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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. 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"content": "\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>[ad fullwidth]\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. 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>\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. 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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. 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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>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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. That city's police chief, Allwyn Brown, reported \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/12/police-chief-no-crimes-by-richmond-officers-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">last week\u003c/a> that an internal investigation found no criminal wrongdoing by Richmond officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Emslie of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Three more peace officers were formally charged Monday in a case involving allegations of wide-ranging sexual exploitation at the hands of Bay Area law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three face felony charges and are accused of engaging in sexual acts with the teenager at the center of the scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland's hushed investigation into sexual exploitation and misconduct reportedly \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/%3Fp%3D11031041\" target=\"_blank\">exposed by an officer's suicide\u003c/a> note led to increased \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/15/federal-monitor-police-crisis-could-be-most-trying-time-in-opds-history/\" target=\"_blank\">federal scrutiny\u003c/a> and appears to have instigated former Police Chief \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/09/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say/\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Whent's resignation\u003c/a> in June. 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. OPD Officer Warit Utappa and former OPD Officer Tyrell Smith are expected to be formally charged in coming days, bringing the total number of current and former officers charged in Alameda County to seven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional charges could come in neighboring counties, according to O'Malley's comments earlier this month. Investigations remain open in Contra Costa and San Francisco counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the woman at the center of the scandal recently \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\">returned to the Bay Area\u003c/a> and is represented by civil rights attorneys who have said she plans to fully cooperate with criminal prosecutions. 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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"content": "\u003cp>Nearly a year after a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/%3Fp%3D11031041\">suicide\u003c/a> note by an Oakland Police Department officer set off an investigation of sexual misconduct involving an East Bay teenager, Alameda County’s district attorney has filed the first criminal \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/324269610/Criminal-Charges-Against-2-Former-Officers-in-Sexual-Exploitation-Case\">charges\u003c/a> against two officers in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents received Friday by the Alameda County Superior Court accuse former Livermore Police Officer Dan Black of five misdemeanor counts for engaging in prostitution, lewd conduct in a public place and providing alcohol to a minor on two occasions in April this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leroy Johnson, a retired OPD sergeant faces a single misdemeanor count of failure to report child abuse. Court papers recount the witness claimed she told Johnson through a Facebook communication that she had sex with other members of the OPD, some before her 18th birthday. Johnson allegedly told her that he would not report it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges arise out of allegations from 19-year-old Jasmine Abuslin, also known as Celeste Guap, a former sex worker who may have been the victim of child sex trafficking. Abuslin told police investigators she had sexual encounters with 30 law enforcement officers in the Bay Area and that at least four of those interactions occurred when she was still a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the teenager also filed a claim Friday against Oakland for $66 million in economic damages and additional undisclosed amounts. The move is a precursor to filing a civil rights lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers planned to file similar claims next week against other jurisdictions who employed officers accused of sexually exploiting Abuslin, including the cities of Livermore, Richmond, San Francisco and Alameda, Contra Costa and San Joaquin counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference Thursday, attorney Pamela Price said additional victims have contacted her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jasmine was not the only one.” Price said. \"I have received emails from other young women that said, ‘Yes, I live in Richmond. This happened to me. These are the officers who were engaging in sex trafficking and I was part of the same group that Jasmine was part of.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price criticized Contra Costa County’s district attorney for not acting sooner to investigate allegations of criminal police conduct there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, only the Alameda County district attorney has opened a criminal investigation of police officers implicated in the scandal. At a press conference last week, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager/\" target=\"_blank\">D.A. Nancy O’Malley announced plans to charge seven East Bay law enforcement officers\u003c/a>, but said she found evidence of criminal conduct in other counties that she could not prosecute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price said that clearly shows \"there is a failure in communication and coordination among law enforcement agencies, where you can have one district attorney who says, 'I have evidence of wrongdoing by an officer of the law, but I can’t prosecute him because he’s not in my jurisdiction.