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Given the allegation that she had been sexually exploited by OPD officers, OPD owed her at least the same patience, concern, and investigative attention that they afford other victims.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Kirkpatrick she understood the report's recommendations, and that the problems it highlights are \"all repairable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Strong leadership, clear procedures, and a commitment on our part to treat all victims with care and attention,\" she said. \"Our past does indeed inform our future. My presence here is all about our future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the report's findings are most critical of former Police Chief Sean Whent, it references failings throughout the Police Department's command, including those in charge of homicide, internal affairs and criminal investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't even know who those people were in those roles and places,\" Kirkpatrick said. \"My entire command staff that I have in place today, from my personal assessment, I have confidence in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the internal affairs division now directly reports to her, and leadership of the criminal investigations division had changed since last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's not a reflection of old leadership,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was hardly a secret that in early 2016, all parties involved were close to ending over a decade of federal oversight of the Police Department. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris, one of the attorneys who litigated the lawsuit that initiated that oversight through a negotiated settlement agreement said the court investigator's findings are \"explosive,\" \"hurtful\" and \"a major setback to the department.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We thought that we had put together a strong effort where the internal affairs department would be in a position to uncover, investigate and monitor this type of activity. 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"content": "\u003cp>Thelton Henderson, the federal judge who has presided over two long-running civil rights cases focused on conditions in California prisons and the conduct of the Oakland Police Department, will step down from the bench later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-judge-supervising-oakland-police-california-prisons-retire-011138525.html\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters reported Monday\u003c/a> that Henderson will retire in August after serving for more than 35 years with the U.S. District Court for Northern California. From the Reuters piece:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In an interview, the 83-year-old Henderson said he does not have the stamina to do the job as well as he previously had. He declined to discuss what effect his decision might have on specific cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson said he has mixed feelings about leaving now that Donald Trump is to become president of the United States, and several civil rights issues remain unsettled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are the kind of battles I like, if I had the energy,\" Henderson told Reuters. \"But I don't.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.therecorder.com/home/id=1202776431085/Thelton-Henderson-to-Leave-the-Bench-After-36-Years?mcode=1202617072607&curindex=1\" target=\"_blank\">Henderson told The Recorder\u003c/a>, San Francisco's daily legal affairs journal, that he was \"starting to feel the grind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I probably will serve the court best if I don't play a season too long like Kobe Bryant just did,\" Henderson said, referring to the recently retired Los Angeles Lakers star.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson has been at the center of the high-profile prison and Oakland police cases for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland case grew out of the Riders civil rights case, in which the Police Department was accused of systematic violation of suspects' civil rights. Henderson oversees a settlement negotiated in 2003 under which the city agreed to wholesale reforms involving training, oversight, ending biased policing and standards of officer conduct. The department has been close to full compliance, but suffered a setback last year when questions arose about its handling of a sexual exploitation case involving several Oakland officers and the teenage daughter of a police dispatcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prison case Henderson has overseen as part of a three-judge federal panel arose from lawsuits alleging that the abysmal level of physical and mental health care in California's correctional system -- and extreme overcrowding throughout its institutions -- violated inmate civil rights and the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The state has lost repeated challenges to Henderson's orders to reduce prison overcrowding and undertake sweeping improvement in inmate health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Chanin, one of the plaintiffs' lawyers who negotiated the Oakland Police Department settlement, \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/01/09/report-federal-judge-overseeing-oakland-police-reforms-set-to-retire/\" target=\"_blank\">told the East Bay Times \u003c/a>he will miss having Henderson supervise the case:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I think he’s been enormously helpful to the reform effort. I will miss him,” Chanin said. “However, it’s a well-deserved retirement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson agreed OPD was close to achieving the reforms: “I was saying before the sex scandal broke out we could all see the light at the end of the tunnel. And then the wheels fell off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His replacement on the case has not yet been named.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a wonderful court and a bunch of really bright young judges. One of them will get this case and I will talk to them … I have no doubt whoever gets this case is going to do exactly what I’ve been doing on this case,” he said. “Not that much will change.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Henderson leaves the bench after \u003ca href=\"http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/january-february-2008-25-ideas-verge/what-it-was-really-be-first-black-lawyer\" target=\"_blank\">a journey\u003c/a> that saw him come to UC Berkeley from Los Angeles to play football as an undergraduate, attend Boalt Hall law school, and go on to a career as a civil rights lawyer, U.S. Justice Department attorney and judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's one snippet from \u003ca href=\"http://www.therecorder.com/home/id=1202776431085/Thelton-Henderson-to-Leave-the-Bench-After-36-Years\" target=\"_blank\">The Recorder piece\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Henderson became the first African-American lawyer to work for the U.S. Department of Justice on voting rights cases in the South. But he was forced to resign from his post after he loaned his car to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and drew criticism that the government was improperly taking sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After time in private practice back in the Bay Area and at the Legal Aid Society in East Palo Alto, Henderson took a position with Stanford University in 1968 working to recruit minority students to the law school, which had only one black graduate at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford Professor Emeritus Barbara Babcock said that Henderson was the right person for the job because \"he really knew what it took to be one of very few minority people in a privileged white atmosphere and he knew who could do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... Henderson, who worked at Stanford for eight years before returning to private practice, said that lessons he learned there affected his approach on the bench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I learned the importance of institutionalizing\" change, Henderson said. ... The goal is not just to make temporary changes, but make changes that are going to last long after I'm gone.'\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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She is the first woman to hold the post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf introduced Kirkpatrick at a noon press conference Wednesday, confirming news that first broke Tuesday night in a broadcast report in Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were not looking for a man or a woman, but someone who would deliver leadership,\" Schaaf said, \"someone who would hold the department accountable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/300982361\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11253124\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/kirkpatrick-e1483544475783.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11253124\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/kirkpatrick-e1483544475783-800x647.jpg\" alt=\"Anne E. 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Kirkpatrick, Mayor Libby Schaaf's choice to lead the Oakland Police Department. \u003ccite>(Chicago Police Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kirkpatrick is taking a job left vacant after the abrupt resignation of Chief Sean Whent in June and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\">an abortive and embarrassing attempt\u003c/a> to identify a local candidate to fill the position. Whent left amid \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/09/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say/\" target=\"_blank\">a rapidly spreading scandal\u003c/a> centered on charges that Oakland police officers had exploited a teenager working in the sex trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She has to deal with developing the morale of the department,\" said civil rights attorney John Burris, who represents the young woman as well as plaintiffs in a 13-year-old case that's kept the Police Department under the watch of a federal judge. \"Given the number of chiefs that has been here ... there’s a real morale problem.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Coming to Oakland, though, will be a challenge for her,\" Burris said of Kirkpatrick. \"How she can elicit support from the command and rank and file will determine how successful she can be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkpatrick vowed to earn the trust of officers and the Oakland community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know I have to earn a place in their thinking that I am legitimate to them,\" she said of the department's rank-and-file officers. \"I know I need to prove to them that I care about them, that I will embrace them and support them, that I will be their No. 1 champion. But those are words right now until I prove them by my actions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkpatrick is currently chief of the Chicago Police Department's bureau of organizational development. On paper, the bureau is in charge of officer training and tracking the department's performance, but Kirkpatrick's job has been described as leading the force's reform efforts in the wake of the 2014 police killing of teenager Laquan McDonald.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofchicago.org/content/dam/city/depts/cpb/PubMtgMinutes/KirkpatrickBio.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">She served\u003c/a> as chief of police in the Seattle suburb of Federal Way and in the eastern Washington state cities of Ellensburg and Spokane. She also served as chief deputy in King County, Washington, which includes the city of Seattle. Her police career began as a patrol officer in Memphis, Tennessee. She holds a law degree from Seattle University Law School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11253650\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11253650\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23461_alt_544-800x572.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf speaks during a Jan. 4 press conference at City Hall to introduce incoming Oakland Police Chief Anne E. Kirkpatrick (left).\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23461_alt_544-800x572.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23461_alt_544-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23461_alt_544-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23461_alt_544.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23461_alt_544-1180x843.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23461_alt_544-960x686.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23461_alt_544-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23461_alt_544-375x268.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23461_alt_544-520x372.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf speaks during a Jan. 4 press conference at City Hall to introduce incoming Oakland Police Chief Anne E. Kirkpatrick (left). \u003ccite>(Tara Siler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Times \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/01/03/report-new-oakland-police-chief-named/\" target=\"_blank\">notes the historic nature\u003c/a> of Kirkpatrick's appointment:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department, which has had approximately 38 permanent chiefs since its inception in the mid-1800s, has never had a woman at the helm, according to department records.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"I know nothing else but being a woman,\" Kirkpatrick said. \"So when people ask me what's it like to be a woman, I don’t know any other way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She listed desired traits for a new police chief that Oakland residents had identified during the the seven-month national search, including \"decision-maker,\" \"competent\" and \"has a vision.