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(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lifelong Oaklander Karen Flynn lives on a charming street in the affluent Upper Rockridge neighborhood with her husband and two giant enthusiastic dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's part of a three-person neighborhood subcommittee looking into hiring private security patrols. That's despite the big dogs and the fact she already has a Bay Alarm home security system. She says they used to make her feel safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I felt that way before, until all this started happening,\" Flynn says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By \"all this,\" she means stories circulated on neighborhood listservs, like the one about a woman on her street who was tied up in her home and robbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s convinced that a nearby neighborhood's new private security patrols are driving criminals into her area. Flynn says considering private security for her own community is not just about personal safety. She says she's also concerned about property values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really expensive to live here,\" she says, \"and you don't want to your investment to get messed with by people who want to just steal loose change from your car. It just seems ridiculous. But you know it could start there and then it can escalate into people tying you up in your house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerns like those expressed by Flynn — about safety, home values and the impact of a growing number of private security firms monitoring Oakland's more affluent neighborhoods — could play a prominent role as Oakland city official ask voters to renew Measure Y, a property assessment that funds more than 60 police officers and a wide array of community crime-prevention programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ariel Bierbaum lives in the Lower Rockridge area, one of the neighborhoods that has contracted for security patrols. She says she supports Measure Y and fears that residents who have started paying for their own security won't support it any longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I worry that people are going to not be interested in funding Measure Y because they feel like they’re already paying out of pocket for something that they feel like is providing a better service.'\u003ccite>Ariel Bierbaum,\u003cbr>\nLower Rockridge resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"I worry that people are going to not be interested in funding Measure Y because they feel like they’re already paying out of pocket for something that they feel like is providing a better service,\" Bierbaum says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North Oakland police Capt. Anthony Toribio says no one should mistake private security as a replacement for city police. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_79013\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/25/watch-live-occupy-oaklands-anniversary-protest/the-occupy-oakland-protesters-a-par-of/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79013\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/OccupyOaklandProtesterHitbyTearGas102611-640x459.jpg\" alt=\"Occupy Oakland protesters carry injured former Marine Scott Olsen after he was struck in the head with a police projectile during unrest in October 2011. Olsen has a lawsuit pending against the city, which settled a suit with a second veteran, Kayvan Sabeghi, for $645,000. 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The City Council has given preliminary approval for a $645,000 settlement with Kayvan Sabeghi, a military veteran who suffered a lacerated spleen and other injuries after an encounter with police in downtown Oakland in November 2011. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sabeghi was the second veteran hurt during police crackdowns on Occupy Oakland protesters. A week before he was beaten, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/us/veterans-injury-at-occupy-protest-prompts-outrage.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marine vet Scott Olsen was critically injured \u003c/a>when a bean-bag projectile fired by an Oakland police officer struck him in the head. Olsen’s legal action against the city is still pending. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sabeghi’s federal suit, filed in November 2012 and amended last January, alleged he was beaten by Oakland police Officer Frank Uu and illegally detained in the hours after the Occupy Oakland general strike in November 2011. Sabeghi’s complaint says in part: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>…Defendant Uu came through the police line and confronted plaintiff, cursing at him, and then struck him repeatedly with a club, driving him towards the west sidewalk in front of the police line. Although plaintiff did not resist or fight back and was not physically aggressive in any way, Uu continued to beat him and Uu, Patterson, and other officers tackled him at or near the curb with unnecessary and excessive force, piling on top of him and violently twisting his arms. Plaintiff suffered a lacerated spleen, as well as cuts and bruises. There was no justification for the use of force on plaintiff. Defendant Sgt. Gonzalez and other superiors failed to adequately supervise Ofcr. Uu and other officers, failed to intervene, and approved and condoned the officers’ unlawful conduct against plaintiff.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A joint case management statement issued in March reported “it is anticipated that defendants do not dispute that Officer Uu used excessive force on plaintiff in violation of the Fourth Amendment, or the extent of plaintiff’s injury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sabeghi also filed a state lawsuit against Alameda County over his treatment after he was taken to jail, an action that’s still pending. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how the San Francisco Chronicle’s Bob Egelko \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Occupy-protester-s-suit-charges-abuse-4068497.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported the second lawsuit \u003c/a>when it was filed last year: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>After Kayvan Sabeghi was arrested and jailed in November 2011, sheriff’s deputies ignored his complaints even as he lay on the floor vomiting, unable to move and begging for help, his lawyers said in a suit filed in Alameda County Superior Court last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers “acted with deliberate indifference to a serious medical need” and worsened Sabeghi’s injuries, the suit said. It seeks compensation and punitive damages against the county and Corizon, its medical contractor for the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sabeghi, 33, of Oakland, a businessman who was an Army Ranger in Iraq and Afghanistan, said he had taken part in a nonviolent Occupy Oakland protest on Nov. 2, 2011, and was trying to walk home when he was stopped by police. One officer was videotaped repeatedly hitting him with a nightstick. He was arrested on suspicion of remaining at the scene of a riot but was never charged, his lawyers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Glenn Dyer Jail in downtown Oakland, the suit said, deputies initially refused to examine Sabeghi or take him to a doctor. One officer saw him lying on the floor throwing up and told him to stop using heroin, and another deputy recorded his sufferings on video to humiliate him, the suit said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_24698963/oakland-settles-iraq-war-veteran-beaten-at-occupy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Tribune’s Matthew Artz says\u003c/a> of this week’s unanimous City Council settlement: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The settlement with Kayvan Sabeghi, who suffered a ruptured spleen, is the largest awarded so far to anyone injured during a string of Occupy Oakland protests in late 2011 and early 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, the city agreed to pay $1.17 million to resolve 12 Occupy-related claims — including that of Scott Campbell, who filmed a police officer shooting him in the leg with a lead beanbag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sabeghi, who co-owned a brewpub in El Cerrito at the time of the attack, could not be reached for comment late Tuesday.