of OPD officers are now under investigation for swapping racist text messages in a new scandal unrelated to those involving illicit sex or the sharing of confidential murder case files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do think it’s relevant to share that the text messages were sent by African-American officers,\" Schaaf said, \"but they are wholly inappropriate and not acceptable from anyone who wears the badge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said Figueroa was taking a leave and would return at the rank of captain -- by his own choice. Figueroa did not answer his cellphone Friday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD observers were gobsmacked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Shocking and stunning again,\" civil rights attorney John Burris said Friday night. \"I’m stunned about the rapid turnover among chiefs and the topsy-turvy nature of what’s going on in Oakland now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DarwinBondGraha/status/743972398081286146\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said she would not pick another acting chief and instead put City Administrator Sabrina Landreth at the head of the OPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel this is an appropriate time to place civilian oversight over this police department and to send a very clear message about how serious we are about not tolerating misconduct, unethical behavior, and to root out what is clearly a toxic, macho culture,\" Schaaf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former OPD Chief Howard Jordan wasn't sure a civilian was allowed to command a municipal police department in California, he said in an emailed response Friday night, and Landreth's appointment could jeopardize OPD's state accreditation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The game of \"pick-the-chief\" started last Thursday night with Sean Whent's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/09/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say\" target=\"_blank\">sudden resignation\u003c/a> delivered via \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/315374187/Resignation-letter-from-Chief-Whent-to-City-Administrator\" target=\"_blank\">email\u003c/a>. Whent said simply that he believed \"the timing was right for me to move on and explore other opportunities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That timing was right in the middle of a growing scandal percolating beneath the surface of a department that, to the casual observer, looked to be model for a new era of policing, thanks in part to 13 years of strict federal oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to caution you about the timing of all of this,\" Jordan told KQED Friday afternoon, before Figueroa's sudden departure. \"This was something that was coming, and outwardly, the appearance was that the department was on the right track. But inwardly there's been a lot of concerns about what we're seeing today.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Former OPD Chief Howard Jordan on the state of his former Police Department.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/269679673\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whent left amid \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/badge-of-dishonor-top-oakland-police-department-officials-looked-away-as-east-bay-cops-sexually-exploited-and-trafficked-a-teenagerdepartmen/Content?oid=4832543\" target=\"_blank\">news that numerous Oakland officers\u003c/a> had relationships with a young woman who worked in the sex trade, and some officers may have had sex with her before she turned 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Schaff then named former OPD Captain and current BART Police Deputy Chief Ben Fairow to lead the department in an interim capacity while the city conducted a search for an outsider. Five days later, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/15/oakland-mayor-fires-new-interim-police-chief-after-four-days-on-job\" target=\"_blank\">Fairow was suddenly\u003c/a> out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaff said she made a mistake and new information prompted her to rethink Fairow's appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The important thing is that I’m fixing it,\" she said. \"I’m fixing it quickly, and I’m not trying to hide or not disclose what I’m doing or why I’m doing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she cited state law privacy protections for police officers in declining to state why she felt Fairow was unfit to lead the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that the leadership at this time is critical in order to build confidence that the culture of this department does not tolerate unethical behavior, sexual misconduct or lying,” Schaff said when she announced Fairow's ouster and the appointment of Paul Figueroa as interim chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART Police Chief Kenton Rainey offered a possible explanation: He said Fairow had disclosed an extramarital affair that had taken place a decade ago. Rainey welcomed Fairow back to the BART Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Express, which has \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/badge-of-dishonor-top-oakland-police-department-officials-looked-away-as-east-bay-cops-sexually-exploited-and-trafficked-a-teenagerdepartmen/Content?oid=4832543\" target=\"_blank\">led coverage\u003c/a> of Oakland Police Department's sordid controversies, \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/06/17/veteran-oakland-homicide-investigator-mishandled-evidence-in-ongoing-murder-case\" target=\"_blank\">reported\u003c/a> that an OPD homicide investigator had become the subject of a criminal investigation for allegedly sharing confidential details of murder cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney John Burris, whose lawsuit with co-attorney Jim Chanin brought the OPD under federal oversight in 2003, said he wasn't considering moving for a full federal takeover, called \"receivership.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not yet, not yet, not yet,\" he said. \"But we will if it becomes necessary.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Paul Figueroa is out as Oakland's interim police chief. City Administrator Sabrina Landreth to head OPD.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1474678190,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":833},"headData":{"title":"A Department in Crisis: Yet Another Oakland Police Chief Removed | KQED","description":"Paul Figueroa is out as Oakland's interim police chief. City Administrator Sabrina Landreth to head OPD.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"10992840 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10992840","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/","disqusTitle":"A Department in Crisis: Yet Another Oakland Police Chief Removed","nprStoryId":"495262967","path":"/news/10992840/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In eight days, Oakland has shattered its \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/10/96792/\" target=\"_blank\">previous record\u003c/a> and burned through three police chiefs. The city's also seen several extreme cases of police misconduct come to light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest department head, former Assistant Chief and short-lived interim Chief Paul Figueroa has left the post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf began a Friday evening press conference to address the continued shakeup with this: \"I am here to run a police department and not a frat house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she dropped another bomb. A group of OPD officers are now under investigation for swapping racist text messages in a new scandal unrelated to those involving illicit sex or the sharing of confidential murder case files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do think it’s relevant to share that the text messages were sent by African-American officers,\" Schaaf said, \"but they are wholly inappropriate and not acceptable from anyone who wears the badge.