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price said a representative from the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office called her for the first time this week since the scandal broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are interested now in doing some type of investigation.” Price said. “They want to talk to Jasmine about what perhaps she knows about what’s been happening in their jurisdiction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Thursday, Contra Costa County District Attorney Mark Peterson acknowledged they are taking another look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Recently, we’ve been made aware of additional allegations of possible criminal conduct here in Contra Costa County,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peterson said his department was reviewing that evidence and allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It goes without saying that our office will always investigate any alleged sexual assault or human trafficking crimes that occur within our county, and we’re committed to holding anyone who committed such crimes in Contra Costa County accountable for their actions,” Peterson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Councilmember Dan Kalb tweeted Friday that Contra Costa’s district attorney should also investigate Richmond Police officers who sent Abuslin to Florida for rehab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teenager's attorneys claim Richmond Police coerced her to fly 3,000 miles away for addiction treatment at the Treasure Coast Recovery Center where she was held against her will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond officials have said that the teenager went into treatment voluntarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to attorney Charles Bonner, when his client tried to leave the center, “10 people surrounded her -- big men and women. And then one had a big needle -- and she said, ‘What are you going to do with this needle?’ And they said, ‘We can do this.’ And then they grabbed her, and some big guy grabbed her in a bear hug from behind, and she bit him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin was jailed for assault for 17 days until her attorneys got the charges lessened and \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\">secured her release on Wednesday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven Richmond Police officers were investigated for inappropriate contact with the teenager. Richmond Police Chief Allwyn Brown says allegations his department sent the teen witness away “distort reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=324269040 key=key-HeJTNdOGsjAPbCuferbk mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The East Bay teenager at the center of a police sexual misconduct case was released from a Florida jail on Wednesday -- free to testify against police officers \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager/\" target=\"_blank\">charged last week\u003c/a> with exploiting her when she was a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nineteen-year-old Jasmine Abuslin -- previously known publicly as Celeste Guap -- appeared in a Martin County, Florida, court to plead no contest to a misdemeanor count of battery. The charge grew out of an altercation at a drug treatment facility to which she'd been sent by law enforcement officials in Richmond, a move that itself is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/09/08/richmond-police-launched-effort-to-send-celeste-guap-to-florida/\" target=\"_blank\">subject of controversy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin has reportedly told investigators that while working in the East Bay sex trade, she had sexual contact with as many as 30 law enforcement officers. Those officers were members of seven different agencies, apparently including the police departments in Oakland, Richmond, Livermore and San Francisco and the sheriff's offices in Alameda and Contra Costa counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Friday, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announced her office was bringing charges against seven men, including five Oakland police officers, one from Livermore and a sheriff's deputy from Contra Costa County. The charges include oral copulation with a minor, engaging in an act of prostitution, obstruction of justice and unauthorized access to law enforcement computer systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin's attorney, Pamela Price, said that in addition to helping her client through criminal proceedings against the accused police officers, she and fellow lawyer Charles Bonner plan to sue the seven jurisdictions believed to be involved in the case. She said she also hopes that state and federal agencies will take over the investigation into sex trafficking involving police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin \"is not the only one\" who has been victimized, Price said. She alleged a \"network of police officers\" is involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You cannot have this many officers engaged in this conduct across jurisdictional lines without an internal network and communication amongst all of them,\" Price said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked repeatedly whether officers had paid Abuslin in exchange for sex, Price said, \"This child has been kidnapped, she has been placed in fear of her life, she has been held against her will in multiple locations in the Bay Area. So whether or not someone gave her a dollar or a dime is irrelevant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price said Abuslin had been trafficked since the age of 12 and decided to