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"content": "\u003cp>The Oakland Police Commission is seeking residents’ input after a public forum on Thursday where four police chief candidates shared their visions for the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the meeting, the candidates answered questions about why they believed they were right for the job and how they would change the culture of a department with a long history of impropriety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although residents in attendance were not given time to ask questions or share comments during the meeting, Police Commission Chair Marsha Peterson invited them to fill out a survey where they could rank the candidates and share comments or concerns. Peterson said the results of the survey would be shared with Mayor Sheng Thao, who will make the final decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsDiljN_qgEN4vA6weGpM8UQXLRR4P-rL1YvSuTNZBH_cWBA/viewform\">The survey closes on Monday at noon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first candidate to appear virtually Thursday night was Louis Molina, a former Las Vegas police chief and currently assistant deputy mayor for public safety in New York City. Others vying for the role include Lisa Davis, an assistant police chief of the Cincinnati Police Department; Abdul Pridgen, the former police chief in San Leandro; and Floyd Mitchell, a former police chief in Lubbock, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pridgen was included in the previous list of entrants the Commission recommended to Mayor Thao late last year. She rejected the list entirely and asked the Commission to draw up new candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peterson addressed the reappearance of Pridgen’s name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the candidates tonight was on the list that we sent in December because we believe in the merit of his candidacy and because we understood that the mayor’s office was still interested in vetting him,” Peterson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contentious search to fill the position’s vacancy has led some critics to attribute increases in certain types of crime in Oakland to the lack of a permanent chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11977438 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1466896342-1020x680.jpg']In 2023, violent crime surged by 21%, compared to the previous year when the number of homicides plateaued at 120. Yet robberies spiked 38%, and motor vehicle theft jumped 45%, according to Oakland Police Department end-of-year data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, Mayor Thao’s office said she would “take the time that is necessary to select the person that will lead the Oakland Police Department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She did not rule out the possibility of once again rejecting the list in its entirety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dissatisfaction with how the city has handled crime has also contributed to recall efforts against both Mayor Thao and Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the forum, many of the candidates shared common themes in their responses, such as a commitment to address residents’ concerns, collaborating with the Police Commission and federal monitor to complete the reform goals for the department — and a desire to boost officer morale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet responses differed in their approaches to these goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Louis Molina\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Molina emphasized the importance of not relying on police to solve every problem within a city. He said he would work with social service and public health agencies to divert cases of individuals suffering from mental health or substance abuse problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you come from a totally enforcement strategy to deal with crime and overly populating the justice system with individuals that are driven to that because of other issues, you’re not doing any help but having the person cycle through a justice system, when what they really need is more of a public health solution,” Molina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Louis Molina\"]‘There’s going to be times where we’re going to make mistakes. And as chief, I will be leaning into those situations, and I will be transparent while at the same time respecting the investigative process and due process of individuals.’[/pullquote]The assistant deputy mayor also vowed to send more calls to the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11971369/is-oaklands-community-response-team-a-successful-alternative-to-police\">MACRO office\u003c/a>, a community response program for nonviolent, non-emergency 911 calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how he’d change the culture within Oakland’s troubled police department, Molina referenced his experience leading New York City’s Department of Corrections to demonstrate his ability to hold those accountable under his leadership. Molina said during his time there, he worked through a backlog of thousands of disciplinary cases and decided to “forcibly separate over 300 individuals from service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Staff absenteeism dropped over 80%. Use of force dropped in our first year 14%. So there are a lot of positive outcomes that can happen when we have standards,” Molina said. “There’s going to be times where we’re going to make mistakes. And as chief, I will be leaning into those situations, and I will be transparent while at the same time respecting the investigative process and due process of individuals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/31/nyregion/louis-molina-deputy-mayor-safety.html\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported