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It was like 'whatever,' \" she said. \"He did not seem shocked.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former deputy continued to request naked pictures, and Abuslin testified she sent at least one explicit photo to him taken after they had sex, when she was 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also discussed her relationships with other law enforcement officers. Perez joked about it in the messages read in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is pretty strong testimony that he willfully engaged in the conduct, there’s no doubt about that: Whether sex, texting on duty or off duty, having sexual conduct with her on or off duty, willing to have other officers participate as well, and having discussions about all of that,\" Burris said. \"This is very lowlife conduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But whether it's criminal will likely hinge on whether Perez knew Abuslin was under age. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez's defense attorney, Joseph Motta, said there was no evidence that his client \"either knew or should have known\" that Abuslin was under 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin, whose mother is an Oakland Police Department dispatcher, testified that she established relationships online with numerous police officers and that she often slept with them as a form of protection. She said she had worked in the sex trade since she was 12 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can prostitute yourself -- it’s a lot more than money. You can trade your body for … anything you can use,\" she said. \"It’s like, they talk and they, you know, they most likely won’t bother you if you’re giving them the cat.\" She clarified she meant \"vagina.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The broader case involves Abuslin's relationships with officers from Oakland, Livermore, Richmond and San Francisco, as well as Alameda and Contra Costa County sheriff's deputies, according to legal claims filed against those jurisdictions. It also involves a former guard for a military equipment facility in Stockton who was \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/29/u-s-military-officer-tied-to-bay-area-sexual-misconduct-is-fired/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fired\u003c/a> late last year for soliciting sex and prostitution work from Abuslin after the case became public last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she was involved with a deceased OPD officer, Brendan O'Brien, whose suicide in September 2015 brought Abuslin to the Oakland Police Department's attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He reportedly left a note indicating several other officers were involved with the teen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD leadership, including former Police Chief Sean Whent, kept internal and criminal investigations about Abuslin quiet, and quickly closed both probes. Whent resigned after the case became public, followed by a quick succession of replacement police chiefs. A report by a court-appointed investigator \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/21/court-oakland-police-investigation-into-sexual-misconduct-seriously-deficient/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found serious deficiencies\u003c/a> in OPD's response and investigators' treatment of Abuslin in a report released last month. The case has indefinitely extended federal court oversight of the Oakland Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin wiped tears from her eyes when she testified about O'Brien.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Brendan O'Brien was a person she had very strong feelings about,\" said civil rights attorney John Burris, who represents Abuslin in her civil claims. \"There was some significant conversations that had taken place right before he committed suicide.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/01/teen-tied-to-sexual-misconduct-case-relieved-by-oakland-settlement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">settled\u003c/a> Abuslin's claim against the city for $989,000 last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin testified that she became enraged with Perez and other officers in early 2016, after OPD Officer Warit Utappa stole her cellphone and shared its contents with what she called \"the little group\" of officers, referring to a cadre of cops who were talking about her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it’s really low of men who gossip about women,\" she said in court. \"I think that’s really low.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utappa was among seven officers who Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced would be charged\u003c/a> in September, but prosecutors ended up declining to file against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In messages she sent to Perez in January 2016, Abuslin called herself \"Satan\" and threatened to \"snitch\" on all the officers she'd been involved with, according to her testimony and messages read aloud in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense attorney Motta asked her why she referred to herself as \"Satan.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I gave my life over to God,\" she said. \"But I used to think this is the devil’s work and if all these bad things are happening to me, then I used to think the devil must love me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez sent multiple photographs of his naked penis to Abuslin between July 2015 and April 2016, and Abuslin, though sometimes she protested, sent several naked, sexually explicit photographs of herself to the former deputy, sometimes while he appeared to be on duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told Perez that she had been 17 years old when they had sex several months later, after she'd turned 18, Abuslin testified, and she also told him she worked in the sex trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do not remember his words but I remember his attitude. It was like 'whatever,' \" she said. \"He did not seem shocked.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former deputy continued to request naked pictures, and Abuslin testified she sent at least one explicit photo to him taken after they had sex, when she was 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also discussed her relationships with other law enforcement officers. Perez joked about it in the messages read in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is pretty strong testimony that he willfully engaged in the conduct, there’s no doubt about that: Whether sex, texting on duty or off duty, having sexual conduct with her on or off duty, willing to have other officers participate as well, and having discussions about all of that,\" Burris said. \"This is very lowlife conduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But whether it's criminal will likely hinge on whether Perez knew Abuslin was under age. 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"content": "\u003cp>A federal judge has ordered Oakland officials to detail how they plan to fix procedural issues in the Police Department identified last month in a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/21/court-oakland-police-investigation-into-sexual-misconduct-seriously-deficient/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">court-ordered report\u003c/a> that found OPD's investigation into a widespread officer sexual exploitation case \"wholly inadequate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"#order\">Wednesday evening order\u003c/a> requires the city to report on progress in implementing forward-looking policy recommendations in the June 21 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3870953-Court-Appointed-Investigators-Report-on-City-of.html#document/p1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">investigation\u003c/a> by attorneys Edward Swanson and Audrey Barron, as well as any progress on additional reforms the Police Department undertakes on its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court also ordered the city to present a timeline for when changes will be complete, \"as well as a list of responsible persons who may, if warranted, be subject to contempt proceedings or other sanctions for any missed deadlines.