\"\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>Schaaf said Figueroa was taking a leave and would return at the rank of captain -- by his own choice. Figueroa did not answer his cellphone Friday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD observers were gobsmacked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Shocking and stunning again,\" civil rights attorney John Burris said Friday night. \"I’m stunned about the rapid turnover among chiefs and the topsy-turvy nature of what’s going on in Oakland now.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"743972398081286146"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said she would not pick another acting chief and instead put City Administrator Sabrina Landreth at the head of the OPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel this is an appropriate time to place civilian oversight over this police department and to send a very clear message about how serious we are about not tolerating misconduct, unethical behavior, and to root out what is clearly a toxic, macho culture,\" Schaaf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former OPD Chief Howard Jordan wasn't sure a civilian was allowed to command a municipal police department in California, he said in an emailed response Friday night, and Landreth's appointment could jeopardize OPD's state accreditation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The game of \"pick-the-chief\" started last Thursday night with Sean Whent's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/09/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say\" target=\"_blank\">sudden resignation\u003c/a> delivered via \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/315374187/Resignation-letter-from-Chief-Whent-to-City-Administrator\" target=\"_blank\">email\u003c/a>. Whent said simply that he believed \"the timing was right for me to move on and explore other opportunities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That timing was right in the middle of a growing scandal percolating beneath the surface of a department that, to the casual observer, looked to be model for a new era of policing, thanks in part to 13 years of strict federal oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to caution you about the timing of all of this,\" Jordan told KQED Friday afternoon, before Figueroa's sudden departure. \"This was something that was coming, and outwardly, the appearance was that the department was on the right track. But inwardly there's been a lot of concerns about what we're seeing today.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Former OPD Chief Howard Jordan on the state of his former Police Department.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/269679673&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/269679673'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whent left amid \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/badge-of-dishonor-top-oakland-police-department-officials-looked-away-as-east-bay-cops-sexually-exploited-and-trafficked-a-teenagerdepartmen/Content?oid=4832543\" target=\"_blank\">news that numerous Oakland officers\u003c/a> had relationships with a young woman who worked in the sex trade, and some officers may have had sex with her before she turned 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Schaff then named former OPD Captain and current BART Police Deputy Chief Ben Fairow to lead the department in an interim capacity while the city conducted a search for an outsider. Five days later, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/15/oakland-mayor-fires-new-interim-police-chief-after-four-days-on-job\" target=\"_blank\">Fairow was suddenly\u003c/a> out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaff said she made a mistake and new information prompted her to rethink Fairow's appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The important thing is that I’m fixing it,\" she said. \"I’m fixing it quickly, and I’m not trying to hide or not disclose what I’m doing or why I’m doing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she cited state law privacy protections for police officers in declining to state why she felt Fairow was unfit to lead the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that the leadership at this time is critical in order to build confidence that the culture of this department does not tolerate unethical behavior, sexual misconduct or lying,” Schaff said when she announced Fairow's ouster and the appointment of Paul Figueroa as interim chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART Police Chief Kenton Rainey offered a possible explanation: He said Fairow had disclosed an extramarital affair that had taken place a decade ago. Rainey welcomed Fairow back to the BART Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Express, which has \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/badge-of-dishonor-top-oakland-police-department-officials-looked-away-as-east-bay-cops-sexually-exploited-and-trafficked-a-teenagerdepartmen/Content?oid=4832543\" target=\"_blank\">led coverage\u003c/a> of Oakland Police Department's sordid controversies, \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/06/17/veteran-oakland-homicide-investigator-mishandled-evidence-in-ongoing-murder-case\" target=\"_blank\">reported\u003c/a> that an OPD homicide investigator had become the subject of a criminal investigation for allegedly sharing confidential details of murder cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney John Burris, whose lawsuit with co-attorney Jim Chanin brought the OPD under federal oversight in 2003, said he wasn't considering moving for a full federal takeover, called \"receivership.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not yet, not yet, not yet,\" he said. \"But we will if it becomes necessary.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10992840/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed","authors":["3206"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_19592","news_1978","news_6905","news_416","news_19591","news_19969","news_6305"],"featImg":"news_10992892","label":"news_72"},"news_10984493":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10984493","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10984493","score":null,"sort":[1465590322000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say","title":"Oakland Police Chief Whent Resigns Amid Sex Scandal","publishDate":1465590322,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated, 1:30 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf says that Police Chief Sean Whent was not pressured to resign from the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The chief's resignation was a personal decision and I respect it tremendously,\" Schaaf told reporters at City Hall Friday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her remarks came hours after she and City Administrator Sabrina Landreth confirmed that Whent is stepping down after three years as the head of the department, a late-night announcement spurred by \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/06/09/oakland-police-chief-whent-reportedly-being-fired\" target=\"_blank\">a flurry of media reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whent's resignation \u003ca href=\"#letter\">letter\u003c/a> came in the midst of an investigation into the department's handling of a case involving several officers who reportedly had sex with the teenage daughter of a police dispatcher. The investigation has expanded to examine the suicide of one of those officers and the violent death of his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor emphasized that Whent was not the subject of that investigation and revealed that the city has retained an independent investigator to review the police department's administrative probe into the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will hold anyone who has engaged in misconduct in this department fully accountable,\" Schaaf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement circulated by the city administrator at 11:15 p.m. Thursday, Whent expressed pride in his two decades of service in the Oakland Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"SO2Cm40qjzJWs6PpwIeUae9tHPAp5QPo\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I took this job three years ago as interim chief, I vowed to help move the department forward and