For the first time in more than two decades, the Oakland Police Department is closer than ever to ending federal court oversight.<\/p>\n
A federal monitor announced the department has now completed all 51 reforms required under its negotiated settlement agreement tied to the \u201cOakland Riders\u201d police misconduct scandal.<\/p>\n
The court-ordered reforms have kept OPD under federal oversight for the past 23 years.<\/p>\n
A federal judge is expected to hear arguments Wednesday on whether the Oakland Police Department is ready to take the next step toward ending federal oversight.<\/p>\n
If approved, OPD could regain full control of the department as early as this fall.<\/p>\n
The \u201cOakland Riders\u201d case involved allegations from more than 100 people who accused four veteran officers of violating civil rights through false arrests, planting evidence, excessive force and assaults.<\/p>\n
Since then, the department has been required to implement sweeping reforms focused on accountability, internal investigations and use-of-force policies.<\/p>\n
OPD previously came close to full compliance but still needed to resolve three remaining issues involving its discipline policy, citizen complaint procedures and the timeliness of internal investigations.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery excited for a couple of different reasons,\u201d Oakland City Council President Kevin Jenkins said. \u201cOne, we are policing in a way that is constitutional and that is protective of all the rights of our residents. And two, we have been in this negotiated settlement agreement for 20-plus years and the community has been begging us to get out of it in a constitutional way.\u201d<\/p>\n
A federal judge is expected to hear arguments Wednesday on whether OPD is ready to take the next step toward ending the oversight.<\/p>\n
Officials say reaching full compliance marks a major milestone for both the department and the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time in more than two decades, the Oakland Police Department is closer than ever to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-335328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335328","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=335328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}