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The requirement is one of three remaining reforms the department needs to make to end more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891855/oakland-police-departments-brutality-corruption-and-cover-up-and-long-road-toward-reform\">two decades of federal oversight stemming from a major police brutality scandal\u003c/a> involving a group of officers known as the “Riders” in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been on this journey for many, many years, and so hopefully, we were getting closer to closure,” said civil rights attorney John Burris, who represented the group of Oakland residents who brought the Riders misconduct case against the department. “However, this sort of puts at bay the possibility that it will happen very soon. These are still significant issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD has been under federal oversight since 2003, when it reached a settlement with Burris’ clients, and was tasked with making 52 operational reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s come into compliance with the vast majority of those, but before a district judge could release the department from court monitoring, it must come into compliance with three remaining “tasks” regarding the thoroughness and timeliness of misconduct investigations, and consistency of enforcement of disciplinary policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his most recent report, issued last week, court monitor Robert Warshaw said OPD is out of compliance with its mandated 6-month investigation timeline and another task related to the more general procedures for fielding and investigating complaints against officers. It is only partially compliant with the requirement related to disciplinary enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017328\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017328\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Police Department on Nov. 12, 2016. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Warshaw noted that in regard to timely investigations, “there has been an unacceptable backslide” in recent months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Burris and Jim Chanin, another civil rights attorney who litigated the Riders case, raised alarms after investigators took \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/03/oakland-police-federal-oversight-complaint/\">15 months to resolve a misconduct complaint\u003c/a>. In his recent report, Warsaw found that in the first quarter of 2025, investigators missed the six-month time limit in 19 cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The timeliness requirements for the completion of investigations are intended to ensure that members of the community who file complaints, or OPD personnel who are the subjects of complaints, can get redress in a six-month period of time,” Warshaw said. “[The task] has a lower compliance threshold than do the other tasks, so it is disappointing to note this backslide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court’s six-month window is more strict than the state’s mandated yearlong timeline for investigating such complaints.[aside postID=news_12064143 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00679_TV-KQED-1.jpg']Warshaw reported that the department is in partial compliance with the reform regarding consistent discipline, but that ongoing timeliness and procedural issues have direct and indirect impacts that are keeping it from meeting full compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris noted a “concerning” point in the monitoring report: African American officers are being disciplined at higher rates than white officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to figure that out as to what’s causing that,” the attorney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The monitoring report said OPD is also out of compliance with the third remaining reform task related to the general quality and thoroughness of investigation procedures. But Warshaw was less specific about why that is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wrote that his monitoring team did not find non-compliance with many of the specific subtasks in the complaint process, but that “there remains in the Internal Affairs Bureau a number of issues, concerns, and developments” that cannot be discussed publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said these appear to be issues in how the Bureau operates, more than the conclusions that they reach when they investigate misconduct allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has been plagued by turnover in department leadership in recent years, among other controversies, which Burris said has made it challenging to ensure that leaders — especially those who come to Oakland from outside the department — understand and are committed to the reform work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11981030 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240327-OPD-CHIEF-MITCHELL-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240327-OPD-CHIEF-MITCHELL-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240327-OPD-CHIEF-MITCHELL-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240327-OPD-CHIEF-MITCHELL-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240327-OPD-CHIEF-MITCHELL-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240327-OPD-CHIEF-MITCHELL-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240327-OPD-CHIEF-MITCHELL-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then-newly appointed OPD Chief, Floyd Mitchell, speaks at a press conference at Oakland City Hall on March 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It is not our intent to single out any of its leadership, or its hardworking investigators,” Warshaw’s report continued. “But that said, there are matters of serious concern that remain unresolved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said Police Chief Floyd Mitchell, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980455/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-appoints-floyd-mitchell-as-new-police-chief\">came to Oakland from Texas in 2024\u003c/a> and announced that he would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059098/oaklands-police-chief-is-resigning-after-just-a-year-and-a-half\">step down in December\u003c/a>, had not seemed fully aware of how involved and central to the chief’s role the settlement compliance work would be, nor particularly interested in leading it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think he understood the significance of the various reforms that we had agreed to and why they were important,” Burris \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059098/oaklands-police-chief-is-resigning-after-just-a-year-and-a-half\">told KQED at the time\u003c/a>. “I think he was something he dealt with because he had to do it, and so I didn’t think he’s a willing participant in that process — a reluctant participant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warshaw said in the conclusion of his report that he is optimistic about the direction the department could move now under the leadership of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040935/barbara-lee-sworn-in-as-oaklands-mayor-says-today-marks-a-new-era\">Mayor Barbara Lee\u003c/a>, who took office in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The noncompliant tasks are a result of personnel and systemic failures not of her making,” Warshaw wrote. “Mayor Lee has immersed herself into [settlement agreement] matters and has been striving to ensure that the department is staffed with the best qualified leaders that are available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming months, Lee will select a new Police Chief to replace Mitchell, who will helm the reform work and oversee the Internal Affairs Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an opportunity for the mayor to really put together a futuristic team that not only covers the next couple of years, but into the next administration, and that [has] a vision and appreciation for the [settlement agreement] and what it’s trying to do,” Burris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/south-bay\">South Bay\u003c/a> housing officials are cheering the opening of a new affordable apartment complex adjacent to a once massive homeless encampment in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose\">San José\u003c/a>, but the celebration has been dampened by looming cuts to federal housing funding by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Trump administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elected leaders and advocates for the unhoused in the region say changes to a longstanding federal homelessness support program will make it harder to get and keep people housed, and threaten the stability of thousands of families in pricey Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not going to get more people off the street by pushing others onto it,” Rep. 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This overhaul comes amid a nationwide backlog of immigration cases — with about 120,000 currently pending in the Bay Area alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Davis Law Professor Kevin Johnson said that it’s not uncommon for presidents to appoint judges whose philosophy matches their own, but that the current administration appears to be not only at hiring, but firing, the federal judges based on their immigration ideology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very aggressive, and it’s like nothing we’ve seen in any of the previous five or six administrations. I don’t remember it ever happening in U.S. history,” he told KQED. “But it’s happening now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Judges Amber George, Jeremiah Johnson, Louis Gordon, Shuting Chen and Patrick Savage were fired from San Francisco’s immigration court, which at the start of the year had more than 20 judges, according to Milli Atkinson, the director of the Immigrant Legal Defense Program with the Bar Association of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, she said, the bench is down to just nine judges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, at least \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054620/despite-a-growing-case-backlog-trump-fires-6th-san-francisco-immigration-judge\">seven other Bay Area judges were fired\u003c/a>, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055416/trump-fires-san-franciscos-top-immigration-judge\">city’s top judge, Loi McCleskey, who was terminated\u003c/a> after just over a year on the job in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063685\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_ICE-Vigil_GH-15_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_ICE-Vigil_GH-15_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_ICE-Vigil_GH-15_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_ICE-Vigil_GH-15_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign reading “Santuario: Manteniendo Familias Unidas” (“Sanctuary: Keeping Families United”) during the Faith in Action “Walking Our Faith” vigil outside the San Francisco Immigration Court on Nov. 6, 2025. The multi-faith gathering called for compassion and protection for immigrant families. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The firings of longstanding adjudicators have been without explanation from the DOJ, according to Atkinson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The general belief among the immigration legal community is that they are trying to remove judges who’ve been longstanding civil servants who’ve been very experienced in adjudicating these cases here in San Francisco and filling the bench with judges who are more aligned with the political beliefs of this administration and are going to follow policy memos and directives from the administration,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Justice did not respond to a request for comment on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s immigration court has historically granted asylum at higher rates than the national average, and 11 of the 12 judges who have lost their jobs have higher-than-average asylum-granting rates. The three San Francisco judges with the highest rates of asylum were all terminated earlier this year.[aside postID=news_12065068 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/HooverElementaryGetty.jpg']Attorneys told KQED in September that the discrepancy between rates across jurisdictions is likely due to a multitude of factors, including that asylum seekers in San Francisco are more likely to have representation and required to meet different standards than in some other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former immigration judge Dana Leigh Marks told KQED at the time that the firings also appear to be targeting those who have previously worked in immigrant advocacy rights, private practice or public interest law, while others who rose through the ranks as prosecutors for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division of the Department of Homeland Security have kept their appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an effort to change things by removing people as well as selecting new people who are going to be with their party line,” Professor Kevin Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atkinson said that the firings will require a major reshuffling of scheduled proceedings, which will make attorneys’ jobs more difficult, since they usually know how the presiding judge runs proceedings and tailor preparation and testimony and preparation to fit their style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is also jarring for asylum seekers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12003275 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In August, the U.S. Department of Justice lowered the prerequisites to qualify for temporary judge positions, removing the requirement that candidates have prior experience. \u003ccite>(J. 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The following week, the federal government authorized 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges, NPR reported.[aside postID=news_12063980 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231005-TRUCK-GETTY-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Experts who spoke with KQED worried more, though, that in the long term, the firings could be making way for a more partisan immigration court system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has just been so extreme that it really is a radical departure from past experiences in terms of people being fired despite good performance,” Marks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the court’s enforcement priorities typically shift with each administration, since it is housed within the Department of Justice, Atkinson said sitting judges are now under unprecedented pressure to make decisions that the DOJ agrees with, or face possible termination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New immigration judge job\u003ca href=\"https://join.justice.gov/\"> postings\u003c/a> in San Francisco and other cities, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Sec_Noem\">advertised\u003c/a> on social media by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem the day before the firings, seek candidates to apply for roles as “deportation judges,” who would “restore integrity and honor to our Nation’s Immigration Court system” and ensure that “only aliens with legally meritorious claims are allowed to remain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think immigration judges are the canaries in the coal mine of the judicial system in America, they are the early warning system,” Marks said. “I fear that this kind of erratic, irrational and probably illegal behavior by the administration is just starting at the immigration courts. 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"content": "\u003cp>Advocates are calling for an investigation into reports that more than a dozen women incarcerated at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> jail were strip-searched in front of male deputies and recorded on body-worn cameras, in violation of city policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a rally on Monday outside the county jail on Seventh Street, attorneys and organizers urged officials to suspend the involved deputies while an investigation takes place, and called on the city to fund independent oversight over the sheriff’s department to protect incarcerated women going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It ends here,” said attorney Elizabeth Bertolino, who last week filed a government claim on behalf of 19 women who say they were searched. The complaint could be a precursor to a lawsuit against the city, according to San Francisco public defender’s office spokesperson Valerie Ibarra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not going away, this is not being swept under the rug. We are not asking for an apology, we are demanding change,” Bertolino said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 22, women incarcerated at the 7th Street jail allege that sheriff’s deputies entered their housing unit and conducted strip searches, according to a separate complaint filed last month with the Department of Police Accountability and San Francisco Sheriff’s Office by Assistant Chief Public Defender Angela Chan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065250\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Connie Chan speaks alongside Public Defender Mano Raju during a rally outside the San Francisco County Jail in San Francisco on Nov. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It said the women were called to the center of their housing area around 4:45 p.m. and taken one by one to a bathroom or meeting room, where female deputies instructed them to undress, “bend over, spread cheeks and cough.” The searches were conducted in spaces visible to the other women in the unit, according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say that male deputies were present and laughed and joked as they watched the women undress. Some deputies activated body-worn cameras, they said, and one deputy allegedly taunted them that he would post the videos online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no explanation for the dehumanizing, violative searches that left several women crying,” Chan wrote.[aside postID=news_12063606 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230816-Dublin-Womens-Prison-Suit-MD-01_qed-1020x680.jpg']Attorneys said the incident violated multiple laws and department policies, which state that male deputies should not be present when women are strip-searched, except in emergency situations, and that body-worn cameras cannot be activated. The searches must also happen in private areas and cannot be performed indiscriminately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By antagonizing the women and taunting them with threats of publishing the video — and even with making the videos in the first place — they violated policies put in place to ensure everyone is treated with respect,” Chan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sheriff’s Office said it was aware of the allegations and takes complaints seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The conduct described is deeply concerning and does not reflect the policies, procedures, or professional standards we require of our staff,” spokesperson Tara Moriarty said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said “personnel action” was taken in response to the complaints, but she did not specify and she denied the allegations of a mass strip search by deputies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065252\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-7-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-7-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-7-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-7-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign, reading “Shame,” during a rally outside the San Francisco County Jail in San Francisco on Nov. 24, 2025. The demonstration was organized in response to reports of deputies conducting an alleged illegal mass strip search of women in custody. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Rather, women were individually searched by female deputies in single-person stalls,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City attorney’s office spokesperson Alex Barrett-Shorter said via email that the office was reviewing the claims and would respond to the claimants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chan’s report, multiple women had already filed grievances about the May incident and similar situations that had occurred in a different housing area. At least some of the women whom the public defender’s office spoke to are now a part of the government claim filed last week by Bertolino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many more fear reprisals for speaking out about their treatment,” Chan wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065256\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-20-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An altar honoring incarcerated people sits outside the San Francisco County Jail in San Francisco on Nov. 24, 2025, during a rally denouncing reports of an alleged illegal strip search of women held inside the jail. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After \u003cem>Mission Local \u003c/em>first published \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-jail-sheriff-mass-strip-search/\">an investigation\u003c/a> into the mass search on Thursday, Supervisor Shamann Walton called for independent oversight of the Sheriff’s Office, saying the city’s current system failed to protect women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are not isolated incidents,” he wrote on social media. “This is a system that allows abuse to go unchecked because the offices responsible for accountability do not have the staff or resources they need to do their job. When oversight is underfunded, people in custody, especially women, are left vulnerable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jackie Fielder echoed Walton, saying at the rally on Monday that the incident is an example of what happens when the city’s current sheriff’s oversight commission is not funded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065251\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065251\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-3-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks to reporters outside the San Francisco County Jail in San Francisco on Nov. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Voters passed a ballot measure creating the Sheriff’s Department Oversight Board in 2020, after years of complaints of misconduct \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004964/weeks-later-death-of-young-black-woman-in-sf-jail-remains-shrouded-in-mystery\">in city jails\u003c/a>. The body is tasked with fielding complaints and recommending policy changes for the Sheriff’s Department, and appointing an inspector general to oversee investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in 2024, then-Mayor London Breed’s budget did not allocate funding for the inspector general position, and the body has continuously had a vacancy rate over 25%. Over the summer, it was included in the list of “borderline inactive bodies” recommended for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053019/luries-task-force-recommends-axing-sf-sheriff-oversight-board\">possible elimination\u003c/a> by the city’s Commission Streamlining Task Force, which was created by a 2024 ballot measure to reduce the high number of city committees and commissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors have also said they plan to hold a hearing on the issue, but details about when that will be held aren’t known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are laws on the books to prevent and also to have accountability for instances of injustice like this, which amounts to blatant human rights abuses,” Fielder said at the rally on Monday. “This is gender-based violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/eromero\">\u003cem>Ezra David Romero\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The searches must also happen in private areas and cannot be performed indiscriminately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By antagonizing the women and taunting them with threats of publishing the video — and even with making the videos in the first place — they violated policies put in place to ensure everyone is treated with respect,” Chan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sheriff’s Office said it was aware of the allegations and takes complaints seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The conduct described is deeply concerning and does not reflect the policies, procedures, or professional standards we require of our staff,” spokesperson Tara Moriarty said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said “personnel action” was taken in response to the complaints, but she did not specify and she denied the allegations of a mass strip search by deputies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065252\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-7-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-7-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-7-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-7-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign, reading “Shame,” during a rally outside the San Francisco County Jail in San Francisco on Nov. 24, 2025. The demonstration was organized in response to reports of deputies conducting an alleged illegal mass strip search of women in custody. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Rather, women were individually searched by female deputies in single-person stalls,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City attorney’s office spokesperson Alex Barrett-Shorter said via email that the office was reviewing the claims and would respond to the claimants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chan’s report, multiple women had already filed grievances about the May incident and similar situations that had occurred in a different housing area. At least some of the women whom the public defender’s office spoke to are now a part of the government claim filed last week by Bertolino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many more fear reprisals for speaking out about their treatment,” Chan wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065256\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-20-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An altar honoring incarcerated people sits outside the San Francisco County Jail in San Francisco on Nov. 24, 2025, during a rally denouncing reports of an alleged illegal strip search of women held inside the jail. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After \u003cem>Mission Local \u003c/em>first published \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-jail-sheriff-mass-strip-search/\">an investigation\u003c/a> into the mass search on Thursday, Supervisor Shamann Walton called for independent oversight of the Sheriff’s Office, saying the city’s current system failed to protect women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are not isolated incidents,” he wrote on social media. “This is a system that allows abuse to go unchecked because the offices responsible for accountability do not have the staff or resources they need to do their job. When oversight is underfunded, people in custody, especially women, are left vulnerable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jackie Fielder echoed Walton, saying at the rally on Monday that the incident is an example of what happens when the city’s current sheriff’s oversight commission is not funded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065251\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065251\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251124_SF-JAIL-RALLY_GH-3-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks to reporters outside the San Francisco County Jail in San Francisco on Nov. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Voters passed a ballot measure creating the Sheriff’s Department Oversight Board in 2020, after years of complaints of misconduct \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004964/weeks-later-death-of-young-black-woman-in-sf-jail-remains-shrouded-in-mystery\">in city jails\u003c/a>. The body is tasked with fielding complaints and recommending policy changes for the Sheriff’s Department, and appointing an inspector general to oversee investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in 2024, then-Mayor London Breed’s budget did not allocate funding for the inspector general position, and the body has continuously had a vacancy rate over 25%. Over the summer, it was included in the list of “borderline inactive bodies” recommended for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053019/luries-task-force-recommends-axing-sf-sheriff-oversight-board\">possible elimination\u003c/a> by the city’s Commission Streamlining Task Force, which was created by a 2024 ballot measure to reduce the high number of city committees and commissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors have also said they plan to hold a hearing on the issue, but details about when that will be held aren’t known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are laws on the books to prevent and also to have accountability for instances of injustice like this, which amounts to blatant human rights abuses,” Fielder said at the rally on Monday. “This is gender-based violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/eromero\">\u003cem>Ezra David Romero\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Early on a Tuesday morning in September, eight men and women lined up against a bright blue and yellow wall in a back room of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-police-department\">Oakland Police Department’s\u003c/a> downtown headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wearing gray T-shirts with their last names printed on the back, they shouted, “Yes, ma’am” or “Yes, sir,” in soldier-like unison when high-ranking officers nearby gave orders or asked questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recruits were part of OPD’s 195th police academy — the first in more than a year after a major budget shortfall forced the city to pause basic training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberly Galvan, one of three women in the class at the time, paid close attention as a defense tactics instructor explained how to drop to the ground and inch across the mat — a move that, if done well, could help the trainees avoid injury while on patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED just outside the room, Galvan recalled a male officer who had a positive influence on her growing up in Oakland. But, she said, she rarely encountered women in law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never had any female police officer role models,” Galvan, 32, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an adult, she was drawn to public service and became an OPD dispatcher. As she answered 911 calls and heard female officers responding, it occurred to her: Why not become a police officer herself?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058730\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00039_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00039_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00039_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00039_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberly Galvan warms up during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It inspired me, honestly, to want to take that next step in doing this,” Galvan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six weeks after her interview with KQED, however, Galvan was no longer in the academy. A spokesperson for the department said she did not pass one of the training courses required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class, which started with 26 recruits, is now down to 14, including one woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her part, Galvan plans to join the 196th academy, which begins today, the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This will be her third attempt.[aside postID=news_12059098 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240327-OPD-CHIEF-MITCHELL-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Oakland is among a growing number of law enforcement agencies that have pledged to boost the number of women in their ranks. The effort is spearheaded by the 30×30 initiative, which aims to have women make up 30% of police recruits nationwide by the year 2030. More than 400 agencies have signed the 30×30\u003ca href=\"https://30x30initiative.org/the-30x30-pledge/\"> pledge\u003c/a>, committing to reporting data on staffing, rooting out discrimination and examining procedures for hiring and promotion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many agencies, including OPD, have struggled to meet that goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, when OPD signed on to 30×30, 15% of the department’s officers were women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years later, that number remains largely unchanged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has created a lactation space and accompanying policy and is developing workshops for women interested in OPD jobs, said Sgt. Michael Romans-Rowe, who oversees the agency’s Background and Recruiting Unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking at panels that will have command staff, officers, retirees that are able to bring their perspective to a woman that’s interested in joining law enforcement and specifically with our agency,” Romans-Rowe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058740\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01271_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01271_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01271_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01271_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael J. Romans-Rowe, a police officer, poses for a portrait at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the department is facing a worsening staffing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Nov. 21, OPD had 625 officers. With 102 on some form of leave — military, medical or administrative — that means 523 officers are actively working. Meanwhile, five to six officers on average leave OPD each month, according to the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26209764-pfm-llc-opd-staffing-study/\">independent firm recommended\u003c/a> in April that Oakland have 877 police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is likely that OPD’s percentage of female officers has remained relatively unchanged [due] to factors such as natural attrition, the budgeted reduction in overall