drop her pseudonym as part of moving on with her life after the exploitation case made her the center of often hostile attention on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Celeste Guap is dead,\" Price said during a press conference in Stuart, Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guap, Price said, was \"blasted all over the news with Kardashian-like celebrity status (and) was a victim of child sex trafficking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin, on the other hand, \"is a young woman who is going to find herself, who wants to become a veterinarian. She's going to go back to school, she's going to create a life that every young woman should have,\" Price said. \"Jasmine is going to have a second chance\" at life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonner told reporters that the legal team has arranged for Abuslin to receive medical and psychiatric treatment by specialists at Stanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her charging announcement Friday, Alameda County DA O'Malley criticized Richmond authorities for sending the key witness in a sensitive case to Florida -- ostensibly for drug treatment that the prosecutor said was readily available in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price expanded upon that criticism Wednesday, saying that while she didn't know Richmond officials' motives, Abuslin is not drug-addicted and sending her out of state bore the appearance of witness tampering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She is a witness to criminal activity, a criminal conspiracy in the Bay Area,\" Price said. \"There is no reason or rhyme to why she is here in Stuart, Florida. And the fact that she was arrested in a matter of days, charged and jailed for 17 days on a felony charge is just mind-boggling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a report released earlier this week on his department's handling of the case, Richmond Police Chief Allwyn Brown rejected suggestions of a conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Representations that we 'sent' this teenage witness away or had her 'removed' to Florida distort reality,\" Brown wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the chief added that several officers in the department could be subject to discipline because of \"individual, unconnected, non-criminal engagements and other activities that violate multiple department policies and the professional code of ethics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond City Manager Bill Lindsay told KQED's Julie Small on Wednesday that specific disciplinary recommendations will be announced \"within days.\" Because of state laws protecting police privacy, individual officers will not be named.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/07/oakland-seeks-to-fire-4-police-officers-discipline-7-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Libby Schaaf announced\u003c/a> the city is moving to fire four officers and place seven others on leave in the sexual exploitation scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Julie Small contributed to this post. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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News accounts included text messages between Ms. A and men identified as police officers. Many Bay Area law enforcement officers had become her friends on Facebook -- including \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/14/at-least-2-dozen-sfpd-officers-tied-to-teen-at-center-of-sexual-exploitation/\" target=\"_blank\">at least two dozen\u003c/a> from San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But O'Malley said the available evidence, obtained in interviews with Ms. A and other witnesses as well as from the voluminous social media and electronic records, failed to support charges against more officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We determined that the extrinsic evidence contradicts or sheds reasonable doubt on allegations of criminal conduct, such as serious inconsistencies in the statements taken from the witness or contradictions between the witness's statements and the social media messaging,\" O'Malley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Malley also emphasized the victim's participation will be crucial to the prosecution of the charged officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond Police Department -- one of the law enforcement agencies whose officers have been accused of involvement with Ms. A -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/09/08/richmond-police-launched-effort-to-send-celeste-guap-to-florida/\" target=\"_blank\">arranged to send her \u003c/a>to a rehab facility in Florida last month. 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And if the agency that sent her to Florida does not pay for her to come back, we will pay her airfare to come back to the state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/07/oakland-seeks-to-fire-4-police-officers-discipline-7-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal/\">Oakland officials announced\u003c/a> they're moving to fire four officers and discipline seven others in connection with the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegations that dozens of officers in Oakland and elsewhere had exploited a teenager working in the sex trade triggered a period of unprecedented turmoil in a department that has had more than its share of scandals and embarrassments in the last couple of decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Sean Whent’s handling of the case is believed to have led directly to his \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/09/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say/\" target=\"_blank\">abrupt resignation\u003c/a> in June, a move that was followed by the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\">appointment and departure\u003c/a> of two interim chiefs within an eight-day span. 