The Negotiated Settlement Agreement requires the department to initiate reforms focused on use of force policies, racial profiling, internal affairs investigations, officer discipline and transparency, among other things.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the first time in the history of the NSA, the Department has achieved compliance with all 51 Tasks,\u201d Warshaw wrote in his court filing Friday. \u201cWe will continue to monitor the Department\u2019s performance, and are hopeful that these findings will remain.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Oakland\u2019s police department has been a revolving door for leadership in recent years while on the path to emerging from federal oversight. Pictured from left are three recent former police chiefs, Anne Kirkpatrick, LeRonne Armstrong and Floyd Mitchell. (Bay City News file) <\/p>\n
Warshaw singled out Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee\u2019s leadership and OPD\u2019s commitment to addressing the last three items that remained incomplete on the reform list \u2014 maintaining a consistent and fair discipline policy for officers, ensuring that internal affairs investigations are completed in a timely manner and are complied with, and improving the protocols for handing citizen complaints about the department and its officers.<\/p>\n
Lee issued a statement Friday expressing gratitude for Warshaw\u2019s \u201cguidance\u201d via the report, which will be the subject of a hearing next week in front of U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe look forward to addressing the Court on May 27 at the Case Management Conference as we continue to build the momentum and forward progress on community trust and constitutional policing,\u201d Lee said.<\/p>\n
John Burris, one of the original attorneys who sued OPD over the Riders scandal, also filed a statement with the court expressing optimism about the department\u2019s progress, particularly around its efforts to combat racism within its ranks.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe look forward to addressing the Court on May 27 at the Case Management Conference as we continue to build the momentum and forward progress on community trust and constitutional policing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is critical that the Department does not backslide in this area,\u201d Burris wrote. \u201cOPD\u2019s racial bias was the original reason for the NSA, and the department and all other stakeholders must remain vigilant and proactive to ensure that the hard-fought gains that has brought OPD to the brink of NSA compliance are not squandered.\u201d<\/p>\n
If, at Wednesday\u2019s hearing, all parties agree that OPD has indeed reached full compliance with the NSA, the judge could grant its independence at the next court date in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oakland Police Department appears closer than ever to shedding federal oversight after 23 years, having finally reached…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,3007,93,4306,136794,55473,4309,74580,143,145,144,407,136816,15636,8763,1492,14225],"class_list":["post-329534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-civil-rights","tag-featured","tag-featured-news","tag-federal-oversight","tag-john-burris","tag-mayor-barbara-lee","tag-negotiated-settlement-agreement","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-police-department","tag-oakland-riders","tag-police-reform","tag-policing","tag-public-safety","tag-robert-warshaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}