sworn staffing levels, and the recent hiring freeze,” Romans-Rowe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland isn’t alone. A 2019 study found 63% of surveyed police departments reported receiving fewer applications for sworn positions than in prior years. San Francisco’s police and sheriff’s departments are down 500 and 161 officers, respectively. The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office has nearly 200 vacancies, and Santa Clara County’s sheriff’s office is short 138 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In those first couple of years after the police murder of George Floyd, the profession was in crisis in a lot of ways. In some ways, I think, it continues to be,” said Maureen McGough, founder of the 30×30 initiative. “30×30 offers a promising and somewhat different path towards a partial solution for some of those problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058738\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01098_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01098_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01098_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01098_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The recruitment training unit can be found at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For decades, McGough said, police departments tended to focus their recruiting on candidates with military backgrounds or criminal justice degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are important populations. But there are other populations that are service-oriented with empathy and a desire to serve their community and great interpersonal skills — things that we know make good officers,” McGough said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, experts like Mary Dodge, professor of criminal justice at the University of Colorado, Denver, say that despite efforts to change the status quo, many agencies have struggled to boost the number of women in their ranks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not at all surprised by the 15% number,” Dodge said about Oakland’s level of female staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite all the research we have and everything that says that women make good officers — they can do the job as well as men — nothing changes,” she said. “You really have to, at some level, attribute that to this hyper-masculine environment that they’re entering, even in 2025.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘You belong in business suits and heels’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Margaret Dixon was a young mother in 1980, she saw an advertisement featuring a female police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll never forget,” she recalled. “It said, ‘Woman. Wife. Cop.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I fit all those categories,” Dixon said. “I was a woman, I was a wife. I was athletic. So I was like, ‘Wow, let me just try this.’ And I’m glad I did. It’s the best decision I could have made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063250\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT00562_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT00562_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT00562_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT00562_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Dixon, a retired Oakland police officer who works with students at Merritt College, poses for a portrait at Merritt College in Oakland on Nov. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dixon enrolled in Oakland’s police academy and worked for the department for 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent fall afternoon, she walked through a Merritt College classroom where she now advises the school’s Administration of Justice program, mentoring young women interested in careers in policing, corrections, and other justice-related fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why I’m so positive about really trying to get other women to do it, because I think if they get into it and see what they can bring to the job, they’ll be happy that they did,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Oakland Office of the Inspector General report tracking OPD police academies and field training found the percentage of female recruits remained unchanged between 2019 and 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dixon believes there needs to be more female police officers so women see the job as something they can do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are girls, young ladies, that want to do the work, but they don’t feel welcome because all they see is men,” Dixon said. “Women have to tell other women that — you can do this job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064208\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-womeninlawenforcement00527_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-womeninlawenforcement00527_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-womeninlawenforcement00527_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-womeninlawenforcement00527_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica (who did not share her last name for privacy reasons), a student at Merritt College who is studying to apply to the Oakland Police Academy, sits on a bench at Merritt College in Oakland on Nov. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of Dixon’s students, Veronica, recently took the Berkeley Police Department’s physical agility test but didn’t pass. KQED is not publishing her last name so she can speak candidly about the hiring process without harming her job prospects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The image of law enforcement doesn’t look like me. It doesn’t look like a single mom,” Veronica said. “It looks like a huge, masculine man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veronica had always wanted to be a homicide detective, but when she started pursuing the career, she felt discouraged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I even have male family members who have told me, like, you won’t be able to do it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lack of support from her community has made breaking into such a male-dominated field harder, she said. It has felt like she’s doing it on her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058732\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00606_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00606_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00606_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00606_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An instructor demonstrates a drill during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You go to a lot of these events and a lot of these training exercises, you look around and it’s like you’re one of maybe two [women], and it’s scary. It’s really intimidating,” Veronica said. “And you’re looking at them like, you know, maybe they were right. Maybe I don’t belong here. Maybe I should go get that desk job they told me to get. Oh, ‘You belong in business suits and heels.’ And it’s like, that’s not what I want to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she prepares physically and mentally to retake the test and apply to other academies, support from people like Dixon has helped, Veronica said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to see women because it makes us feel more able. Like I’m capable of the job. I see you’re here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means I can do it,” she said. “You have to stay encouraged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD Deputy Chief of Police Lisa Ausmus said she thinks the department has evolved since she first joined in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve just learned as a department to be better, to recognize people,” Ausmus said. “I see women in leadership roles now. I’m one of three deputy chiefs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ausmus said other women have had success at OPD, and are part of the DEA task force, SWAT teams and investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The officers here – man, woman, color, not color, it doesn’t matter. All they want to know is, Are you going to do your job?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What women bring\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Supporters of increasing the number of women in policing emphasize the different skills they bring to the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a strong and growing body of scientific evidence that shows that there’s a unique value in how women police,” McGough said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They use less force and excessive force,” she said. “They get better outcomes for crime victims, especially gender-based violence. They’re named in community complaints and lawsuits proportionally less often. They’re perceived as more trustworthy by diverse communities and especially communities who are impacted most by police activities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058735\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00759_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00759_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00759_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00759_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students’ duty belts lay on the floor during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bill Terrill, professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University, said that while the majority of research tends to reflect those positive outcomes, data on the use of force and gender is somewhat more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One study that Terrill co-authored found women and men used physical force similarly, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>When we looked at it,” Terrill said, “whether you’re male or female, if you’re faced with a physical threat, you’re going to use physical force. Gender doesn’t come into play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of 30×30’s recommended actions for police departments have to do with ensuring hiring assessments reflect the knowledge, skills, abilities and experiences required to be an effective officer.