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the order is vague about whether the city will be required to identify supervising officers who downplayed, ignored and tried to keep hidden officers’ alleged sexual abuse of a teenager and apparent survivor of child sex trafficking brought to light last summer, according to an attorney involved in the federal court oversight of the Police Department. The case led to the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/10/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">forced resignation of former Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quick succession of two interim chiefs\u003c/a> last June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least three high-ranking OPD officers supervised aspects of the department's initial response to the case, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/naming-names-these-officers-are-responsible-for-the-failed-oakland-police-sex-scandal-investigation/Content?oid=7673287\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reporting by the East Bay Express\u003c/a>, and were since promoted, put in for promotion or reassigned to another supervisory position by Oakland's new police chief, Anne Kirkpatrick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney Jim Chanin represents one side of the \"Riders\" case that initiated federal court oversight of the OPD 14 years ago. He said Thursday that if the city does not investigate potential misconduct of supervising officers, he'll never agree to end that oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Considering they’re the highest-ranking people in the department more likely than not, if those people are allowed to get away with whatever misconduct they may have done, then the message to the other officers is they can get away with it, too, and all the reforms we’ve done on discipline will unravel,\" Chanin said. \"If they allow the highest-ranking people to escape any culpability and don’t even identify them, then they haven’t done the reforms that we hoped they would do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's significant because, prior to the surfacing of the sexual exploitation case in March 2016, Chanin says the Police Department had made significant progress, and he was close to agreeing to end the nearly decade and a half of federal court oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think they’ve made incredible progress in some areas, uses of force are way down, pursuits are way down, complaints are down, and they were on the verge of complying,\" he said. \"However, if they do not identify the people who are most responsible for some of the misconduct and performance of duty violations in this particular period of time, I can no longer see any time when I’d be willing to stand up with them and say they’ve complied.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkpatrick said after a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/10/court-hears-arguments-on-police-sexual-exploitation-case-reform-efforts-in-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hearing on the case Monday\u003c/a> that her promotions of John Lois to assistant chief, Roland Holmgren to captain and Capt. Kirk Coleman to head of internal affairs were approved by the court-appointed federal monitor, who will also oversee the city's reporting on how it will address problems exposed by the sexual exploitation case, according to Wednesday's order. She said she was prevented by \"employment law\" from examining whether any of her command staff were responsible for botching the department's initial response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not quite, said Chanin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A one-year statute of limitations for police misconduct may prevent the chief from pursuing discipline, Chanin said, \"but nothing whatsoever prevents her from identifying those who did this. Nothing in employment law, nothing at all except the politics of the Police Department. And if she fails to do this, it’s her own weakness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Oakland Police Department spokeswoman wrote that the Swanson-Barron report, the city's written response and the court's most recent order \"define and lay a clear direction of tasks to be accomplished within prescribed timelines,\" in response to inquiries about whether the department planned to investigate the conduct of supervising officers. None of those documents appear to require the further investigation Chanin called for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland's report to the federal court is due on Sept. 15, and all parties in the long-running case are scheduled for a hearing before Judge William H. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney Jim Chanin represents one side of the \"Riders\" case that initiated federal court oversight of the OPD 14 years ago. He said Thursday that if the city does not investigate potential misconduct of supervising officers, he'll never agree to end that oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Considering they’re the highest-ranking people in the department more likely than not, if those people are allowed to get away with whatever misconduct they may have done, then the message to the other officers is they can get away with it, too, and all the reforms we’ve done on discipline will unravel,\" Chanin said. \"If they allow the highest-ranking people to escape any culpability and don’t even identify them, then they haven’t done the reforms that we hoped they would do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's significant because, prior to the surfacing of the sexual exploitation case in March 2016, Chanin says the Police Department had made significant progress, and he was close to agreeing to end the nearly decade and a half of federal court oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think they’ve made incredible progress in some areas, uses of force are way down, pursuits are way down, complaints are down, and they were on the verge of complying,\" he said. \"However, if they do not identify the people who are most responsible for some of the misconduct and performance of duty violations in this particular period of time, I can no longer see any time when I’d be willing to stand up with them and say they’ve complied.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkpatrick said after a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/10/court-hears-arguments-on-police-sexual-exploitation-case-reform-efforts-in-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hearing on the case Monday\u003c/a> that her promotions of John Lois to assistant chief, Roland Holmgren to captain and Capt. Kirk Coleman to head of internal affairs were approved by the court-appointed federal monitor, who will also oversee the city's reporting on how it will address problems exposed by the sexual exploitation case, according to Wednesday's order. She said she was prevented by \"employment law\" from examining whether any of her command staff were responsible for botching the department's initial response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not quite, said Chanin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A one-year statute of limitations for police misconduct may prevent the chief from pursuing discipline, Chanin said, \"but nothing whatsoever prevents her from identifying those who did this. Nothing in employment law, nothing at all except the politics of the Police Department. And if she fails to do this, it’s her own weakness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Oakland Police Department spokeswoman wrote that the Swanson-Barron report, the city's written response and the court's most recent order \"define and lay a clear direction of tasks to be accomplished within prescribed timelines,\" in response to inquiries about whether the department planned to investigate the conduct of supervising officers. None of those documents appear to require the further investigation Chanin called for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland's report to the federal court is due on Sept. 15, and all parties in the long-running case are scheduled for a hearing before Judge William H. Orrick on Oct. 