last year, however, that Molina was criticized by a federal monitor of the city’s jails for a perceived lack of transparency and active efforts to conceal certain incidents of violence under his watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Lisa Davis\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In her responses, Davis focused on improving the experiences of police officers as a means of bringing positive change to the department. She began her remarks by offering her condolences to city police for the death of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11971175/oakland-police-officer-shot-and-killed-on-duty-near-jack-london-square\">Officer Tuan Le\u003c/a>, who was fatally shot while responding to a burglary call in late December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her first 100 days, Davis said she would engage in a listening tour with members of the community and the department to ensure a smooth transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Organizational change is very hard inside of a police department. … and certainly, when you’re bringing in an outside chief to lead the department, it can be hard on the officers. So I think a couple of things have to be done,” Davis said. “And that is meeting the officers, addressing their concerns, addressing any rumors that they hear, and just letting them know what your expectations are, what your plan is for the department, and just being as transparent as you can be with them when doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lisa Davis\"]‘Morale is something that absolutely affects recruiting and retention. It affects officer wellness, all of those things. So morale has to be addressed.’[/pullquote]Davis said she believes there are three types of officers: About 10% are highly motivated and engaged, 80% aren’t very motivated but still do their jobs and 10% are never happy to be at work. She hopes to get the 80% reengaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Morale is something that absolutely affects recruiting and retention. It affects officer wellness, all of those things. So morale has to be addressed,” Davis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that she intends to raise morale by giving officers support, training and resources essential to their roles while also minimizing the stigma associated with seeking counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she spoke, Davis also shared formative experiences with police during her childhood, including one traumatic incident when officers entered her home looking for her uncle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The next thing I know, I see my uncle flying off of the second-floor banister. They threw him over a set of stairs,” Davis said. “But I had other experiences with police. I had a school resource officer that was so kind and so involved in school that I knew all cops were not this way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said these experiences propelled her to work in public service and also made her right for the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Abdul Pridgen\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pridgen pointed to his years of experience in various aspects of law enforcement, including as finance and personnel assistance chief in Fort Worth, Texas. There, Pridgen said he ensured the department never exceeded its budget and implemented recruiting strategies that led to an increase in diversity of over 80% in an academy class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the four candidates, Pridgen is the only one who lives in the Bay Area or even the state, having most recently served as police chief in San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Abdul Pridgen\"]‘I’m a person of unimpeachable integrity with strong principles, and I always do the right thing. I’m fair, I’m honest, and I’m just. And that’s what I want my employees to do when they interact with people inside the department and outside the department.’[/pullquote]“I have been in California for six years, so I’m very familiar with the way California policing works, and I can hit the ground running in Oakland,” Pridgen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pridgen said he would change OPD’s culture by focusing on accountability, including positive accountability — regularly recognizing officers for exceptional work and also leading by example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a person of unimpeachable integrity with strong principles, and I always do the right thing,” Pridgen said. “I’m fair, I’m honest and I’m just. And that’s what I want my employees to do when they interact with people inside the department and outside the department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pridgen also observed that officers are usually the ones within departments that are held accountable for wrongdoing, rather than higher-ups. He outlines an idea he called “trickle-down accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When assistant chiefs and deputy chiefs and captains recognize that their missteps or their oversight to address things that are occurring with their direct reports will ultimately cause them to be held accountable, they’re more likely to hold those below them accountable,” Pridgen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worth noting that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11977438/these-are-the-4-oakland-police-chief-candidates-mayor-sheng-thao-will-consider-for-the-job\">Pridgen resigned from his post in San Leandro\u003c/a> last week amid allegations that he violated department policies. City officials have not said which policies were violated.