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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Kyung Jin Lee, Deborah Svoboda and Dan Brekke\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94943\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/22/draft-5th-avenue-community-photos/screen-shot-2013-04-21-at-9-20-28-pm/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94943\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-94943\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/Screen-Shot-2013-04-21-at-9.20.28-PM-300x123.png\" alt=\"Artist's conception of the Brooklyn Basin development along the Oakland Estuary, south and east of downtown and Jack London Square. \" width=\"300\" height=\"123\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist's conception of the Brooklyn Basin development along the Oakland Estuary, south and east of downtown and Jack London Square.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When he was in China earlier this month, Gov. Jerry Brown announced something that was very important to a handful of residents on a fairly obscure stretch of Oakland's waterfront. The governor said that a Chinese real estate firm would bankroll a $1.5 billion development on the Oakland Estuary, just beyond the Lake Merritt Channel and south and east of Jack London Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/brooklyn_basin.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to the story.\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/brooklyn_basin.mp3]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The development, now called \u003ca href=\"http://brooklynbasin.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Basin\u003c/a>, would be immense. The plan calls for five high-rise apartment buildings and several mid-rise apartment blocks that would contain a total of 3,100 units. The development would also include office and retail space, marinas and parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan, which used to be called Oak to 9th (describing the waterfront from Oak Street to 9th Avenue), has been around for years. The missing ingredient was money. Now that's taken care of and work on improving infrastructure in the area can start. If all goes according to plan -- and in Oakland, we think it's fair to say that's a relatively big \"if\" -- the first buildings will start to rise in 2015.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just glancing at the drawings depicting life in the future community, you think of San Francisco's South Beach—the big apartment and townhouse community that stretches south along the Embarcadero between the Bay Bridge and Phone Company Park (you know—where the Giants play). Things will be hip and trim and cleanly colorful in the new community. The parallel with South Beach would be complete if Oakland ever \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/12/09/city-of-oakland-as/\" target=\"_blank\">manages to convince\u003c/a> the A's to go along with building a new ballpark next to the Jack London area (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/21/as-ballpark-watch-2013-unnamed-sources-say-something-might-have-happened-maybe/\" target=\"_blank\">hopefully\u003c/a>, your children's children will see the resolution of that one.)\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">We’re just art types down here. We can fight as hard as we want with sticks and stones, but they’ve got the big guns. The government does what they want to do when they want to do it.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But if you look more closely at the beautiful aerial view of the remade Oakland waterfront, you might notice that there's a tiny finger of low-rise property amid the shiny new apartment blocks. A 2006 \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/ceda/documents/webcontent/oak035563.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">design document\u003c/a> describes that little area as \"private land -- not part of project.\" You have to actually go down and visit the area, which runs along Fifth Avenue between the estuary and the Nimitz Freeway, to find a small community of artists and artisans there. Unlike the dream sketched out by the Brooklyn Basin promoters, this community actually exists and has \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Pleading-the-fifth-Artists-revel-in-enclave-s-2925180.php\" target=\"_blank\">for some time\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents wonder how much longer their good fortune—the affordable digs, the bohemian atmosphere, their intimate view of the estuary's weirdly juxtaposed natural splendor and bruised industrial waterscape—can last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zack Parkes is a musician who recently rented a cottage in the neighborhood. He loves it. \"It’s as pure down here as it get,\" he said. \"This place really hasn’t been changed and altered. I think it still embodies a lot of the tradition of what makes Oakland Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he also wonders how thousands of new residents are going to fit into an area that has limited access. \"You can’t move the water,\" he said. \"You can’t move the train tracks. It’s going to be tough to fit everyone in between.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Schultz has lived in the Fifth Avenue community since the late 1970s. He said the neighborhood has successfully resisted development efforts before, but this time he thinks things are different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re just art types down here,\" Schultz said. \"We can fight as hard as we want with sticks and stones, but they’ve got the big guns. The government does what they want to do when they want to do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here's a gallery of the Fifth Avenue community and some of its residents: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4571_020-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94890\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4571_020-1.jpg\" alt=\"RS4571_020-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>An artisan community of residents, businesses and boat owners lives at the end of Fifth Avenue in Oakland. The community would be virtually enclosed by the massive new Brooklyn Basin development. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4561_010-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94892\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4561_010-2.jpg\" alt=\"RS4561_010-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>Residents of a small artists' community on the Oakland waterfront, near Jack London Square, are pondering what their future holds as the city moves ahead with a massive new development in their backyard. Robert Schultz collects art -- and whatever other artifacts come his way -- and has lived in the Fifth Avenue community for about 34 years. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4562_011-5.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4562_011-5.jpg\" alt=\"RS4562_011-5\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here two pieces from Schultz's collection sit side by side: a toy car and a vintage Studebaker. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4564_013-3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94895\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4564_013-3.jpg\" alt=\"RS4564_013-3\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>Schultz has lived in the Fifth Avenue community for about 34 years. He has rescued everything from trees to antiques and cars, and he sells some of it from his space and shop. Here Mike Hill (left) a military item collector, Schultz (center) and Jay Kline (right) talk about some of the stuff that Schultz has to offer. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4567_016-4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94896\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4567_016-4.jpg\" alt=\"RS4567_016-4\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>Musician Zach Parkes has had a recording studio and been a part of the community on Fifth Avenue for about six months. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94900\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4569_018-6.jpg\" alt=\"RS4569_018-6\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">Dawn Whitaker takes a few minutes to relax and watch the birds. She's been a part of the Fith Avenue community for a couple of months. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4558_007-7.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94901\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4558_007-7.jpg\" alt=\"RS4558_007-7\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>A spaceship that used to be a part of a playground at Lake Merritt now lives as part of a fence, with a bunch of other art, on Fifth Avenue. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just glancing at the drawings depicting life in the future community, you think of San Francisco's South Beach—the big apartment and townhouse community that stretches south along the Embarcadero between the Bay Bridge and Phone Company Park (you know—where the Giants play). Things will be hip and trim and cleanly colorful in the new community. The parallel with South Beach would be complete if Oakland ever \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/12/09/city-of-oakland-as/\" target=\"_blank\">manages to convince\u003c/a> the A's to go along with building a new ballpark next to the Jack London area (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/21/as-ballpark-watch-2013-unnamed-sources-say-something-might-have-happened-maybe/\" target=\"_blank\">hopefully\u003c/a>, your children's children will see the resolution of that one.)\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">We’re just art types down here. We can fight as hard as we want with sticks and stones, but they’ve got the big guns. The government does what they want to do when they want to do it.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But if you look more closely at the beautiful aerial view of the remade Oakland waterfront, you might notice that there's a tiny finger of low-rise property amid the shiny new apartment blocks. A 2006 \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/ceda/documents/webcontent/oak035563.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">design document\u003c/a> describes that little area as \"private land -- not part of project.