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those are character traits, and those character traits are not gender-based,\" Kirkpatrick said. \"Those are leadership traits. I am a leader that is cloaked in being a woman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkpatrick had been a candidate for Chicago's top police post, superintendent, and joined the department at her lower rank last June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/sites/default/files/article/file-attachments/KirkpatrickEssays.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a questionnaire\u003c/a> she completed for the Chicago superintendent's job, she was asked \"what does accountability mean in the context of policing?\" Her answer:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Accountability means holding officers individually, as well as the agency collectively, responsible for the delivery of police services in an ethical and legal manner. As a former Chief of Police, my mantra was that we are in the business of regulating other people's conduct, so I expect us (the police) to regulate our own conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accountability entails making expectations clear, leading the way, and encouraging others to follow willingly. Accountability also involves discipline in terms of running a \"right and tight ship\" and in terms of sanctions to gain corrective action. At times, corrective action includes terminations in order to maintain a highly effective and well-run organization.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Oakland police force has operated for more than a decade under the terms of a federal court-negotiated settlement agreement that grew out of a civil rights lawsuit accusing the department of racially biased policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She has to come to grips with the issues in the [negotiated settlement agreement], and try to lead the department into compliance,\" Burris said, \"recognizing that there is certainly some resistance within it, so the challenges are there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkpatrick said \"there will be no retreat\" in achieving full compliance with the federal court order. She said she had spoken with the court's independent monitor, Robert Warshaw, and those conversations will continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Chicago questionnaire, Kirkpatrick described biased policing as \"a cancer\" that could be addressed only by articulating a zero-tolerance policy and the determination to back up words with action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unless there is strong leadership that will not turn a blind eye and will actually start cutting that cancer out of the department, then it will never go away,\" Kirkpatrick wrote. \"In that case, the policy is just cheap talk. When officers see that they can and will lose a career over it, then the culture will start to change. And when officers also see that promotional opportunities are based on upholding the values of a zero tolerance stand against biased-based policing, then you get a culture change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkpatrick's brief tenure in Chicago coincided with a catastrophic increase in gun violence in the city. By the Chicago Tribune's count, the toll in 2016 included \u003ca href=\"http://crime.chicagotribune.com/chicago/homicides\" target=\"_blank\">779 homicides\u003c/a> and more than \u003ca href=\"http://crime.chicagotribune.com/chicago/shootings/\" target=\"_blank\">4,300 shootings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland, too, has experienced a persistent problem with gun violence and homicides. The death toll has eased since the recent peak, 131, reached in 2012. Still, Oakland police recorded \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/police/documents/webcontent/oak062193.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">87 killings\u003c/a> in 2016, and the number recorded in the final three months of the year -- about 35 -- actually exceeded the rate seen in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Chicago questionnaire, Kirkpatrick said she'd focus on strategies she said have demonstrated success -- such as statistically based policing and the \"broken windows\" approach to focusing on \"quality of life\" offenses that is credited with reducing crime in New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In addition,\" she wrote, \"I would also apply other crime strategies that we know work such as targeting career criminals and getting guns off the streets. There are some very innovative approaches to crime fighting that include partnering with social services to get low-level drug offenders and prostitutes into social services versus jail. I also think that law enforcement should approach crime fighting by helping to reintegrate ex-offenders back into our communities. Lastly, I would seek ways to give disenfranchised youth opportunities to 'belong' in healthy relationships as alternatives to gang life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Emslie of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday, 1:25 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has chosen Anne E. Kirkpatrick, a veteran leader of police departments in the Pacific Northwest who is currently serving in Chicago, to lead the Oakland Police Department. She is the first woman to hold the post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf introduced Kirkpatrick at a noon press conference Wednesday, confirming news that first broke Tuesday night in a broadcast report in Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were not looking for a man or a woman, but someone who would deliver leadership,\" Schaaf said, \"someone who would hold the department accountable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/300982361&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/300982361'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11253124\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/kirkpatrick-e1483544475783.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11253124\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/kirkpatrick-e1483544475783-800x647.jpg\" alt=\"Anne E. Kirkpatrick, Mayor Libby Schaaf's choice to lead the Oakland Police Department. \" width=\"400\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/kirkpatrick-e1483544475783-800x647.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/kirkpatrick-e1483544475783-160x129.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/kirkpatrick-e1483544475783-1020x825.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/kirkpatrick-e1483544475783-1180x954.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/kirkpatrick-e1483544475783-960x776.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/kirkpatrick-e1483544475783-240x194.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/kirkpatrick-e1483544475783-375x303.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/kirkpatrick-e1483544475783-520x421.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/kirkpatrick-e1483544475783.jpg 1914w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anne E. Kirkpatrick, Mayor Libby Schaaf's choice to lead the Oakland Police Department. \u003ccite>(Chicago Police Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kirkpatrick is taking a job left vacant after the abrupt resignation of Chief Sean Whent in June and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\">an abortive and embarrassing attempt\u003c/a> to identify a local candidate to fill the position. Whent left amid \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/09/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say/\" target=\"_blank\">a rapidly spreading scandal\u003c/a> centered on charges that Oakland police officers had exploited a teenager working in the sex trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She has to deal with developing the morale of the department,\" said civil rights attorney John Burris, who represents the young woman as well as plaintiffs in a 13-year-old case that's kept the Police Department under the watch of a federal judge. \"Given the number of chiefs that has been here ... there’s a real morale problem.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Coming to Oakland, though, will be a challenge for her,\" Burris said of Kirkpatrick. \"How she can elicit support from the command and rank and file will determine how successful she can be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkpatrick vowed to earn the trust of officers and the Oakland community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know I have to earn a place in their thinking that I am legitimate to them,\" she said of the department's rank-and-file officers. \"I know I need to prove to them that I care about them, that I will embrace them and support them, that I will be their No. 1 champion. But those are words right now until I prove them by my actions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkpatrick is currently chief of the Chicago Police Department's bureau of organizational development. On paper, the bureau is in charge of officer training and tracking the department's performance, but Kirkpatrick's job has been described as leading the force's reform efforts in the wake of the 2014 police killing of teenager Laquan McDonald.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofchicago.org/content/dam/city/depts/cpb/PubMtgMinutes/KirkpatrickBio.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">She served\u003c/a> as chief of police in the Seattle suburb of Federal Way and in the eastern Washington state cities of Ellensburg and Spokane. She also served as chief deputy in King County, Washington, which includes the city of Seattle. Her police career began as a patrol officer in Memphis, Tennessee. She holds a law degree from Seattle University Law School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11253650\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11253650\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23461_alt_544-800x572.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf speaks during a Jan. 4 press conference at City Hall to introduce incoming Oakland Police Chief Anne E. Kirkpatrick (left).\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23461_alt_544-800x572.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23461_alt_544-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23461_alt_544-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23461_alt_544.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23461_alt_544-1180x843.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23461_alt_544-960x686.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23461_alt_544-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23461_alt_544-375x268.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23461_alt_544-520x372.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf speaks during a Jan. 4 press conference at City Hall to introduce incoming Oakland Police Chief Anne E. Kirkpatrick (left). \u003ccite>(Tara Siler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Times \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/01/03/report-new-oakland-police-chief-named/\" target=\"_blank\">notes the historic nature\u003c/a> of Kirkpatrick's appointment:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department, which has had approximately 38 permanent chiefs since its inception in the mid-1800s, has never had a woman at the helm, according to department records.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"I know nothing else but being a woman,\" Kirkpatrick said. \"So when people ask me what's it like to be a woman, I don’t know any other way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She listed desired traits for a new police chief that Oakland residents had identified during the the seven-month national search, including \"decision-maker,\" \"competent\" and \"has a vision.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those are character traits, and those character traits are not gender-based,\" Kirkpatrick said. \"Those are leadership traits. I am a leader that is cloaked in being a woman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkpatrick had been a candidate for Chicago's top police post, superintendent, and joined the department at her lower rank last June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/sites/default/files/article/file-attachments/KirkpatrickEssays.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a questionnaire\u003c/a> she completed for the Chicago superintendent's job, she was asked \"what does accountability mean in the context of policing?\" Her answer:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Accountability means holding officers individually, as well as the agency collectively, responsible for the delivery of police services in an ethical and legal manner. As a former Chief of Police, my mantra was that we are in the business of regulating other people's conduct, so I expect us (the police) to regulate our own conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accountability entails making expectations clear, leading the way, and encouraging others to follow willingly. Accountability also involves discipline in terms of running a \"right and tight ship\" and in terms of sanctions to gain corrective action. At times, corrective action includes terminations in order to maintain a highly effective and well-run organization.