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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland will move to fire four police officers and discipline another seven for their involvement in the alleged sexual exploitation of a teenager, officials announced Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 12th officer is to undergo counseling and training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scandal involves several Bay Area law enforcement agencies and dozens of law enforcement officers alleged to have had sex with the woman, now 19, who worked in the sex trade and appears to have been trafficked when she was a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The discipline that we have announced today sends a loud and clear message that we will hold our officers to nothing other than the highest standards of professionalism and integrity,\" Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said. \"The people of Oakland and the decent men and women of the Oakland Police Department deserve no less.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ediwZ7EfQYKSSht1HvnUNZrMFRe6W4mG\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Administrator Sabrina Landreth said each of four officers that Oakland will move to fire were found to have committed one or more of the following offenses: attempted sexual assault, engaging in lewd conduct in public, assisting in the crime of prostitution, assisting in evading arrest for the crime of prostitution, accessing law enforcement databases for personal gain, being untruthful to investigators, failing to report a violation of law or rules by not reporting allegations of a minor having or had sexual contact with Oakland police officers, and bringing disrepute to Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landreth also said Oakland will suspend seven officers without pay and provide them with remedial training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The names of the officers are not being released pending the completion of the discipline process. The announcement came during a press conference following the conclusion of an administrative investigation conducted by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Chief John Lois said the investigative team looked through 80,000 pages of social media documents and 28,000 text messages, and conducted 11 interviews spanning more than 20 hours with the woman at the heart of the investigation, who goes by the name \"Celeste Guap.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Guap case has led to a period of unprecedented turmoil in a department that has had more than its share of scandals and embarrassments in the last couple of decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Sean Whent's handling of the Guap case is believed to have led directly to his \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/09/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say/\" target=\"_blank\">abrupt resignation\u003c/a> in June, a move that was followed by the appointment and departure of two interim chiefs within an eight-day span. The Police Department is currently under the control of City Administrator Landreth until Oakland finds a permanent chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the office of Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley is reportedly still weighing charges against officers involved in the Guap case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dan Brekke and Alex Emslie contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A couple of months after a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\">rapid succession of police chiefs\u003c/a> amid allegations of \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/badge-of-dishonor-top-oakland-police-department-officials-looked-away-as-east-bay-cops-sexually-exploited-and-trafficked-a-teenagerdepartmen/Content?oid=4832543\" target=\"_blank\">sexual exploitation\u003c/a> involving several city police officers, Mayor Libby Schaaf officially announced the city's search for a new permanent chief Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I remain very, very optimistic that this remains one of the plum jobs in law enforcement in the country.'\u003ccite>Sabrina Landreth,\u003cbr>\nOakland city administrator\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She made the announcement flanked by a group of Oakland youth, stressing that they will be heard throughout the search process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that the young people behind me are the future of this city,\" Schaaf said. \"This is the group that often feels most vulnerable and least connected to what our city currently has been doing around safety and justice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has been without an official police chief since June 17, when the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/15/oakland-mayor-fires-new-interim-police-chief-after-four-days-on-job/\" target=\"_blank\">replacement's\u003c/a> acting replacement, Paul Figueroa, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\">suddenly resigned\u003c/a> and asked to return to the department at the lower rank of captain. Schaaf placed City Administrator Sabrina Landreth in charge of police \"administrative and personnel decisions,\" while placing \"tactical and operational decisions\" in the hands of Acting Assistant Chief David Downing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's last permanent police chief, Sean Whent, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/09/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say/\" target=\"_blank\">suddenly resigned\u003c/a> via \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/315374187/Resignation-letter-from-Chief-Whent-to-City-Administrator\" target=\"_blank\">late-night email\u003c/a> on June 9. His role is still unknown in directing an internal probe into officers' relationship with a now 19-year-old woman who appears to have been a sexually exploited minor, but a federal judge overseeing the Police Department pointed out \"irregularities\" related to the internal investigation in March. Judge Thelton Henderson took that investigation out of Whent's hands and put the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/15/federal-monitor-police-crisis-could-be-most-trying-time-in-opds-history/\" target=\"_blank\">court-appointed independent monitor\u003c/a> in charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11065080\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11065080 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2670-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland City Administrator Sabrina Landreth and Mayor Libby Schaaf formally announce a national search for a new police chief Monday, Aug. 29.