Posts Tagged ‘Federal Receivership’
Q&A with Federal Judge Thelton Henderson about the Oakland police case, his career
Federal district court judge Thelton Henderson is one of the biggest names in Oakland right now, as the city waits to see who he will appoint to take over parts of the city’s police department as part of an infamous 13-year legal battle that nearly thrust the Oakland Police Department into federal control. Henderson, a…
Read MoreOPD, mayor bring in Los Angeles’ former top cop, announce new policing strategies, to battle crime
Police Chief Howard Jordan announced Thursday afternoon that Oakland is hiring police consultant William Bratton, a former Los Angeles police chief who also served as police commissioner in both New York and Boston, to combat what Jordan called an “unacceptable” crime rate under his watch. As the city’s new police consultant, Bratton is charged with…
Read MoreJudge approves settlement agreement, new compliance director in OPD takeover dispute
Nine years after the Oakland Police Department was ordered to comply with a series of court orders or be put into receivership, a federal judge approved a settlement agreement Wednesday between city officials and civil rights attorneys that avoids a takeover of the department by a federal monitor.
Read MoreOakland city officials argue against motion for police receivership
In a federal court document filed Thursday, city officials rejected a motion by local attorneys for a federal takeover of the Oakland Police Department, pushing instead for the creation of two new positions that would monitor the department’s progress in enacting the last 10 of 51 reforms ordered by a federal judge in 2003.
Read MoreBlueford family and supporters denounce DA’s investigation
The investigation by the district attorney’s office into the death of Alan Blueford at the gun of an Oakland police officer was biased and slipshod, Blueford’s family and supporters said at a press conference on the steps of the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse Tuesday afternoon.
Read MoreMonitor: Oakland Police backsliding on reforms
The Oakland Police Department has slid backward in its nearly decade-long effort to comply with court ordered reforms, the independent monitor of the department wrote in a quarterly report released Monday.
Read MorePossible Oakland Police Department receivership raises many unanswered questions
The Oakland Police Department has operated under the threat of federal receivership for nine years.
Read MoreAt press conference, Jordan addresses new programs, homicides
After a week in which five homicides were reported within an 18-hour period, Oakland police touted new crime-fighting programs and several successful arrests in other cases at a press conference Thursday morning at police headquarters.
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