\" You have to actually go down and visit the area, which runs along Fifth Avenue between the estuary and the Nimitz Freeway, to find a small community of artists and artisans there. Unlike the dream sketched out by the Brooklyn Basin promoters, this community actually exists and has \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Pleading-the-fifth-Artists-revel-in-enclave-s-2925180.php\" target=\"_blank\">for some time\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents wonder how much longer their good fortune—the affordable digs, the bohemian atmosphere, their intimate view of the estuary's weirdly juxtaposed natural splendor and bruised industrial waterscape—can last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zack Parkes is a musician who recently rented a cottage in the neighborhood. He loves it. \"It’s as pure down here as it get,\" he said. \"This place really hasn’t been changed and altered. I think it still embodies a lot of the tradition of what makes Oakland Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he also wonders how thousands of new residents are going to fit into an area that has limited access. \"You can’t move the water,\" he said. \"You can’t move the train tracks. It’s going to be tough to fit everyone in between.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Schultz has lived in the Fifth Avenue community since the late 1970s. He said the neighborhood has successfully resisted development efforts before, but this time he thinks things are different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re just art types down here,\" Schultz said. \"We can fight as hard as we want with sticks and stones, but they’ve got the big guns. The government does what they want to do when they want to do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here's a gallery of the Fifth Avenue community and some of its residents: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4571_020-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94890\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4571_020-1.jpg\" alt=\"RS4571_020-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>An artisan community of residents, businesses and boat owners lives at the end of Fifth Avenue in Oakland. The community would be virtually enclosed by the massive new Brooklyn Basin development. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4561_010-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94892\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4561_010-2.jpg\" alt=\"RS4561_010-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>Residents of a small artists' community on the Oakland waterfront, near Jack London Square, are pondering what their future holds as the city moves ahead with a massive new development in their backyard. Robert Schultz collects art -- and whatever other artifacts come his way -- and has lived in the Fifth Avenue community for about 34 years. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4562_011-5.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4562_011-5.jpg\" alt=\"RS4562_011-5\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here two pieces from Schultz's collection sit side by side: a toy car and a vintage Studebaker. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4564_013-3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94895\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4564_013-3.jpg\" alt=\"RS4564_013-3\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>Schultz has lived in the Fifth Avenue community for about 34 years. He has rescued everything from trees to antiques and cars, and he sells some of it from his space and shop. Here Mike Hill (left) a military item collector, Schultz (center) and Jay Kline (right) talk about some of the stuff that Schultz has to offer. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4567_016-4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94896\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4567_016-4.jpg\" alt=\"RS4567_016-4\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>Musician Zach Parkes has had a recording studio and been a part of the community on Fifth Avenue for about six months. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94900\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4569_018-6.jpg\" alt=\"RS4569_018-6\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">Dawn Whitaker takes a few minutes to relax and watch the birds. She's been a part of the Fith Avenue community for a couple of months. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4558_007-7.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94901\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4558_007-7.jpg\" alt=\"RS4558_007-7\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>A spaceship that used to be a part of a playground at Lake Merritt now lives as part of a fence, with a bunch of other art, on Fifth Avenue. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4557_006-9.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94920\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4557_006-9.jpg\" alt=\"RS4557_006-9\" width=\"500\" height=\"725\">\u003c/a>Kevin Manning has had an office overlooking the Fifth Avenue Marina for 22 years. He demonstrates one of his inventions, the \"Pump-Hub,\" which self-inflates bike tires as you ride. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Shoshana Walter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/policing/ex-officers-often-investigate-police-involved-shoo/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/ex-officers-often-investigate-police-involved-shootings/baycitizenlogo-49/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93946\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-93946\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/BayCitizenLogo.png\" alt=\"BayCitizenLogo\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>After Oakland police Officer Miguel Masso shot and killed 18-year-old Alan Blueford last May, prosecutors quickly released their investigator’s findings about the incident, amid a public outcry and a protest that shut down a City Council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting was justified, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682616-oakland-police-department-blueford-press-release.html\">according to the evidence\u003c/a> collected by Michael Foster – a former Oakland police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a city seething with distrust of law enforcement, legal experts and residents are now questioning District Attorney Nancy O’Malley’s wisdom in assigning former Oakland police officers to the task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93945\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/ex-officers-often-investigate-police-involved-shootings/adam-and-jeralynn-blueford/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93945\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-93945 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/Adam-and-Jeralynn-Blueford-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Adam and Jeralynn Blueford\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam and Jeralynn Blueford’s son Alan, an 18-year-old Hayward resident, was shot to death by an Oakland police officer last May. Noah Berger/The Bay Citizen\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I would hope that they would look for somebody not for one side or the other – some impartial person that’s not the police and not a community activist,” said Blueford’s father, Adam Blueford. “The prosecutor just kind of rubber stamps what the police said.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster’s assignment was described as routine. It turns out that the practice of using former police officers to conduct investigations into shootings at their previous departments is widespread, according to a review of police prosecution records by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cironline.org\">Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, parent organization of The Bay Citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is all the more important now in Oakland, where the beleaguered police department is under court supervision. Last month, a federal judge appointed former Baltimore Police Commissioner Thomas Frazier to oversee the completion of an almost decadelong civil rights reform effort.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_22998796/oakland-federal-judge-warns-city-hall-stop-standing\">Judge accuses city of impeding Frazier\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/policing/find-out-who-investigates-police-involved-shooting/\">Find out who investigates police-involved shootings in your area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/policing/where-have-oakland-police-officer-involved-shootin/\">Map: Where have Oakland police officer-involved shootings occurred?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city has seen two officer-involved shootings so far this month. After a witness mistakenly identified a 16-year-old boy as a robbery suspect, police said they perceived the boy as a threat and shot him in the jaw. Two days later, Oakland officers shot and wounded a burglary suspect who they said was brandishing a fake gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said they use former police officers for the investigations because they are best suited for the job, coming with years of training and experience. Other prosecutors and investigators said prior police employment wouldn't necessarily bias the investigation or outcome of a case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Malley, Alameda County’s district attorney, said her office provides a separate but thorough investigation of each fatal officer-involved shooting and dispatches a team that includes an experienced attorney and investigator. The attorney, not the investigator, writes the final report, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the Blueford investigation, O’Malley said her office reviewed all available evidence and statements from more than 40 witnesses and determined that the case “did not exist to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officer involved committed a criminal offense.” Foster declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But legal ethicists say the use of former police officers creates an appearance of a conflict of interest that can erode public trust. And those ethicists say many ex-officers still have ties to their former departments, including a sense of allegiance to the “thin blue line” that can influence the subjective process of an investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though he might not want to be a policeman again, he still has an allegiance to the brotherhood,” said Cornell University law professor Charles Wolfram. “If they’re from the same department, that could create obvious problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten district attorney’s offices in California contacted by the Center for Investigative Reporting said they use former officers for their police shooting inquiries. W. Scott Thorpe, chief executive officer of the California District Attorneys Association, called the practice “very common.