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Floyd Mitchell\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mitchell pointed to his background, growing up in a diverse metropolitan area with policing issues related to Black and brown communities, as instructive in helping him learn about “true constitutional and procedurally just policing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Floyd Mitchell\"]‘I feel comfortable that I would be able to come into this situation and understand that all of us have our individual parts and pieces that we bring to the table in regards to how we hold people accountable and work together.’[/pullquote]Mitchell said in his time as police chief in the cities of Lubbock and Temple, Texas, he learned to work effectively with neighborhood and community groups like the NAACP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar to Davis, Mitchell expressed belief in the idea that increased personal and professional support of officers will translate into better treatment of residents. Mitchell said he also believes that officers must be instilled with the idea that accountability is their responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our officers have to know that there is a duty to intervene. If they see someone violating policy, it’s their responsibility to make sure that that information is reported to their supervisor,” Mitchell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11974985,news_11976748,news_11975161\"]Mitchell drew parallels between his experience with the Kansas City Police Department in Missouri and Oakland’s ongoing federal monitor’s work and civilian oversight provided by the Police Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand the process and all the parties that are involved in the Oakland pyramid,” Mitchell said. “I feel comfortable that I would be able to come into this situation and understand that all of us have our individual parts and pieces that we bring to the table in regards to how we hold people accountable and work together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, local reports indicate that Mitchell resigned from his recent position as chief shortly after \u003ca href=\"https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/lpd-chief-to-be-subject-of-closed-door-city-council-meeting/\">a closed-door city council session\u003c/a> where he was the subject, although details of the meeting remain undisclosed. Under his leadership, Lubbock’s 911 response operations were also criticized for the increased number of abandoned calls, where callers hung up before reaching a dispatcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Last month, a group of Oakland community leaders \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/oakland-leaders-meet-with-gov-newsom-to-address-crime/\">traveled to Sacramento\u003c/a> to meet with the governor and request more crime-fighting resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spate of recent headlines have focused on the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/14/us/oakland-crime-economy-homelessness.html\">rising crime rates, \u003c/a>economic woes, and the ongoing efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/01/09/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-recall-campaign/\">recall its mayor\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966518/pamela-price-recall-alameda-potential\">county’s district attorney\u003c/a> — largely over crime concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violent crime in Oakland increased by 21% in 2023, compared to the previous year — with the number of homicides plateauing at 120 — while robberies climbed 38% and motor vehicle theft jumped 45%, \u003ca href=\"https://cityofoakland2.app.box.com/s/sjiq7usfy27gy9dfe51hp8arz5l1ixad/file/1404598604813\">according to Oakland Police Department end-of-year data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Oakland police has a ‘no chase’ policy. 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But Oakland received none of that funding because \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/emails-texts-help-explain-how-oakland-missed-out-on-millions-to-fight-retail-theft\">it missed the application deadline,\u003c/a> a blunder that Thao later said she, as mayor, took “full responsibility for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The governor brought that up one, two, three times,” said Robert Harris of the Oakland NAACP, who was also at the January meeting. “He talked about the missed deadline, and then about 10 minutes later, he said the same thing over, ‘We’ve made that available to you, and you didn’t file.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing criticism from conservatives over his handling of crime in the state, Newsom has recently toughened his stance on the issue, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/01/09/property-crime-framework/\">last month calling for new legislation \u003c/a>to expand criminal penalties for property crimes — even as he has so far \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/09/newsoms-property-crime-package-sidesteps-prop-47-00134448#:~:text=The%20governor%20is%20asking%20for,a%20contentious%20voter%2Dpassed%20initiative.\">sidestepped demands to reform Proposition 47\u003c/a>, the 2014 measure that reduced certain drug and theft crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s office last year also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/california-approves-oakland-bid-for-chp-officers-18274937.php\">sent six CHP officers\u003c/a> and a sergeant to Oakland to help with traffic enforcement and extended a $1.2 million loan to the city to install automated license-plate readers, leading to the arrest of 100 suspected criminals and the recovery of 193 stolen vehicles, it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Newsom’s Tuesday statement, Thao welcomed the additional help from the state. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Two men charged with Le’s murder were arraigned in court Thursday morning. They are expected to appear again on Jan. 18 to enter their pleas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after the vigil, just over a dozen people rallied in front of Oakland City Hall. Some held signs calling for the recall of Oakland District Attorney Pamela Price or wore apparel supporting Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organized by the group Citizens Unite, the rally called for city leadership to hire more police officers, punish criminals more harshly, and declare a state of emergency over crime in Oakland in light of Le’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the heroes, these are the people we call and rely on when we get in trouble. But our politicians are letting them die,” said Francisco Acosta, who participated in the rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Councilmember Noel Gallo also attended. He supported the calls for Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao to declare a state of emergency, saying that would allow federal law enforcement to increase their presence in the city and speed up the process of appointing a new permanent police chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971826\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971826\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_2338-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_2338-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_2338-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_2338-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_2338-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_2338-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_2338-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_2338-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Organizers set up a table with traditional offerings of fruit, flowers and incense.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife pushed back on those assertions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Declaring a legal state of emergency is not something that will change the conditions on the street at all, and it’s actually disingenuous or ignorant to suggest otherwise,” Fife said in an interview with KQED. “I’m really exhausted with the politicization of pain. And I think individuals are weaponizing the pain and the trauma of Oakland residents to advance a political narrative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fife also said an increased police presence on the streets of Oakland would not make the city safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would argue that it is the defunding of social services that is creating chaos for underserved populations that creates the pain that we see. Because individuals who are never, who never have their needs met don’t give a s— about yours,” Fife said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A new report claims to have found significant inaccuracies in the investigation that led to Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong’s firing, calling it unreliable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing that investigation’s alleged lack of credibility, the report urges Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao to meet with Armstrong to discuss “the possibility of reinstatement.” Armstrong was fired in February for allegedly mishandling misconduct charges against an officer. His dismissal prompted at least one rally of about 100 people in his support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/7665.htm\">Retired California judge Maria P. Rivera\u003c/a> authored the Sept. 7 report, in her role as an administrative hearing officer. Rivera’s report largely rebuts an investigation into OPD that was called for by Oakland’s federal oversight monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, Rivera stopped short of explicitly calling for the chief to be reinstated, which she emphasized is not her role. She also poked holes in Armstrong’s arguments that he was fired as a whistleblower, and found no evidence to substantiate his allegations that the federal monitor is improperly padding his own pocket by continuing to oversee the department’s reform efforts. And Rivera also did not fully endorse Armstrong’s claims that he was fired for exercising his First Amendment rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera does, however, take space in the report to praise Armstrong’s role in moving his department toward independence, writing, “it is noteworthy that, after twenty years of oversight under more than ten police chiefs, the sustainability period was finally entered during chief Armstrong’s tenure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, Armstrong hailed the findings as vindication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This report is not a surprise to me. The outcome is consistent to what I have said from the beginning: I should not have been disciplined or fired,” he said. “I want the public to know that I told the truth, that I am the same chief they remember and respect. And in light of this report I want the opportunity to sit down with the city and be considered for reinstatement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/08/14/opd-chief-armstrong-accuses-mayor-thao-of-retaliation-monitor-corruption/\">filed an administrative claim\u003c/a> against Oakland last month, alleging Thao fired him in retaliation for whistleblowing against the police department’s federal monitor. That claim is a precursor to a potential lawsuit, but also prompted the report by Rivera, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.adrservices.