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Thelton Henderson, who has presided over the case since its beginning, is retiring in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Defendants [Oakland officials] continue to say many of the right things,\" Henderson wrote in what is likely his last order in the case. \"However, as Plaintiffs' counsel correctly observed, and as the Court itself indicated, good intentions are not enough. Now, more than ever, is the time for action and not just words. The Court would ordinarily reiterate that it remains fully prepared to use its powers to the extent necessary to ensure that Defendants finally achieve sustainable compliance, but the court must instead leave this case to another judge.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"order\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nRead the full order below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Attorneys representing Oakland squared off Monday against those representing plaintiffs in a long-running police-abuse lawsuit that initiated federal court oversight of the city's Police Department more than 14 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue: What the ignored, downplayed and otherwise botched investigation into \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/police-sexual-exploitation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alleged sexual abuse\u003c/a> of a teenager by several OPD officers last year says about the city and Police Department's commitment to reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Thelton Henderson said it's \"crystal clear\" that the alleged sexual misconduct of Oakland officers would never had been addressed if the court had not intervened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's extremely troubling,\" Henderson said, \"and it shows that we're still not finished with this case after 14 years -- 14 years of reforming a department that the Negotiated Settlement Agreement contemplated would be fixed in five years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday's hearing followed a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/21/court-oakland-police-investigation-into-sexual-misconduct-seriously-deficient/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">damning June 20 report\u003c/a> on the sexual exploitation case by court-appointed attorneys that found \"OPD's initial investigation of this case -- both as a criminal matter and as an internal affairs matter -- was seriously deficient.\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3870953-Court-Appointed-Investigators-Report-on-City-of.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The report\u003c/a> found structural issues with the department's investigation processes, as well as pressure from department leadership to close the investigation and poor follow-up from city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case involves a teenager, now 19, who allegedly had sexual relationships with several OPD officers and approximately two dozen law enforcement officers from other Bay Area jurisdictions, some while she was 17 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A note left by an OPD officer who committed suicide in September 2015 reportedly alerted the department to the teenager, Jasmine Abuslin, and her relationships with several officers. The case eventually led to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criminal charges\u003c/a> for four OPD officers, ranging from failure to report child abuse to engaging in prostitution and obstruction of justice. The city initiated \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\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">discipline\u003c/a> against a dozen officers. But that was only after federal officials learned \"almost by accident\" about the case, according to the June 20 report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11560467\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11560467\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25958_alt_593-800x618.jpg\" alt=\"From left, Oakland Police Department spokeswoman Officer Johnna Watson, City Administrator Sabrina Landreth, Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick and Mayor Libby Schaaf gather outside federal court in San Francisco on July 10, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25958_alt_593-800x618.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25958_alt_593-160x124.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25958_alt_593-1020x787.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25958_alt_593.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25958_alt_593-1180x911.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25958_alt_593-960x741.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25958_alt_593-240x185.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25958_alt_593-375x289.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25958_alt_593-520x401.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Oakland Police Department spokeswoman Officer Johnna Watson, City Administrator Sabrina Landreth, Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick and Mayor Libby Schaaf gather outside federal court in San Francisco on July 10, 2017. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Had OPD conducted a rigorous investigation on its own, the Department could have demonstrated its ability to police itself without the Court's supervision,\" the report says. \"Instead, OPD damaged its reputation by failing to timely report the allegations to the appropriate authorities, by doing such a poor job of investigating the allegations, and by requiring Court intervention to correct course.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report prompted the pair of civil rights attorneys involved in oversight of the OPD since they filed a police-abuse lawsuit in 2000 to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/06/oakland-police-sexual-exploitation-case-at-center-of-looming-legal-showdown/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">argue for stronger court intervention\u003c/a>. Specifically, the attorneys are calling for an investigation of officers who supervised the Police Department's initial response to allegations about Abuslin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These include people at the very highest levels of the OPD,\" civil rights attorney Jim Chanin said after the hearing on Monday. \"The city needs to identify them and hold them accountable. If they don’t do that ... the lesson they will learn from this is that you can get away with this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/naming-names-these-officers-are-responsible-for-the-failed-oakland-police-sex-scandal-investigation/Content?oid=7673287\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Bay Express reported\u003c/a> that at least three command-level OPD officers that supervised the initial sexual exploitation investigation have since been promoted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newly appointed Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick said on June 21, in response to the report, that she did not know who in her command staff was involved in the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said in court that she has since learned that information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know what all the events were, according to the report,\" Kirkpatrick said in court. \"I know all of the failings and when they occurred.