make Oakland safer by forging a stronger relationship with members of this diverse community,\" he said. \"I am proud to have done that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her statement, Schaaf expressed gratitude to the chief, credited him with making the city safer, and said \"he has done the critical work of driving principled, sustainable policing in Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Burris, an Oakland civil rights attorney who represents plaintiffs in the \"Riders\" civil rights case against the department, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/10/longtime-opd-critic-shocked-by-chiefs-resignation\" target=\"_blank\">told KQED's Ted Goldberg\u003c/a> on Friday morning he felt Whent had done a good job as chief overall and that the resignation came as a complete surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The investigations that were taking place -- although we were not privy to all of them -- were significant and they raised real questions about what the chief knew and when did he know it,\" Burris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Fairow, a former Oakland police captain who now serves as a deputy chief for the BART Police Department, will head the department in an interim capacity while the city searches for a new chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've been away for several years but I'm ready to hit the ground running,\" Fairow said Friday morning. \"I can assure the momentum the police department has, when it comes to fighting crime and establishing those relationships with the community, is going to continue and improve.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the hours before Thursday night's announcement, several Bay Area news outlets, \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/06/09/oakland-police-chief-whent-reportedly-being-fired\" target=\"_blank\">led by the East Bay Express\u003c/a>, reported that Whent would be fired or step down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sex scandal that apparently prompted Whent's departure came to light after \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/05/12/oakland-police-underage-sex-scandal-involves-cop-who-possibly-killed-his-wife\" target=\"_blank\">the suicide of an Oakland officer\u003c/a>, Brendan O'Brien, last September. O'Brien's death, in turn, followed \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/breaking-news/ci_29890918/oakland-police-sex-scandal-grows\" target=\"_blank\">the gunshot death\u003c/a> of his wife in 2014 under circumstances a coroner's report described as suspicious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson, the judge overseeing a sweeping package of reforms in the Oakland Police Department arising from the Riders lawsuit, expressed dismay with the department's handling of the investigation earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a one-page order filed March 23, Henderson cited \"irregularities and possible violations\" of the settlement and said the case \"raises most serious concerns that may well impact\" the Police Department's \"ability to demonstrate their commitment to accountability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He directed Robert Warshaw, the man he appointed to monitor the OPD's compliance with the settlement, to oversee the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the O'Brien angle to the sex case became public last month, Mayor Libby Schaaf called for an independent investigation by the Alameda County District Attorney's Office -- one that would exclude any of the DA's employees who were former Oakland cops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf appeared at a press conference with Whent on May 13 and \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/breaking-news/ci_29890918/oakland-police-sex-scandal-grows\" target=\"_blank\">declared\u003c/a>, \"We as Oaklanders can expect to hold officers to the highest standards of conduct -- again, both while they wear a uniform and when they do not. And that is a standard that we intend to enforce in the city of Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, two officers have resigned as a result of the alleged sexual misconduct and two others remain on paid leave while the department's Internal Affairs Division investigates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the case surfaced, Whent had received consistently high marks from Warshaw, the court-appointed monitor. Violent crime has been down since Whent took command. The chief won widespread credit for a change in the Police Department's approach to use of force when it went more than two years without recording a fatal shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That period ended last June, and the OPD recorded a total of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/15/oakland-police-kill-man-they-say-brandished-replica-pistol\" target=\"_blank\">five fatal shootings over five months\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/10/96792/\" target=\"_blank\">was appointed interim chief\u003c/a> in May 2013 when Chief Howard Jordan, under fire for the department's response to the Occupy Oakland demonstrations and other officer misconduct cases, retired with no notice. Whent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/whent-oakland-police-chief\" target=\"_blank\">received a permanent appointment\u003c/a> a year later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"letter\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View Resignation letter from Chief Whent to City Administrator on Scribd\" href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/315374187/Resignation-letter-from-Chief-Whent-to-City-Administrator\">Resignation letter from Chief Whent to City Administrator\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nTed Goldberg and Tiffany Camhi contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Chief said to have been forced out in the wake of questions about department's handling of sexual misconduct case. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1474677933,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":892},"headData":{"title":"Oakland Police Chief Whent Resigns Amid Sex Scandal | KQED","description":"Chief said to have been forced out in the wake of questions about department's handling of sexual misconduct case. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"10984493 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10984493","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/10/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say/","disqusTitle":"Oakland Police Chief Whent Resigns Amid Sex Scandal","customPermalink":"2016/06/09/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say/","nprStoryId":"495262240","path":"/news/10984493/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated, 1:30 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf says that Police Chief Sean Whent was not pressured to resign from the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The chief's resignation was a personal decision and I respect it tremendously,\" Schaaf told reporters at City Hall Friday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her remarks came hours after she and City Administrator Sabrina Landreth confirmed that Whent is stepping down after three years as the head of the department, a late-night announcement spurred by \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/06/09/oakland-police-chief-whent-reportedly-being-fired\" target=\"_blank\">a flurry of media reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whent's resignation \u003ca href=\"#letter\">letter\u003c/a> came in the midst of an investigation into the department's handling of a case involving several officers who reportedly had sex with the teenage daughter of a police dispatcher. The investigation has expanded to examine the suicide of one of those officers and the violent death of his wife.