[aside postID=news_12057782 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg']“We’re really confident that as agencies do that, they’ll naturally see an increase in the number of women who are drawn to the profession and the number of women who pass assessments,” McGough said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to 30×30, agencies that reported recruitment data to the organization over two years achieved, on average, a 28% increase in the representation of women in recruit classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, the percentage of women who have completed police academies in recent years has varied from class to class, with women making up as little as 5%, and as much as 25% of recruit graduates since December 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While OPD’s academies have funding to train at least 33 recruits, recent classes have consistently graduated fewer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057073/oakland-naacp-partners-with-city-and-police-to-recruit-new-officers\">new task force\u003c/a> launched by Mayor Barbara Lee’s office is hoping to address that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a September press conference, Rev. Damita Davis-Howard, Lee’s director of public safety, stood alongside other members of the newly formed task force, including representatives of the Oakland NAACP and City Councilmember Charlene Wang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058734\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058734\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00720_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00720_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00720_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00720_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberly Galvan (center) practices a drill during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Not only do we want to recruit folks from our own neighborhoods, from our fair city, Oakland, we also want to make a special effort for dispatchers, but also women, women of color,” Davis-Howard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to women and native Oaklanders, the task force also wants to attract members of the LGBTQ community, Wang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis-Howard told KQED in an interview that the task force’s initial focus has been on increasing the number of people who sign up for, and finish, Oakland’s police academies, and that it plans to shift its focus to officer retention next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force, she said, is not limiting its recruitment efforts to any one group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>I think that if you do it for everybody, you’re going to reach that 30 by 30, right? Because I believe that all demographics are capable of doing this job,” Davis-Howard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064196\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00777_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00777_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00777_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00777_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students observe instructors demonstrating an exercise during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are looking at the whole package, from beginning to end. I’ve had folks call, understanding the mayor’s initiative to enhance recruitment, and say, ‘Hey, I’ve got this program over here. I could help folks get physically fit for the academy.’ Or another program that says, ‘Hey, we can offer support to folks who are in the academy,’” she said. “What we want to do is make the extra effort to actually get folks in, prepared, stay — and stay here in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Bay Area agencies have also struggled to recruit and retain enough officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Law enforcement is upside down right now. We have more vacancies than we have quality applicants,” said Piedmont Police Capt. Chris Monahan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monahan surveyed nearly 600 female officers for his doctoral research. Among the biggest challenges they reported were perceptions that policing is a man’s world and balancing work with family life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064194\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250911-LivermoreFile-11-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250911-LivermoreFile-11-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250911-LivermoreFile-11-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250911-LivermoreFile-11-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A police van with the insignia for multiple Bay Area police departments sits outside the Livermore Police Department on Sept. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Monahan said he brought a recruitment booth to a UC Berkeley women’s basketball game to try to find women interested in policing. It didn’t yield high results. The department may also try recruiting at Valkyries’ games next season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monahan said he has been so desperate to find candidates that he recruited his dog groomer and the boyfriend of a woman whose mother keeps a horse on his property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re down 20, 30 people, your drive is not women, women, woman — or man, man, man, for that matter,” Monahan said. “Your drive is candidate, candidate, candidate. Who can I find? Who can get through a background? Who can get through a police academy? Who can go through a field training program? Who can work on midnights for several years before they become a detective or a motor officer or a SWAT operator or whatever the case may be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Does Piedmont support 30×30? Absolutely. Is it the end-all, be-all of my life? It can’t be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Refilling the pipeline\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As Lee’s task force tries to refill OPD’s ranks, a pipeline from Merritt College that has been dormant since 2023 is gearing up to restart in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pipeline, or pre-academy, is designed to expose students to the training that takes place in the police academy, said Mildred Oliver, a retired OPD sergeant and co-chair of Merritt’s Administration of Justice program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students receive training in areas where many recruits fail out of the academy, such as driving, shooting and defensive tactics, Oliver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064195\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064195\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00434_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00434_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00434_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00434_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recruits warm up during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a recruit herself in the late ’90s, Oliver recalled a female captain in OPD’s training division who held meetings just for female trainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That made a huge difference,” Oliver said. “Because she understood that we were dealing with other stressors than our male counterparts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a male-dominated field and a lot of women either come in feeling like they are not valued or not strong enough to do the job or they may feel like they have to prove themselves and sometimes go overboard,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oliver retired from OPD in 2019. That year, she sued the department alleging race and gender discrimination, a hostile work environment and retaliation in connection with the department’s handling of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11757557/oakland-releases-heavily-redacted-records-that-shed-light-raise-questions-on-sex-abuse-case\">Celeste Guap scandal\u003c/a>, in which multiple Bay Area officers were accused of exploiting and having sex with an underage girl. Oliver was assigned to investigate as a member of the Internal Affairs Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065111\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065111\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00122_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00122_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00122_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00122_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students observe instructors demonstrating an exercise during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The OPD made Sgt. Oliver its scapegoat by removing her from the investigation, blaming her for its limitations, and launching a course of conduct to harass and retaliate against her,” an amended complaint in the lawsuit reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city awarded Oliver a $50,000 settlement last year. After attorneys’ fees, she said, she “didn’t see a dime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Oliver said she’s not bitter. Today, she’s doing the work she was called to, but on her own terms, she said. And she still encourages students to pursue jobs with OPD and other agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065125\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12065125 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/573936796_1232690352235524_1225952375076521984_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/573936796_1232690352235524_1225952375076521984_n.jpg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/573936796_1232690352235524_1225952375076521984_n-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flyer promoting OPD’s efforts to recruit women as part of the 30×30 initiative. \u003ccite>(Oakland Police Department via Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m still gung-ho about getting them into the career because it’s a great career,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to recruiting and retaining women, Dixon believes OPD could do more by inviting women to tour the department and meet female officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s got to start at the top,” Dixon said. “Do you really want more women, or are you just going along with the fad because it’s 30-30?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She believes the department should begin working with young people before they’re actually in the academy, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>Right now, you got one or two women in the academy. Maybe one of them will make it, maybe none of them will make it,” Dixon said. “Why are you hiring them, and they’re not making it? Do you really want them? Or do you want to just say, well, we hired two, but neither one of them made it. Why didn’t they make it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The profession, she said, still isn’t doing enough to show women they belong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why are we at this place now? Why are we here? Because of the work we didn’t do? And the work that we continue not to do,” Dixon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED just outside the room, Galvan recalled a male officer who had a positive influence on her growing up in Oakland. But, she said, she rarely encountered women in law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never had any female police officer role models,” Galvan, 32, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an adult, she was drawn to public service and became an OPD dispatcher. As she answered 911 calls and heard female officers responding, it occurred to her: Why not become a police officer herself?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058730\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00039_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00039_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00039_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00039_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberly Galvan warms up during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It inspired me, honestly, to want to take that next step in doing this,” Galvan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six weeks after her interview with KQED, however, Galvan was no longer in the academy. A spokesperson for the department said she did not pass one of the training courses required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class, which started with 26 recruits, is now down to 14, including one woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her part, Galvan plans to join the 196th academy, which begins today, the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This will be her third attempt.