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2670-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2670-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2670-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2670-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2670-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Administrator Sabrina Landreth and Mayor Libby Schaaf formally announce a national search for a new police chief Monday, Aug. 29. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schaaf repeatedly \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/24/oakland-mayor-libby-schaaf-defends-handling-of-police-scandals/\" target=\"_blank\">called allegations\u003c/a> emerging from the shadows of the OPD \"disturbing.\" On June 17, she committed the city to rooting out \"what is clearly a toxic, macho culture\" in the OPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s very important to understand the context in which we launch this search for Oakland’s permanent police chief,\" Schaaf said Tuesday, but she didn't address the ongoing criminal and administrative investigations into alleged OPD sexual misconduct and questions around the department's internal probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know that there is a critical national conversation happening about policing, asking critical questions about both safety and justice. ... Oakland has been at the forefront of this discussion, both in terms of the police reforms we have made in recent years as well as the community-led demands to do even more,\" Schaaf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/10/opds-fast-release-of-info-on-police-shooting-may-signal-broader-trend/\" target=\"_blank\">Under Whent\u003c/a>, Oakland was an early adopter of body cameras, and the city saw years of declining violent crime as well as police use of force and citizen complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the department has also struggled with accountability and an inability to rid its ranks of problem officers. The recent sexual-exploitation crisis notwithstanding, the department's \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/01/27/federal-judge-reinstates-court-appointed-investigator-to-examine-oaklands-police-officer-discipline-system\" target=\"_blank\">problems imposing discipline\u003c/a>, and the city's hit-or-miss ability to defend that discipline through arbitration, is a major reason OPD remains under federal oversight more than a decade after a lawsuit stemming from the \"Riders case\" exposed systemic constitutional violations by a group of officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Accountability is something that all American police chiefs are going to have to be prepared to address,\" Schaaf said, \"and enhanced citizen accountability is a trend that’s happening all over America.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Difficulties of running a chronically understaffed Police Department in a city with a relatively high rate of violent crime, a unique political landscape and federal oversight in the mix aren't detracting from likely applicants, according to city administrator Landreth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have been fielding inquiries from some of the top chiefs in the country,\" she said at Tuesday's press conference. \"I remain very, very optimistic that this remains one of the plum jobs in law enforcement in the country.\"\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"Gdszy5XnFDJqILhCNSRtGPfD1KJsjgER\"]\u003cbr>\nIf so, it's not the only one. Oakland's going to be competing for applicants with its big sister across the bay. San Francisco is searching for its own replacement police chief following a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/02/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-a-new-list-of-issues-facing-department/\" target=\"_blank\">string of scandals\u003c/a> and the resignation of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings/\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Suhr in May\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same recruiting firm, Ralph Andersen & Associates, is conducting both national searches. The San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Despite-reform-pressure-at-least-25-want-to-be-9189662.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle reports\u003c/a> that the city has attracted 25 applicants, including acting Chief Toney Chaplin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite San Francisco's oft-repeated distinction of having the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/s-f-police-paid-a-pretty-penny/\" target=\"_blank\">highest-paid police chief\u003c/a> in the country, compensation for the two top-cop positions is comparable if you include benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, former SFPD Chief Greg Suhr took home $308,901 in regular pay and $410,938 in total pay and benefits, according to public employee salary data from \u003ca href=\"http://transparentcalifornia.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Transparent California\u003c/a>. In 2015, former OPD Chief Whent took home $235,798 in regular pay -- more than $70,000 less than Suhr. But with almost $60,000 in \"other pay\" and $122,998 in benefits, Whent's total pay and benefits topped Suhr's by nearly $7,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fact that San Francisco is recruiting at the same time could be a challenge and it could be a bonus,\" Schaaf said. \"Certainly, a lot of people are paying attention to the Bay Area right now, as a great place to live, and a place that is rife for opportunity for a reform-minded leader to really make their mark.