\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 mayor emphasized that Whent was not the subject of that investigation and revealed that the city has retained an independent investigator to review the police department's administrative probe into the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will hold anyone who has engaged in misconduct in this department fully accountable,\" Schaaf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement circulated by the city administrator at 11:15 p.m. Thursday, Whent expressed pride in his two decades of service in the Oakland Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I took this job three years ago as interim chief, I vowed to help move the department forward and make Oakland safer by forging a stronger relationship with members of this diverse community,\" he said. \"I am proud to have done that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her statement, Schaaf expressed gratitude to the chief, credited him with making the city safer, and said \"he has done the critical work of driving principled, sustainable policing in Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Burris, an Oakland civil rights attorney who represents plaintiffs in the \"Riders\" civil rights case against the department, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/10/longtime-opd-critic-shocked-by-chiefs-resignation\" target=\"_blank\">told KQED's Ted Goldberg\u003c/a> on Friday morning he felt Whent had done a good job as chief overall and that the resignation came as a complete surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The investigations that were taking place -- although we were not privy to all of them -- were significant and they raised real questions about what the chief knew and when did he know it,\" Burris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Fairow, a former Oakland police captain who now serves as a deputy chief for the BART Police Department, will head the department in an interim capacity while the city searches for a new chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've been away for several years but I'm ready to hit the ground running,\" Fairow said Friday morning. \"I can assure the momentum the police department has, when it comes to fighting crime and establishing those relationships with the community, is going to continue and improve.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the hours before Thursday night's announcement, several Bay Area news outlets, \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/06/09/oakland-police-chief-whent-reportedly-being-fired\" target=\"_blank\">led by the East Bay Express\u003c/a>, reported that Whent would be fired or step down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sex scandal that apparently prompted Whent's departure came to light after \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/05/12/oakland-police-underage-sex-scandal-involves-cop-who-possibly-killed-his-wife\" target=\"_blank\">the suicide of an Oakland officer\u003c/a>, Brendan O'Brien, last September. O'Brien's death, in turn, followed \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/breaking-news/ci_29890918/oakland-police-sex-scandal-grows\" target=\"_blank\">the gunshot death\u003c/a> of his wife in 2014 under circumstances a coroner's report described as suspicious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson, the judge overseeing a sweeping package of reforms in the Oakland Police Department arising from the Riders lawsuit, expressed dismay with the department's handling of the investigation earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a one-page order filed March 23, Henderson cited \"irregularities and possible violations\" of the settlement and said the case \"raises most serious concerns that may well impact\" the Police Department's \"ability to demonstrate their commitment to accountability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He directed Robert Warshaw, the man he appointed to monitor the OPD's compliance with the settlement, to oversee the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the O'Brien angle to the sex case became public last month, Mayor Libby Schaaf called for an independent investigation by the Alameda County District Attorney's Office -- one that would exclude any of the DA's employees who were former Oakland cops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf appeared at a press conference with Whent on May 13 and \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/breaking-news/ci_29890918/oakland-police-sex-scandal-grows\" target=\"_blank\">declared\u003c/a>, \"We as Oaklanders can expect to hold officers to the highest standards of conduct -- again, both while they wear a uniform and when they do not. And that is a standard that we intend to enforce in the city of Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, two officers have resigned as a result of the alleged sexual misconduct and two others remain on paid leave while the department's Internal Affairs Division investigates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the case surfaced, Whent had received consistently high marks from Warshaw, the court-appointed monitor. Violent crime has been down since Whent took command. The chief won widespread credit for a change in the Police Department's approach to use of force when it went more than two years without recording a fatal shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That period ended last June, and the OPD recorded a total of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/15/oakland-police-kill-man-they-say-brandished-replica-pistol\" target=\"_blank\">five fatal shootings over five months\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/10/96792/\" target=\"_blank\">was appointed interim chief\u003c/a> in May 2013 when Chief Howard Jordan, under fire for the department's response to the Occupy Oakland demonstrations and other officer misconduct cases, retired with no notice. Whent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/whent-oakland-police-chief\" target=\"_blank\">received a permanent appointment\u003c/a> a year later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"letter\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View Resignation letter from Chief Whent to City Administrator on Scribd\" href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/315374187/Resignation-letter-from-Chief-Whent-to-City-Administrator\">Resignation letter from Chief Whent to City Administrator\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nTed Goldberg and Tiffany Camhi contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10984493/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_13"],"tags":["news_19542","news_416","news_19969","news_6305"],"featImg":"news_10485781","label":"news_6944"},"news_10791070":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10791070","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10791070","score":null,"sort":[1449877143000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"court-orders-oakland-police-to-expand-review-of-deadly-force-incidents","title":"Court Orders Oakland Police to Expand Review of 'Deadly Force' Incidents","publishDate":1449877143,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A federal judge on Friday ordered the Oakland Police Department to implement an expanded system of reviewing officer-involved shootings to ensure the department looks at how it might avoid using deadly force in such incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson issued a three-page order that rebuked department and city leaders for delays in implementing the expanded review process, which was first recommended by a court-appointed monitor in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson oversees the settlement of a lawsuit arising from the Riders case, in which Oakland police officers were found to have abused suspects and violated their civil rights. Under the settlement agreement, the department is required to undertake an exhaustive series of reforms and must report on its progress to both a court-appointed monitor and compliance director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, after the department's first fatal officer-involved shooting in more than two years, the monitor, Robert Warshaw, recommended that the department's review of such incidents be widened to look at \"whether the use of deadly force may have been avoided, and to identify tactics, strategies, and opportunities as events unfolded that may have avoided such an outcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Henderson's Friday order, Warshaw's recommendation began a