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Oakland police force has operated for more than a decade under the terms of a federal court-negotiated settlement agreement that grew out of a civil rights lawsuit accusing the department of racially biased policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She has to come to grips with the issues in the [negotiated settlement agreement], and try to lead the department into compliance,\" Burris said, \"recognizing that there is certainly some resistance within it, so the challenges are there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkpatrick said \"there will be no retreat\" in achieving full compliance with the federal court order. She said she had spoken with the court's independent monitor, Robert Warshaw, and those conversations will continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Chicago questionnaire, Kirkpatrick described biased policing as \"a cancer\" that could be addressed only by articulating a zero-tolerance policy and the determination to back up words with action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unless there is strong leadership that will not turn a blind eye and will actually start cutting that cancer out of the department, then it will never go away,\" Kirkpatrick wrote. \"In that case, the policy is just cheap talk. When officers see that they can and will lose a career over it, then the culture will start to change. And when officers also see that promotional opportunities are based on upholding the values of a zero tolerance stand against biased-based policing, then you get a culture change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkpatrick's brief tenure in Chicago coincided with a catastrophic increase in gun violence in the city. By the Chicago Tribune's count, the toll in 2016 included \u003ca href=\"http://crime.chicagotribune.com/chicago/homicides\" target=\"_blank\">779 homicides\u003c/a> and more than \u003ca href=\"http://crime.chicagotribune.com/chicago/shootings/\" target=\"_blank\">4,300 shootings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland, too, has experienced a persistent problem with gun violence and homicides. The death toll has eased since the recent peak, 131, reached in 2012. Still, Oakland police recorded \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/police/documents/webcontent/oak062193.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">87 killings\u003c/a> in 2016, and the number recorded in the final three months of the year -- about 35 -- actually exceeded the rate seen in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Chicago questionnaire, Kirkpatrick said she'd focus on strategies she said have demonstrated success -- such as statistically based policing and the \"broken windows\" approach to focusing on \"quality of life\" offenses that is credited with reducing crime in New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In addition,\" she wrote, \"I would also apply other crime strategies that we know work such as targeting career criminals and getting guns off the streets. There are some very innovative approaches to crime fighting that include partnering with social services to get low-level drug offenders and prostitutes into social services versus jail. I also think that law enforcement should approach crime fighting by helping to reintegrate ex-offenders back into our communities. Lastly, I would seek ways to give disenfranchised youth opportunities to 'belong' in healthy relationships as alternatives to gang life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the National Lawyers Guild rattled its legal saber at the Oakland Police Department on Monday, raising concerns about the police response to protests in the city on Nov. 9 and 10 following the election of Donald Trump to the presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the organization that has successfully championed lawsuits stemming from OPD crowd control tactics in the past stopped short of announcing any new litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"hpel2M4UVqV67MQyJvecSZiF0Olb4Zkg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point, this is a message,\" said attorney Carey Lamprecht, who is co-chair of the NLG Bay Area's demonstrations committee. \"In a moment where Oakland is tense, where we will continue to be out in the streets, we are concerned. We’re calling OPD out at this moment because as things progress in this country, we will be in the streets. People’s First Amendment rights must be respected.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A relatively muted protest on election night was followed by a \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/articles/11167470/night-2-of-anti-trump-protests-in-east-bay-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">7,000-person march the following evening\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event proceeded peacefully until about 8 p.m., when protesters met a police line at Eighth and Washington streets. A brief standoff ensued. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:50 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> The Oakland Police Department says 30 people were arrested and 11 cited during last night's anti-Trump disorders on downtown streets. The department also reports:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Three officers injured. It's unclear how many protesters were hurt, but the OPD says there were five Oakland Fire Department medical calls related to the protest.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Three Pleasanton police vehicles damaged. A dozen outside agencies joined Oakland police on the streets Wednesday.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>At least 16 episodes of vandalism and \"a widespread of graffiti on walls downtown.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Forty trash fires.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The Police Department also gave this account of its use of what some media outlets last night called \"incendiary devices\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"OPD deployed several CS blast devises in an attempt to deter a violent portion of the crowd from assaulting officers with rocks, bottles, fireworks, M-80s, and Molotov cocktails.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>That episode reportedly occurred around 8 p.m. when much of the crowd, now estimated at 7,000, was in the Old Oakland neighborhood near police headquarters. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The artifact the department refers to in its statement is a \"CS blast dispersion grenade,\" a device designed, in the words of one seller, to deliver \"a fine cloud of micro-pulverized CS powder.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CS gas or powder, one of the chemical commonly referred to as teargas, is used frequently enough that PBS \"Frontline\" provides a description of the substance and its effects: \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/waco/csgas.html\" target=\"_blank\">A Primer on CS Gas\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists on the street denounced the use of the explosive devices and gas and \u003ca href=\"https://occupyoakland.org/event/trump-protest-rally/?instance_id=303671\" target=\"_blank\">have called another protest\u003c/a> for Thursday night. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:50 p.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>The Oakland anti-Trump protest has turned into a long evening of cat-and-mouse between groups of demonstrators in the neighborhoods around City Hall and police from several police agencies scrambling mostly without success to contain them. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been reports all night of sporadic trash fires, window smashing and looting. Most of the action late in the evening has occurred in an area bounded roughly by Jefferson Street on the west, Webster Street on the east, 20th Street on the north and 13th Street on the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, Daily Californian photographer Chantelle Lee tweeted, demonstrators smashed the windows of an Oakland police SUV and set it on fire. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ChantelleHLee/status/796596178288685056\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other social media from the streets. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/otisrtaylorjr/status/796576452095283200\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ChantelleHLee/status/796603562503438336\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An undetermined number of arrests -- probably in the dozens, from reports monitored on Oakland police scanners -- have occurred after a gathering that at its peak drew about 6,000 people and started out peacefully. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland police were joined by officers from several other agencies, including Hayward and Fremont police, the California Highway Patrol, and Alameda County and Solano County sheriff's offices. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exactly what touched off tonight's violent outburst, which is reminiscent of numerous other protests that have taken place in Oakland since the BART police killing of Oscar Grant in January 2009, was unclear. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/11/09/bay-area-protester-against-donald-trump-presidency-hit-by-car-on-highway/\" target=\"_blank\">The East Bay Times suggests\u003c/a> that one precipitating incident occurred during a confrontation between officers and marchers near Oakland police headquarters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The peaceful march took a turn after 8 p.m. as authorities used at least three incendiary devices on the crowd after protesters threw glass bottles at the police line. Protesters stood firmly as unlawful assembly orders were announced and the police perimeter closed in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, said Oakland police officers were “blatantly violent” and did not show restraint when they used incendiary devices at 8th and Washington streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was uncalled far. It was unnecessary,” said Brooks, who rode in a truck that led the march. “They set up the uprising tonight. They returned to an old tactic,” she continued, referring to controversial crowd control methods used during Occupy Oakland and other protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told protesters to “tell the world what OPD did tonight” and said protesters will gather again Thursday night at Frank Ogawa Plaza.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>KQED's Alex Emslie was in the vicinity of that confrontation and his video gives an idea of the tension and chaos there:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter/status/796571182342369280\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:35 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> With the protest crowd on the streets in downtown Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/alert/5774563/\" target=\"_blank\">estimated at 6,000\u003c/a>, and with vandalism and trash fires reported at several locations, police have declared the gathering \"unlawful\" and have used teargas -- or something else -- in at least one location. At least eight arrests were reported in Oakland Police Department scanner traffic. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/11/09/bay-area-protester-against-donald-trump-presidency-hit-by-car-on-highway/\" target=\"_blank\">From the East Bay Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The peaceful march took a turn after 8 p.m. as authorities used at least three incendiary devices on the crowd after protesters threw glass bottles at the police line. Protesters stood firmly as unlawful assembly orders were announced and the police perimeter closed in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One protester in Uptown Oakland shown a green laser at KGO-ABC7 helicopter. An Oakland police officer said authorities arrested the person shining the laser, which is a federal offense.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Social media from the street:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jenniferdaniel/status/796585169847078912\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/thistyra/status/796579568383442944\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BlackKangoPhoto/status/796579461218975744\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OakMorr/status/796579289911029760\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2016/11/09/crowd-marches-through-berkeley-in-emergency-protest-against-trump-election/\" target=\"_blank\">marchers from Berkeley\u003c/a> are headed south on Telegraph Avenue toward downtown Oakland. Last night, a southbound march into Oakland included a foray onto Highway 24, where a woman in the protest was seriously injured after being struck by a car. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, marches originating in the Castro and Union Square have converged and diverged, with one large group heading to 24th and Mission streets, a traditional gathering place for street actions. Police have kept a watch on the protests but have not intervened. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nOriginal post, 7:35 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> Demonstrators are marching in San Francisco and Oakland Wednesday evening in a second night of protests against the election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 5 p.m., hundreds of protesters had gathered at 14th Street and Broadway chanting, \"Not our president.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/796544991787003905\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the crowd carried signs saying, \"Pussy grabs back,\" \"Donald Trump is a rapist\" and \"Secede #CalExit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department estimated the crowd at about 3,000 people. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Alex Emslie said people in the crowd have told him they're marching to take a stand against some of Trump's declared policies, such as support for quick deportation of undocumented immigrants. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what we’re seeing here is some of the shock of last night and this morning turning into raw anger,” Emslie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BrittanyKirstin/status/796543147463438336\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters also took to the street Wednesday night in San Francisco, with a crowd gathering at Powell and Market streets and marching up to Castro. Muni reports service on its F-line streetcar has been disrupted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the chants on the street: \"Racist, fascist, anti-gay/Donald Trump just go away.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier Wednesday, about 1,500 students from Berkeley High School walked out of classes to protest the election result:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/berkeleyside/status/796498304649465856\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anti-Trump Protest Hit Cities Across the U.S.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of protesters from around the country took to the streets Wednesday night to condemn the election of Donald Trump as president. The demonstrations were mostly peaceful as of Wednesday evening, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Chicago, several thousand people marched through the Loop and gathered outside Trump Tower, chanting, \"Not my president!