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some prosecutors, however, keep the identities of the investigators who work on police officer shootings secret – the public may never know about potential conflicts of interest in police shooting investigations, the CIR review found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Oakland residents, prosecutors’ reports are one of the few sources of information about officer-involved shootings. Federal court-appointed monitors, in connection with the civil rights reform, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682615-robert-warshaw-officer-involved-shootings.html\">criticized the department’s own investigations\u003c/a> as biased and unquestioning. The department seldom releases copies of investigations and police reports on officer-involved shootings, even to the families of the individuals killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, some officers have faced more shooting investigations than others. According to police records, in the past 12 years, more than half of the department’s officer-involved shootings involved the same 20 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many cases, the investigations of some of the most shooting-prone officers showed potential conflicts of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Moschetti, a former Oakland police officer for 23 years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682621-alameda-county-district-attorney-report-fred.html\">investigated a shooting case\u003c/a> involving William Pappas, a SWAT team member responsible for three shootings, according to police records. In July 2010, he was among a group of officers who fatally shot a man wielding kitchen knives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in 2010, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682622-alameda-county-district-attorney-report-derrick.html\">Moschetti investigated\u003c/a> Officers Omar Daza-Quiroz and Eriberto Perez-Angeles. The two officers, who were involved in the shooting death of a man in 2008, were responsible for the fatal shooting of Derrick Jones, an unarmed domestic violence suspect whose death spurred protests and an FBI investigation. He had led the two officers on a foot chase before ditching a marijuana scale that police mistook for a gun. His case is under review by the Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 1, both officers involved in the case were cleared of any wrongdoing in a federal civil trial filed by Jones' widow. The city already had paid a $225,000 settlement in a separate civil suit filed by his parents and daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, three officers shot and killed a man wielding a fake firearm. After Foster completed his investigation, prosecutor John Creighton \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682623-alameda-county-district-attorney-report-matthew.html\">cleared the officers\u003c/a> in Matthew Cicelski’s death. Less than a year earlier, Creighton had \u003ca href=\"http://www.smartvoter.org/2010/06/08/ca/alm/vote/creighton_j/endorse.html\">received an endorsement\u003c/a> from the Oakland Police Officers’ Association during his unsuccessful run for superior court judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy District Attorney Teresa Drenick called Foster and the other investigators professional and unbiased. If there is bias, Drenick said, the prosecutors who work alongside the investigators would intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district attorney is there throughout the entire thing, everything,” Drenick said. “They go as a pair to all of the interviews. And then the ultimate report that is done is written by the deputy district attorney.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster also investigated the shooting deaths of two alleged gang members in May 2011, relying in part on investigative materials collected by the Oakland Police Department. The officers involved were Capt. Ersie Joyner, who has five officer-involved shootings on his record (the most of any member of the department), and Officer Cesar Garcia, who has two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To complete his investigation, Foster relied on evidence collected by Oakland police Sgt. Jim Rullamas, according to the prosecutor’s report. Not mentioned was the fact that Joyner once oversaw Rullamas as head of the homicide division, praising the detective as hard working, according to one news report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the prosecutor’s office cleared the officers of wrongdoing, some of the cases resulted in hefty civil settlements. Robert Roche, a longtime member of the department’s SWAT team, has been involved in three shootings, including one that resulted in a $500,000 civil suit settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County prosecutors provided the Center for Investigative Reporting with records on Oakland police officer shootings since 2000 that were proved justified and closed. Out of 23 fatal shooting cases, 10 were investigated by former Oakland police officers, the records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'It's a Specialized Skill'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Alameda County, not every prosecutor’s office in California releases records of shooting investigations involving police officers, which are protected by law from public disclosure. Many prosecutors’ offices declined to provide the names and employment histories of those they assign to investigate the shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some prosecutors acknowledged that their investigators are most often retired police officers. District attorneys in San Francisco, Santa Clara, Napa and San Mateo counties all said they employ former police officers and sheriff’s deputies to investigate officer-involved shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s pretty common,” said Glenn McGovern, a senior investigator at the Santa Clara County district attorney’s office who leads the training committee for the California District Attorney Investigators’ Association. “In Santa Clara, we have a lot of San Jose police. It’s a specialized skill. You have to go through advanced training for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some counties in other states have decided against using ex-officers to investigate their former departments. In Miami-Dade County in Florida, for example, only prosecutors with special training investigate officer-involved shootings. The agency does not use former police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, legal ethicists expressed concern that most prosecutors make no attempt to avoid the controversial assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It undermines the legitimacy of the investigation,” said Stanford Law School professor Deborah Rhode. “At the very least, they should try to find investigators hired by somebody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most counties in California follow the same procedure. When a police officer shoots and kills someone, the police department conducts two separate investigations. One determines whether the officer violated department policy; the other looks for evidence of criminal conduct. Then the county prosecutor’s office either monitors the department’s criminal investigation or conducts its own and decides whether to file charges. In Alameda County, investigators are assigned to officer-involved shootings on a rotating, on-call basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to 1985, most states legally allowed police officers to use their firearms to arrest anybody suspected of committing a felony, according to a U.S. Department of Justice report on police use of force. Some states even allowed police to shoot a fleeing suspect, including one suspected of a property crime such as forgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision that changed the landscape of police shooting investigations: An officer may not use deadly force unless he or she “has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others” – in other words, self-defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the ruling, it is still extremely rare for a police officer to be charged. While police need only probable cause to make an arrest, prosecutors must prove “beyond a reasonable doubt” that an officer acted criminally. Most fatal officer-involved shootings are deemed justifiable homicides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, according to the FBI, law enforcement officers nationwide committed 393 justifiable homicides. A review of news articles about on-duty officer-involved shootings in California shows that since 2005, only three officers have been prosecuted in a fatal or near-fatal shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most prominent was the case of former BART Officer Johannes Mehserle. In 2010, a jury acquitted Mehserle of second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter after he was captured on video shooting an unarmed man, Oscar Grant, in the back on a train platform in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day 2009. The jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter, and he was sentenced to two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, a jury swiftly acquitted former San Bernardino County sheriff’s Deputy Ivory Webb of attempted voluntary manslaughter and assault with a firearm. A cellphone video had shown Webb opening fire on Iraq War veteran Elio Carrion, a passenger in a car that had led Webb on a high-speed chase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in 2005, a San Jose jury acquitted state Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement agent Mike Walker of voluntary manslaughter charges. He’d shot and killed Rudy Cardenas, a father of five whom he’d mistaken for a wanted parole violator, after Cardenas led him on a car and foot chase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear if former police officers investigated the three cases that led to a prosecution – those records are kept secret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Policies Vary Across Counties\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors are not legally required to conduct investigations into police shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After budget cuts in 2010, Fresno County District Attorney Elizabeth Egan halted her office’s investigations of officer-involved shootings, a practice that had been in place since 1984. After widespread complaints – including from the Fresno police chief – a Fresno County grand jury recommended Egan reverse her decision. She declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County District Attorney Jan Scully made a similar decision in 2011. A slew of shootings has since prompted furor over Scully’s decision, including urgent requests from Sacramento County law enforcement to resume the investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would like to do them, if we were given the resources,” said Assistant District Attorney Albert Locher, who once supervised the unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kern County district attorney’s office investigates shootings at the county’s small police agencies but has never investigated officer-involved shootings at the county’s two largest agencies, the Bakersfield Police Department and Kern County Sheriff’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a high-profile police shooting several years ago, District Attorney Lisa Green said she saw no need to investigate because “the public might view the district attorney’s office as a rubber stamp.