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here’s a video of the Nov. 3, 2011, incident shot by artist Neil Rivas, posted by The Guardian:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- Start of guardian embedded video -->\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- To autoplay video, set 'a=true' in the following line of code-->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://embedded-video.guardianapps.co.uk/?a=false&u=/world/video/2011/nov/18/occupy-oakland-veteran-beaten-police-video\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"613\" height=\"500\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- End of guardian embedded video -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Correction:\u003c/strong> This post has been corrected to note that Occupy Oakland protester Scott Olsen was struck in the head with a police bean-bag projectile, not a tear-gas canister. The post has also been corrected to note that the suit being settled by the city of Oakland was brought by Kayvan Sabeghi against Oakland police officers alleged to have participated in his beating and detention in the wake of an Occupy Oakland protest in November 2011. A second lawsuit is still pending against Alameda County concerning allegations about Sabeghi’s treatment while he was detained in a county jail. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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Why do Oakland protests always seem to end up destroying businesses in their own community?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And another:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What responsibility, if any, does Mayor Quan take for the ineffective response to these ‘protests’ over the last two years? Certainly other cities deal with this effectively all the time.” \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, though, may think Quan and the OPD are caught in a damned-if-they-do-damned-if-they-don’t dilemma. San Francisco Chronicle reporter Demian Bulwa, who was covering the protests, said on today’s show that while police were hanging back and definitely did not have control of the situation, they have been criticized in the past for escalating confrontations with demonstrators. In fact, just two weeks ago, the City Council \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_23589592/oakland-approves-1-million-occupy-settlement\">approved a $1.17 million settlement\u003c/a> with 12 Occupy Oakland participants who were injured during two 2011 protests by beanbags or flash-bang grenades. 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I think we probably could do better.” He said the crowd was very dispersed and hitting a lot of different areas, thwarting an effective response. Whent acknowledged that staffing was inadequate on Saturday, after news of the verdict broke, but said that on Sunday, “we planned better.” Last night, he said, “we staffed similar to how we did on Sunday expecting the same type of crowd, but obviously it was a different type of crowd that showed up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quan also said “we need to do better,” and that there would be a review of the police response. The mayor said the decision to devote more police resources to demonstrations is not an easy calculation. “When we do that, we have to take police out of our community. (That’s) something we need to weigh every day and every event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor made a distinction between “real demonstrators” and the masked vandals who have been rearing their heads at the end of protests. “There are people who were peacefully and legitimately demonstrating and (the vandals) consistently hide within these crowds,” she said. “People who are from Oakland who do regular demonstrations actually have … as much security to keep people they don’t know out of their demonstrations as to actually doing the demonstration. These protests have been much more spontaneous and a lot less well organized. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department seemed to be specializing in chaos the last couple of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_68607\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/JeanQuanandPolice-chief.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-68607\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/JeanQuanandPolice-chief-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and then Police Chief Howard Jordan at a 2011 press conference.\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and then-Police Chief Howard Jordan at a 2011 press conference. (Justin Sullivan/Getty)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On May 3, a scathing report was issued by Thomas Frazier, the court-appointed overseer charged with ensuring that the department complies with long-delayed reforms stemming from a 10-year-old federal lawsuit. Five days later, the department’s consultant Bill Bratton was supposed to release his plan for improving OPD’s crime reduction efforts. Instead, Police Chief Howard Jordan retired. Two days after that, his interim replacement, Anthony Toribio, was himself replaced by Deputy Chief Sean Whent after Toribio stepped down, taking the much lower rank of captain. And when \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/10/bratton-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bratton’s plan was finally released\u003c/a>, it called out some significant shortcomings in the department — like there being only one part-time investigator assigned to 10,000 burglaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As if three chiefs in three days wasn’t enough, some observers say the person truly running the department is Frazier, the federal overseer whose main priority is not necessarily public safety but making sure that the department complies with constitutional policing procedures mandated by the reform agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On yesterday’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201305140900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum with Michael Krasny\u003c/a>, Geoff Collins, a former member of Oakland’s Community Policing Advisory Board, voiced concerns about the competing priorities:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If there was any doubt in anyone’s mind last week, the week of the three chiefs should have ended it. Tom Frazier and Robert Warshaw [a court-appointed monitor] are in complete control of this department. And that’s fine … but is Tom Frazier accountable to the citizens of Oakland for public safety? We know he’s accountable to the judge for compliance. And I believe the concern in the community right now is when you have this rampant crime, you have this good plan put forward by Bratton and Wassserman … where will commissioner Frazier’s emphasis be? Will it be on the compliance issues? Will it be on supporting the \u003ca href=\"http://cbssanfran.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/bratton_group_report_051813.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bratton plan\u003c/a>? \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Matthai Kuruvila, who has been covering the OPD for the San Francisco Chronicle, said that city officials and community advocates think that meeting federal reforms and public safety are not at odds. But he said that it’s the police officers themselves who need to be convinced of that:\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">If you talk to Oakland police officers, a number of them say they’re afraid to do some of these basic elements of policing because they’re afraid to get into the crosshairs of the compliance director.”