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/dnainfo_breen/status/796508547546775554\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar protest in Manhattan drew about 1,000 people. Outside Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in midtown, police installed barricades to keep the demonstrators at bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of protesters gathered near Philadelphia's City Hall despite chilly, wet weather. Participants -- who included both supporters of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and independent Vermont Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Protesters also took to the street Wednesday night in San Francisco, with a crowd gathering at Powell and Market streets and marching up to Castro. Muni reports service on its F-line streetcar has been disrupted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the chants on the street: \"Racist, fascist, anti-gay/Donald Trump just go away.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier Wednesday, about 1,500 students from Berkeley High School walked out of classes to protest the election result:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He said the drawn-out investigation that's kept him away from work is one of many examples of OPD leadership's attempts to harm him for filing internal affairs complaints and zeroing in on a fellow officer during a homicide investigation two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gantt was initially assigned to investigate the June 2014 death of Irma Huerta-Lopez and said Tuesday that physical evidence at the scene \"didn't jive\" with former OPD Officer Brendan O'Brien's story about his wife's death. O'Brien told Gantt and OPD Sgt. 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He said 'I just don't want you to work the case anymore.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without Gantt's involvement, the department determined Huerta-Lopez had killed herself, a finding recently \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/%3Fp%3D11031041\" target=\"_blank\">bolstered\u003c/a> by the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gantt went on to work other cases but, he said, OPD's homicide section was suddenly a lot less friendly to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The thin blue line is alive and well, and once you step over that line then you become an outcast,\" Gantt said. He filed a complaint after several homicide inspectors viewed his personnel file -- which is generally confidential. But there were no repercussions. Gantt transferred out of the homicide section less than two months after Huerta Lopez's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He then brought another complaint to internal affairs, this time for receiving what he described as racist text messages from a superior officer. Again, his complaint had no impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They said that the investigation was unfounded,\" Gantt said. \"So, unfounded about people looking in my personnel file, which I have proof that they did, but OPD said it didn’t occur. I have proof that I received racist text messages. They said that it didn’t occur. And as far as a hostile work environment, now-Deputy Chief John Lois created a hostile work environment for me while I was in the homicide section.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a year after Gantt transferred from homicide, Brendan O'Brien killed himself in the same apartment where Huerta-Lopez died. He reportedly left a suicide note indicating inappropriate relationships between other \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/police-sexual-exploitation/\" target=\"_blank\">officers and the teenage\u003c/a> daughter of an OPD police dispatcher. At the time the teenager, Jasmine Abuslin, went by the name Celeste Guap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD's investigation into potential crimes or misconduct stayed quiet until summer, when it led to a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\">series of police chief resignations\u003c/a>. Five current and former Oakland officers face criminal charges related to their relationships with the now 19-year-old woman, including some felonies for engaging in sex acts with her before she turned 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of people knew about that, but the only people you see getting in trouble are officers and a sergeant,\" Gantt said. \"There’s a lot of people way above them that knew and didn’t say something, and we’re all mandatory reporters. So I don’t see why one sergeant and these officers are in trouble and everybody else gets to skate, so to speak.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gantt's attorney, Dan Siegel, said he hopes his client's claim will lead to the release of information still obscured about the investigation, including O'Brien's suicide note.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The main issue here is a case that will clear Sgt. Gantt’s name and hopefully bring light on what’s going on in the department,\" said Siegel, a longtime critic of the OPD who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's claim isn't Gantt's first tussle with OPD. He was fired after the department found he impeded a 2004 rape investigation, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/01/oakland-police-sergeant-files-claim-against-city-alleging-retaliation/\" target=\"_blank\">the Mercury News\u003c/a>. But he challenged the decision and was \u003ca href=\"https://www.poracldf.org/news/detail/166\" target=\"_blank\">reinstated\u003c/a> by 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department deferred questions about Gantt's allegations to city officials. A spokeswoman for Mayor Libby Schaaf responded in a written statement Tuesday that the city is \"legally prohibited from disclosing personnel information about any police officer and we do not comment on pending litigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a clearly defined legal process for handling these claims and we welcome the opportunity to present the full set of facts,\" the statement says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gantt's problems with the OPD didn't end when he left the homicide section. He was publicly accused in June of improperly sharing information from at least one homicide investigation, which the Alameda District Attorney's Office investigated and found no criminal wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They damaged me by putting out all those false allegations about me,\" Gantt said. \"They know I’m getting ready to retire. They know I’m ready to go. This is, I think, because I filed those complaints. This is a way for them to get me on my way out the door.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Julie Small of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\"I'm just tired of being made out to be the bad guy,\" former Oakland homicide investigator Mike Gantt said softly as he arranged several grocery bags full of awards from the Police Department on a conference table in his attorney's office Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was there to talk to reporters about his decision to pursue legal action against the OPD and tell his side of a 2014 death investigation in which he suspected a fellow officer of murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm kinda torn here this morning,\" the 27-year member of the OPD said. \"I love my job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he's been off the job since April -- on indefinite administrative leave following a domestic dispute with his wife, according to the legal claim he filed Tuesday. He said the drawn-out investigation that's kept him away from work is one of many examples of OPD leadership's attempts to harm him for filing internal affairs complaints and zeroing in on a fellow officer during a homicide investigation two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gantt was initially assigned to investigate the June 2014 death of Irma Huerta-Lopez and said Tuesday that physical evidence at the scene \"didn't jive\" with former OPD Officer Brendan O'Brien's story about his wife's death. O'Brien told Gantt and OPD Sgt. Caesar Basa that he had left the apartment to buy a pack of cigarettes when Lopez shot herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"His story didn’t match up based on what I saw -- physical evidence at the scene -- and based on the story that he told me,\" Gantt said. \"The mere fact that he was living in East Oakland and said he walked to the store without his gun, without his badge, barefoot, when he doesn’t smoke -- it just doesn’t make sense to me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he wouldn't have much opportunity to pursue his suspicion. He said former homicide Lt. John Lois removed him from the case in the middle of questioning O'Brien, who joined the OPD in 2013, and after Basa said he was pressuring the rookie officer too much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I saw Sgt. Basa inside John Lois' office speaking with him,\" Gantt said. \"Lois called me into his office and he said 'Hey, I'm taking you off the case,' and I said, 'Why? What did I do?' He said 'I just don't want you to work the case anymore.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without Gantt's involvement, the department determined Huerta-Lopez had killed herself, a finding recently \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/%3Fp%3D11031041\" target=\"_blank\">bolstered\u003c/a> by the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gantt went on to work other cases but, he said, OPD's homicide section was suddenly a lot less friendly to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The thin blue line is alive and well, and once you step over that line then you become an outcast,\" Gantt said. He filed a complaint after several homicide inspectors viewed his personnel file -- which is generally confidential. But there were no repercussions. Gantt transferred out of the homicide section less than two months after Huerta Lopez's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He then brought another complaint to internal affairs, this time for receiving what he described as racist text messages from a superior officer. Again, his complaint had no impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They said that the investigation was unfounded,\" Gantt said. \"So, unfounded about people looking in my personnel file, which I have proof that they did, but OPD said it didn’t occur. I have proof that I received racist text messages. They said that it didn’t occur. And as far as a hostile work environment, now-Deputy Chief John Lois created a hostile work environment for me while I was in the homicide section.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a year after Gantt transferred from homicide, Brendan O'Brien killed himself in the same apartment where Huerta-Lopez died. He reportedly left a suicide note indicating inappropriate relationships between other \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/police-sexual-exploitation/\" target=\"_blank\">officers and the teenage\u003c/a> daughter of an OPD police dispatcher. At the time the teenager, Jasmine Abuslin, went by the name Celeste Guap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD's investigation into potential crimes or misconduct stayed quiet until summer, when it led to a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\">series of police chief resignations\u003c/a>. Five current and former Oakland officers face criminal charges related to their relationships with the now 19-year-old woman, including some felonies for engaging in sex acts with her before she turned 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of people knew about that, but the only people you see getting in trouble are officers and a sergeant,\" Gantt said. \"There’s a lot of people way above them that knew and didn’t say something, and we’re all mandatory reporters. So I don’t see why one sergeant and these officers are in trouble and everybody else gets to skate, so to speak.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gantt's attorney, Dan Siegel, said he hopes his client's claim will lead to the release of information still obscured about the investigation, including O'Brien's suicide note.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The main issue here is a case that will clear Sgt. Gantt’s name and hopefully bring light on what’s going on in the department,\" said Siegel, a longtime critic of the OPD who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's claim isn't Gantt's first tussle with OPD. He was fired after the department found he impeded a 2004 rape investigation, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/01/oakland-police-sergeant-files-claim-against-city-alleging-retaliation/\" target=\"_blank\">the Mercury News\u003c/a>. But he challenged the decision and was \u003ca href=\"https://www.poracldf.org/news/detail/166\" target=\"_blank\">reinstated\u003c/a> by 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department deferred questions about Gantt's allegations to city officials. A spokeswoman for Mayor Libby Schaaf responded in a written statement Tuesday that the city is \"legally prohibited from disclosing personnel information about any police officer and we do not comment on pending litigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a clearly defined legal process for handling these claims and we welcome the opportunity to present the full set of facts,\" the statement says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gantt's problems with the OPD didn't end when he left the homicide section. He was publicly accused in June of improperly sharing information from at least one homicide investigation, which the Alameda District Attorney's Office investigated and found no criminal wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They damaged me by putting out all those false allegations about me,\" Gantt said. \"They know I’m getting ready to retire. They know I’m ready to go. This is, I think, because I filed those complaints. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department has been under federal oversight \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/07/13/oakland-police-in-13th-year-of-federal-oversight/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for 13 years\u003c/a>. It was a mandate intended to help reform the OPD after the 2000 Riders case in which officers beat and framed Oakland residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the Police Department is in the middle of a widespread \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/badge-of-dishonor-top-oakland-police-department-officials-looked-away-as-east-bay-cops-sexually-exploited-and-trafficked-a-teenagerdepartmen/Content?oid=4832543\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sexual exploitation scandal\u003c/a> involving several of its officers. The scandal led to the resignation of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three police chiefs over the course of eight days\u003c/a> in June 2016. City Administrator Sabrina Landreth is currently in charge of police “administrative and personnel decisions,” while acting Assistant Chief David Downing is in charge of “tactical and operational decisions” until a permanent chief can be found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scandals have given backing to Oaklanders who have long advocated for a civilian-led police commission. And now voters will have a chance to weigh in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s Measure LL, which would change the city charter and establish citizen oversight of the OPD, is on the November ballot. The new commission would have the ability to hire and fire the police chief, as well as subpoena and discipline officers. Supporters say it would create one of the strongest commissions in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289185119″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council has given Measure LL its unanimous stamp of approval, and Mayor Libby Schaaf has also expressed support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the stars and planets are lining up for this type of thing,” says Rockne “Rocky” Lucia, a lawyer with Rains Lucia Stern. He’s been representing police officers, including Oakland officers, for 30 years. He acknowledges that the conversation around policing has swept the country after a number of high-profile killing of black men by officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These factors have created a sort of perfect storm of support for the police commission. But it wasn’t always that way, according to Rashida Grinage. \u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/post/oakland-city-administrator-says-civilian-oversight-police-faces-roadblocks#stream/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">She’s been pushing \u003c/a>for civilian oversight for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grinage looks a bit like a sweet grandmother, but she’s proved herself to be a relentless fighter, spurred to action by a terrible tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s the way most activists begin,” she says. Her fight started with a personal loss. “In 1993, I lost my husband and one of my four sons to the Oakland Police Department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An animal nuisance call ended in a shootout between Grinage’s son and police. Her husband was killed in the crossfire. An OPD officer also died. OPD’s investigation found her son opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Grinage says she fought for years to try and learn \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Chilling-Account-of-Tragedy-Recording-of-93-2934207.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what happened that day\u003c/a>. She felt the OPD’s account was lacking, and whatever the details were, she is sure race played a role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My husband is African-American, my son obviously mixed. If I had been home to answer the door as a Caucasian, I think things would have ended very differently. I think everyone would still be alive today,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that, at heart, Measure LL is about accountability. Activists like her believe investigations into officer-involved shootings are biased and that officers cover for each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been hard to get an \u003ca href=\"http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/In-Texas-and-California-police-fail-to-report-9958631.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accurate official count\u003c/a> of police shootings across the country. An \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/law-enforcement-killed-90-oakland-residents-since-2000-and-74-percent-were-black/Content?oid=4940357\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Bay Express investigation\u003c/a> earlier this year used data from\u003ca href=\"http://www.fatalencounters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Fatal Encounters\u003c/a>, a journalist-run website, to calculate police shootings in Oakland. They found that between 2000 and 2015, local law enforcement killed 90 people in Oakland, 74 percent of whom were black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s Police Department has already had a fair amount of scrutiny. After the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/OAKLAND-Riders-lied-brutalized-man-2629441.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Riders Case\u003c/a> in which officers bribed, framed and set up citizens — mostly African-Americans — \u003ca href=\"http://www.jimchanin.com/civilrightscases.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a civil rights lawsuit\u003c/a> led to a federal judge to impose a monitor to watch over the department and ensure that reforms laid out in a negotiated settlement were implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And after \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/05/oakland-police-avoid-federal-takeover-give-up-control-of-department/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a rocky road\u003c/a>, it was working, according to police and city officials. Things were getting better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city was lauded by the Obama administration as an \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Obama-official-says-Oakland-s-police-department-6483838.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">example of 21st century policing\u003c/a>. Oakland police opened themselves up to be studied by \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-jennifer-eberhardt-genius-20140917-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MacArthur “genius grant” award winner Jennifer Eberhardt\u003c/a>, whose stark report found that officers were more likely to \u003ca href=\"http://news.stanford.edu/2016/06/15/stanford-big-data-study-finds-racial-disparities-oakland-calif-police-behavior-offers-solutions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stop, search and handcuff\u003c/a> people of color, especially African-American men. Oakland police shared their data with Eberhardt and were open about the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could have been a turning point for the department. Except the week Eberhardt’s research was released, news of the sexual exploitation scandal also broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilman Dan Kalb worked with Grinage to draft the legislation for the police commission. He says that 13 years of federal oversight have helped the department, but he believes strong civilian oversight is ultimately needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a civilian commission that is going to look at things on a permanent basis, and on a full-time basis,” Kalb says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Kalb and City Councilman Noel Gallo co-sponsored the Police Commission measure. At city council meetings there was \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/07/25/town-business-did-opoa-gut-the-police-commission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrangling over the amount of power the commission would have\u003c/a> and how commissioners would be appointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalb says the final product was a compromise, but one that didn’t sacrifice the ultimate goal of civilian oversight with teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the final draft, the mayor will be allowed to appoint three of the seven commissioners. Some activists were furious about this, but Kalb says the measure still creates a fundamentally independent body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In council meetings, the Oakland Police Officer’s Association expressed concern about the commission. Particularly worrisome to them was the section that revoked binding arbitration for police officers. Other \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/06/14/city-of-oakland-unions-united-against-police-reform-proposal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">city unions also balked\u003c/a> at that. They feared doing away with binding arbitration for police could create a slippery slope in other employee discipline cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Binding arbitration is out, but much of what activists wanted remains in the final plan. The OPOA did not respond to requests for comment on Measure LL from KQED. They are also, as of late October, not actively campaigning against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they are campaigning against Gallo and Kalb. Both councilmen are running for re-election to their city council seats and \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/10/17/town-business-police-union-attacks-kalb-and-gallo-oakland-claims-garbage-contracts-no-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OPOA has spent almost $35,000\u003c/a> to unseat them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The police officer’s union has sent out hit pieces on us,” Kalb says. He says objectively, he can’t understand why. “Both Noel and I have been supportive of growing our department, paying them well. I took the lead on hiring more investigators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalb is adamant that being pro-police and pro-police commission are not in opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rockne Lucia, the lawyer who represents police, says the Oakland Police Department is already under the microscope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s probably the department in the country with the most oversight, the most accountability of any police department in the country,” Lucia says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he understands the calls for transparency, and he says police have no problem with citizen oversight, but in this heightened political climate, they’re worried about the way it may work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people with political agendas get involved with police oversight, civilian review, then they are going to bring those prejudices, those biases with them, as part of the review process,” Lucia says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But civil rights lawyer John Burris says especially given the fractured relationship between the police and the community, the commission could create a bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will offer an opportunity for the public to be more involved,” Burris says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris is no stranger to police oversight. He’s one of the lawyers that sued Oakland in the Rider’s case, leading to the federal monitor. Like Lucia, Burris also warns of what could happen if the police commission plays politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The danger of course when you have a police commission is whether or not it becomes politicized,” Burris says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his concerns go in the opposite direction. To be truly independent a commission can’t be influenced by politicians who want to protect the city’s reputation and pocketbook, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He knows the federal monitor won’t be there forever. But if voters approve Measure LL, the police commission will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris says civilian oversight will only be successful if the newly created commission gets the support of OPD, from the top brass to the rank-and-file.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hopeful that there will be sufficient buy-in by the police officers within the department, that’s a function of the chief, and the command staff, and how it’s communicated to the officers,” Burris says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is currently without a permanent police chief, but the city is engaged in\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/29/oakland-has-plum-job-for-reform-minded-leader-as-opd-seeks-new-chief/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> search for the position\u003c/a>, and expects to have it filled in the beginning of 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Measure LL passes, it will present an experiment in policing the police. Whether it will add another layer of bureaucracy or whether it will help Oakland on it’s journey to create real lasting police reform is impossible to predict, Burris says.