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Rivera-Maria.pdf\">works for ADR Services\u003c/a>, a dispute resolution firm, that helps facilitate the regular administrative hearing process for officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be wise for both parties, and of great benefit to the citizens of Oakland, to avoid the costs and related toll of protracted litigation,” Rivera wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera’s report also explicitly calls for Thao’s initial 30-day suspension of Armstrong to be removed from his record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are limits to the impact of the report and to the authority of Rivera, who cannot compel Oakland to do anything, let alone take back Armstrong. As Rivera notes, it’s a report, not an adjudication — there were no witnesses, no cross-examination, no discovery of evidence — only an evaluation of the text of the actual investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the report may provide political ammunition for Armstrong’s supporters to urge Thao to consider rehiring him.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"oakland-police-department\"]“The chief did nothing wrong here,” said John Burris, the longtime civil rights attorney, who supports Armstrong. “And that’s the point that I was arguing at the very outset, is that the investigative report reached by the lawyers and the investigators really jumped to conclusions and made assertions, made assumptions, that when you analyzed the report, the facts did not support it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said Armstrong’s firing heavily slowed OPD’s efforts to get out from under federal oversight, which began in 2003 after a group of officers were exposed for misconduct, including the beatings of Black people in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This [firing] became a major stumbling block and set us back,” he said, adding that if Armstrong is not reinstated, it could send a message that any police chief can be fired without due process or cause, which could harm future hiring efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s City Charter doesn’t allow for a mayor to re-hire a police chief. Instead, the chief must go through the police commission’s hiring process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Thao told KQED that her decision to fire Armstrong was because he immediately dismissed the investigation’s allegations as mistakes, and he insisted the officer had already been held accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland needs leaders, including at OPD, who will stand up and make tough decisions in the name of accountability and community trust,” she said. “By immediately and prematurely standing up for himself personally, Mr Armstrong failed to stand up for accountability at OPD.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His conduct forced me to make one of the most difficult decisions I have ever had to make. I am proud that I, with the support of my administration, faced the decision head on and did what I knew in my heart was right for Oakland, fully understanding the controversy that might follow,” Thao added. “I will continue working hard and making tough decisions to improve our police department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940412/oaklands-police-chief-and-the-long-road-to-police-reform\">placed Armstrong on paid administrative leave in January\u003c/a>, the same month allegations emerged that the Oakland Police Dept. improperly investigated misconduct charges against Sgt. Michael Chung, who was accused of a hit-and-run collision in 2021 and of discharging a firearm in an OPD elevator in 2022. He also admitted to subsequently throwing the bullet’s shell casing off the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in a bid to cover his tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incidents were found to have been minimized and mishandled by OPD’s internal affairs investigators, according to a report by law firm Clarence Dyer & Cohen, LLP. That firm was retained by the city of Oakland at the behest of Robert Warshaw, the federal monitor overseeing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891855/oakland-police-departments-brutality-corruption-and-cover-up-and-long-road-toward-reform\">OPD’s negotiated settlement agreement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelations in the firm’s report found “systemic failures far larger and more serious than the actions of one police officer,” including efforts in the internal affairs division to edit an investigative report into Chung that hid his misconduct, allowing him to avoid consequences for his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sealed documents \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/02/08/confidential-files-oakland-police-chief-leronne-armstrong-leave-car-crash-gunshot-elevator-internal-affairs/\">obtained by The Oaklandside\u003c/a> painted a picture of Chung’s importance to the department: He led patrols in Oakland’s Chinatown that were vital to groups like the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce during the height of anti-AAPI hate incidents. The group was vocally against cutting funds to OPD amid national protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. And the chamber’s leader, Carl Chan, was a vocal supporter of Armstrong’s in the wake of his firing, and is a lead proponent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955812/alameda-county-da-pamela-price-calls-recall-proponents-election-deniers\">in the recall effort of Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao fired Armstrong the next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has yet to hire a new police chief, despite a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/oakland-bay-area-rates-18259788.php\">rise in homicides, armed robberies and property crime\u003c/a> that has residents on edge. Crime in Oakland, however, is still lower than