LilMikeSF<p>Under embarassing <a href="https://c.im/tags/Federal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Federal</span></a> judicial oversight due to rampant police misconduct uncovered in a horrendous 2003 <a href="https://c.im/tags/scandal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scandal</span></a>, Oakland <a href="https://c.im/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a> police were due to emerge renewed 5 years later after a period of reforms ...this apparently <br>did not happen, and federal <a href="https://c.im/tags/oversight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oversight</span></a> continued. </p><p>A "monitor" was appointed back then (who lately hasn't even visited the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Oakland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oakland</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Police</span></a> department in over 5 years), and since then, many mayors, and an ever rotating cast of nearly a dozen ousted dept chiefs and add'l <a href="https://c.im/tags/interim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interim</span></a> administrative overlords came through city, while budget cuts severely impact staffing and compliance during constant <a href="https://c.im/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crime</span></a> waves.</p><p>Unfortunately sad and disturbing <a href="https://c.im/tags/lawenforcenent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawenforcenent</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/scandals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scandals</span></a> kept coming over past decades, and in 2025 many citizen observors wonder how, when or even "if" the <a href="https://c.im/tags/OPD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OPD</span></a> agency can ever emerge on its own ? </p><p>First link is look at how we got here, and second provides peak at the moving <a href="https://c.im/tags/CopWatch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CopWatch</span></a> targets set by <a href="https://c.im/tags/regulators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>regulators</span></a> and where efforts to comply still stand... </p><p><a href="https://oaklandside.org/2024/01/08/hiring-oakland-police-chief-has-always-been-messy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">oaklandside.org/2024/01/08/hir</span><span class="invisible">ing-oakland-police-chief-has-always-been-messy/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.oaklandreport.org/p/twenty-years-under-watch-will-oakland?utm_source=substack" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">oaklandreport.org/p/twenty-yea</span><span class="invisible">rs-under-watch-will-oakland?utm_source=substack</span></a></p>