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department has been under federal oversight \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/07/13/oakland-police-in-13th-year-of-federal-oversight/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for 13 years\u003c/a>. It was a mandate intended to help reform the OPD after the 2000 Riders case in which officers beat and framed Oakland residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the Police Department is in the middle of a widespread \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/badge-of-dishonor-top-oakland-police-department-officials-looked-away-as-east-bay-cops-sexually-exploited-and-trafficked-a-teenagerdepartmen/Content?oid=4832543\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sexual exploitation scandal\u003c/a> involving several of its officers. The scandal led to the resignation of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three police chiefs over the course of eight days\u003c/a> in June 2016. City Administrator Sabrina Landreth is currently in charge of police “administrative and personnel decisions,” while acting Assistant Chief David Downing is in charge of “tactical and operational decisions” until a permanent chief can be found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scandals have given backing to Oaklanders who have long advocated for a civilian-led police commission. And now voters will have a chance to weigh in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s Measure LL, which would change the city charter and establish citizen oversight of the OPD, is on the November ballot. The new commission would have the ability to hire and fire the police chief, as well as subpoena and discipline officers. Supporters say it would create one of the strongest commissions in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289185119″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289185119″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council has given Measure LL its unanimous stamp of approval, and Mayor Libby Schaaf has also expressed support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the stars and planets are lining up for this type of thing,” says Rockne “Rocky” Lucia, a lawyer with Rains Lucia Stern. He’s been representing police officers, including Oakland officers, for 30 years. He acknowledges that the conversation around policing has swept the country after a number of high-profile killing of black men by officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These factors have created a sort of perfect storm of support for the police commission. But it wasn’t always that way, according to Rashida Grinage. \u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/post/oakland-city-administrator-says-civilian-oversight-police-faces-roadblocks#stream/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">She’s been pushing \u003c/a>for civilian oversight for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grinage looks a bit like a sweet grandmother, but she’s proved herself to be a relentless fighter, spurred to action by a terrible tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s the way most activists begin,” she says. Her fight started with a personal loss. “In 1993, I lost my husband and one of my four sons to the Oakland Police Department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An animal nuisance call ended in a shootout between Grinage’s son and police. Her husband was killed in the crossfire. An OPD officer also died. OPD’s investigation found her son opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Grinage says she fought for years to try and learn \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Chilling-Account-of-Tragedy-Recording-of-93-2934207.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what happened that day\u003c/a>. She felt the OPD’s account was lacking, and whatever the details were, she is sure race played a role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My husband is African-American, my son obviously mixed. If I had been home to answer the door as a Caucasian, I think things would have ended very differently. I think everyone would still be alive today,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that, at heart, Measure LL is about accountability. Activists like her believe investigations into officer-involved shootings are biased and that officers cover for each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been hard to get an \u003ca href=\"http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/In-Texas-and-California-police-fail-to-report-9958631.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accurate official count\u003c/a> of police shootings across the country. An \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/law-enforcement-killed-90-oakland-residents-since-2000-and-74-percent-were-black/Content?oid=4940357\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Bay Express investigation\u003c/a> earlier this year used data from\u003ca href=\"http://www.fatalencounters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Fatal Encounters\u003c/a>, a journalist-run website, to calculate police shootings in Oakland. They found that between 2000 and 2015, local law enforcement killed 90 people in Oakland, 74 percent of whom were black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s Police Department has already had a fair amount of scrutiny. After the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/OAKLAND-Riders-lied-brutalized-man-2629441.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Riders Case\u003c/a> in which officers bribed, framed and set up citizens — mostly African-Americans — \u003ca href=\"http://www.jimchanin.com/civilrightscases.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a civil rights lawsuit\u003c/a> led to a federal judge to impose a monitor to watch over the department and ensure that reforms laid out in a negotiated settlement were implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And after \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/05/oakland-police-avoid-federal-takeover-give-up-control-of-department/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a rocky road\u003c/a>, it was working, according to police and city officials. Things were getting better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city was lauded by the Obama administration as an \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Obama-official-says-Oakland-s-police-department-6483838.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">example of 21st century policing\u003c/a>. Oakland police opened themselves up to be studied by \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-jennifer-eberhardt-genius-20140917-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MacArthur “genius grant” award winner Jennifer Eberhardt\u003c/a>, whose stark report found that officers were more likely to \u003ca href=\"http://news.stanford.edu/2016/06/15/stanford-big-data-study-finds-racial-disparities-oakland-calif-police-behavior-offers-solutions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stop, search and handcuff\u003c/a> people of color, especially African-American men. Oakland police shared their data with Eberhardt and were open about the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could have been a turning point for the department. Except the week Eberhardt’s research was released, news of the sexual exploitation scandal also broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilman Dan Kalb worked with Grinage to draft the legislation for the police commission. He says that 13 years of federal oversight have helped the department, but he believes strong civilian oversight is ultimately needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a civilian commission that is going to look at things on a permanent basis, and on a full-time basis,” Kalb says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Kalb and City Councilman Noel Gallo co-sponsored the Police Commission measure. At city council meetings there was \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/07/25/town-business-did-opoa-gut-the-police-commission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrangling over the amount of power the commission would have\u003c/a> and how commissioners would be appointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalb says the final product was a compromise, but one that didn’t sacrifice the ultimate goal of civilian oversight with teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the final draft, the mayor will be allowed to appoint three of the seven commissioners. Some activists were furious about this, but Kalb says the measure still creates a fundamentally independent body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In council meetings, the Oakland Police Officer’s Association expressed concern about the commission. Particularly worrisome to them was the section that revoked binding arbitration for police officers. Other \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/06/14/city-of-oakland-unions-united-against-police-reform-proposal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">city unions also balked\u003c/a> at that. They feared doing away with binding arbitration for police could create a slippery slope in other employee discipline cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Binding arbitration is out, but much of what activists wanted remains in the final plan. The OPOA did not respond to requests for comment on Measure LL from KQED. They are also, as of late October, not actively campaigning against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they are campaigning against Gallo and Kalb. Both councilmen are running for re-election to their city council seats and \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/10/17/town-business-police-union-attacks-kalb-and-gallo-oakland-claims-garbage-contracts-no-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OPOA has spent almost $35,000\u003c/a> to unseat them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The police officer’s union has sent out hit pieces on us,” Kalb says. He says objectively, he can’t understand why. “Both Noel and I have been supportive of growing our department, paying them well. I took the lead on hiring more investigators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalb is adamant that being pro-police and pro-police commission are not in opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rockne Lucia, the lawyer who represents police, says the Oakland Police Department is already under the microscope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s probably the department in the country with the most oversight, the most accountability of any police department in the country,” Lucia says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he understands the calls for transparency, and he says police have no problem with citizen oversight, but in this heightened political climate, they’re worried about the way it may work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people with political agendas get involved with police oversight, civilian review, then they are going to bring those prejudices, those biases with them, as part of the review process,” Lucia says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But civil rights lawyer John Burris says especially given the fractured relationship between the police and the community, the commission could create a bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will offer an opportunity for the public to be more involved,” Burris says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris is no stranger to police oversight. He’s one of the lawyers that sued Oakland in the Rider’s case, leading to the federal monitor. Like Lucia, Burris also warns of what could happen if the police commission plays politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The danger of course when you have a police commission is whether or not it becomes politicized,” Burris says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his concerns go in the opposite direction. To be truly independent a commission can’t be influenced by politicians who want to protect the city’s reputation and pocketbook, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He knows the federal monitor won’t be there forever. But if voters approve Measure LL, the police commission will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris says civilian oversight will only be successful if the newly created commission gets the support of OPD, from the top brass to the rank-and-file.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hopeful that there will be sufficient buy-in by the police officers within the department, that’s a function of the chief, and the command staff, and how it’s communicated to the officers,” Burris says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is currently without a permanent police chief, but the city is engaged in\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/29/oakland-has-plum-job-for-reform-minded-leader-as-opd-seeks-new-chief/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> search for the position\u003c/a>, and expects to have it filled in the beginning of 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4 p.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong>Oakland police Officer Ryan Walterhouse was formally charged Thursday with two felony counts of conspiracy to obstruct justice and a misdemeanor for engaging in an act of prostitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walterhouse befriended a person working in the sex trade over about half a year, according to charging documents, indicating the relationship began early in his short career with the Police Department. He met and paid the unnamed woman for sex in early October and sent her multiple warnings about undercover prostitution stings a couple of weeks later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[Y]ou might want to call it an early night tonight,\" the charging documents quote Walterhouse telling the unnamed woman in a phone conversation on Oct. 13. \"[T]hey may or may not be doing something right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, he allegedly asked her via text how she was going to repay him for the information, and sent more warnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[Y]ou out, don't be right now,\" he allegedly texted. \"I'll let you know when to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walterhouse confessed to providing the woman information about covert prostitution operations to \"keep her out of jail\" after his arrest late Wednesday night, according to the charging documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Thursday afternoon press conference, police and city officials said systemic changes put in place since a major sexual misconduct scandal hit the department this summer are working. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and OPD Deputy Chief John Lois lauded an unnamed officer for reporting the alleged crimes, which spawned an investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reaction from every level of the organization has been one of anger and disappointment,\" Lois said. \"I want to make it clear that criminal misconduct will not be tolerated at the Oakland Police Department. Therefore I think it warrants repeating that an Oakland police officer came forward and initially reported this misconduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said she \"recognizes that the public has got to find these allegations very disturbing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That Walterhouse continued an inappropriate relationship with a woman working in the sex trade -- even after the sexual misconduct scandal involving the teenage daughter of an OPD dispatcher toppled a succession of three police chiefs and led to criminal charges for three current and former city police officers -- is \"completely outrageous,\" Schaaf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is incredibly disturbing that in light of what happened this summer, any officer could think that it was at all acceptable to engage in this type of behavior and further sully the reputation of this department,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 1:39 p.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong>An Oakland police officer was arrested Wednesday under suspicion of obstruction of justice counts and a misdemeanor prostitution offense, according to a statement from the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Ryan Walterhouse, 26, was arrested in the past 24 hours and released after paying bail, according to Alameda County jail records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrest is unrelated to a sprawling \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/police-sexual-exploitation/\" target=\"_blank\">sexual misconduct\u003c/a> case involving dozens of Bay Area law enforcement officers from multiple agencies and the teenage daughter of an OPD dispatcher, according to the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the latest allegations follow a similar pattern: A relatively new officer assigned to a hot spot for human trafficking is accused of trading protected law enforcement information for sex. From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/10/20/oakland-police-officer-ryan-walterhouse-arrested-on-conspiracy-charges\" target=\"_blank\">East Bay Express\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Multiple sources close to the police department said Walterhouse is being investigated for obstruction of justice and a prostitution-related offenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walterhouse allegedly slept with a sex worker, and then traded confidential law enforcement information about police vice operations to see the sex worker again.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"The Oakland Police Department takes all allegations of misconduct involving our employees seriously,\" OPD spokeswoman and Officer Johnna Watson wrote in a statement. The commander of OPD's criminal investigations division participated in the arrest, according to Watson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Louis Walterhouse was an OPD trainee for part of 2014, according to state salary data from \u003ca href=\"http://transparentcalifornia.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Transparent California\u003c/a>. The database indicates he became a sworn Oakland police officer in 2014 and continued in the position through 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[T]he arrest of the officer last evening is not connected to the sexual misconduct case involving Oakland police officers and Celeste Guap,\" Watson wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"bvVUbpAWD60HG3nMRf5szevTRVa8ysXM\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three current and former Oakland officers \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/16/criminal-charges-legal-claim-filed-in-cop-sexual-exploitation-case/\">have been criminally charged\u003c/a> in \u003cem>that\u003c/em> case -- involving now 19-year-old Jasmine Abuslin, who is also known as Celeste Guap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Brian Bunton faces a felony conspiracy to obstruct justice charge for allegedly tipping off Abuslin to a prostitution sting in exchange for sex. He's also charged with a misdemeanor for engaging in prostitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Giovani LoVerde faces a single felony charge for alleged oral copulation with a minor -- allegedly with Abuslin before she turned 18 last August. Retired Sgt. Leroy Johnson faces a misdemeanor for failing to report child abuse or neglect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reportedly a family friend, Johnson allegedly agreed not to tell anyone when Abuslin confided that she had sex with other OPD officers, some while she was underage, according to charging documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announced in early September her intention to charge a total of seven current and former peace officers related to the scandal that also saw the resignation of three police chiefs over about a week in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Contra Costa Sheriff's Deputy Ricardo Perez was charged with felony oral copulation with a minor and two misdemeanor counts of engaging in lewd conduct in a public place, and prosecutors charged former Livermore Officer Daniel Black with five misdemeanor counts for engaging in prostitution, lewd conduct in a public place and providing alcohol to a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD Officer Warit Utappa and former Officer Tyrell Smith were expected to face misdemeanor charges for illegally accessing protected law enforcement data, O'Malley said in September, but they have yet to be formally charged.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walterhouse confessed to providing the woman information about covert prostitution operations to \"keep her out of jail\" after his arrest late Wednesday night, according to the charging documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Thursday afternoon press conference, police and city officials said systemic changes put in place since a major sexual misconduct scandal hit the department this summer are working. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and OPD Deputy Chief John Lois lauded an unnamed officer for reporting the alleged crimes, which spawned an investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reaction from every level of the organization has been one of anger and disappointment,\" Lois said. \"I want to make it clear that criminal misconduct will not be tolerated at the Oakland Police Department. Therefore I think it warrants repeating that an Oakland police officer came forward and initially reported this misconduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said she \"recognizes that the public has got to find these allegations very disturbing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That Walterhouse continued an inappropriate relationship with a woman working in the sex trade -- even after the sexual misconduct scandal involving the teenage daughter of an OPD dispatcher toppled a succession of three police chiefs and led to criminal charges for three current and former city police officers -- is \"completely outrageous,\" Schaaf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is incredibly disturbing that in light of what happened this summer, any officer could think that it was at all acceptable to engage in this type of behavior and further sully the reputation of this department,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 1:39 p.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong>An Oakland police officer was arrested Wednesday under suspicion of obstruction of justice counts and a misdemeanor prostitution offense, according to a statement from the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Ryan Walterhouse, 26, was arrested in the past 24 hours and released after paying bail, according to Alameda County jail records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrest is unrelated to a sprawling \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/police-sexual-exploitation/\" target=\"_blank\">sexual misconduct\u003c/a> case involving dozens of Bay Area law enforcement officers from multiple agencies and the teenage daughter of an OPD dispatcher, according to the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the latest allegations follow a similar pattern: A relatively new officer assigned to a hot spot for human trafficking is accused of trading protected law enforcement information for sex. From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/10/20/oakland-police-officer-ryan-walterhouse-arrested-on-conspiracy-charges\" target=\"_blank\">East Bay Express\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Multiple sources close to the police department said Walterhouse is being investigated for obstruction of justice and a prostitution-related offenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walterhouse allegedly slept with a sex worker, and then traded confidential law enforcement information about police vice operations to see the sex worker again.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"The Oakland Police Department takes all allegations of misconduct involving our employees seriously,\" OPD spokeswoman and Officer Johnna Watson wrote in a statement. The commander of OPD's criminal investigations division participated in the arrest, according to Watson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Louis Walterhouse was an OPD trainee for part of 2014, according to state salary data from \u003ca href=\"http://transparentcalifornia.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Transparent California\u003c/a>. The database indicates he became a sworn Oakland police officer in 2014 and continued in the position through 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[T]he arrest of the officer last evening is not connected to the sexual misconduct case involving Oakland police officers and Celeste Guap,\" Watson wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three current and former Oakland officers \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/16/criminal-charges-legal-claim-filed-in-cop-sexual-exploitation-case/\">have been criminally charged\u003c/a> in \u003cem>that\u003c/em> case -- involving now 19-year-old Jasmine Abuslin, who is also known as Celeste Guap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Brian Bunton faces a felony conspiracy to obstruct justice charge for allegedly tipping off Abuslin to a prostitution sting in exchange for sex. 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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland Police Officer Brian Bunton pleaded not guilty Friday to felony and misdemeanor charges related to a wide-ranging sexual exploitation case involving several Bay Area law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bunton listened without emotion to the charges against him inside a packed courtroom in the Hayward Hall of Justice, including felony conspiracy to obstruct justice for allegedly alerting a Richmond teen working in the sex trade to an undercover prostitution sting.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/23/richmond-cops-facing-discipline-in-sex-exploitation-case-include-sergeants-lieutenants/\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond Cops Facing Discipline in Sex Exploitation Case Include Sergeants, Lieutenants\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/23/richmond-cops-facing-discipline-in-sex-exploitation-case-include-sergeants-lieutenants/\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21202_alt_502-1-800x505.jpg\" alt=\"RS21202_alt_502\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11100909\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21202_alt_502-1-800x505.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21202_alt_502-1-400x253.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21202_alt_502-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21202_alt_502-1-1180x745.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21202_alt_502-1-960x606.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One officer faces firing, one faces demotion, two could be suspended and five may get letters of reprimand.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bunton is the first of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager/\" target=\"_blank\">seven officers\u003c/a> to be arraigned in Alameda County following an investigation of statements by now 19-year-old Jasmine Abuslin, who was also known by the alias \"\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/14/teen-victim-in-cop-sex-case-freed-from-florida-jail-returning-to-bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\">Celeste Guap\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His prosecution for the felony charge appears largely based on text messages with Abuslin, who nicknamed the officer \"Superman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Want some advice?\" the officer allegedly wrote to the then 18-year-old in March, according to screenshots of a text message exchange \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/the-real-reason-why-oakland-fired-its-police-chief/Content?oid=4826701\" target=\"_blank\">published by the East Bay Express\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Stay off E14 from Fruitvale to 42 tonight,\" the texts say, describing an area known for prostitution in East Oakland. \"There's a UC [undercover] operation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley is also prosecuting Bunton for engaging in an act of prostitution, a misdemeanor. He allegedly received sex in exchange for the information he provided, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3111093-Brian-Bunton-Complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\">charging documents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense attorney Dirk Manoukian entered not guilty pleas on Bunton's behalf, denying each allegation and the \"overt acts\" prosecutors laid out to substantiate a conspiracy charge. Bunton said very little at the hearing, answering simply that he understood the charges against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda Superior Court Judge Armando Cuellar set Bunton's bail at $12,500. Manoukian said his client expects to post bail by Monday, before he is required to turn himself in to Santa Rita Jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11100816\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21205_alt_504-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Police Officer Brian Bunton walks away from reporters outside his Sept. 23 arraignment hearing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11100816\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21205_alt_504-800x540.