process in which Chief Sean Whent signed off on the expanded review concept, developed language for a new policy and, in November, conferred on the new policy with the Oakland Police Officers Association, the union representing rank-and-file members of the department. After that \"meet and confer\" process, Henderson wrote, Whent said the new policy would go into effect this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the judge says the department put the new policy on hold because the police union is insisting on further meetings. In his order, Henderson questioned whether those meetings were required under the union's contract, as the city has apparently suggested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even if the city was required to meet and confer, the union cannot unilaterally decide when the meet and confer process should be\u003cbr>\ndeemed complete,\" Henderson wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saying \"this process has gone on long enough,\" Henderson effectively ordered the Police Department to implement the new policy on Dec. 21 -- with or without the union's agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson noted that the negotiated settlement of the Riders case aims in part “to enhance the ability of the Oakland Police Department . . . to protect the lives, rights, dignity and property of the community it serves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Court can think of nothing that goes more to the heart of protecting lives,\" Henderson wrote Friday, \"than a policy that requires the Department to consider whether loss of life could have been avoided.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Henderson's order. But in a statement quoted \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_29236709/judge-overseeing-oakland-police-reforms-orders-city-implement\" target=\"_blank\">by the Oakland Tribune\u003c/a>, Chief Whent said the department takes police shootings \"very seriously.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued: \"We have been working with the OPOA to memorialize our current practice into the policy and we expect that will be completed very soon. A meeting has already been scheduled with the OPOA to hopefully bring resolution to this issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland police have \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/15/oakland-police-kill-man-they-say-brandished-replica-pistol\" target=\"_blank\">shot and killed six people\u003c/a>, all African-American men, since June. Four of those killings involved subjects police say had, or opened fire with, guns. One fatal shooting involved a man who brandished what turned out to be a replica pistol. In one case, an officer shot and killed a man who police say had struck her in the head with a bicycle chain.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Judge Thelton Henderson expresses frustration with delays and says department must consider ways in which uses of deadly force might be avoided. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1449881309,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":582},"headData":{"title":"Court Orders Oakland Police to Expand Review of 'Deadly Force' Incidents | KQED","description":"Judge Thelton Henderson expresses frustration with delays and says department must consider ways in which uses of deadly force might be avoided. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"10791070 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10791070","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/11/court-orders-oakland-police-to-expand-review-of-deadly-force-incidents/","disqusTitle":"Court Orders Oakland Police to Expand Review of 'Deadly Force' Incidents","path":"/news/10791070/court-orders-oakland-police-to-expand-review-of-deadly-force-incidents","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A federal judge on Friday ordered the Oakland Police Department to implement an expanded system of reviewing officer-involved shootings to ensure the department looks at how it might avoid using deadly force in such incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson issued a three-page order that rebuked department and city leaders for delays in implementing the expanded review process, which was first recommended by a court-appointed monitor in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson oversees the settlement of a lawsuit arising from the Riders case, in which Oakland police officers were found to have abused suspects and violated their civil rights. Under the settlement agreement, the department is required to undertake an exhaustive series of reforms and must report on its progress to both a court-appointed monitor and compliance director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, after the department's first fatal officer-involved shooting in more than two years, the monitor, Robert Warshaw, recommended that the department's review of such incidents be widened to look at \"whether the use of deadly force may have been avoided, and to identify tactics, strategies, and opportunities as events unfolded that may have avoided such an outcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Henderson's Friday order, Warshaw's recommendation began a process in which Chief Sean Whent signed off on the expanded review concept, developed language for a new policy and, in November, conferred on the new policy with the Oakland Police Officers Association, the union representing rank-and-file members of the department. After that \"meet and confer\" process, Henderson wrote, Whent said the new policy would go into effect this week.\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 the judge says the department put the new policy on hold because the police union is insisting on further meetings. In his order, Henderson questioned whether those meetings were required under the union's contract, as the city has apparently suggested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even if the city was required to meet and confer, the union cannot unilaterally decide when the meet and confer process should be\u003cbr>\ndeemed complete,\" Henderson wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saying \"this process has gone on long enough,\" Henderson effectively ordered the Police Department to implement the new policy on Dec. 21 -- with or without the union's agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson noted that the negotiated settlement of the Riders case aims in part “to enhance the ability of the Oakland Police Department . . . to protect the lives, rights, dignity and property of the community it serves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Court can think of nothing that goes more to the heart of protecting lives,\" Henderson wrote Friday, \"than a policy that requires the Department to consider whether loss of life could have been avoided.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Henderson's order. But in a statement quoted \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_29236709/judge-overseeing-oakland-police-reforms-orders-city-implement\" target=\"_blank\">by the Oakland Tribune\u003c/a>, Chief Whent said the department takes police shootings \"very seriously.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued: \"We have been working with the OPOA to memorialize our current practice into the policy and we expect that will be completed very soon. A meeting has already been scheduled with the OPOA to hopefully bring resolution to this issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland police have \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/15/oakland-police-kill-man-they-say-brandished-replica-pistol\" target=\"_blank\">shot and killed six people\u003c/a>, all African-American men, since June. Four of those killings involved subjects police say had, or opened fire with, guns. One fatal shooting involved a man who brandished what turned out to be a replica pistol. In one case, an officer shot and killed a man who police say had struck her in the head with a bicycle chain.