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said after the hearing on Monday that employment law prevented her from vetting her command staff's decisions sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Employment law is a law and is governed by laws,\" she said. \"So, no, that was not available to me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkpatrick did not elaborate. But Oakland city attorneys argued in court that those Police Department supervisors should be part of fixing the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The city and the department see this review as an opportunity for those who were involved in the investigations to self-identify areas of improvement,\" Oakland City Attorney and Police Department legal counsel Kim Bliss said in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We disagree with that,\" civil rights attorney John Burris said. \"I'm concerned that you shouldn’t have people involved who really diverted the investigation, who short-stopped the investigation. I think that’s a bad signal for everyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The details of any further federal oversight that would ultimately grow from the sexual exploitation case are in the hands of Judge Thelton Henderson, who is set to retire next month after 36 years on the bench and 14 years presiding over reform of the Oakland Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's expected to issue his last order on the matter in the coming days, and in August Judge William Orrick will take over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I find myself inspired to continue to be optimistic,\" Henderson said. \"The progress has been neither quick nor easy, but it has been made. We have not been without our setbacks, including this most recent one, but I hope that the defendants are now back on the path for full and sustainable compliance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But all the parties acknowledge they've heard promises and optimism about OPD's progress before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris, quoting Yogi Berra, said it feels like \"deja vu all over again.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Attorneys representing Oakland squared off Monday against those representing plaintiffs in a long-running police-abuse lawsuit that initiated federal court oversight of the city's Police Department more than 14 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue: What the ignored, downplayed and otherwise botched investigation into \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/police-sexual-exploitation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alleged sexual abuse\u003c/a> of a teenager by several OPD officers last year says about the city and Police Department's commitment to reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Thelton Henderson said it's \"crystal clear\" that the alleged sexual misconduct of Oakland officers would never had been addressed if the court had not intervened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's extremely troubling,\" Henderson said, \"and it shows that we're still not finished with this case after 14 years -- 14 years of reforming a department that the Negotiated Settlement Agreement contemplated would be fixed in five years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday's hearing followed a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/21/court-oakland-police-investigation-into-sexual-misconduct-seriously-deficient/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">damning June 20 report\u003c/a> on the sexual exploitation case by court-appointed attorneys that found \"OPD's initial investigation of this case -- both as a criminal matter and as an internal affairs matter -- was seriously deficient.\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3870953-Court-Appointed-Investigators-Report-on-City-of.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The report\u003c/a> found structural issues with the department's investigation processes, as well as pressure from department leadership to close the investigation and poor follow-up from city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case involves a teenager, now 19, who allegedly had sexual relationships with several OPD officers and approximately two dozen law enforcement officers from other Bay Area jurisdictions, some while she was 17 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A note left by an OPD officer who committed suicide in September 2015 reportedly alerted the department to the teenager, Jasmine Abuslin, and her relationships with several officers. The case eventually led to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criminal charges\u003c/a> for four OPD officers, ranging from failure to report child abuse to engaging in prostitution and obstruction of justice. The city initiated \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\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">discipline\u003c/a> against a dozen officers. But that was only after federal officials learned \"almost by accident\" about the case, according to the June 20 report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11560467\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11560467\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25958_alt_593-800x618.jpg\" alt=\"From left, Oakland Police Department spokeswoman Officer Johnna Watson, City Administrator Sabrina Landreth, Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick and Mayor Libby Schaaf gather outside federal court in San Francisco on July 10, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25958_alt_593-800x618.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25958_alt_593-160x124.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25958_alt_593-1020x787.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25958_alt_593.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25958_alt_593-1180x911.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25958_alt_593-960x741.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25958_alt_593-240x185.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25958_alt_593-375x289.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25958_alt_593-520x401.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Oakland Police Department spokeswoman Officer Johnna Watson, City Administrator Sabrina Landreth, Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick and Mayor Libby Schaaf gather outside federal court in San Francisco on July 10, 2017. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Had OPD conducted a rigorous investigation on its own, the Department could have demonstrated its ability to police itself without the Court's supervision,\" the report says. \"Instead, OPD damaged its reputation by failing to timely report the allegations to the appropriate authorities, by doing such a poor job of investigating the allegations, and by requiring Court intervention to correct course.