\u003cbr>\n–Matthai Kuruvila, SF Chronicle\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“”If you talk to Oakland police officers, a number of them say they’re afraid to do some of these basic elements of policing because they’re afraid to get into the crosshairs of the compliance director. There’s clearly a lack of training and development of these officers — Bratton has identified it, Frazier has identified it — about how to do policing properly and not get in the crosshairs. What you’ve seen instead is arrests and stops going down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, John Burris, one of the attorneys for plaintiffs in the lawsuit that resulted in the reform agreement, thinks there is no conflict between lawful policing and public safety:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The NSA [Negotiated Settlement Agreement] was based upon the best practices of policing. OPD command staff was part of that process in putting it together. I’ve never understood why police officers have found it so difficult to be in compliance with the terms of the NSA and best practices. I don’t know what that complaint is all about because it has nothing to do with preventing them from doing their job. It is true that they’re being looked at, that they’re being held accountable, but in terms of how to be a good police officer, there’s nothing in the NSA that prevents them from doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> I’ve never understood why police officers have found it so difficult to be in compliance with the terms of the NSA and best practices.” –John Burris, civil rights attorney\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Burris went on to say that the department’s major problem is “how they treat the people in the community. It’s called basic respect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chronicle’s Kuruvila, however, thinks that Oakland residents are split on what police priorities should be. “There’s this incredible tension right now within Oakland about people who both see, want and are clamoring for more police, and people who are worried about how they’ll be treated by them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins, the ex-member of the Community Policing Advisory Board, said the blame for the perceived dichotomy between public safety and compliance with the mandated reforms predates the city and department’s current leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been at this through a succession of police chiefs and city administrators and council members, who have been responsible for not following through with this,” he said. “This is not just about the officers. In many ways they become the victim of a functional breakdown at the government level for the past 10 years.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Shoshana Walter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/policing/ex-officers-often-investigate-police-involved-shoo/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/ex-officers-often-investigate-police-involved-shootings/baycitizenlogo-49/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93946\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-93946\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/BayCitizenLogo.png\" alt=\"BayCitizenLogo\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>After Oakland police Officer Miguel Masso shot and killed 18-year-old Alan Blueford last May, prosecutors quickly released their investigator’s findings about the incident, amid a public outcry and a protest that shut down a City Council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting was justified, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682616-oakland-police-department-blueford-press-release.html\">according to the evidence\u003c/a> collected by Michael Foster – a former Oakland police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a city seething with distrust of law enforcement, legal experts and residents are now questioning District Attorney Nancy O’Malley’s wisdom in assigning former Oakland police officers to the task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93945\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/ex-officers-often-investigate-police-involved-shootings/adam-and-jeralynn-blueford/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93945\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-93945 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/Adam-and-Jeralynn-Blueford-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Adam and Jeralynn Blueford\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam and Jeralynn Blueford’s son Alan, an 18-year-old Hayward resident, was shot to death by an Oakland police officer last May. Noah Berger/The Bay Citizen\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I would hope that they would look for somebody not for one side or the other – some impartial person that’s not the police and not a community activist,” said Blueford’s father, Adam Blueford. “The prosecutor just kind of rubber stamps what the police said.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster’s assignment was described as routine. It turns out that the practice of using former police officers to conduct investigations into shootings at their previous departments is widespread, according to a review of police prosecution records by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cironline.org\">Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, parent organization of The Bay Citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is all the more important now in Oakland, where the beleaguered police department is under court supervision. Last month, a federal judge appointed former Baltimore Police Commissioner Thomas Frazier to oversee the completion of an almost decadelong civil rights reform effort.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_22998796/oakland-federal-judge-warns-city-hall-stop-standing\">Judge accuses city of impeding Frazier\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/policing/find-out-who-investigates-police-involved-shooting/\">Find out who investigates police-involved shootings in your area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/policing/where-have-oakland-police-officer-involved-shootin/\">Map: Where have Oakland police officer-involved shootings occurred?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city has seen two officer-involved shootings so far this month. After a witness mistakenly identified a 16-year-old boy as a robbery suspect, police said they perceived the boy as a threat and shot him in the jaw. Two days later, Oakland officers shot and wounded a burglary suspect who they said was brandishing a fake gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said they use former police officers for the investigations because they are best suited for the job, coming with years of training and experience. Other prosecutors and investigators said prior police employment wouldn't necessarily bias the investigation or outcome of a case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Malley, Alameda County’s district attorney, said her office provides a separate but thorough investigation of each fatal officer-involved shooting and dispatches a team that includes an experienced attorney and investigator. The attorney, not the investigator, writes the final report, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the Blueford investigation, O’Malley said her office reviewed all available evidence and statements from more than 40 witnesses and determined that the case “did not exist to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officer involved committed a criminal offense.” Foster declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But legal ethicists say the use of former police officers creates an appearance of a conflict of interest that can erode public trust. And those ethicists say many ex-officers still have ties to their former departments, including a sense of allegiance to the “thin blue line” that can influence the subjective process of an investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though he might not want to be a policeman again, he still has an allegiance to the brotherhood,” said Cornell University law professor Charles Wolfram. “If they’re from the same department, that could create obvious problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten district attorney’s offices in California contacted by the Center for Investigative Reporting said they use former officers for their police shooting inquiries. W. Scott Thorpe, chief executive officer of the California District Attorneys Association, called the practice “very common.