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\u2019s progress and stumbles toward reform.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick, the federal judge overseeing the Oakland Police Department\u2019s 23-year federal oversight program, added one more analogy to the pile. He told city leaders that he\u2019d been thinking if anything in the world of sports could compare to the moment Oakland has reached.<\/p>\n
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