Oakland police on track to exit federal oversight by September | National News

Over the 23 long and arduous years that the Oakland police have been under federal court oversight, many comparisons have been made to describe the city’s progress and stumbles toward reform.

On Wednesday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick, the federal judge overseeing the Oakland Police Department’s 23-year federal oversight program, added one more analogy to the pile. He told city leaders that he’d been thinking if anything in the world of sports could compare to the moment Oakland has reached.

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