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although I would never approach it that way, the community may view it otherwise,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in many cities, officials said, the investigations serve as assurance to the public that the death is being treated seriously. Police officials say the investigations can restore confidence in a department. Without them, only the police are left to investigate their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It allows the public to sleep better at night,” said former police officer Mike Donovan, chief investigator at the Napa County district attorney’s office and treasurer of the California District Attorney Investigators’ Association. “Knowing that if there is an officer-involved shooting, there’s some other level than just the agency itself that gets to make the decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, law enforcement agencies and the areas they cover are so large that the 256 former police officers at the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office are unlikely to know anyone they are assigned to investigate, spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some prosecutors have decided to avoid the appearance of a conflict by assigning others to the task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis assigned a single investigator to work on officer-involved shootings. Although a former police officer, the investigator has never worked for a San Diego County law enforcement agency, spokesman Steve Walker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland Shooting Sparks Protest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, several police shootings have galvanized the community. But instead of instilling confidence in the system, the report from the Alameda County district attorney’s office has provoked suspicion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Officer Miguel Masso fatally shot Alan Blueford in May, activists and residents shut down a City Council meeting in protest, and Blueford’s family filed a civil suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In District Attorney Nancy O’Malley’s office, several investigators, mainly former law enforcement officers from the Oakland Police Department and a few other county agencies, are assigned to a rotating on-call team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When an officer-involved shooting occurs, an on-call inspector and prosecutor report to the scene, sit in on witness and officer interviews, and review evidence collected by each police department and coroner’s office. In Blueford’s case, Foster and Senior District Attorney Ken Mifsud were on call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After O’Malley released a report on Foster’s investigation, Blueford’s supporters released their own, in which they said the prosecutor’s report lacked “professionalism and objectivity, and appears to be directed at swaying public opinion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report writer, Darrell Whitman, a regional investigator for the U.S. Department of Labor, analyzed the heavily redacted police and coroner’s reports released to the public. He said the evidence made it seem more likely that Blueford was unarmed on the ground when Masso shot him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masso and his partner had stopped Blueford and two other teens just before midnight on suspicion that they were hiding a gun. Moments later, Blueford broke away. There was a brief foot chase before Masso said Blueford pointed a gun at him, and the officer reacted with gunfire, according to police reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Masso said Blueford had shot him. Police later determined that Masso had accidentally shot himself in the foot. The gun Masso said Blueford possessed was found 20 feet from Blueford’s body, and investigators determined it had not been fired. Investigators found one of Blueford’s fingerprints on the gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his report, Whitman pointed to discrepancies in the evidence that he said Foster and Mifsud should have examined. Instead, he said, they unquestioningly accepted Masso’s account. Mifsud declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, according to the redacted police reports, of the 16 people who witnessed the shooting, only three said they saw Blueford with a gun. Another witness said he had not seen a gun but had seen Blueford grabbing his waistband. A fifth witness said he had overheard another woman saying Blueford was armed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masso told investigators that his first shot caused Blueford to fall into a gate and onto the ground, but according to the redacted reports, most witnesses said Blueford already was on the ground when he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight witnesses said they heard Blueford say, “I didn’t do anything!” right before the gunfire. Mifsud and Foster’s report detailed Masso’s accidental shooting of his own foot but otherwise repeated Masso’s account of the shooting and did not mention Blueford’s alleged statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitman also said Foster and Mifsud didn’t appear to question some of the police department’s actions. Although investigators found one of Blueford’s fingerprints on the gun, Whitman noted that at least two officers handled the gun before it was secured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time it was photographed, the magazine already had been removed, “possibly contaminating DNA and biological evidence,” he wrote. In addition, per department policy, Masso had never turned on his lapel camera. Whitman said the camera footage might have captured the entire incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have nothing else, you want to fight for your kid,” said Blueford’s father, Adam Blueford. “My son was on the ground screaming, pleading for his life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Malley declined to comment on the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others said they would not be so quick to dismiss the activists’ concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From a public point of view, (using former officers) might not be the best course of action,” said Tony Monheim, a retired Miami-Dade police officer who now leads training on officer-involved shooting investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The public has its own perception of what is going on,” Monheim said. “Maybe it’s a better thing to try to ease the tension a little bit and not have someone investigate themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>by Shoshana Walter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/policing/ex-officers-often-investigate-police-involved-shoo/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/ex-officers-often-investigate-police-involved-shootings/baycitizenlogo-49/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93946\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-93946\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/BayCitizenLogo.png\" alt=\"BayCitizenLogo\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>After Oakland police Officer Miguel Masso shot and killed 18-year-old Alan Blueford last May, prosecutors quickly released their investigator’s findings about the incident, amid a public outcry and a protest that shut down a City Council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting was justified, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682616-oakland-police-department-blueford-press-release.html\">according to the evidence\u003c/a> collected by Michael Foster – a former Oakland police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a city seething with distrust of law enforcement, legal experts and residents are now questioning District Attorney Nancy O’Malley’s wisdom in assigning former Oakland police officers to the task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93945\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/ex-officers-often-investigate-police-involved-shootings/adam-and-jeralynn-blueford/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93945\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-93945 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/Adam-and-Jeralynn-Blueford-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Adam and Jeralynn Blueford\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam and Jeralynn Blueford’s son Alan, an 18-year-old Hayward resident, was shot to death by an Oakland police officer last May. Noah Berger/The Bay Citizen\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I would hope that they would look for somebody not for one side or the other – some impartial person that’s not the police and not a community activist,” said Blueford’s father, Adam Blueford. “The prosecutor just kind of rubber stamps what the police said.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster’s assignment was described as routine. It turns out that the practice of using former police officers to conduct investigations into shootings at their previous departments is widespread, according to a review of police prosecution records by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cironline.org\">Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, parent organization of The Bay Citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is all the more important now in Oakland, where the beleaguered police department is under court supervision. Last month, a federal judge appointed former Baltimore Police Commissioner Thomas Frazier to oversee the completion of an almost decadelong civil rights reform effort.