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report prompted the pair of civil rights attorneys involved in oversight of the OPD since they filed a police-abuse lawsuit in 2000 to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/06/oakland-police-sexual-exploitation-case-at-center-of-looming-legal-showdown/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">argue for stronger court intervention\u003c/a>. Specifically, the attorneys are calling for an investigation of officers who supervised the Police Department's initial response to allegations about Abuslin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These include people at the very highest levels of the OPD,\" civil rights attorney Jim Chanin said after the hearing on Monday. \"The city needs to identify them and hold them accountable. If they don’t do that ... the lesson they will learn from this is that you can get away with this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/naming-names-these-officers-are-responsible-for-the-failed-oakland-police-sex-scandal-investigation/Content?oid=7673287\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Bay Express reported\u003c/a> that at least three command-level OPD officers that supervised the initial sexual exploitation investigation have since been promoted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newly appointed Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick said on June 21, in response to the report, that she did not know who in her command staff was involved in the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said in court that she has since learned that information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know what all the events were, according to the report,\" Kirkpatrick said in court. \"I know all of the failings and when they occurred.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said after the hearing on Monday that employment law prevented her from vetting her command staff's decisions sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Employment law is a law and is governed by laws,\" she said. \"So, no, that was not available to me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirkpatrick did not elaborate. But Oakland city attorneys argued in court that those Police Department supervisors should be part of fixing the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The city and the department see this review as an opportunity for those who were involved in the investigations to self-identify areas of improvement,\" Oakland City Attorney and Police Department legal counsel Kim Bliss said in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We disagree with that,\" civil rights attorney John Burris said. \"I'm concerned that you shouldn’t have people involved who really diverted the investigation, who short-stopped the investigation. I think that’s a bad signal for everyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The details of any further federal oversight that would ultimately grow from the sexual exploitation case are in the hands of Judge Thelton Henderson, who is set to retire next month after 36 years on the bench and 14 years presiding over reform of the Oakland Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's expected to issue his last order on the matter in the coming days, and in August Judge William Orrick will take over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I find myself inspired to continue to be optimistic,\" Henderson said. \"The progress has been neither quick nor easy, but it has been made. We have not been without our setbacks, including this most recent one, but I hope that the defendants are now back on the path for full and sustainable compliance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But all the parties acknowledge they've heard promises and optimism about OPD's progress before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris, quoting Yogi Berra, said it feels like \"deja vu all over again.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Lawyers involved in federal court oversight of the Oakland Police Department are calling for a detailed accounting of failures and disciplinary action taken against officers and supervisors tasked with investigating a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/police-sexual-exploitation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">police sexual exploitation\u003c/a> case that has rocked the department for over a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the city fails to comply with that and other reforms in a long-standing negotiated settlement agreement, the court should consider holding officials in contempt, civil rights attorneys John Burris and Jim Chanin wrote in a \u003ca href=\"#filing\">joint filing\u003c/a> that stakes out opposing stances on the status of court-ordered reforms and Oakland's ability to maintain them if the now 14 years of court oversight were to ever end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The contempt process has the advantage of punishing the actual party causing the problem, rather than punishing others who are associated with him/them through no fault of their own,\" the attorneys' statement says. \"It is time that officials of the City of Oakland took responsibility for the completion of the Negotiated Settlement Agreement and are held accountable for their failure to comply with an agreement that should have been resolved years ago.\"\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"5EqKyhMYRU826cmCmtaeVUlQZNpDl2yx\"]\u003cbr>\nThe statements from the attorneys and the city filed Wednesday evening are in response to a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/21/court-oakland-police-investigation-into-sexual-misconduct-seriously-deficient/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highly critical report\u003c/a> last month by court-appointed investigators Edward Swanson and Audrey Barron. That probe found that the Police Department's response to allegations that several officers had exploited a teenager and likely victim of sex trafficking was “wholly inadequate” and “defective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court-appointed federal monitor learned of the department's cursory investigation months after it was closed. It then oversaw a new probe under a court order issued in March of last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, 12 current and former OPD officers were disciplined. Alameda County prosecutors filed \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criminal charges\u003c/a> against four OPD officers, along with a Livermore police officer and a Contra Costa County sheriff's deputy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's unclear whether the conduct of officers involved with the initial investigation -- or that of their supervisors -- has ever been examined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris and Chanin cite an early interview with the teenager at the center of the case, who was allegedly prompted, and then allowed, to destroy evidence on her phone in front of investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no evidence that any of the officers engaging in this behavior, or any of the supervisors who observed it and apparently failed to report it, stop it, or discipline their subordinates, were ever investigated, and if appropriate, disciplined by the Oakland Police Department,\" wrote the two attorneys who represent plaintiffs in the 2003 settlement of a major police misconduct lawsuit that required federal oversight of reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its filing, the city said \"in the spirit of self-examination, resilience and continued transformation,\" it accepted the \"Swanson report\" and each of its recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick said on June 21, responding to the report, that she did not know who in her command staff was involved in the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t even know who those people were in those roles and places,” said Kirkpatrick, who took her post four months ago. “My entire command staff that I have in place today, from my personal assessment, I have confidence in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Express \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/naming-names-these-officers-are-responsible-for-the-failed-oakland-police-sex-scandal-investigation/Content?oid=7673287\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported last week\u003c/a> that now-Assistant Chief John Lois was in charge of OPD's Bureau of Investigations, and was since promoted by Kirkpatrick. Capt. Kirk Coleman, who was in charge of criminal investigations, now heads the Internal Affairs Division. Kirkpatrick also promoted Roland Holmgren -- formerly a lieutenant overseeing homicide investigations -- to the rank of captain. All were in supervisory roles in the Police Department's initial investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland city officials say they remain confident in Kirkpatrick's leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In her short tenure with the City, the Chief of Police has demonstrated a diligent commitment to holding the Department and her officers accountable for their shortcomings. She is in the process of carefully reviewing Mr. Swanson's report to identify specific performance breaches at the individual officer level and engage in corrective, remedial action.\"\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's statement calls the alleged sexual misconduct \"reprehensible\" and \"extremely troubling,\" but highlights changes to the department's recruitment, training and internal investigation procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those include revamping oversight of officers' responsibility to report criminal conduct to prosecutors and placing OPD's Special Victims Unit in charge of officer sexual misconduct cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swanson and Barron also advise other changes to internal investigations that would increase supervision and external oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chanin and Burris, the plaintiffs' attorneys, want to go further. They are asking for a court order compelling the city to list every potential act of misconduct identified in the \"Swanson report\" and explain steps taken to investigate or discipline offending officers and supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court specifically ordered both parties to report on the implementation of a comprehensive, computerized system for tracking officer conduct, called PRIME, which went live in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland city officials acknowledge problems with the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Admittedly, there have been significant implementation and performance issues with PRIME 1.0, including numerous technological 'bugs,' \" the city's statement says. \"The city believes these setbacks are temporary. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday, 3:25 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal court investigation into the Oakland Police Department's handling of a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/police-sexual-exploitation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">widespread sexual exploitation case\u003c/a> centered in the OPD found the department's criminal and internal investigations were \"wholly inadequate\" and \"defective.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reasons include flawed investigative practices, a concerted effort from the department's leadership to keep the case quiet and investigators' attitude toward the young woman at the center of the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Officers were making judgments about who should be treated as a victim and who should not be and that went all the way up the ladder,\" said John Burris, a civil rights attorney who represents the woman and who is involved in federal court oversight of the Oakland Police Department. \"She wasn't treated as a normal victim of sexual misconduct. In fact, she was ignored.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case began in September of 2015 with the suicide of OPD officer Brendan O'Brien. The officer left a suicide note indicating that several other officers were involved with a young woman who went by the name \"Celeste Guap,\" some while she was under 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guap has since been identified as Jasmine Abuslin. Oakland recently \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/01/teen-tied-to-sexual-misconduct-case-relieved-by-oakland-settlement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">settled a legal claim\u003c/a> brought on her behalf for close to $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court-appointed investigator also found that the effort to keep the case secret went all the way to the top of the department, and once it came to light, the Oakland's mayor and city administrator \"did not do enough enough to determine why the Department had not investigated the case more thoroughly before the Court got involved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case and investigation stayed under wraps until March of 2016, according to the investigator's report, \"when the Monitoring Team learned, almost by accident and not from the Chief, about the investigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"fOtAODdVesGyKH4ZFxshVR65UNcx27lf\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sexual misconduct case became public last June, with former \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/09/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Police Chief Sean Whent's sudden resignation\u003c/a>. That was followed by a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">series of replacement chiefs\u003c/a> over the following week, and Mayor Libby Schaaf's ultimate decision to place the department under civilian control of City Manager Sabrina Landreth. 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One of those officers was never formally charged, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The problem is that the investigatory work that led to much of the internal discipline and to all of the criminal prosecutions occurred only after the U.S. District Court intervened,\" the court-appointed investigator's report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If not for the court’s intervention, we have no confidence that correct discipline would have ever been imposed, criminal charges filed, or departmental shortcomings examined.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/lauraklivans/status/877642007648260096\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf agreed with that assessment at a press conference called by her office to respond to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do think this wouldn’t have been handled appropriately had this intervention not occurred,\" Schaaf said, noting \"many changes\" in the Police Department over the past year, including appointing Kirkpatrick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf acknowledged the report's findings that city leadership had allowed an independent investigation she initiated to stall at the end of last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those months we were very focused on the Ghost Ship fire recovery, as well as onboarding the new police chief, who is the most important part of addressing the concerns raised in this report,\" Schaaf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD investigators' attitude toward Abuslin led to major flaws in the department's probe, the report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[W]e found that OPD quickly assessed Ms. Abuslin as not credible and failed to pursue investigation of the allegations vigorously in part because of who Ms. Abuslin was and how she responded to being interviewed by OPD,\" the report says, acknowledging that Abuslin was initially a \"challenging witness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But she was a young woman who was alleged to have had repeated sexual contact with law enforcement officers – officers who took advantage of her age and vulnerability. Given the allegation that she had been sexually exploited by OPD officers, OPD owed her at least the same patience, concern, and investigative attention that they afford other victims.