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Oakland is among a growing number of law enforcement agencies that have pledged to boost the number of women in their ranks. The effort is spearheaded by the 30×30 initiative, which aims to have women make up 30% of police recruits nationwide by the year 2030. More than 400 agencies have signed the 30×30\u003ca href=\"https://30x30initiative.org/the-30x30-pledge/\"> pledge\u003c/a>, committing to reporting data on staffing, rooting out discrimination and examining procedures for hiring and promotion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many agencies, including OPD, have struggled to meet that goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, when OPD signed on to 30×30, 15% of the department’s officers were women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years later, that number remains largely unchanged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has created a lactation space and accompanying policy and is developing workshops for women interested in OPD jobs, said Sgt. Michael Romans-Rowe, who oversees the agency’s Background and Recruiting Unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking at panels that will have command staff, officers, retirees that are able to bring their perspective to a woman that’s interested in joining law enforcement and specifically with our agency,” Romans-Rowe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058740\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01271_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01271_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01271_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01271_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael J. Romans-Rowe, a police officer, poses for a portrait at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the department is facing a worsening staffing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Nov. 21, OPD had 625 officers. With 102 on some form of leave — military, medical or administrative — that means 523 officers are actively working. Meanwhile, five to six officers on average leave OPD each month, according to the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26209764-pfm-llc-opd-staffing-study/\">independent firm recommended\u003c/a> in April that Oakland have 877 police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is likely that OPD’s percentage of female officers has remained relatively unchanged [due] to factors such as natural attrition, the budgeted reduction in overall sworn staffing levels, and the recent hiring freeze,” Romans-Rowe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland isn’t alone. A 2019 study found 63% of surveyed police departments reported receiving fewer applications for sworn positions than in prior years. San Francisco’s police and sheriff’s departments are down 500 and 161 officers, respectively. The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office has nearly 200 vacancies, and Santa Clara County’s sheriff’s office is short 138 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In those first couple of years after the police murder of George Floyd, the profession was in crisis in a lot of ways. In some ways, I think, it continues to be,” said Maureen McGough, founder of the 30×30 initiative. “30×30 offers a promising and somewhat different path towards a partial solution for some of those problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058738\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01098_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01098_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01098_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_01098_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The recruitment training unit can be found at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For decades, McGough said, police departments tended to focus their recruiting on candidates with military backgrounds or criminal justice degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are important populations. But there are other populations that are service-oriented with empathy and a desire to serve their community and great interpersonal skills — things that we know make good officers,” McGough said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, experts like Mary Dodge, professor of criminal justice at the University of Colorado, Denver, say that despite efforts to change the status quo, many agencies have struggled to boost the number of women in their ranks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not at all surprised by the 15% number,” Dodge said about Oakland’s level of female staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite all the research we have and everything that says that women make good officers — they can do the job as well as men — nothing changes,” she said. “You really have to, at some level, attribute that to this hyper-masculine environment that they’re entering, even in 2025.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘You belong in business suits and heels’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Margaret Dixon was a young mother in 1980, she saw an advertisement featuring a female police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll never forget,” she recalled. “It said, ‘Woman. Wife. Cop.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I fit all those categories,” Dixon said. “I was a woman, I was a wife. I was athletic. So I was like, ‘Wow, let me just try this.’ And I’m glad I did. It’s the best decision I could have made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063250\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT00562_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT00562_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT00562_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT00562_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Dixon, a retired Oakland police officer who works with students at Merritt College, poses for a portrait at Merritt College in Oakland on Nov. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dixon enrolled in Oakland’s police academy and worked for the department for 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent fall afternoon, she walked through a Merritt College classroom where she now advises the school’s Administration of Justice program, mentoring young women interested in careers in policing, corrections, and other justice-related fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why I’m so positive about really trying to get other women to do it, because I think if they get into it and see what they can bring to the job, they’ll be happy that they did,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Oakland Office of the Inspector General report tracking OPD police academies and field training found the percentage of female recruits remained unchanged between 2019 and 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dixon believes there needs to be more female police officers so women see the job as something they can do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are girls, young ladies, that want to do the work, but they don’t feel welcome because all they see is men,” Dixon said. “Women have to tell other women that — you can do this job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064208\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-womeninlawenforcement00527_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-womeninlawenforcement00527_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-womeninlawenforcement00527_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-womeninlawenforcement00527_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica (who did not share her last name for privacy reasons), a student at Merritt College who is studying to apply to the Oakland Police Academy, sits on a bench at Merritt College in Oakland on Nov. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of Dixon’s students, Veronica, recently took the Berkeley Police Department’s physical agility test but didn’t pass. KQED is not publishing her last name so she can speak candidly about the hiring process without harming her job prospects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The image of law enforcement doesn’t look like me. It doesn’t look like a single mom,” Veronica said. “It looks like a huge, masculine man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veronica had always wanted to be a homicide detective, but when she started pursuing the career, she felt discouraged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I even have male family members who have told me, like, you won’t be able to do it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lack of support from her community has made breaking into such a male-dominated field harder, she said. It has felt like she’s doing it on her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058732\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00606_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00606_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00606_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00606_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An instructor demonstrates a drill during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You go to a lot of these events and a lot of these training exercises, you look around and it’s like you’re one of maybe two [women], and it’s scary. It’s really intimidating,” Veronica said. “And you’re looking at them like, you know, maybe they were right. Maybe I don’t belong here. Maybe I should go get that desk job they told me to get. Oh, ‘You belong in business suits and heels.’ And it’s like, that’s not what I want to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she prepares physically and mentally to retake the test and apply to other academies, support from people like Dixon has helped, Veronica said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to see women because it makes us feel more able. Like I’m capable of the job. I see you’re here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means I can do it,” she said. “You have to stay encouraged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD Deputy Chief of Police Lisa Ausmus said she thinks the department has evolved since she first joined in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve just learned as a department to be better, to recognize people,” Ausmus said. “I see women in leadership roles now. I’m one of three deputy chiefs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ausmus said other women have had success at OPD, and are part of the DEA task force, SWAT teams and investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The officers here – man, woman, color, not color, it doesn’t matter. All they want to know is, Are you going to do your job?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What women bring\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Supporters of increasing the number of women in policing emphasize the different skills they bring to the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a strong and growing body of scientific evidence that shows that there’s a unique value in how women police,” McGough said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They use less force and excessive force,” she said. “They get better outcomes for crime victims, especially gender-based violence. They’re named in community complaints and lawsuits proportionally less often. They’re perceived as more trustworthy by diverse communities and especially communities who are impacted most by police activities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058735\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00759_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00759_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00759_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00759_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students’ duty belts lay on the floor during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bill Terrill, professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University, said that while the majority of research tends to reflect those positive outcomes, data on the use of force and gender is somewhat more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One study that Terrill co-authored found women and men used physical force similarly, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>When we looked at it,” Terrill said, “whether you’re male or female, if you’re faced with a physical threat, you’re going to use physical force. Gender doesn’t come into play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of 30×30’s recommended actions for police departments have to do with ensuring hiring assessments reflect the knowledge, skills, abilities and experiences required to be an effective officer.