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10791070/court-orders-oakland-police-to-expand-review-of-deadly-force-incidents","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_416","news_6305","news_3470"],"featImg":"news_122860","label":"news_6944"},"news_10428691":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10428691","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10428691","score":null,"sort":[1423593025000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"opds-fast-release-of-info-on-police-shooting-may-signal-broader-trend","title":"Quick Release of Info on Oakland Police Shooting May Signal Change","publishDate":1423593025,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The relatively quick and detailed release of information this past weekend regarding Oakland's first officer-involved shooting in almost two years signals a new culture of transparency in the department, experts and observers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland police dispatch got a call at 12:14 a.m. Saturday reporting that a 24-year-old male in psychiatric crisis was armed with a weapon and threatening to hit family members, according to the release (\u003ca href=\"#release\">read below\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Oakland police sergeant and other officers responded to the call and headed to the 2100 block of East 17th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They encountered a man carrying two golf clubs, who tried to strike the officers. They issued commands and then tried Tasers, but the stun gun probes didn't make contact. One of the officers fired his or her gun. No one was injured, and the man was transported by paramedics for a mental health evaluation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are still details of the incident that are unclear. An OPD public information officer did not immediately have answers regarding department policy for dispatching specially trained police to calls involving mental illness, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what was released, and the speed with which it was, could be part of a recent broader change in response to outrage over police shootings around the country in 2014, UC Hastings law Professor Hadar Aviram said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re seeing more and more police departments trying to be more transparent,\" she said, \"partly because it’s better PR for them, and partly to satisfy this concern about lack of transparency. So this is part of a growing trend, and a growing trend to combat the kind of critique and negative press that they’re getting -- arguably justifiably -- for the way they’ve acted in other events in the past.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland civil rights attorney Jim Chanin has been litigating with the OPD since 1979, and he's one of a team of attorneys behind the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/06/oaklands-agreement-on-police-dept-receivership-by-any-other-name\" target=\"_blank\">Negotiated Settlement Agreement\u003c/a> stemming from the Riders scandal that erupted in 2000. Chanin's been pushing the OPD for greater transparency and better use-of-force policies through that process for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the department has changed, but only recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you’d asked me that question in 2012, when I’d been doing this for nine years, I would have said no,\" Chanin said, \"but since you’re asking the question in 2015 ... the answer’s yes. The department is much more open and transparent since Sean Whent was appointed as chief of police.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whent was named interim chief in May 2013 -- a few weeks before Oakland's last officer-involved shooting, in which a suspect was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chanin says that in the past couple years, some amazing things have happened with Oakland police use of force, crime and the department's relationship with the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Citizen complaints have fallen in Oakland by 33 percent,\" Chanin said. \"Uses of force are down even more than a third, yet arrests are up and crime is down. So what that shows is you can have constitutional, transparent policing without raising your crime rate or endangering officer safety. And I think that's an important lesson that departments around the country should take note of.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps they are. Whent is on the national stage, recently speaking in Washington, D.C., about his department's evolving crowd management policies following violent clashes with protesters during Occupy Oakland. He was on a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/05/eric-holder-seeks-straight-talk-on-policing-in-bay-area-visit/\" target=\"_blank\">panel last week\u003c/a> with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder talking police/community relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Oakland Police Department was also an early adopter of body-worn cameras, with every uniformed cop wearing one since 2013. Officers' cameras were rolling during Friday's incident, according to the department, and investigators are reviewing the footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cameras won't solve all problems, Aviram said, but they can help diffuse violence on both sides of the badge before it happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The cops that use the lapel cameras are reporting that they’re seeing a lot less animosity from people who see that the interaction with the cops is being recorded,\" she said. \"It may also be curbing the cops' tendency to use force or be more aggressive in an interaction with citizens if they know that it’s being recorded.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the same goes for a department that knows it's expected to report details of critical incidents quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the police department itself knows the information is being disseminated,\" Aviram said, \"they might try to combat bad policies to begin with to avoid the negative publicity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An open and approachable police department will have a better relationship with the community it polices, Chanin said, which will improve officer safety and help solve crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Aviram said that kind of relationship might still be a ways off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think right now there is a lot of public animosity, much of it understandable, much of it justified, toward police departments and toward the way they’ve been acting,\" she said. \"So I think it’s going to take a pretty substantial change to restore community faith in police behavior.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"release\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nRead the news release below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=255248953 key=key-9DcBM0RkTOqOTYQjNzbE mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Police departments are moving toward transparency, and observers say Oakland is ahead of the curve.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1423611048,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":876},"headData":{"title":"Quick Release of Info on Oakland Police Shooting May Signal Change | KQED","description":"Police departments are moving toward transparency, and observers say Oakland is ahead of the curve.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"10428691 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10428691","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/10/opds-fast-release-of-info-on-police-shooting-may-signal-broader-trend/","disqusTitle":"Quick Release of Info on Oakland Police Shooting May Signal Change","path":"/news/10428691/opds-fast-release-of-info-on-police-shooting-may-signal-broader-trend","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The relatively quick and detailed release of information this past weekend regarding Oakland's first officer-involved shooting in almost two years signals a new culture of transparency in the department, experts and observers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland police dispatch got a call at 12:14 a.m. Saturday reporting that a 24-year-old male in psychiatric crisis was armed with a weapon and threatening to hit family members, according to the release (\u003ca href=\"#release\">read below\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Oakland police sergeant and other officers responded to the call and headed to the 2100 block of East 17th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They encountered a man carrying two golf clubs, who tried to strike the officers. They issued commands and then tried Tasers, but the stun gun probes didn't make contact. One of the officers fired his or her gun. No one was injured, and the man was transported by paramedics for a mental health evaluation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are still details of the incident that are unclear. An OPD public information officer did not immediately have answers regarding department policy for dispatching specially trained police to calls involving mental illness, for example.