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_22998796/oakland-federal-judge-warns-city-hall-stop-standing\">Judge accuses city of impeding Frazier\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/policing/find-out-who-investigates-police-involved-shooting/\">Find out who investigates police-involved shootings in your area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/policing/where-have-oakland-police-officer-involved-shootin/\">Map: Where have Oakland police officer-involved shootings occurred?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city has seen two officer-involved shootings so far this month. After a witness mistakenly identified a 16-year-old boy as a robbery suspect, police said they perceived the boy as a threat and shot him in the jaw. Two days later, Oakland officers shot and wounded a burglary suspect who they said was brandishing a fake gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said they use former police officers for the investigations because they are best suited for the job, coming with years of training and experience. Other prosecutors and investigators said prior police employment wouldn't necessarily bias the investigation or outcome of a case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Malley, Alameda County’s district attorney, said her office provides a separate but thorough investigation of each fatal officer-involved shooting and dispatches a team that includes an experienced attorney and investigator. The attorney, not the investigator, writes the final report, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the Blueford investigation, O’Malley said her office reviewed all available evidence and statements from more than 40 witnesses and determined that the case “did not exist to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officer involved committed a criminal offense.” Foster declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But legal ethicists say the use of former police officers creates an appearance of a conflict of interest that can erode public trust. And those ethicists say many ex-officers still have ties to their former departments, including a sense of allegiance to the “thin blue line” that can influence the subjective process of an investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though he might not want to be a policeman again, he still has an allegiance to the brotherhood,” said Cornell University law professor Charles Wolfram. “If they’re from the same department, that could create obvious problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten district attorney’s offices in California contacted by the Center for Investigative Reporting said they use former officers for their police shooting inquiries. W. Scott Thorpe, chief executive officer of the California District Attorneys Association, called the practice “very common.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some prosecutors, however, keep the identities of the investigators who work on police officer shootings secret – the public may never know about potential conflicts of interest in police shooting investigations, the CIR review found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Oakland residents, prosecutors’ reports are one of the few sources of information about officer-involved shootings. Federal court-appointed monitors, in connection with the civil rights reform, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682615-robert-warshaw-officer-involved-shootings.html\">criticized the department’s own investigations\u003c/a> as biased and unquestioning. The department seldom releases copies of investigations and police reports on officer-involved shootings, even to the families of the individuals killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, some officers have faced more shooting investigations than others. According to police records, in the past 12 years, more than half of the department’s officer-involved shootings involved the same 20 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many cases, the investigations of some of the most shooting-prone officers showed potential conflicts of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Moschetti, a former Oakland police officer for 23 years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682621-alameda-county-district-attorney-report-fred.html\">investigated a shooting case\u003c/a> involving William Pappas, a SWAT team member responsible for three shootings, according to police records. In July 2010, he was among a group of officers who fatally shot a man wielding kitchen knives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in 2010, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682622-alameda-county-district-attorney-report-derrick.html\">Moschetti investigated\u003c/a> Officers Omar Daza-Quiroz and Eriberto Perez-Angeles. The two officers, who were involved in the shooting death of a man in 2008, were responsible for the fatal shooting of Derrick Jones, an unarmed domestic violence suspect whose death spurred protests and an FBI investigation. He had led the two officers on a foot chase before ditching a marijuana scale that police mistook for a gun. His case is under review by the Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 1, both officers involved in the case were cleared of any wrongdoing in a federal civil trial filed by Jones' widow. The city already had paid a $225,000 settlement in a separate civil suit filed by his parents and daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, three officers shot and killed a man wielding a fake firearm. After Foster completed his investigation, prosecutor John Creighton \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682623-alameda-county-district-attorney-report-matthew.html\">cleared the officers\u003c/a> in Matthew Cicelski’s death. Less than a year earlier, Creighton had \u003ca href=\"http://www.smartvoter.org/2010/06/08/ca/alm/vote/creighton_j/endorse.html\">received an endorsement\u003c/a> from the Oakland Police Officers’ Association during his unsuccessful run for superior court judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy District Attorney Teresa Drenick called Foster and the other investigators professional and unbiased. If there is bias, Drenick said, the prosecutors who work alongside the investigators would intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district attorney is there throughout the entire thing, everything,” Drenick said. “They go as a pair to all of the interviews. And then the ultimate report that is done is written by the deputy district attorney.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster also investigated the shooting deaths of two alleged gang members in May 2011, relying in part on investigative materials collected by the Oakland Police Department. The officers involved were Capt. Ersie Joyner, who has five officer-involved shootings on his record (the most of any member of the department), and Officer Cesar Garcia, who has two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To complete his investigation, Foster relied on evidence collected by Oakland police Sgt. Jim Rullamas, according to the prosecutor’s report. Not mentioned was the fact that Joyner once oversaw Rullamas as head of the homicide division, praising the detective as hard working, according to one news report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the prosecutor’s office cleared the officers of wrongdoing, some of the cases resulted in hefty civil settlements. Robert Roche, a longtime member of the department’s SWAT team, has been involved in three shootings, including one that resulted in a $500,000 civil suit settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County prosecutors provided the Center for Investigative Reporting with records on Oakland police officer shootings since 2000 that were proved justified and closed. Out of 23 fatal shooting cases, 10 were investigated by former Oakland police officers, the records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'It's a Specialized Skill'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Alameda County, not every prosecutor’s office in California releases records of shooting investigations involving police officers, which are protected by law from public disclosure. Many prosecutors’ offices declined to provide the names and employment histories of those they assign to investigate the shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some prosecutors acknowledged that their investigators are most often retired police officers. District attorneys in San Francisco, Santa Clara, Napa and San Mateo counties all said they employ former police officers and sheriff’s deputies to investigate officer-involved shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s pretty common,” said Glenn McGovern, a senior investigator at the Santa Clara County district attorney’s office who leads the training committee for the California District Attorney Investigators’ Association. “In Santa Clara, we have a lot of San Jose police. It’s a specialized skill. You have to go through advanced training for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some counties in other states have decided against using ex-officers to investigate their former departments. In Miami-Dade County in Florida, for example, only prosecutors with special training investigate officer-involved shootings. The agency does not use former police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, legal ethicists expressed concern that most prosecutors make no attempt to avoid the controversial assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It undermines the legitimacy of the investigation,” said Stanford Law School professor Deborah Rhode. “At the very least, they should try to find investigators hired by somebody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most counties in California follow the same procedure. When a police officer shoots and kills someone, the police department conducts two separate investigations. One determines whether the officer violated department policy; the other looks for evidence of criminal conduct. Then the county prosecutor’s office either monitors the department’s criminal investigation or conducts its own and decides whether to file charges. In Alameda County, investigators are assigned to officer-involved shootings on a rotating, on-call basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to 1985, most states legally allowed police officers to use their firearms to arrest anybody suspected of committing a felony, according to a U.S. Department of Justice report on police use of force. Some states even allowed police to shoot a fleeing suspect, including one suspected of a property crime such as forgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision that changed the landscape of police shooting investigations: An officer may not use deadly force unless he or she “has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others” – in