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some prosecutors, however, keep the identities of the investigators who work on police officer shootings secret – the public may never know about potential conflicts of interest in police shooting investigations, the CIR review found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Oakland residents, prosecutors’ reports are one of the few sources of information about officer-involved shootings. Federal court-appointed monitors, in connection with the civil rights reform, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682615-robert-warshaw-officer-involved-shootings.html\">criticized the department’s own investigations\u003c/a> as biased and unquestioning. The department seldom releases copies of investigations and police reports on officer-involved shootings, even to the families of the individuals killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, some officers have faced more shooting investigations than others. According to police records, in the past 12 years, more than half of the department’s officer-involved shootings involved the same 20 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many cases, the investigations of some of the most shooting-prone officers showed potential conflicts of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Moschetti, a former Oakland police officer for 23 years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682621-alameda-county-district-attorney-report-fred.html\">investigated a shooting case\u003c/a> involving William Pappas, a SWAT team member responsible for three shootings, according to police records. In July 2010, he was among a group of officers who fatally shot a man wielding kitchen knives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in 2010, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682622-alameda-county-district-attorney-report-derrick.html\">Moschetti investigated\u003c/a> Officers Omar Daza-Quiroz and Eriberto Perez-Angeles. The two officers, who were involved in the shooting death of a man in 2008, were responsible for the fatal shooting of Derrick Jones, an unarmed domestic violence suspect whose death spurred protests and an FBI investigation. He had led the two officers on a foot chase before ditching a marijuana scale that police mistook for a gun. His case is under review by the Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 1, both officers involved in the case were cleared of any wrongdoing in a federal civil trial filed by Jones' widow. The city already had paid a $225,000 settlement in a separate civil suit filed by his parents and daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, three officers shot and killed a man wielding a fake firearm. After Foster completed his investigation, prosecutor John Creighton \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682623-alameda-county-district-attorney-report-matthew.html\">cleared the officers\u003c/a> in Matthew Cicelski’s death. Less than a year earlier, Creighton had \u003ca href=\"http://www.smartvoter.org/2010/06/08/ca/alm/vote/creighton_j/endorse.html\">received an endorsement\u003c/a> from the Oakland Police Officers’ Association during his unsuccessful run for superior court judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy District Attorney Teresa Drenick called Foster and the other investigators professional and unbiased. If there is bias, Drenick said, the prosecutors who work alongside the investigators would intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district attorney is there throughout the entire thing, everything,” Drenick said. “They go as a pair to all of the interviews. And then the ultimate report that is done is written by the deputy district attorney.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster also investigated the shooting deaths of two alleged gang members in May 2011, relying in part on investigative materials collected by the Oakland Police Department. The officers involved were Capt. Ersie Joyner, who has five officer-involved shootings on his record (the most of any member of the department), and Officer Cesar Garcia, who has two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To complete his investigation, Foster relied on evidence collected by Oakland police Sgt. Jim Rullamas, according to the prosecutor’s report. Not mentioned was the fact that Joyner once oversaw Rullamas as head of the homicide division, praising the detective as hard working, according to one news report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the prosecutor’s office cleared the officers of wrongdoing, some of the cases resulted in hefty civil settlements. Robert Roche, a longtime member of the department’s SWAT team, has been involved in three shootings, including one that resulted in a $500,000 civil suit settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County prosecutors provided the Center for Investigative Reporting with records on Oakland police officer shootings since 2000 that were proved justified and closed. Out of 23 fatal shooting cases, 10 were investigated by former Oakland police officers, the records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'It's a Specialized Skill'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Alameda County, not every prosecutor’s office in California releases records of shooting investigations involving police officers, which are protected by law from public disclosure. Many prosecutors’ offices declined to provide the names and employment histories of those they assign to investigate the shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some prosecutors acknowledged that their investigators are most often retired police officers. District attorneys in San Francisco, Santa Clara, Napa and San Mateo counties all said they employ former police officers and sheriff’s deputies to investigate officer-involved shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s pretty common,” said Glenn McGovern, a senior investigator at the Santa Clara County district attorney’s office who leads the training committee for the California District Attorney Investigators’ Association. “In Santa Clara, we have a lot of San Jose police. It’s a specialized skill. You have to go through advanced training for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some counties in other states have decided against using ex-officers to investigate their former departments. In Miami-Dade County in Florida, for example, only prosecutors with special training investigate officer-involved shootings. The agency does not use former police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, legal ethicists expressed concern that most prosecutors make no attempt to avoid the controversial assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It undermines the legitimacy of the investigation,” said Stanford Law School professor Deborah Rhode. “At the very least, they should try to find investigators hired by somebody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most counties in California follow the same procedure. When a police officer shoots and kills someone, the police department conducts two separate investigations. One determines whether the officer violated department policy; the other