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is hosting 10 community meetings through September to gather public input on who its next police chief should be. The city's \"Police Chief Recruitment\" \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/government/o/CityAdministration/OAK043196\" target=\"_blank\">website\u003c/a> lists the dates and links to an online survey in four languages. Landreth said the job should post in the next 10 days and the city will accept applications for a month and a half. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s very important to understand the context in which we launch this search for Oakland’s permanent police chief,\" Schaaf said Tuesday, but she didn't address the ongoing criminal and administrative investigations into alleged OPD sexual misconduct and questions around the department's internal probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know that there is a critical national conversation happening about policing, asking critical questions about both safety and justice. ... Oakland has been at the forefront of this discussion, both in terms of the police reforms we have made in recent years as well as the community-led demands to do even more,\" Schaaf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/10/opds-fast-release-of-info-on-police-shooting-may-signal-broader-trend/\" target=\"_blank\">Under Whent\u003c/a>, Oakland was an early adopter of body cameras, and the city saw years of declining violent crime as well as police use of force and citizen complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the department has also struggled with accountability and an inability to rid its ranks of problem officers. The recent sexual-exploitation crisis notwithstanding, the department's \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/01/27/federal-judge-reinstates-court-appointed-investigator-to-examine-oaklands-police-officer-discipline-system\" target=\"_blank\">problems imposing discipline\u003c/a>, and the city's hit-or-miss ability to defend that discipline through arbitration, is a major reason OPD remains under federal oversight more than a decade after a lawsuit stemming from the \"Riders case\" exposed systemic constitutional violations by a group of officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Accountability is something that all American police chiefs are going to have to be prepared to address,\" Schaaf said, \"and enhanced citizen accountability is a trend that’s happening all over America.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Difficulties of running a chronically understaffed Police Department in a city with a relatively high rate of violent crime, a unique political landscape and federal oversight in the mix aren't detracting from likely applicants, according to city administrator Landreth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have been fielding inquiries from some of the top chiefs in the country,\" she said at Tuesday's press conference. \"I remain very, very optimistic that this remains one of the plum jobs in law enforcement in the country.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nIf so, it's not the only one. Oakland's going to be competing for applicants with its big sister across the bay. San Francisco is searching for its own replacement police chief following a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/02/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-a-new-list-of-issues-facing-department/\" target=\"_blank\">string of scandals\u003c/a> and the resignation of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings/\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Suhr in May\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same recruiting firm, Ralph Andersen & Associates, is conducting both national searches. The San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Despite-reform-pressure-at-least-25-want-to-be-9189662.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle reports\u003c/a> that the city has attracted 25 applicants, including acting Chief Toney Chaplin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite San Francisco's oft-repeated distinction of having the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/s-f-police-paid-a-pretty-penny/\" target=\"_blank\">highest-paid police chief\u003c/a> in the country, compensation for the two top-cop positions is comparable if you include benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, former SFPD Chief Greg Suhr took home $308,901 in regular pay and $410,938 in total pay and benefits, according to public employee salary data from \u003ca href=\"http://transparentcalifornia.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Transparent California\u003c/a>. In 2015, former OPD Chief Whent took home $235,798 in regular pay -- more than $70,000 less than Suhr. But with almost $60,000 in \"other pay\" and $122,998 in benefits, Whent's total pay and benefits topped Suhr's by nearly $7,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fact that San Francisco is recruiting at the same time could be a challenge and it could be a bonus,\" Schaaf said. \"Certainly, a lot of people are paying attention to the Bay Area right now, as a great place to live, and a place that is rife for opportunity for a reform-minded leader to really make their mark.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is hosting 10 community meetings through September to gather public input on who its next police chief should be. The city's \"Police Chief Recruitment\" \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/government/o/CityAdministration/OAK043196\" target=\"_blank\">website\u003c/a> lists the dates and links to an online survey in four languages. Landreth said the job should post in the next 10 days and the city will accept applications for a month and a half. She said the city aims \"to have a permanent chief in place at the beginning of the year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Sandhya Dirks contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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