other words, self-defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the ruling, it is still extremely rare for a police officer to be charged. While police need only probable cause to make an arrest, prosecutors must prove “beyond a reasonable doubt” that an officer acted criminally. Most fatal officer-involved shootings are deemed justifiable homicides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, according to the FBI, law enforcement officers nationwide committed 393 justifiable homicides. A review of news articles about on-duty officer-involved shootings in California shows that since 2005, only three officers have been prosecuted in a fatal or near-fatal shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most prominent was the case of former BART Officer Johannes Mehserle. In 2010, a jury acquitted Mehserle of second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter after he was captured on video shooting an unarmed man, Oscar Grant, in the back on a train platform in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day 2009. The jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter, and he was sentenced to two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, a jury swiftly acquitted former San Bernardino County sheriff’s Deputy Ivory Webb of attempted voluntary manslaughter and assault with a firearm. A cellphone video had shown Webb opening fire on Iraq War veteran Elio Carrion, a passenger in a car that had led Webb on a high-speed chase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in 2005, a San Jose jury acquitted state Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement agent Mike Walker of voluntary manslaughter charges. He’d shot and killed Rudy Cardenas, a father of five whom he’d mistaken for a wanted parole violator, after Cardenas led him on a car and foot chase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear if former police officers investigated the three cases that led to a prosecution – those records are kept secret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Policies Vary Across Counties\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors are not legally required to conduct investigations into police shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After budget cuts in 2010, Fresno County District Attorney Elizabeth Egan halted her office’s investigations of officer-involved shootings, a practice that had been in place since 1984. After widespread complaints – including from the Fresno police chief – a Fresno County grand jury recommended Egan reverse her decision. She declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County District Attorney Jan Scully made a similar decision in 2011. A slew of shootings has since prompted furor over Scully’s decision, including urgent requests from Sacramento County law enforcement to resume the investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would like to do them, if we were given the resources,” said Assistant District Attorney Albert Locher, who once supervised the unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kern County district attorney’s office investigates shootings at the county’s small police agencies but has never investigated officer-involved shootings at the county’s two largest agencies, the Bakersfield Police Department and Kern County Sheriff’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a high-profile police shooting several years ago, District Attorney Lisa Green said she saw no need to investigate because “the public might view the district attorney’s office as a rubber stamp.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although I would never approach it that way, the community may view it otherwise,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in many cities, officials said, the investigations serve as assurance to the public that the death is being treated seriously. Police officials say the investigations can restore confidence in a department. Without them, only the police are left to investigate their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It allows the public to sleep better at night,” said former police officer Mike Donovan, chief investigator at the Napa County district attorney’s office and treasurer of the California District Attorney Investigators’ Association. “Knowing that if there is an officer-involved shooting, there’s some other level than just the agency itself that gets to make the decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, law enforcement agencies and the areas they cover are so large that the 256 former police officers at the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office are unlikely to know anyone they are assigned to investigate, spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some prosecutors have decided to avoid the appearance of a conflict by assigning others to the task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis assigned a single investigator to work on officer-involved shootings. Although a former police officer, the investigator has never worked for a San Diego County law enforcement agency, spokesman Steve Walker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland Shooting Sparks Protest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, several police shootings have galvanized the community. But instead of instilling confidence in the system, the report from the Alameda County district attorney’s office has provoked suspicion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Officer Miguel Masso fatally shot Alan Blueford in May, activists and residents shut down a City Council meeting in protest, and Blueford’s family filed a civil suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In District Attorney Nancy O’Malley’s office, several investigators, mainly former law enforcement officers from the Oakland Police Department and a few other county agencies, are assigned to a rotating on-call team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When an officer-involved shooting occurs, an on-call inspector and prosecutor report to the scene, sit in on witness and officer interviews, and review evidence collected by each police department and coroner’s office. In Blueford’s case, Foster and Senior District Attorney Ken Mifsud were on call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After O’Malley released a report on Foster’s investigation, Blueford’s supporters released their own, in which they said the prosecutor’s report lacked “professionalism and objectivity, and appears to be directed at swaying public opinion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report writer, Darrell Whitman, a regional investigator for the U.S. Department of Labor, analyzed the heavily redacted police and coroner’s reports released to the public. He said the evidence made it seem more likely that Blueford was unarmed on the ground when Masso shot him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masso and his partner had stopped Blueford and two other teens just before midnight on suspicion that they were hiding a gun. Moments later, Blueford broke away. There was a brief foot chase before Masso said Blueford pointed a gun at him, and the officer reacted with gunfire, according to police reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Masso said Blueford had shot him. Police later determined that Masso had accidentally shot himself in the foot. The gun Masso said Blueford possessed was found 20 feet from Blueford’s body, and investigators determined it had not been fired. Investigators found one of Blueford’s fingerprints on the gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his report, Whitman pointed to discrepancies in the evidence that he said Foster and Mifsud should have examined. Instead, he said, they unquestioningly accepted Masso’s account. Mifsud declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, according to the redacted police reports, of the 16 people who witnessed the shooting, only three said they saw Blueford with a gun. Another witness said he had not seen a gun but had seen Blueford grabbing his waistband. A fifth witness said he had overheard another woman saying Blueford was armed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masso told investigators that his first shot caused Blueford to fall into a gate and onto the ground, but according to the redacted reports, most witnesses said Blueford already was on the ground when he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight witnesses said they heard Blueford say, “I didn’t do anything!” right before the gunfire. Mifsud and Foster’s report detailed Masso’s accidental shooting of his own foot but otherwise repeated Masso’s account of the shooting and did not mention Blueford’s alleged statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitman also said Foster and Mifsud didn’t appear to question some of the police department’s actions. Although investigators found one of Blueford’s fingerprints on the gun, Whitman noted that at least two officers handled the gun before it was secured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time it was photographed, the magazine already had been removed, “possibly contaminating DNA and biological evidence,” he wrote. In addition, per department policy, Masso had never turned on his lapel camera. Whitman said the camera footage might have captured the entire incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have nothing else, you want to fight for your kid,” said Blueford’s father, Adam Blueford. “My son was on the ground screaming, pleading for his life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Malley declined to comment on the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others said they would not be so quick to dismiss the activists’ concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From a public point of view, (using former officers) might not be the best course of action,” said Tony Monheim, a retired Miami-Dade police officer who now leads training on officer-involved shooting investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The public has its own perception of what is going on,” Monheim said. “Maybe it’s a better thing to try to ease the tension a little bit and not have someone investigate themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Aaron Glantz, \u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/profile/aaron-glantz/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Veterans Affairs has\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>failed to provide\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>key information to Congress and the public that shows\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the agency’s ability to quickly provide service-related benefits has virtually collapsed under President Barack Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Infographic: \u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/veterans/infographic-vets-wait-longer/\" target=\"_blank\">Veterans waiting longer\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/veterans/infographic-vets-wait-longer/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"https://yeti-cir-test.s3.amazonaws.com/uploaded/images/2013/3/infographic-thumb-vets-waiting-longer/original/vets-wait-longer-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280px\" height=\"345\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internal VA documents, obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting and authenticated by the agency, reveal that delays newly returning veterans face before receiving disability compensation and other benefits are far longer than the agency has publicly acknowledged. 