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21205_alt_504-400x270.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21205_alt_504.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21205_alt_504-1180x796.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21205_alt_504-960x648.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Police Officer Brian Bunton walks away from reporters outside his Sept. 23 arraignment hearing. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"At this point he’s the type of person that is remorseful for some of the decisions that he made,\" Manoukian told reporters after the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Bunton has a wife and children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That obviously makes the situation all the more difficult,\" Manoukian said. \"Absolutely he understands there’ll be consequences and those are going on right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manoukian said Bunton had changed careers to law enforcement less than two years ago. He declined to specify what Bunton did before joining the Oakland Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin has said she had sex with 30 officers, some when she was under 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil Rights Attorney Pamela Price filed a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/16/criminal-charges-legal-claim-filed-in-cop-sexual-exploitation-case/\" target=\"_blank\">legal claim\u003c/a> on Abuslin's behalf against the city of Oakland last week, and says she plans to take similar steps toward lawsuits in other jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"BI2An7rfcm69WxRZ7ic32iIXsESurHBz\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He obviously knows who else was involved in this sex trafficking of minors and we hope that he will find a way to tell that story,” Price said outside the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bunton is the first law enforcement officer to be arraigned on charges stemming from the sexual exploitation scandal involving at least seven Bay Area law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two more officers involved in the sex scandal are scheduled to be arraigned in the Hayward Courthouse on Sept. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ricardo Perez, a former Contra Costa County Sheriff's deputy faces one felony charge for oral copulation with a minor and two misdemeanor charges for engaging in a lewd act in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired Oakland Police Officer Leroy Johnson faces a misdemeanor charge for failing to report child abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Malley's office has yet to formally file misdemeanor charges against Oakland Police Officer Warit Utappa and former Officer Tyrell Smith, who resigned in May. She outlined charges she plans to file against those and other officers at a Sept. 9 press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both officers allegedly searched criminal justice databases for Abuslin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Malley said her office's investigation uncovered potential crimes in at least three neighboring counties -- San Francisco, San Joaquin and Contra Costa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond -- in Contra Costa County -- \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/23/richmond-cops-facing-discipline-in-sex-exploitation-case-include-sergeants-lieutenants/\" target=\"_blank\">moved to fire\u003c/a> one officer and discipline eight others Friday. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Stay off E14 from Fruitvale to 42 tonight,\" the texts say, describing an area known for prostitution in East Oakland. \"There's a UC [undercover] operation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley is also prosecuting Bunton for engaging in an act of prostitution, a misdemeanor. He allegedly received sex in exchange for the information he provided, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3111093-Brian-Bunton-Complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\">charging documents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense attorney Dirk Manoukian entered not guilty pleas on Bunton's behalf, denying each allegation and the \"overt acts\" prosecutors laid out to substantiate a conspiracy charge. Bunton said very little at the hearing, answering simply that he understood the charges against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda Superior Court Judge Armando Cuellar set Bunton's bail at $12,500. Manoukian said his client expects to post bail by Monday, before he is required to turn himself in to Santa Rita Jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11100816\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21205_alt_504-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Police Officer Brian Bunton walks away from reporters outside his Sept. 23 arraignment hearing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11100816\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21205_alt_504-800x540.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21205_alt_504-400x270.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21205_alt_504.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21205_alt_504-1180x796.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21205_alt_504-960x648.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Police Officer Brian Bunton walks away from reporters outside his Sept. 23 arraignment hearing. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"At this point he’s the type of person that is remorseful for some of the decisions that he made,\" Manoukian told reporters after the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Bunton has a wife and children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That obviously makes the situation all the more difficult,\" Manoukian said. \"Absolutely he understands there’ll be consequences and those are going on right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manoukian said Bunton had changed careers to law enforcement less than two years ago. He declined to specify what Bunton did before joining the Oakland Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin has said she had sex with 30 officers, some when she was under 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil Rights Attorney Pamela Price filed a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/16/criminal-charges-legal-claim-filed-in-cop-sexual-exploitation-case/\" target=\"_blank\">legal claim\u003c/a> on Abuslin's behalf against the city of Oakland last week, and says she plans to take similar steps toward lawsuits in other jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He obviously knows who else was involved in this sex trafficking of minors and we hope that he will find a way to tell that story,” Price said outside the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bunton is the first law enforcement officer to be arraigned on charges stemming from the sexual exploitation scandal involving at least seven Bay Area law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two more officers involved in the sex scandal are scheduled to be arraigned in the Hayward Courthouse on Sept. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ricardo Perez, a former Contra Costa County Sheriff's deputy faces one felony charge for oral copulation with a minor and two misdemeanor charges for engaging in a lewd act in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired Oakland Police Officer Leroy Johnson faces a misdemeanor charge for failing to report child abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Malley's office has yet to formally file misdemeanor charges against Oakland Police Officer Warit Utappa and former Officer Tyrell Smith, who resigned in May. She outlined charges she plans to file against those and other officers at a Sept. 9 press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both officers allegedly searched criminal justice databases for Abuslin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Malley said her office's investigation uncovered potential crimes in at least three neighboring counties -- San Francisco, San Joaquin and Contra Costa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond -- in Contra Costa County -- \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/23/richmond-cops-facing-discipline-in-sex-exploitation-case-include-sergeants-lieutenants/\" target=\"_blank\">moved to fire\u003c/a> one officer and discipline eight others Friday. 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As the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\">department's crisis expanded\u003c/a>, so did allegations of officer misconduct and criminal sexual exploitation in other jurisdictions. They all centered around the teenage daughter of an OPD dispatcher who appears to have been the victim of child sex trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Officer Brian Bunton faces a felony conspiracy to obstruct justice charge for allegedly tipping off the woman -- who called herself \"Celeste Guap\" -- to undercover prostitution stings. She worked in the sex trade at the time, and appears to have been a sexually exploited minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman shared an exchange with \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/the-real-reason-why-oakland-fired-its-police-chief/Content?oid=4826701\" target=\"_blank\">East Bay Express\u003c/a> reporters, in which the officer she nicknamed \"Superman\" on her cellphone asked if she \"wants some advice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Stay off E14 from Fruitvale to 42 tonight,\" the officer allegedly wrote. \"There's a UC [undercover] operation. ... Just giving you a heads up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3111093-Brian-Bunton-Complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\">charges\u003c/a> filed Monday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the exchange, Bunton, who was identified by the screen name \"Superman\" told her to stay away from International on a particular night because [there] was a UC operation going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subject, per reporting party, received sex in exchange for the information.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Bunton is also charged with one misdemeanor -- engaging in prostitution.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"vMuXg0bSM8Hb3l7zn2o5dG0KbLvmNWU7\"]\u003cbr>\nNo current or former officers charged or likely to be charged in Alameda County will face statutory rape allegations, District Attorney \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager/\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy O'Malley said\u003c/a> in early September, but some are being charged with oral copulation with a minor, a felony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the only \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3111094-Giovani-LoVerde-Complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\">charge\u003c/a> filed against Oakland Officer Giovanni LoVerde Monday. He allegedly started talking with the woman online and told prosecutors he never met her in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prosecutors allege that sometime in July 2015, when the woman was 17 years old, LoVerde met her near Oakland's Lake Merritt and engaged in a sex act with her in the entryway of a apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Contra Costa Sheriff's Deputy Ricardo Perez \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/30/contra-costa-deputy-resigns-amid-growing-sexual-misconduct-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">resigned in late June\u003c/a> amid the growing scandal. He was \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3111090-Ricardo-Perez-Complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\">charged\u003c/a> Monday with felony oral copulation with a minor and two misdemeanor counts of engaging in lewd conduct in a public place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez could have faced many more criminal counts, according to the woman's allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Subject per victim had sexual intercourse with her about 10 times in an unknown location near Fish Ranch Road in the Oakland Hills when she was 17 years old,\" according to the declaration of probable cause attached to charges against Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Perez said that \"his first sexual contact with the victim was between 5 to 7 days after 18, August 2015,\" according to the charging documents -- a range of dates that includes the woman's 18th birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It appears that the subject engaged in at least one sex act, oral copulation, with the subject when she was 17 years old in a public place,\" the declaration says, adding that additional sex acts also occurred in a public place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/16/criminal-charges-legal-claim-filed-in-cop-sexual-exploitation-case/\" target=\"_blank\">prosecutors charged\u003c/a> former Livermore Officer \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3111091-Daniel-Black-Complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Black\u003c/a> and former Oakland Officer \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3111092-Leroy-Johnson-Complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\">Leroy Johnson\u003c/a> last week. 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Her attorneys filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/324269040/J-A-vs-City-of-Oakland-et-al\" target=\"_blank\">legal claim\u003c/a> in Oakland Friday and plan to file similar claims against at least five other cities and counties.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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