looks for evidence of criminal conduct. Then the county prosecutor’s office either monitors the department’s criminal investigation or conducts its own and decides whether to file charges. In Alameda County, investigators are assigned to officer-involved shootings on a rotating, on-call basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to 1985, most states legally allowed police officers to use their firearms to arrest anybody suspected of committing a felony, according to a U.S. Department of Justice report on police use of force. Some states even allowed police to shoot a fleeing suspect, including one suspected of a property crime such as forgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision that changed the landscape of police shooting investigations: An officer may not use deadly force unless he or she “has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others” – in other words, self-defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the ruling, it is still extremely rare for a police officer to be charged. While police need only probable cause to make an arrest, prosecutors must prove “beyond a reasonable doubt” that an officer acted criminally. Most fatal officer-involved shootings are deemed justifiable homicides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, according to the FBI, law enforcement officers nationwide committed 393 justifiable homicides. A review of news articles about on-duty officer-involved shootings in California shows that since 2005, only three officers have been prosecuted in a fatal or near-fatal shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most prominent was the case of former BART Officer Johannes Mehserle. In 2010, a jury acquitted Mehserle of second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter after he was captured on video shooting an unarmed man, Oscar Grant, in the back on a train platform in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day 2009. The jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter, and he was sentenced to two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, a jury swiftly acquitted former San Bernardino County sheriff’s Deputy Ivory Webb of attempted voluntary manslaughter and assault with a firearm. A cellphone video had shown Webb opening fire on Iraq War veteran Elio Carrion, a passenger in a car that had led Webb on a high-speed chase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in 2005, a San Jose jury acquitted state Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement agent Mike Walker of voluntary manslaughter charges. He’d shot and killed Rudy Cardenas, a father of five whom he’d mistaken for a wanted parole violator, after Cardenas led him on a car and foot chase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear if former police officers investigated the three cases that led to a prosecution – those records are kept secret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Policies Vary Across Counties\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors are not legally required to conduct investigations into police shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After budget cuts in 2010, Fresno County District Attorney Elizabeth Egan halted her office’s investigations of officer-involved shootings, a practice that had been in place since 1984. After widespread complaints – including from the Fresno police chief – a Fresno County grand jury recommended Egan reverse her decision. She declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County District Attorney Jan Scully made a similar decision in 2011. A slew of shootings has since prompted furor over Scully’s decision, including urgent requests from Sacramento County law enforcement to resume the investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would like to do them, if we were given the resources,” said Assistant District Attorney Albert Locher, who once supervised the unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kern County district attorney’s office investigates shootings at the county’s small police agencies but has never investigated officer-involved shootings at the county’s two largest agencies, the Bakersfield Police Department and Kern County Sheriff’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a high-profile police shooting several years ago, District Attorney Lisa Green said she saw no need to investigate because “the public might view the district attorney’s office as a rubber stamp.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although I would never approach it that way, the community may view it otherwise,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in many cities, officials said, the investigations serve as assurance to the public that the death is being treated seriously. Police officials say the investigations can restore confidence in a department. Without them, only the police are left to investigate their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It allows the public to sleep better at night,” said former police officer Mike Donovan, chief investigator at the Napa County district attorney’s office and treasurer of the California District Attorney Investigators’ Association. “Knowing that if there is an officer-involved shooting, there’s some other level than just the agency itself that gets to make the decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, law enforcement agencies and the areas they cover are so large that the 256 former police officers at the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office are unlikely to know anyone they are assigned to investigate, spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some prosecutors have decided to avoid the appearance of a conflict by assigning others to the task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis assigned a single investigator to work on officer-involved shootings. Although a former police officer, the investigator has never worked for a San Diego County law enforcement agency, spokesman Steve Walker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland Shooting Sparks Protest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, several police shootings have galvanized the community. But instead of instilling confidence in the system, the report from the Alameda County district attorney’s office has provoked suspicion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Officer Miguel Masso fatally shot Alan Blueford in May, activists and residents shut down a City Council meeting in protest, and Blueford’s family filed a civil suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In District Attorney Nancy O’Malley’s office, several investigators, mainly former law enforcement officers from the Oakland Police Department and a few other county agencies, are assigned to a rotating on-call team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When an officer-involved shooting occurs, an on-call inspector and prosecutor report to the scene, sit in on witness and officer interviews, and review evidence collected by each police department and coroner’s office. In Blueford’s case, Foster and Senior District Attorney Ken Mifsud were on call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After O’Malley released a report on Foster’s investigation, Blueford’s supporters released their own, in which they said the prosecutor’s report lacked “professionalism and objectivity, and appears to be directed at swaying public opinion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report writer, Darrell Whitman, a regional investigator for the U.S. Department of Labor, analyzed the heavily redacted police and coroner’s reports released to the public. He said the evidence made it seem more likely that Blueford was unarmed on the ground when Masso shot him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masso and his partner had stopped Blueford and two other teens just before midnight on suspicion that they were hiding a gun. Moments later, Blueford broke away. There was a brief foot chase before Masso said Blueford pointed