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Those filing for the first time in \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/612975-avgprocessingdays.html\" target=\"_blank\">America’s major population centers\u003c/a> wait up to twice as long – 642 days in New York, 619 days in Los Angeles and 618 days at the Oakland office, which serves Northern and Central California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ranks of veterans \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/612895-waiting-oneyear.html\" target=\"_blank\">waiting more than a year\u003c/a> for their benefits grew from 11,000 in 2009, the first year of Obama’s presidency, to 245,000 in December – an increase of more than 2,000 percent.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a candidate, Obama had promised to revamp a “broken VA bureaucracy,” but the documents reveal that many of the administration’s attempts – including efforts to boost staffing and computerize claims processing – have fallen apart in the implementation. 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Since those numbers were tallied by the agency in January, the VA’s two top technology officers have announced their resignations, saying they had accomplished their goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 27, the agency’s principal deputy undersecretary for benefits also announced he was quitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In interviews, workers at five VA offices said they were exhausted by the ever-growing piles of paperwork, with files becoming so thick that employees frequently have asked veterans to resend medical records or military service documents simply because the claims workers could not locate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy Indof, who handles appeals at the VA office in Columbia, S.C., said it is not uncommon for her to see the same medical information in a veteran’s claim repeated two or even three times. 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Those filing for the first time in \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/612975-avgprocessingdays.html\" target=\"_blank\">America’s major population centers\u003c/a> wait up to twice as long – 642 days in New York, 619 days in Los Angeles and 618 days at the Oakland office, which serves Northern and Central California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ranks of veterans \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/612895-waiting-oneyear.html\" target=\"_blank\">waiting more than a year\u003c/a> for their benefits grew from 11,000 in 2009, the first year of Obama’s presidency, to 245,000 in December – an increase of more than 2,000 percent.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a candidate, Obama had promised to revamp a “broken VA bureaucracy,” but the documents reveal that many of the administration’s attempts – including efforts to boost staffing and computerize claims processing – have fallen apart in the implementation. 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"content": "\u003cp>Bummed out by rising crime, Oakland residents are turning their thumbs down on their city's prospects, according to a new opinion poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sixty-five percent say the town is headed in the wrong direction, compared to only 22 percent with the opposite feeling, and 12 percent who can't decide, Survey USA reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings contrast with San Francisco, where 59 percent think the city is on the right track, and San Jose, where 54 percent share that optimism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_90825\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/06/residents-more-gloomy-in-oakland-than-san-francisco-san-jose/mayor-jean-quan-holds-press-conference-on-occupy-oakland-protests-7/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90825\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-90825\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Jean-Quan-Howard-Jordan-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland police chief Howard Jordan (L) and Oakland Mayor Jean Quan pause during a press conference about Occupy Oakland in 2011, a low point in Quan's approval ratings. 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Survey takers sampled 500 adults in each town, mostly over the telephone but some through electronic questionnaires. The margin of error was +/4.5%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents gave their mayors ratings that corresponded to their outlooks on their cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Jose, for example, 55 percent approved of Mayor Chuck Reed. Mayor Ed Lee of San Francisco got a 61 percent approval rating. But Oakland's Jean Quan scored only a 23 percent approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disapproval of Quan cut across ideology, education and income, though the poorer and less educated residents of Oakland liked her best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed got the best rating from political conservatives, three quarters of whom liked his work. Lee's ratings were fairly even across demographics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of the three cities worried about different issues. 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Burglaries have also increased sharply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjpd.org/CrimeStats/crimestats.html\">San Jose\u003c/a> both have lower murder rates, but San Jose saw an increase in burglary and murder from 2010 to 2011, the most recent years for which the city has published statistics on its website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quan made crime a focus of her \u003ca href=\"http://oakland.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=81718ed9-d3ee-1030-a72d-f86303e77ec0\">State of the City address\u003c/a> on Feb. 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the city's economy is improving, but it could take a \"boom\" to afford the goal of hiring 200 more police officers over the next five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do such number portend for Quan's reelection prospects?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_22724671/oakland-crime-takes-bite-out-mayor-jean-quans\">Oakland Tribune\u003c/a> offered this insight:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For Quan, the polling results wasn't as bad as the 78 percent negative rating she had shortly after the Occupy Oakland fiasco in late 2011. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August 2012, the Oakland City Council voted to spend $102,000 on an online campaign finance system from the Mariposa-based company, NetFiles. The Council did not require candidates to use the system, and as a result, few filed their campaign finance reports electronically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system ended up creating more work for the city clerk's office, as well. For each candidate who chose to turn in paper reports, a city clerk staff member had to scan them and post them to NetFiles. Because the scanned files were PDFs, they were not searchable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new ordinance would simply require that all candidates and committees file their reports on NetFiles. Paper reports would no longer be accepted, and later filers would face a penalty fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaff said the electronic filing system has the added benefit of increasing political participation since candidates would be able to file at any time from any place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It will make the political process more accessible for people who have 9-5 jobs and can't drive down to City Hall,\" Schaff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city clerk's office, which administers elections, would hold trainings every filing period to ensure everyone knows how to use the system, Schaff said. Furthermore, candidates would be required to provide information about nearby free, public computers so that even citizens without the Internet at home could access the reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the legislation passes, it will go into effect immediately, though Oakland's next filing period for campaign finance reports is not for another six months.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland police officers can expect to see change in their department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas Frazier, appointed to oversee the Oakland police by a federal judge on Monday, has a reputation as an innovator not afraid to shatter police department traditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_79013\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/25/watch-live-occupy-oaklands-anniversary-protest/the-occupy-oakland-protesters-a-par-of/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79013\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-79013 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/OccupyOaklandProtesterHitbyTearGas102611-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"New Oakland police compliance director Thomas Frazier criticized the department for its conduct during Occupy unrest in 2011 and 2012. Here, protester Scott Olsen is carried away after being struck in the head by a projectile fired by an Oakland officer. (Kimihiro Hoshino/AFP/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Oakland police compliance director Thomas Frazier criticized the department for its conduct during Occupy unrest in 2011 and 2012. Here, protester Scott Olsen is carried away after being struck in the head by a projectile fired by an Oakland officer. (Kimihiro Hoshino/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Frazier is taking on a job that previous chiefs could not, or would not, do: bring the department into harmony with diverse, leftist, anti-authoritarian factions in the community. And he must do so at a time of tight budgets and spiraling crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s walking into a tornado,” said Peter Keane, a Hastings Law School professor who served on the San Francisco Police Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frazier did not respond to a request to comment for this article.