{"id":482699,"date":"2026-10-02T11:38:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/482699\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T11:38:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:38:27","slug":"oakland-police-department-released-from-federal-oversight-after-23-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/482699\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Police Department Released from Federal Oversight After 23 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAirdate: Friday, October 2, 2026 at 9am\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">After 23 years, the Oakland Police Department has been released from federal oversight. The<br \/>federal monitoring, the longest in U.S. history, traces back to the \u201cRiders\u201d scandal: In 2003, a<br \/>group of Oakland police officers were accused of planting evidence, falsifying reports and beating suspects. Civil rights attorneys sued the city on behalf of 119 plaintiffs and Oakland settled that lawsuit by agreeing to a list of 51 reforms designed to prevent future police abuses of power. Over two decades, more scandals emerged that prevented the end of the monitoring but now OPD says that this past is well behind them. We\u2019ll talk about the impact of the federal oversight on policing in Oakland and the outlook for police accountability, public safety and the OPD as the department regains its independence<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">Guests:<\/p>\n<p>Darwin BondGraham, news editor, Oaklandside, co-author of \u201cThe Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption and Cover-up in Oakland\u201dJohn Burris, civil rights attorneyBarbara Lee, mayor of Oakland, served as U.S. congressmember representing parts of the East Bay from 1998-2025Christy Lopez, law professor and former deputy chief, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice, Georgetown University, served as a federal court monitor of the Oakland Police DepartmentRocky Lucia, law partner and attorney, Rains, Lucia, Stern, St. Phalle &amp; Silver, PC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Airdate: Friday, October 2, 2026 at 9am After 23 years, the Oakland Police Department has been released from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-482699","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\/482699","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=482699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}