it has been at peaks in the 1990s and in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao has pointed a finger at the Oakland Police Commission for the slow pace of the hiring process, with the commission in turn \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/sheng-thao-oakland-state-of-emergency-police-chief-commission/\">admonishing Thao for her public statements\u003c/a>, alleging she hampered their efforts by refusing to meet with commission leadership and not providing immediate support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if the commission would consider selecting Armstrong in its hiring process, Oakland Police Commission Chair Tyfahra Milele said in a statement, “If Chief Armstrong would be willing to consider returning to Oakland and taking that last hard mile to reform, while very much making the city safe again, the Police Commission would welcome that conversation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera’s report doesn’t explicitly take Thao to task. The mayor generally has the right to fire the police chief, an at-will employee, for any reason. The report does, however, point out an exception to that rule. Employees are still granted due process in cases where their termination is a result of misconduct, “especially if this misconduct would ‘stigmatize’ [Armstrong’s] reputation or ‘seriously impair’ his opportunity to earn a living,” or might impact Armstrong’s community standing, Rivera wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the city of Oakland has claimed it had the right to terminate the chief based on the law firm’s report ordered by the federal monitor and Armstrong’s disagreement with them, Rivera said, “that kind of circular reasoning effectively eviscerates the chief’s rights,” particularly “if the reports are questionable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And should Thao and Armstrong not arrive at a settlement together, Rivera’s report’s findings could become the basis for the former chief to bring a suit against the city for wrongful termination. Oakland has been down this road before, awarding former Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/police-lawsuits-oakland-government-and-politics-629e700c17779733bda06e7dcf88ba2e\">a $1.4 million payout in a whistleblower claim\u003c/a> just last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, Rivera wrote in her report that it is within her purview to evaluate if the findings of the law firm’s investigation into Armstrong were “supported by the record,” but, ultimately, “there are no findings of any wrongdoing or dereliction of duty by the chief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law firm’s report into the alleged failures of OPD to investigate misconduct by Sgt. Chung is lengthy and complex. But the allegations against Armstrong essentially boil down to a failure to properly investigate Chung and to hold police staff accountable who mishandled that investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law firm’s investigation asserted the chief was “not credible” when saying, in interviews, he could not recall if video was shown of Chung’s hit-and-run; that the chief failed to perform his duties as a supervisor by not reading an OPD investigative report into Chung before signing it; and that the chief refused to answer a question pertinent to Chung’s investigation during a key disciplinary meeting, and had a negligent lack of awareness that an alleged cover up was taking place in the internal affairs investigation into Chung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera underscored that her job is solely to evaluate the law firm’s report, not investigate the alleged misconduct, but she said she found that the firm’s allegations weren’t backed up by the presented evidence and that it made assumptive leaps based on speculation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera said the firm’s investigation lacked a more contextualized assessment of the shortcomings of OPD’s internal affairs procedures, which would have provided greater perspective on OPD’s shortcomings to Thao and to the federal monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The narrow focus on only the two investigations may well have resulted in overstating the significance of the deficits found in the two cases,” Rivera wrote. “Nothing in the record suggests that these failures or shortcomings were pervasive, repeated, persistent, or anything other than isolated incidents.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The chief did nothing wrong here,” said John Burris, the longtime civil rights attorney, who supports Armstrong. “And that’s the point that I was arguing at the very outset, is that the investigative report reached by the lawyers and the investigators really jumped to conclusions and made assertions, made assumptions, that when you analyzed the report, the facts did not support it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said Armstrong’s firing heavily slowed OPD’s efforts to get out from under federal oversight, which began in 2003 after a group of officers were exposed for misconduct, including the beatings of Black people in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This [firing] became a major stumbling block and set us back,” he said, adding that if Armstrong is not reinstated, it could send a message that any police chief can be fired without due process or cause, which could harm future hiring efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s City Charter doesn’t allow for a mayor to re-hire a police chief. Instead, the chief must go through the police commission’s hiring process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Thao told KQED that her decision to fire Armstrong was because he immediately dismissed the investigation’s allegations as mistakes, and he insisted the officer had already been held accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland needs leaders, including at OPD, who will stand up and make tough decisions in the name of accountability and community trust,” she said. “By immediately and prematurely standing up for himself personally, Mr Armstrong failed to stand up for accountability at OPD.