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We’re really confident that as agencies do that, they’ll naturally see an increase in the number of women who are drawn to the profession and the number of women who pass assessments,” McGough said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to 30×30, agencies that reported recruitment data to the organization over two years achieved, on average, a 28% increase in the representation of women in recruit classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, the percentage of women who have completed police academies in recent years has varied from class to class, with women making up as little as 5%, and as much as 25% of recruit graduates since December 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While OPD’s academies have funding to train at least 33 recruits, recent classes have consistently graduated fewer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057073/oakland-naacp-partners-with-city-and-police-to-recruit-new-officers\">new task force\u003c/a> launched by Mayor Barbara Lee’s office is hoping to address that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a September press conference, Rev. Damita Davis-Howard, Lee’s director of public safety, stood alongside other members of the newly formed task force, including representatives of the Oakland NAACP and City Councilmember Charlene Wang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058734\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058734\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00720_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00720_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00720_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250930_WOMENINLAWENFORCEMENT_00720_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberly Galvan (center) practices a drill during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Not only do we want to recruit folks from our own neighborhoods, from our fair city, Oakland, we also want to make a special effort for dispatchers, but also women, women of color,” Davis-Howard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to women and native Oaklanders, the task force also wants to attract members of the LGBTQ community, Wang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis-Howard told KQED in an interview that the task force’s initial focus has been on increasing the number of people who sign up for, and finish, Oakland’s police academies, and that it plans to shift its focus to officer retention next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force, she said, is not limiting its recruitment efforts to any one group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>I think that if you do it for everybody, you’re going to reach that 30 by 30, right? Because I believe that all demographics are capable of doing this job,” Davis-Howard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064196\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00777_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00777_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00777_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00777_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students observe instructors demonstrating an exercise during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are looking at the whole package, from beginning to end. I’ve had folks call, understanding the mayor’s initiative to enhance recruitment, and say, ‘Hey, I’ve got this program over here. I could help folks get physically fit for the academy.’ Or another program that says, ‘Hey, we can offer support to folks who are in the academy,’” she said. “What we want to do is make the extra effort to actually get folks in, prepared, stay — and stay here in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Bay Area agencies have also struggled to recruit and retain enough officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Law enforcement is upside down right now. We have more vacancies than we have quality applicants,” said Piedmont Police Capt. Chris Monahan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monahan surveyed nearly 600 female officers for his doctoral research. Among the biggest challenges they reported were perceptions that policing is a man’s world and balancing work with family life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064194\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250911-LivermoreFile-11-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250911-LivermoreFile-11-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250911-LivermoreFile-11-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250911-LivermoreFile-11-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A police van with the insignia for multiple Bay Area police departments sits outside the Livermore Police Department on Sept. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Monahan said he brought a recruitment booth to a UC Berkeley women’s basketball game to try to find women interested in policing. It didn’t yield high results. The department may also try recruiting at Valkyries’ games next season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monahan said he has been so desperate to find candidates that he recruited his dog groomer and the boyfriend of a woman whose mother keeps a horse on his property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re down 20, 30 people, your drive is not women, women, woman — or man, man, man, for that matter,” Monahan said. “Your drive is candidate, candidate, candidate. Who can I find? Who can get through a background? Who can get through a police academy? Who can go through a field training program? Who can work on midnights for several years before they become a detective or a motor officer or a SWAT operator or whatever the case may be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Does Piedmont support 30×30? Absolutely. Is it the end-all, be-all of my life? It can’t be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Refilling the pipeline\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As Lee’s task force tries to refill OPD’s ranks, a pipeline from Merritt College that has been dormant since 2023 is gearing up to restart in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pipeline, or pre-academy, is designed to expose students to the training that takes place in the police academy, said Mildred Oliver, a retired OPD sergeant and co-chair of Merritt’s Administration of Justice program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students receive training in areas where many recruits fail out of the academy, such as driving, shooting and defensive tactics, Oliver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064195\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064195\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00434_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00434_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00434_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250930_womeninlawenforcement_00434_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recruits warm up during a class for the police academy at the Oakland Police Department on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a recruit herself in the late ’90s, Oliver recalled a female captain in OPD’s training division who held meetings just for female trainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That made a huge difference,” Oliver said. “Because she understood that we were dealing with other stressors than our male counterparts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a male-dominated field and a lot of women either come in feeling like they are not valued or not strong enough to do the job or they may feel like they have to prove themselves and sometimes go overboard,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oliver retired from OPD in 2019. That year, she sued the department alleging race and gender discrimination, a hostile work environment and retaliation in connection with the department’s handling of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11757557/oakland-releases-heavily-redacted-records-that-shed-light-raise-questions-on-sex-abuse-case\">Celeste Guap scandal\u003c/a>, in which multiple Bay Area officers were accused of exploiting and having sex with an underage girl. 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And she still encourages students to pursue jobs with OPD and other agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065125\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12065125 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/573936796_1232690352235524_1225952375076521984_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/573936796_1232690352235524_1225952375076521984_n.jpg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/573936796_1232690352235524_1225952375076521984_n-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flyer promoting OPD’s efforts to recruit women as part of the 30×30 initiative. \u003ccite>(Oakland Police Department via Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m still gung-ho about getting them into the career because it’s a great career,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to recruiting and retaining women, Dixon believes OPD could do more by inviting women to tour the department and meet female officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s got to start at the top,” Dixon said. “Do you really want more women, or are you just going along with the fad because it’s 30-30?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She believes the department should begin working with young people before they’re actually in the academy, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>Right now, you got one or two women in the academy. 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That day, U.S. Border Patrol agents had arrived on the base ahead of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061209/lurie-trump-is-calling-off-plans-to-send-federal-troops-to-san-francisco\">planned “surge”\u003c/a> of immigration enforcement activity in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, the Coast Guard said the Department of Homeland Security planned to use the base as a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061080/federal-border-agents-to-arrive-in-bay-area-as-cities-brace-for-enforcement-surge\">place of operation\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their arrival that morning sparked protests across the Bay Area, including at the intersection of Dennison Street and Embarcadero in Oakland, which leads onto the base’s single access bridge. For hours, hundreds of activists tried to block vehicles from driving on or off the island, though most dispersed in the afternoon after California Highway Patrol cleared the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before 10 p.m., prosecutors say, Thompson arrived at the intersection, where a few dozen protesters remained. Prosecutors allege she reversed the truck onto the bridge and defied orders to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/UHaulCoastGuardAlamedaAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/UHaulCoastGuardAlamedaAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/UHaulCoastGuardAlamedaAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/UHaulCoastGuardAlamedaAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police officers examine a U-Haul truck involved in a shooting at the entrance to Coast Guard Base Alameda, according to an officer at the scene, Friday, Oct. 24, 2025, in Oakland, California. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They say Coast Guard personnel feared for their lives and opened fire on the truck, striking Thompson and a bystander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson drove off but was detained later that night at Highland Hospital in Oakland, where she was being treated for a gunshot wound to the back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order to release Thompson pending trial on Thursday comes a week after she appeared in court for a bail hearing that was sealed to the public, since defense attorneys said it would include discussion of her mental health diagnosis and medical and hospitalization information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to federal prosecutors, she returned to the court on Thursday for further proceedings and was ultimately granted bail. They moved to pause Thompson’s release that day, saying they planned to appeal the decision.[aside postID=news_12063471 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-02_qed.jpg']Prosecutors had argued that Thompson should remain in custody pending trial, calling her a “danger to the community” and citing her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063898/suspected-u-haul-driver-tried-to-flee-hospital-after-coast-guard-shooting-police-report-says\">attempt to flee detention\u003c/a> on the night of her arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to police reports, Thompson tried to escape Alameda police officers at Highland Hospital after asking to use the restroom. Officers wrote that they tackled her to the ground and handcuffed her to a gurney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, Thompson was transferred to John George Psychiatric Hospital and underwent a mental health evaluation. She was later placed on a 72-hour involuntary psychiatric hold before being booked into Santa Rita Jail in Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The conditions of release currently set — which include release to a ‘partial hospitalization plan’ — are insufficient to ensure the safety of the community,” the government’s motion read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Judge Casey Pitts late Thursday granted a temporary delay on her release until 4 p.m. Friday. Normally, that order would have required Thompson to remain in custody until it expired or Pitts issued a further instruction, but she was released around 2:30 a.m. Friday, according to her attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063909\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251024-CoastGuard-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251024-CoastGuard-01-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251024-CoastGuard-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251024-CoastGuard-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Law enforcement agents stand at the intersection of Dennison Street and Embarcadero in front of Coast Guard Island in Oakland on Oct. 24, 2025, following a shooting late last night in which security personnel opened fire on a U-Haul near the base. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a motion they filed Friday morning opposing the delay of Thompson’s release, attorneys Elisse Larouche and Kaitlyn Frysek wrote that the government did not make a strong case that her release posed a danger to the community, citing that she had no criminal record and would be required to reside with her parents in Southern California pending trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also wrote that delaying bail would delay Thompson’s participation in a mental health treatment program 25 hours per week beginning Monday, and could cause potential harm to her mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pitts vacated the temporary delay of release on Friday morning, writing that it was not warranted since Thompson had been released from custody and “a judge had ‘appropriately tailored’ the conditions of release ‘to avoid risk to the community’” pending appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The trial of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/12255111/kevin-epps-documentary-filmmaker-arrested-in-glen-park-homicide\">San Francisco filmmaker and journalist Kevin Epps\u003c/a>, charged with murder for a 2016 shooting, continued Thursday with an emotional testimony from the daughter of the man Epps said he shot in self-defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial began Monday — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/12255111/kevin-epps-documentary-filmmaker-arrested-in-glen-park-homicide\">years after the death of Marcus Polk\u003c/a> at the home of Epps, his partner and their two young children in San Francisco’s Glen Park neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two men knew each other: Epps’ sister-in-law is the ex-wife of Marcus Polk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said they lacked sufficient evidence \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/12260643/san-francisco-filmmaker-kevin-epps-relieved-after-his-release-from-jail\">to charge Epps immediately after the Oct. 24, 2016, shooting\u003c/a>, but changed course in 2019, citing new evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epps faces \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26221400-people-v-epps-defense-trial-brief-witness-list/#document/p1\">charges \u003c/a>of one count of murder, with an enhancement for personal discharge of a firearm causing death, and two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Assistant District Attorney Jonathan Schmidt questioned Melina Polk, Epps’ former niece and one of Polk’s daughters, extensively about the Epps’ home dynamic and events leading up to the Monday afternoon shooting in October 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now 26, Melina Polk said that growing up, she, her mother and her siblings were frequent visitors to the Glen Park home, often staying overnight (Melina Polk’s mother, Star Gul, is the sister of Maryam Jhan, who was then-engaged to Epps).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065011\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065011\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251120-KEVIN-EPPS-TRIAL-ADE-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251120-KEVIN-EPPS-TRIAL-ADE-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251120-KEVIN-EPPS-TRIAL-ADE-02-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251120-KEVIN-EPPS-TRIAL-ADE-02-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters of Kevin Epps rally outside of the Hall of Justice in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Polk, who was homeless at the time, would also frequently show up at the house to take a shower, listen to music or spend time with family, his daughter said. Melina Polk, who was 17 at the time of the shooting, testified that it was a generally positive atmosphere in the home, but that Epps often appeared “irritated” at Polk’s presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melina Polk recalled Epps saying things like “Why does he show up here?” and complaining that her father didn’t “have any responsibilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Questioning on Thursday focused heavily on an incident the night before the shooting, when Polk showed up at the Epps’ home late at night but was not let in. He returned the next day — the day of the shooting — and got into an argument with two housing authority maintenance men who had accused him of putting trash in another resident’s bin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That led to a confrontation outside the house, culminating in Polk allegedly “barging into the house” and threatening to “air out” Epps, according to a trial brief submitted by the defense. The situation escalated, and Epps fired two shots, killing Polk.[aside postID=news_11747563 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/KevinEpps.MAIN_.jpg']A toxicology report by the San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner found that Polk’s blood contained methamphetamine and cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a lunch break, supporters of Epps rallied on the steps of San Francisco’s Hall of Justice. They called for District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, who attended the hearing, to drop the charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I think we really need to question when prosecutors decide to bring someone like Kevin Epps to trial, if they have a problem accepting that somebody with his background, with his color skin from the neighborhood that he’s from, acted in self-defense instead of malice,” said Julian Davis, a spokesperson for Epps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epps is a well-known San Francisco filmmaker from the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood who has made a series of films about the African American experience in the Bay Area, including the 2003 film \u003cem>Straight Outta Hunters Point\u003c/em>. Recently, he has served as the executive editor of the San Francisco Bay View newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has a “\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PEN§ionNum=198.5.\">castle doctrine\u003c/a>” law on the books, which states that people who use force intended to cause death or great bodily injury within their residence are presumed to have a reasonable fear of imminent peril to themselves or other household members when that force is used against someone who unlawfully or forcibly enters a residence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, the San Francisco District Attorney filed charges after 3D-generated images recreating the shooting purported to show the men in a position that prosecutors said was not consistent with self-defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That evidence has since been withdrawn, after objections by the defense. Epps was released on bail in Aug. 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some rally attendees expressed astonishment that the case was ongoing, nearly 10 years after the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I know that Kevin is a very honorable man,” said Carol McGruder, a longtime friend of Epps. “I don’t think that he’s just shooting and killing people for no good reason at all. It’s a tragic event, but I’m here to support him. He is a valued community member, a father and we want to get this behind us, have justice and have him be exonerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the witness stand, Melina Polk at times had to look at a transcript from a 2016 interview she gave to refresh her memory about the events leading up to and on the day of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was overcome with emotion as she recalled the day of the shooting. After hearing the pop of the gun from a nearby room, she walked upstairs and saw her father struggling to breathe. 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