a gun at him, and the officer reacted with gunfire, according to police reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Masso said Blueford had shot him. Police later determined that Masso had accidentally shot himself in the foot. The gun Masso said Blueford possessed was found 20 feet from Blueford’s body, and investigators determined it had not been fired. Investigators found one of Blueford’s fingerprints on the gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his report, Whitman pointed to discrepancies in the evidence that he said Foster and Mifsud should have examined. Instead, he said, they unquestioningly accepted Masso’s account. Mifsud declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, according to the redacted police reports, of the 16 people who witnessed the shooting, only three said they saw Blueford with a gun. Another witness said he had not seen a gun but had seen Blueford grabbing his waistband. A fifth witness said he had overheard another woman saying Blueford was armed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masso told investigators that his first shot caused Blueford to fall into a gate and onto the ground, but according to the redacted reports, most witnesses said Blueford already was on the ground when he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight witnesses said they heard Blueford say, “I didn’t do anything!” right before the gunfire. Mifsud and Foster’s report detailed Masso’s accidental shooting of his own foot but otherwise repeated Masso’s account of the shooting and did not mention Blueford’s alleged statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitman also said Foster and Mifsud didn’t appear to question some of the police department’s actions. Although investigators found one of Blueford’s fingerprints on the gun, Whitman noted that at least two officers handled the gun before it was secured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time it was photographed, the magazine already had been removed, “possibly contaminating DNA and biological evidence,” he wrote. In addition, per department policy, Masso had never turned on his lapel camera. Whitman said the camera footage might have captured the entire incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have nothing else, you want to fight for your kid,” said Blueford’s father, Adam Blueford. “My son was on the ground screaming, pleading for his life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Malley declined to comment on the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others said they would not be so quick to dismiss the activists’ concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From a public point of view, (using former officers) might not be the best course of action,” said Tony Monheim, a retired Miami-Dade police officer who now leads training on officer-involved shooting investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The public has its own perception of what is going on,” Monheim said. “Maybe it’s a better thing to try to ease the tension a little bit and not have someone investigate themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>by Shoshana Walter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/policing/ex-officers-often-investigate-police-involved-shoo/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/ex-officers-often-investigate-police-involved-shootings/baycitizenlogo-49/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93946\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-93946\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/BayCitizenLogo.png\" alt=\"BayCitizenLogo\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>After Oakland police Officer Miguel Masso shot and killed 18-year-old Alan Blueford last May, prosecutors quickly released their investigator’s findings about the incident, amid a public outcry and a protest that shut down a City Council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting was justified, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682616-oakland-police-department-blueford-press-release.html\">according to the evidence\u003c/a> collected by Michael Foster – a former Oakland police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a city seething with distrust of law enforcement, legal experts and residents are now questioning District Attorney Nancy O’Malley’s wisdom in assigning former Oakland police officers to the task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93945\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/ex-officers-often-investigate-police-involved-shootings/adam-and-jeralynn-blueford/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93945\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-93945 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/Adam-and-Jeralynn-Blueford-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Adam and Jeralynn Blueford\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam and Jeralynn Blueford’s son Alan, an 18-year-old Hayward resident, was shot to death by an Oakland police officer last May. Noah Berger/The Bay Citizen\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I would hope that they would look for somebody not for one side or the other – some impartial person that’s not the police and not a community activist,” said Blueford’s father, Adam Blueford. “The prosecutor just kind of rubber stamps what the police said.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster’s assignment was described as routine. It turns out that the practice of using former police officers to conduct investigations into shootings at their previous departments is widespread, according to a review of police prosecution records by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cironline.org\">Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, parent organization of The Bay Citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is all the more important now in Oakland, where the beleaguered police department is under court supervision. Last month, a federal judge appointed former Baltimore Police Commissioner Thomas Frazier to oversee the completion of an almost decadelong civil rights reform effort.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_22998796/oakland-federal-judge-warns-city-hall-stop-standing\">Judge accuses city of impeding Frazier\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/policing/find-out-who-investigates-police-involved-shooting/\">Find out who investigates police-involved shootings in your area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/policing/where-have-oakland-police-officer-involved-shootin/\">Map: Where have Oakland police officer-involved shootings occurred?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city has seen two officer-involved shootings so far this month. After a witness mistakenly identified a 16-year-old boy as a robbery suspect, police said they perceived the boy as a threat and shot him in the jaw. Two days later, Oakland officers shot and wounded a burglary suspect who they said was brandishing a fake gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said they use former police officers for the investigations because they are best suited for the job, coming with years of training and experience. Other prosecutors and investigators said prior police employment wouldn't necessarily bias the investigation or outcome of a case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Malley, Alameda County’s district attorney, said her office provides a separate but thorough investigation of each fatal officer-involved shooting and dispatches a team that includes an experienced attorney and investigator. The attorney, not the investigator, writes the final report, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the Blueford investigation, O’Malley said her office reviewed all available evidence and statements from more than 40 witnesses and determined that the case “did not exist to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officer involved committed a criminal offense.” Foster declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But legal ethicists say the use of former police officers creates an appearance of a conflict of interest that can erode public trust. And those ethicists say many ex-officers still have ties to their former departments, including a sense of allegiance to the “thin blue line” that can influence the subjective process of an investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though he might not want to be a policeman again, he still has an allegiance to the brotherhood,” said Cornell University law professor Charles Wolfram. “If they’re from the same department, that could create obvious problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten district attorney’s offices in California contacted by the Center for Investigative Reporting said they use former officers for their police shooting inquiries. W. Scott Thorpe, chief executive officer of the California District Attorneys Association, called the practice “very common.