\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 what was released, and the speed with which it was, could be part of a recent broader change in response to outrage over police shootings around the country in 2014, UC Hastings law Professor Hadar Aviram said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re seeing more and more police departments trying to be more transparent,\" she said, \"partly because it’s better PR for them, and partly to satisfy this concern about lack of transparency. So this is part of a growing trend, and a growing trend to combat the kind of critique and negative press that they’re getting -- arguably justifiably -- for the way they’ve acted in other events in the past.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland civil rights attorney Jim Chanin has been litigating with the OPD since 1979, and he's one of a team of attorneys behind the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/06/oaklands-agreement-on-police-dept-receivership-by-any-other-name\" target=\"_blank\">Negotiated Settlement Agreement\u003c/a> stemming from the Riders scandal that erupted in 2000. Chanin's been pushing the OPD for greater transparency and better use-of-force policies through that process for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the department has changed, but only recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you’d asked me that question in 2012, when I’d been doing this for nine years, I would have said no,\" Chanin said, \"but since you’re asking the question in 2015 ... the answer’s yes. The department is much more open and transparent since Sean Whent was appointed as chief of police.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whent was named interim chief in May 2013 -- a few weeks before Oakland's last officer-involved shooting, in which a suspect was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chanin says that in the past couple years, some amazing things have happened with Oakland police use of force, crime and the department's relationship with the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Citizen complaints have fallen in Oakland by 33 percent,\" Chanin said. \"Uses of force are down even more than a third, yet arrests are up and crime is down. So what that shows is you can have constitutional, transparent policing without raising your crime rate or endangering officer safety. And I think that's an important lesson that departments around the country should take note of.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps they are. Whent is on the national stage, recently speaking in Washington, D.C., about his department's evolving crowd management policies following violent clashes with protesters during Occupy Oakland. He was on a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/05/eric-holder-seeks-straight-talk-on-policing-in-bay-area-visit/\" target=\"_blank\">panel last week\u003c/a> with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder talking police/community relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Oakland Police Department was also an early adopter of body-worn cameras, with every uniformed cop wearing one since 2013. Officers' cameras were rolling during Friday's incident, according to the department, and investigators are reviewing the footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cameras won't solve all problems, Aviram said, but they can help diffuse violence on both sides of the badge before it happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The cops that use the lapel cameras are reporting that they’re seeing a lot less animosity from people who see that the interaction with the cops is being recorded,\" she said. \"It may also be curbing the cops' tendency to use force or be more aggressive in an interaction with citizens if they know that it’s being recorded.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the same goes for a department that knows it's expected to report details of critical incidents quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the police department itself knows the information is being disseminated,\" Aviram said, \"they might try to combat bad policies to begin with to avoid the negative publicity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An open and approachable police department will have a better relationship with the community it polices, Chanin said, which will improve officer safety and help solve crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Aviram said that kind of relationship might still be a ways off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think right now there is a lot of public animosity, much of it understandable, much of it justified, toward police departments and toward the way they’ve been acting,\" she said. \"So I think it’s going to take a pretty substantial change to restore community faith in police behavior.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"release\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nRead the news release below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ciframe\n class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\"\n src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/255248953/content?start_page=1&view_mode=&access_key=key-9DcBM0RkTOqOTYQjNzbE\"\n title=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/255248953\"\n data-auto-height=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"scribd_255248953\"\n width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n \u003ca class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__scribdShortcode__scribd_footer\"\n href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/255248953\"\n target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View this document on Scribd\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10428691/opds-fast-release-of-info-on-police-shooting-may-signal-broader-trend","authors":["3206"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188"],"tags":["news_416","news_3156","news_6305"],"featImg":"news_136282","label":"news_6944"},"news_136015":{"type":"posts","id":"news_136015","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"136015","score":null,"sort":[1400098501000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"report-whent-to-be-named-oakland-police-chief","title":"It's Official: Sean Whent Named Oakland Police Chief","publishDate":1400098501,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/whent.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-136024\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/whent.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent speaking to the media and the community last June about his department's crime-reduction efforts. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent speaking to the media and the community last June about his department's crime-reduction efforts. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:15 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Declaring \"Oakland is a safer city today than it was a year ago,\" Mayor Jean Quan confirmed that interim Police Chief Sean Whent has been hired to lead the department. In a statement, Quan said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As a non-nonsense chief, he has led the department’s reorganization, built a strong leadership team and strengthened police collaboration with neighborhood leaders. We’ve made significant progress in the last year in both reducing crime and completing mandated federal reforms. We have more more work to do, but Chief Whent has demonstrated he is the right person for the job.