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Kirkpatrick she understood the report's recommendations, and that the problems it highlights are \"all repairable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Strong leadership, clear procedures, and a commitment on our part to treat all victims with care and attention,\" she said. \"Our past does indeed inform our future. My presence here is all about our future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the report's findings are most critical of former Police Chief Sean Whent, it references failings throughout the Police Department's command, including those in charge of homicide, internal affairs and criminal investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't even know who those people were in those roles and places,\" Kirkpatrick said. \"My entire command staff that I have in place today, from my personal assessment, I have confidence in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the internal affairs division now directly reports to her, and leadership of the criminal investigations division had changed since last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's not a reflection of old leadership,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was hardly a secret that in early 2016, all parties involved were close to ending over a decade of federal oversight of the Police Department. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris, one of the attorneys who litigated the lawsuit that initiated that oversight through a negotiated settlement agreement said the court investigator's findings are \"explosive,\" \"hurtful\" and \"a major setback to the department.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We thought that we had put together a strong effort where the internal affairs department would be in a position to uncover, investigate and monitor this type of activity. 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Prosecutors also reviewed text and Facebook messages between Abuslin and Perrodin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County District Attorney Mark Peterson said last week that Perrodin admitted to paying Abuslin for sex at a hotel in Richmond in February, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former homicide captain \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/news/216570749-story\" target=\"_blank\">told KTVU\u003c/a> Wednesday he did not admit to any wrongdoing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 11 a.m. Friday Nov. 4\u003c/strong> A retired octogenarian Oakland police captain is the only officer who will face prosecution in Contra Costa County for allegations related to a law enforcement \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/police-sexual-exploitation/\" target=\"_blank\">sexual exploitation case\u003c/a> affecting several Bay Area agencies, District Attorney Mark Peterson announced Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the \u003ca href=\"#summary\">charging decision\u003c/a> was based in part on more than 24 hours of recorded interviews that six law enforcement agencies conducted with the Richmond teen at the center of the case, Jasmine Abuslin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The evidence that we were given -- the information that was given to us by Ms. Abuslin herself -- does not warrant charges other than the one retired Oakland captain,\" who will be charged with engaging in prostitution, Peterson said at a press conference in Martinez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin, who is now 19 years old, has said she had sex with some 30 law enforcement officers in the past few years, some while she was underage. She has said all the officers and deputies knew she worked in the sex trade, and some tipped her off to undercover prostitution operations or shared confidential law enforcement information with her. There are also indications that Abuslin -- whose pseudonym is Celeste Guap -- has been a victim of child sexual exploitation and trafficking in and around the East Bay since the age of 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s reprehensible, it’s immoral, it’s inappropriate, shouldn’t be done, it’s shocking,\" Peterson said of what he characterized as consensual sex between Abuslin and law enforcement officers from around the Bay Area. \"But is it a crime?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors' broad review of the case focused on potential crimes involving more than a dozen officers from San Francisco, Richmond and Oakland, as well as a former deputy with the Contra Costa Sheriff's Office. Officers who knowingly had sex with Abuslin before she turned 18 could be charged with crimes, including rape. The former deputy, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/30/ex-contra-costa-deputy-arraigned-in-sex-exploitation-case-released-with-no-bail/\" target=\"_blank\">Ricardo Perez\u003c/a>, and Oakland police Officer \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/21/two-more-oakland-police-officers-arraigned-on-sex-charges/\" target=\"_blank\">Giovanni LoVerde\u003c/a> are both facing charges of felony oral copulation with a minor in neighboring Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Contra Costa County prosecutors were unable to determine whether any sexual encounters between officers and Abuslin in their county occurred before she turned 18. And even if they could, Peterson said, it's an \"absolute defense\" if the officers reasonably believed she was an adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were no crimes involving former Deputy Perez with Ms. Abuslin except for the possible crime of her engaging in sex with him when she was under 18,\" Peterson said. \"But as I've indicated, we can't prove that charge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County prosecutors also looked at charging officers for engaging in prostitution, and they are charging a yet-to-be-named former Oakland police captain with that misdemeanor for allegedly paying Abuslin for sex. But as for any other officers, the evidence did not indicate that there was an exchange of cash or anything else of value for sex, Peterson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She has also made statements that she’s a sex addict,\" Peterson said, \"which is an indication perhaps that she wasn’t doing this for money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior Deputy District Attorney Paul Graves, who supervises the Contra Costa DA's sexual assault unit, said there was no indication that officers explicitly traded protection for sex with Abuslin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m sure that is part of her motivation,\" he said. \"If you think about it, this community failed her for a long time. A lot of people failed her. So yeah, the security of having police officers and having somebody looking out for you, absolutely, but whether that was communicated as a quid pro quo: No.