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some prosecutors, however, keep the identities of the investigators who work on police officer shootings secret – the public may never know about potential conflicts of interest in police shooting investigations, the CIR review found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Oakland residents, prosecutors’ reports are one of the few sources of information about officer-involved shootings. Federal court-appointed monitors, in connection with the civil rights reform, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682615-robert-warshaw-officer-involved-shootings.html\">criticized the department’s own investigations\u003c/a> as biased and unquestioning. The department seldom releases copies of investigations and police reports on officer-involved shootings, even to the families of the individuals killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, some officers have faced more shooting investigations than others. According to police records, in the past 12 years, more than half of the department’s officer-involved shootings involved the same 20 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many cases, the investigations of some of the most shooting-prone officers showed potential conflicts of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Moschetti, a former Oakland police officer for 23 years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682621-alameda-county-district-attorney-report-fred.html\">investigated a shooting case\u003c/a> involving William Pappas, a SWAT team member responsible for three shootings, according to police records. In July 2010, he was among a group of officers who fatally shot a man wielding kitchen knives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in 2010, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682622-alameda-county-district-attorney-report-derrick.html\">Moschetti investigated\u003c/a> Officers Omar Daza-Quiroz and Eriberto Perez-Angeles. The two officers, who were involved in the shooting death of a man in 2008, were responsible for the fatal shooting of Derrick Jones, an unarmed domestic violence suspect whose death spurred protests and an FBI investigation. He had led the two officers on a foot chase before ditching a marijuana scale that police mistook for a gun. His case is under review by the Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 1, both officers involved in the case were cleared of any wrongdoing in a federal civil trial filed by Jones' widow. The city already had paid a $225,000 settlement in a separate civil suit filed by his parents and daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, three officers shot and killed a man wielding a fake firearm. After Foster completed his investigation, prosecutor John Creighton \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682623-alameda-county-district-attorney-report-matthew.html\">cleared the officers\u003c/a> in Matthew Cicelski’s death. Less than a year earlier, Creighton had \u003ca href=\"http://www.smartvoter.org/2010/06/08/ca/alm/vote/creighton_j/endorse.html\">received an endorsement\u003c/a> from the Oakland Police Officers’ Association during his unsuccessful run for superior court judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy District Attorney Teresa Drenick called Foster and the other investigators professional and unbiased. If there is bias, Drenick said, the prosecutors who work alongside the investigators would intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district attorney is there throughout the entire thing, everything,” Drenick said. “They go as a pair to all of the interviews. And then the ultimate report that is done is written by the deputy district attorney.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster also investigated the shooting deaths of two alleged gang members in May 2011, relying in part on investigative materials collected by the Oakland Police Department. The officers involved were Capt. Ersie Joyner, who has five officer-involved shootings on his record (the most of any member of the department), and Officer Cesar Garcia, who has two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To complete his investigation, Foster relied on evidence collected by Oakland police Sgt. Jim Rullamas, according to the prosecutor’s report. Not mentioned was the fact that Joyner once oversaw Rullamas as head of the homicide division, praising the detective as hard working, according to one news report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the prosecutor’s office cleared the officers of wrongdoing, some of the cases resulted in hefty civil settlements. Robert Roche, a longtime member of the department’s SWAT team, has been involved in three shootings, including one that resulted in a $500,000 civil suit settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County prosecutors provided the Center for Investigative Reporting with records on Oakland police officer shootings since 2000 that were proved justified and closed. Out of 23 fatal shooting cases, 10 were investigated by former Oakland police officers, the records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'It's a Specialized Skill'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Alameda County, not every prosecutor’s office in California releases records of shooting investigations involving police officers, which are protected by law from public disclosure. Many prosecutors’ offices declined to provide the names and employment histories of those they assign to investigate the shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some prosecutors acknowledged that their investigators are most often retired police officers. District attorneys in San Francisco, Santa Clara, Napa and San Mateo counties all said they employ former police officers and sheriff’s deputies to investigate officer-involved shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s pretty common,” said Glenn McGovern, a senior investigator at the Santa Clara County district attorney’s office who leads the training committee for the California District Attorney Investigators’ Association. “In Santa Clara, we have a lot of San Jose police. It’s a specialized skill. You have to go through advanced training for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some counties in other states have decided against using ex-officers to investigate their former departments. In Miami-Dade County in Florida, for example, only prosecutors with special training investigate officer-involved shootings. The agency does not use former police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, legal ethicists expressed concern that most prosecutors make no attempt to avoid the controversial assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It undermines the legitimacy of the investigation,” said Stanford Law School professor Deborah Rhode. “At the very least, they should try to find investigators hired by somebody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most counties in California follow the same procedure. When