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frazier brought big changes to the Baltimore Police Department when he ran it as commissioner from 1994 to 1999, shuffling detectives to patrol positions and even banning the department’s trademark style of nightstick, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eliteespantoons.com/#!history\">espantoon\u003c/a>.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He later served in a federal agency that helped boost community policing efforts around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He brings to the job a familiarity with the Bay Area gained from his steady rise to deputy police chief in San Jose. And he oversaw consent decrees at the Los Angeles and Detroit police departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as a consultant, Frazier \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/06/15/97721/opd_city_officials_caught_off_guard_with_findings_in\">criticized\u003c/a> the Oakland Police Department for its harsh tactics in the face of the Occupy Oakland protests of 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Frazier’s background is tailor-made for this job,” said Keane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appointment results from civil rights violations that led to a lawsuit and a consent decree in which the city of Oakland agreed to a series of reforms. U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson lost patience with the city’s progress on these reforms last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To bring the department into compliance, Frazier will have to address a history of tensions that go back at least to its violent clashes with the Black Panther movement of the 1960s and '70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights violations came to the surface in the 1990s when a handful of rogue officers, known as the Riders, were accused of planting evidence, beating suspects and falsifying reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such abuses led directly to the 2003 consent decree, but it was “consent” on paper only, at least in the first few years after it was signed, according to John Burris, one of the attorneys behind the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The culture of the department is fundamentally resistant to change,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the department has struggled with a constantly shuffling leadership, Burris pointed out. It has had three new chiefs since 2005. (Coincidentally, one of them, Anthony Batts, is now Baltimore's police commissioner.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frazier will be paid $270,000 a year. Technically he will serve as compliance director, working on civil rights issues while Chief Howard Jordan focuses on law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think he will see himself as running the department,” said Burris. “I think he will be supporting Jordan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Frazier will have the \u003ca href=\"#authority\">authority\u003c/a> to fire Jordan, and Keane speculated that Jordan will find himself chief in name only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Frazier's position will be equivalent to a \"czar.\" \"This has never been done in terms of a major American city,\" he said. \"I would suspect that Chief Jordan is not going to be comfortable. I would think someone in Jordan’s position will be looking for greener pastures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To complicate the picture further, Oakland just retained William Bratton, the former New York police commissioner and former Los Angeles police chief, as a consultant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some clues about how Frazier might work on the department come from his past, both as Baltimore police commissioner (a position equivalent to police chief) and as director of the Justice Department's \u003ca href=\"http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frazier was one of the first, if not the first, Baltimore police commissioner who came to the job from outside the department, said Jeffrey Ian Ross, a criminologist at the University of Baltimore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a recognition that if you want someone to shake things up, you’re going to need someone who is external,” said Ross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembers Frazier instituting efforts to improve relations between the police and the community, such as a 311 non-emergency phone number and police athletic leagues. He also gives Frazier credit for instituting a system for tracking crime statistics, similar to New York’s CompStat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frazier’s approach didn't always sit well with the officers he supervised, according to a 1994 article in the \u003ca href=\"http://articles.baltimoresun.com/keyword/rotation-policy/featured/5\">Baltimore Sun\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newspaper’s description of the department then sounds a bit like Oakland 2013:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>an agency dogged by brutality complaints, petty corruption, and internal strife fueled by racial friction. The city was reeling from its second-straight record-setting year for homicides.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Frazier ordered raids on drug-ridden neighborhoods, followed by visits from sanitation crews to clean up the mess left behind, the newspaper reported. The city's murder rate dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But beat officers criticized him as “TV Tom” for his frequent appearances on television, the paper said. And they grumbled that he didn't support them when they were accused of brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He infuriated some detectives by rotating them into patrol shifts, according to reports at the time. Frazier defended the practice as a way of giving more officers opportunity for advancement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another story, the Sun recounted\u003ca href=\"http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1997-05-02/news/1997122044_1_frazier-colonel-daniel-black-officers\"> allegations \u003c/a>that Frazier favored white officers over black ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At COPS, Frazier encouraged other police departments to institute \u003ca href=\"http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=36\">community policing\u003c/a>, a set of techniques aimed at making police departments more accountable, systematic and cooperative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t underestimate the kind of experience you get there,” said Ross. “The guy has a big picture kind of vision, unlike a lot of police chiefs and commissioners who have tunnel vision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"authority\">\u003cstrong>Here is the agreement spelling out Frazier's authority over the Oakland Police Department:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca title=\"View Agreement Between Oakland and Civil Rights Plaintiffs on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/128911762/Agreement-Between-Oakland-and-Civil-Rights-Plaintiffs\">Agreement Between Oakland and Civil Rights Plaintiffs\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.scribd.com/embeds/128911762/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And he oversaw consent decrees at the Los Angeles and Detroit police departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as a consultant, Frazier \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/06/15/97721/opd_city_officials_caught_off_guard_with_findings_in\">criticized\u003c/a> the Oakland Police Department for its harsh tactics in the face of the Occupy Oakland protests of 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Frazier’s background is tailor-made for this job,” said Keane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appointment results from civil rights violations that led to a lawsuit and a consent decree in which the city of Oakland agreed to a series of reforms. U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson lost patience with the city’s progress on these reforms last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To bring the department into compliance, Frazier will have to address a history of tensions that go back at least to its violent clashes with the Black Panther movement of the 1960s and '70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights violations came to the surface in the 1990s when a handful of rogue officers, known as the Riders, were accused of planting evidence, beating suspects and falsifying reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such abuses led directly to the 2003 consent decree, but it was “consent” on paper only, at least in the first few years after it was signed, according to John Burris, one of the attorneys behind the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The culture of the department is fundamentally resistant to change,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the department has struggled with a constantly shuffling leadership, Burris pointed out. 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I would think someone in Jordan’s position will be looking for greener pastures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To complicate the picture further, Oakland just retained William Bratton, the former New York police commissioner and former Los Angeles police chief, as a consultant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some clues about how Frazier might work on the department come from his past, both as Baltimore police commissioner (a position equivalent to police chief) and as director of the Justice Department's \u003ca href=\"http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frazier was one of the first, if not the first, Baltimore police commissioner who came to the job from outside the department, said Jeffrey Ian Ross, a criminologist at the University of Baltimore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a recognition that if you want someone to shake things up, you’re going to need someone who is external,” said Ross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembers Frazier instituting efforts to improve relations between the police and the community, such as a 311 non-emergency phone number and police athletic leagues. 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