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Contra Costa district attorney's investigation found no chargeable crimes against two San Francisco police officers brought to the office's attention by SFPD's investigation. Abuslin has said she had sex with three SFPD officers, all after she turned 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While the actions of the officers did not result in criminal charges, they will now undergo an administrative investigation by the SFPD Internal Affairs Division,\" a written statement released by SFPD says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday's announcement marks the end of the Contra Costa district attorney's second investigation into the case. Oakland police investigators presented the office in May with a potential charge of attempted forcible sodomy against former OPD Officer Terryl Smith that allegedly occurred in Richmond. The office declined to file charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we’re talking about specifically in that case was consensual acts that took place immediately preceding this alleged attempted forcible sex act, and consensual acts that occurred immediately after this alleged attempted forcible sex act,\" Graves said. \"I'm not at liberty to disclose to you the actual facts. Out of respect for the victim, we're not going to do that. If you heard what I heard, you would understand.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Contra Costa district attorney's decision indicates a different approach to the case than that of neighboring Alameda County, where six current and former law enforcement officers are facing a range of criminal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager/\" target=\"_blank\">announced those charges\u003c/a> Sept. 9, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley criticized other agencies' facilitation of Abuslin's \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\">travel to a rehabilitation clinic in Florida\u003c/a>, which removed a witness in the case from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peterson said Friday that his office, along with the Richmond Police Department and state Victim Compensation Board, facilitated Abuslin's short-lived stint across the country. Abuslin was eligible for the crime victim funding because of a \"crime which took place several years ago and involved no law enforcement officer,\" according to the Contra Costa DA's investigative summary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Due to Ms. Abuslin's ongoing privacy rights, we are limited as to what we can reveal concerning her travel to Florida,\" Peterson said. \"However, it's abundantly clear that there was no scheme by any police agency nor by any other organization to secrete Ms. Abuslin out of California in order to hinder any local investigation or prosecution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graves pushed back against descriptions of the case presented by news media and Abuslin's civil attorneys that are not backed up by facts. He said Abuslin reached out to officers and deputies \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\">via Facebook\u003c/a>, and she wasn't trafficked between them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s the media scenario, there’s the scenario for her attorneys, and then there’s the scenario that’s actually borne out by the facts in these 30 hours of interviews that I listened to,\" he said. \"The story that these officers were exchanging her and talking to each other is actually not borne out by the evidence that I reviewed, and I reviewed 79,000 pages on Facebook.”\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighboring counties also appear to diverge on charging officers for failing to report Abuslin's status as a potential victim of human trafficking or childhood sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County prosecutors \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3111092-Leroy-Johnson-Complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\">charged\u003c/a> former OPD Sgt. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the \u003ca href=\"#summary\">charging decision\u003c/a> was based in part on more than 24 hours of recorded interviews that six law enforcement agencies conducted with the Richmond teen at the center of the case, Jasmine Abuslin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The evidence that we were given -- the information that was given to us by Ms. Abuslin herself -- does not warrant charges other than the one retired Oakland captain,\" who will be charged with engaging in prostitution, Peterson said at a press conference in Martinez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin, who is now 19 years old, has said she had sex with some 30 law enforcement officers in the past few years, some while she was underage. She has said all the officers and deputies knew she worked in the sex trade, and some tipped her off to undercover prostitution operations or shared confidential law enforcement information with her. There are also indications that Abuslin -- whose pseudonym is Celeste Guap -- has been a victim of child sexual exploitation and trafficking in and around the East Bay since the age of 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s reprehensible, it’s immoral, it’s inappropriate, shouldn’t be done, it’s shocking,\" Peterson said of what he characterized as consensual sex between Abuslin and law enforcement officers from around the Bay Area. \"But is it a crime?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors' broad review of the case focused on potential crimes involving more than a dozen officers from San Francisco, Richmond and Oakland, as well as a former deputy with the Contra Costa Sheriff's Office. Officers who knowingly had sex with Abuslin before she turned 18 could be charged with crimes, including rape. The former deputy, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/30/ex-contra-costa-deputy-arraigned-in-sex-exploitation-case-released-with-no-bail/\" target=\"_blank\">Ricardo Perez\u003c/a>, and Oakland police Officer \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/21/two-more-oakland-police-officers-arraigned-on-sex-charges/\" target=\"_blank\">Giovanni LoVerde\u003c/a> are both facing charges of felony oral copulation with a minor in neighboring Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Contra Costa County prosecutors were unable to determine whether any sexual encounters between officers and Abuslin in their county occurred before she turned 18. And even if they could, Peterson said, it's an \"absolute defense\" if the officers reasonably believed she was an adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were no crimes involving former Deputy Perez with Ms. Abuslin except for the possible crime of her engaging in sex with him when she was under 18,\" Peterson said. \"But as I've indicated, we can't prove that charge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County prosecutors also looked at charging officers for engaging in prostitution, and they are charging a yet-to-be-named former Oakland police captain with that misdemeanor for allegedly paying Abuslin for sex. But as for any other officers, the evidence did not indicate that there was an exchange of cash or anything else of value for sex, Peterson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She has also made statements that she’s a sex addict,\" Peterson said, \"which is an indication perhaps that she wasn’t doing this for money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior Deputy District Attorney Paul Graves, who supervises the Contra Costa DA's sexual assault unit, said there was no indication that officers explicitly traded protection for sex with Abuslin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m sure that is part of her motivation,\" he said. \"If you think about it, this community failed her for a long time. A lot of people failed her. 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The office declined to file charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we’re talking about specifically in that case was consensual acts that took place immediately preceding this alleged attempted forcible sex act, and consensual acts that occurred immediately after this alleged attempted forcible sex act,\" Graves said. \"I'm not at liberty to disclose to you the actual facts. Out of respect for the victim, we're not going to do that. 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