a police officer shoots and kills someone, the police department conducts two separate investigations. One determines whether the officer violated department policy; the other looks for evidence of criminal conduct. Then the county prosecutor’s office either monitors the department’s criminal investigation or conducts its own and decides whether to file charges. In Alameda County, investigators are assigned to officer-involved shootings on a rotating, on-call basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to 1985, most states legally allowed police officers to use their firearms to arrest anybody suspected of committing a felony, according to a U.S. Department of Justice report on police use of force. Some states even allowed police to shoot a fleeing suspect, including one suspected of a property crime such as forgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision that changed the landscape of police shooting investigations: An officer may not use deadly force unless he or she “has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others” – in other words, self-defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the ruling, it is still extremely rare for a police officer to be charged. While police need only probable cause to make an arrest, prosecutors must prove “beyond a reasonable doubt” that an officer acted criminally. Most fatal officer-involved shootings are deemed justifiable homicides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, according to the FBI, law enforcement officers nationwide committed 393 justifiable homicides. A review of news articles about on-duty officer-involved shootings in California shows that since 2005, only three officers have been prosecuted in a fatal or near-fatal shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most prominent was the case of former BART Officer Johannes Mehserle. In 2010, a jury acquitted Mehserle of second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter after he was captured on video shooting an unarmed man, Oscar Grant, in the back on a train platform in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day 2009. 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He’d shot and killed Rudy Cardenas, a father of five whom he’d mistaken for a wanted parole violator, after Cardenas led him on a car and foot chase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear if former police officers investigated the three cases that led to a prosecution – those records are kept secret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Policies Vary Across Counties\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors are not legally required to conduct investigations into police shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After budget cuts in 2010, Fresno County District Attorney Elizabeth Egan halted her office’s investigations of officer-involved shootings, a practice that had been in place since 1984. After widespread complaints – including from the Fresno police chief – a Fresno County grand jury recommended Egan reverse her decision. She declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County District Attorney Jan Scully made a similar decision in 2011. A slew of shootings has since prompted furor over Scully’s decision, including urgent requests from Sacramento County law enforcement to resume the investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would like to do them, if we were given the resources,” said Assistant District Attorney Albert Locher, who once supervised the unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kern County district attorney’s office investigates shootings at the county’s small police agencies but has never investigated officer-involved shootings at the county’s two largest agencies, the Bakersfield Police Department and Kern County Sheriff’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a high-profile police shooting several years ago, District Attorney Lisa Green said she saw no need to investigate because “the public might view the district attorney’s office as a rubber stamp.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although I would never approach it that way, the community may view it otherwise,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in many cities, officials said, the investigations serve as assurance to the public that the death is being treated seriously. 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Although a former police officer, the investigator has never worked for a San Diego County law enforcement agency, spokesman Steve Walker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland Shooting Sparks Protest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, several police shootings have galvanized the community. But instead of instilling confidence in the system, the report from the Alameda County district attorney’s office has provoked suspicion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Officer Miguel Masso fatally shot Alan Blueford in May, activists and residents shut down a City Council meeting in protest, and Blueford’s family filed a civil suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In District Attorney Nancy O’Malley’s office, several investigators, mainly former law enforcement officers from the Oakland Police Department and a few other county agencies, are assigned to a rotating on-call team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When an officer-involved shooting occurs, an on-call inspector and prosecutor report to the scene, sit in on witness and officer interviews, and review evidence collected by each police department and coroner’s office. In Blueford’s case, Foster and Senior District Attorney Ken Mifsud were on call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After O’Malley released a report on Foster’s investigation, Blueford’s supporters released their own, in which they said the prosecutor’s report lacked “professionalism and objectivity, and appears to be directed at swaying public opinion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report writer, Darrell Whitman, a regional investigator for the U.S. Department of Labor, analyzed the heavily redacted police and coroner’s reports released to the public. He said the evidence made it seem more likely that Blueford was unarmed on the ground when Masso shot him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masso and his partner had stopped Blueford and two other teens just before midnight on suspicion that they were hiding a gun. Moments later, Blueford broke away. There was a brief foot chase before Masso said Blueford pointed a gun at him, and the officer reacted with gunfire, according to police reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Masso said Blueford had shot him. Police later determined that Masso had accidentally shot himself in the foot. The gun Masso said Blueford possessed was found 20 feet from Blueford’s body, and investigators determined it had not been fired. Investigators found one of Blueford’s fingerprints on the gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his report, Whitman pointed to discrepancies in the evidence that he said Foster and Mifsud should have examined. Instead, he said, they unquestioningly accepted Masso’s account. Mifsud declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, according to the redacted police reports, of the 16 people who witnessed the shooting, only three said they saw Blueford with a gun. Another witness said he had not seen a gun but had seen Blueford grabbing his waistband. 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Although investigators found one of Blueford’s fingerprints on the gun, Whitman noted that at least two officers handled the gun before it was secured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time it was photographed, the magazine already had been removed, “possibly contaminating DNA and biological evidence,” he wrote. In addition, per department policy, Masso had never turned on his lapel camera. 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