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His conduct forced me to make one of the most difficult decisions I have ever had to make. I am proud that I, with the support of my administration, faced the decision head on and did what I knew in my heart was right for Oakland, fully understanding the controversy that might follow,” Thao added. “I will continue working hard and making tough decisions to improve our police department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940412/oaklands-police-chief-and-the-long-road-to-police-reform\">placed Armstrong on paid administrative leave in January\u003c/a>, the same month allegations emerged that the Oakland Police Dept. improperly investigated misconduct charges against Sgt. Michael Chung, who was accused of a hit-and-run collision in 2021 and of discharging a firearm in an OPD elevator in 2022. He also admitted to subsequently throwing the bullet’s shell casing off the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in a bid to cover his tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incidents were found to have been minimized and mishandled by OPD’s internal affairs investigators, according to a report by law firm Clarence Dyer & Cohen, LLP. That firm was retained by the city of Oakland at the behest of Robert Warshaw, the federal monitor overseeing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891855/oakland-police-departments-brutality-corruption-and-cover-up-and-long-road-toward-reform\">OPD’s negotiated settlement agreement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelations in the firm’s report found “systemic failures far larger and more serious than the actions of one police officer,” including efforts in the internal affairs division to edit an investigative report into Chung that hid his misconduct, allowing him to avoid consequences for his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sealed documents \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/02/08/confidential-files-oakland-police-chief-leronne-armstrong-leave-car-crash-gunshot-elevator-internal-affairs/\">obtained by The Oaklandside\u003c/a> painted a picture of Chung’s importance to the department: He led patrols in Oakland’s Chinatown that were vital to groups like the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce during the height of anti-AAPI hate incidents. The group was vocally against cutting funds to OPD amid national protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. And the chamber’s leader, Carl Chan, was a vocal supporter of Armstrong’s in the wake of his firing, and is a lead proponent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955812/alameda-county-da-pamela-price-calls-recall-proponents-election-deniers\">in the recall effort of Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao fired Armstrong the next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has yet to hire a new police chief, despite a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/oakland-bay-area-rates-18259788.php\">rise in homicides, armed robberies and property crime\u003c/a> that has residents on edge. Crime in Oakland, however, is still lower than it has been at peaks in the 1990s and in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao has pointed a finger at the Oakland Police Commission for the slow pace of the hiring process, with the commission in turn \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/sheng-thao-oakland-state-of-emergency-police-chief-commission/\">admonishing Thao for her public statements\u003c/a>, alleging she hampered their efforts by refusing to meet with commission leadership and not providing immediate support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if the commission would consider selecting Armstrong in its hiring process, Oakland Police Commission Chair Tyfahra Milele said in a statement, “If Chief Armstrong would be willing to consider returning to Oakland and taking that last hard mile to reform, while very much making the city safe again, the Police Commission would welcome that conversation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera’s report doesn’t explicitly take Thao to task. The mayor generally has the right to fire the police chief, an at-will employee, for any reason. The report does, however, point out an exception to that rule. Employees are still granted due process in cases where their termination is a result of misconduct, “especially if this misconduct would ‘stigmatize’ [Armstrong’s] reputation or ‘seriously impair’ his opportunity to earn a living,” or might impact Armstrong’s community standing, Rivera wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the city of Oakland has claimed it had the right to terminate the chief based on the law firm’s report ordered by the federal monitor and Armstrong’s disagreement with them, Rivera said, “that kind of circular reasoning effectively eviscerates the chief’s rights,” particularly “if the reports are questionable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And should Thao and Armstrong not arrive at a settlement together, Rivera’s report’s findings could become the basis for the former chief to bring a suit against the city for wrongful termination. Oakland has been down this road before, awarding former Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/police-lawsuits-oakland-government-and-politics-629e700c17779733bda06e7dcf88ba2e\">a $1.4 million payout in a whistleblower claim\u003c/a> just last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, Rivera wrote in her