Where was the Oakland Police Commission during the latest setback for OPD?
uncovered in Internal Affairs investigations, the chief and his allies came out hard against the 20-year-old federal oversight of OPD and specifically the federal monitor tasked with making sure police reforms are upheld.
"There is open division on the commission," La Raza Community Resource Center board member Mariano Contreras said at a Jan. 12 commission meeting. "I'm concerned with this disharmony…and lack of transparency." The investigation by the San Francisco law firm, Clarence Dyer and Cohen, found that Chung ripped the bumper off aand then lied about it, only to receive counseling for what he did. And then a year later, the law firm said that Chung fired his service weapon in a police elevator and threw away the shell casings into the bay, before eventually coming forward in April 2022. Chung was put on leave, which he is still on today.
And in fact, many in the community are now finger pointing at the Oakland Police Commission for seemingly being absent during this investigation. The city'swith the law firm stipulated that the police commission should be looped in to "coordinate parallel investigations." But that didn't happen. "The firm was supposed to be reaching out and collaborating with Community Police Review Agency," Grinage said. "Why didn’t it happen? Where was the ball dropped on that? Was it that the city attorney never informed them about the requirement in their contract that they needed to collaborate with Community Police Review Agency? It’s very disturbing that the commissioners don't want to engage in questioning or dialogue around this issue.
At the end of its Jan. 26 meeting, the commission voted 6-0 to approve requiring the police department to provide all records on the Chung investigations. The purpose of his lawsuit with civil right attorney John Burris 23 years ago was to force the Oakland Police Department to make reforms and curb their racial profiling and abuse of Black residents.
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