A California city voted Tuesday to audit its troubled police department after racist text messages sent by officers were made public earlier this month.
An exterior view of Antioch police headquarters is seen in Antioch, Calif., Wednesday, April 19, 2023. The city council of a small San Francisco Bay Area city voted Tuesday, April 18, 2023, to launch three audits of its troubled Antioch Police Department, the latest development in a year-long federal investigation of the police force that blew up this month with the disclosure of racist text messages among officers.
“The public simply cannot have trust or confidence in any criminal prosecution involving the Antioch Police Department,” McDonnell said in an email Wednesday. “No one should be charged with a crime based on the report of a police department so thoroughly riddled with corruption." The city of 115,000 residents about 45 miles east of San Francisco was once predominantly white but has diversified in the last 30 years.
The text messages came out as part of an investigation launched in March 2022 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Contra Costa District Attorney’s office into a broad range of offenses, including what prosecutors called crimes of “moral turpitude,” by officers with the Antioch and nearby Pittsburg police departments.
In April 2020, one Antioch officer texted an officer at another police department: “Since we don't have video I sometimes just say people gave me a full confession when they didn't, get filed easier.”
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