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: \u003c/strong> After a year as interim chief, Sean Whent is about to be named Oakland's police chief — and one of the department's severest critics says it's a good move. Mayor Jean Quan and other city officials have scheduled a 1 p.m. news conference to announce that Whent, who is 39, has been chosen following a nationwide search, according to the\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_25760513/went-be-named-permanent-oakland-police-chief\"> Oakland Tribune\u003c/a> and other reports. Oakland attorney John Burris, a frequent critic of department policy who has represented many plaintiffs in suits against the city, called Whent \"a good, solid choice.\" He says Whent, who is serving alongside an overseer appointed by a federal judge, has been particularly effective in moving the department toward compliance with a court-decreed civil rights agreement. The Trib says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Whent's appointment is no surprise. His performance had recently been praised both by department's federal overseer, Robert Warshaw, and Mayor Jean Quan. Whent ascended to interim chief last year during one of the most turbulent weeks in Oakland Police Department history. Within 48 hours, Chief Howard Jordan announced he was taking a medical retirement. His initial replacement, Assistant Chief Anthony Toribio, quickly stepped down to make room for Whent. Whent, who had spent several years overseeing the investigation of officer misconduct, was seen as the preferred choice at the time of the department's federal overseers. His tenure in the Internal Affairs Division also made him unpopular with many officers. Whent got off to a rocky start as chief. He was criticized for the department's failure to prepare for violent protests that broke out following a Saturday evening acquittal in the killing of Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Whent faced more heat when he questioned whether police could safeguard downtown businesses that had been damaged the previous night by hammer-wielding protesters. But crime started falling during his first year in office after two years in which robberies and burglaries spiked. This year, major crimes are down 13 percent. Likewise, the department has made strides in satisfying court-ordered reforms stemming from the 1999 Riders police brutality scandal. A progress report released last month by Warshaw showed that the department was closer to completing the reforms than at any point since federal oversight began 11 years ago.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Oakland attorney Burris points to Warshaw's report on the OPD's recent progress in complying with a negotiated court settlement of a 2003 civil rights lawsuit as evidence that Whent has already been effective:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"He has worked very well as an interim chief. He has put together a good command staff. He seems to have a good vision for the future. He has done a very good job of working with the monitor to implement the Negotiated Settlement Agreement. In my point of view, I think it’s a good choice. I didn’t think it would be wise to find someone outside the department at a time when the NSA was not completed, and there would be a significant learning curve. So this is a good sound decision for the department. \"I recognize there have been some tension with the leadership of the union, who have voiced some opposition to Chief Whent along the way, but I think that’s good. There should be some tension between the chief and the union. The chief represents the entire department, not just the union, and is responsive to the city, so I think it’s a good thing there’s some tension.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Permanent appointment of interim chief wins praise from one of the department's severest critics. 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(Deborah Svoboda/KQED\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent speaking to the media and the community last June about his department's crime-reduction efforts. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:15 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Declaring \"Oakland is a safer city today than it was a year ago,\" Mayor Jean Quan confirmed that interim Police Chief Sean Whent has been hired to lead the department. In a statement, Quan said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As a non-nonsense chief, he has led the department’s reorganization, built a strong leadership team and strengthened police collaboration with neighborhood leaders. We’ve made significant progress in the last year in both reducing crime and completing mandated federal reforms. We have more more work to do, but Chief Whent has demonstrated he is the right person for the job.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: \u003c/strong> After a year as interim chief, Sean Whent is about to be named Oakland's police chief — and one of the department's severest critics says it's a good move. Mayor Jean Quan and other city officials have scheduled a 1 p.m. news conference to announce that Whent, who is 39, has been chosen following a nationwide search, according to the\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_25760513/went-be-named-permanent-oakland-police-chief\"> Oakland Tribune\u003c/a> and other reports. Oakland attorney John Burris, a frequent critic of department policy who has represented many plaintiffs in suits against the city, called Whent \"a good, solid choice.\" He says Whent, who is serving alongside an overseer appointed by a federal judge, has been particularly effective in moving the department toward compliance with a court-decreed civil rights agreement. The Trib says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Whent's appointment is no surprise. His performance had recently been praised both by department's federal overseer, Robert Warshaw, and Mayor Jean Quan. Whent ascended to interim chief last year during one of the most turbulent weeks in Oakland Police Department history. Within 48 hours, Chief Howard Jordan announced he was taking a medical retirement. His initial replacement, Assistant Chief Anthony Toribio, quickly stepped down to make room for Whent. Whent, who had spent several years overseeing the investigation of officer misconduct, was seen as the preferred choice at the time of the department's federal overseers. His tenure in the Internal Affairs Division also made him unpopular with many officers. Whent got off to a rocky start as chief. He was criticized for the department's failure to prepare for violent protests that broke out following a Saturday evening acquittal in the killing of Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Whent faced more heat when he questioned whether police could safeguard downtown businesses that had been damaged the previous night by hammer-wielding protesters. But crime started falling during his first year in office after two years in which robberies and burglaries spiked. This year, major crimes are down 13 percent. Likewise, the department has made strides in satisfying court-ordered reforms stemming from the 1999 Riders police brutality scandal. A progress report released last month by Warshaw showed that the department was closer to completing the reforms than at any point since federal oversight began 11 years ago.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Oakland attorney Burris points to Warshaw's report on the OPD's recent progress in complying with a negotiated court settlement of a 2003 civil rights lawsuit as evidence that Whent has already been effective:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"He has worked very well as an interim chief. He has put together a good command staff. He seems to have a good vision for the future. He has done a very good job of working with the monitor to implement the Negotiated Settlement Agreement. In my point of view, I think it’s a good choice. I didn’t think it would be wise to find someone outside the department at a time when the NSA was not completed, and there would be a significant learning curve. 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