report that it is within her purview to evaluate if the findings of the law firm’s investigation into Armstrong were “supported by the record,” but, ultimately, “there are no findings of any wrongdoing or dereliction of duty by the chief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law firm’s report into the alleged failures of OPD to investigate misconduct by Sgt. Chung is lengthy and complex. But the allegations against Armstrong essentially boil down to a failure to properly investigate Chung and to hold police staff accountable who mishandled that investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law firm’s investigation asserted the chief was “not credible” when saying, in interviews, he could not recall if video was shown of Chung’s hit-and-run; that the chief failed to perform his duties as a supervisor by not reading an OPD investigative report into Chung before signing it; and that the chief refused to answer a question pertinent to Chung’s investigation during a key disciplinary meeting, and had a negligent lack of awareness that an alleged cover up was taking place in the internal affairs investigation into Chung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera underscored that her job is solely to evaluate the law firm’s report, not investigate the alleged misconduct, but she said she found that the firm’s allegations weren’t backed up by the presented evidence and that it made assumptive leaps based on speculation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera said the firm’s investigation lacked a more contextualized assessment of the shortcomings of OPD’s internal affairs procedures, which would have provided greater perspective on OPD’s shortcomings to Thao and to the federal monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Much like its neighbor, San Francisco, Oakland’s precarious funding position comes from a one-two punch: a loss of pandemic-related federal assistance which previously bailed out the city to the tune of $188 million, and the new reality of shrinking tax revenue post-pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco relied on one-time sources of revenue to plug large portions of its funding gaps. Oakland, however, made significant structural changes to its spending to address the shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $4.2 billion two-year budget approved by the Oakland City Council enshrines some of Thao’s budget-saving maneuvers, like freezing positions across Oakland government to shore up the funding deficit, including more than 100 vacancies in the Oakland Police Department, and consolidating some city departments. That includes rolling homelessness services into the Department of Housing & Community Development and merging two agencies to create a new one, the Department of Children, Youth and Families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Oakland City Council rolled back major cuts Thao proposed to non-police violence prevention services, though not to the level of previous years. 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Those services help more than 11,500 Oaklanders annually, according to the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland City Council also committed more than $5 million in FEMA grants for each fiscal year to prevent fire department service cuts, which would’ve seen some fire engine companies alternate when they’re active, essentially spreading them thin to cover a wider geographic area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Thao’s budget already contained $216 million for affordable housing, the council authorized an additional $8.8 million for funding to quickly purchase homes, when available, for the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What about the police?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Well, it’s complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technically, the Oakland Police Department saw an increase in its overall budget, with raises for officers on the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s 2021–2022 budget, for instance, spent $330 million on police, rising to $353 million in 2022–2023, $358 million in 2023–2024, and $364 million in the 2024–2025 budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the budget increase, costs are rising in the police department, including salaries. To make up for that, the department will reduce the number of police academies, which according to Thao’s proposed budget could “result in OPD falling below the number of officers needed to address the public safety needs in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s sworn police staff will shrink by 16 sworn positions to 710 in the latest budget. With various academies graduating officers, however, that number will fluctuate through June 2025. 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The financial plan includes some bright spots for community programs, including a beloved amusement park. The Oakland City Council opted to fund $86,400 for Children’s Fairyland, which has been operating in Lake Merritt for more than 70 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And after a community ambassador program found success in Oakland’s Chinatown, offering graffiti abatement, helping lost bystanders and offering violence prevention, the program will be expanded in other Oakland business corridors with $2 million in funding through 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other investments in Oakland life include $200,000 for programming in Frank Ogawa Plaza, $400,000 for a facade improvement program, and overtime funding for Triangle Incident Response in East Oakland, which offers crisis intervention expertise for shootings with serious injuries, homicides or gender-based violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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