What a great department, seems focus on crime definitely needs to be two fold. No wonder they've taken control out of the hands of the those running the station.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/06/18/3790121/oakland-police-scandal/
Just a tidbit from one story
High on the list of the serious investigations facing the department: a number of officers may have raped an underage sex trafficking victim. The woman, now 18-years-old, said the sex trafficking involved 14 officers from the Oakland Police Department as well as officers from other police departments in the area.
Two officers at the San Francisco Police Department may also have been involved in the scandal.
The discovery of the officers’ alleged rape of an underage trafficking victim happened after an Oakland police officer, Brendan O’Brien, died by suicide and left a note mentioning details of a sex trafficking scandal. The alleged victim, Celeste Guap, said O’Brien “saved” her from a pimp who was chasing her. She was 17 years old at the time. But as the East Bay Express, which broke the story,
reported, O’Brien did not temporarily detain Guap as a sex trafficking victim for her safety, as
some departments do, but instead let her go.
When they saw each other again a couple weeks later they exchanged numbers and began, as Guap puts it, “dating.” She was trafficked among O’Brien’s fellow officers for half a year. Guap herself said she saw the acts as a form of protection from arrest, the East Bay Express
reported, and as the publication states, this amounts to coercion from officers. Guap said that at the time, she thought the officers were giving her protection, and recently said, “I do see myself as being a victim, because I do feel like I was taken advantage of.”
There was an internal investigation into the possibility that officers trafficked the then-17-year-old.
Then a federal judge ordered another investigation into the alleged trafficking, where officers admitted that they lied about their interactions with Guap during the first investigation and an officer also admitted he knew she was underage.
In June, Police Chief Sean Whent stepped down after three years of serving as chief, due to what he called a “personal choice,” but there are reports that Whent’s wife knew O’Brien was engaging in statutory rape. Guap said she contacted Whent’s wife, Julie, to tell her she was “dating an officer” while she was 17 years old, the Bay area local television station, KRON
reported. Ben Farrow followed Whent as interim police chief but Mayor Schaaf said she discovered information about Farrow that would not allow him to continue as chief. The latest controversy over racist text messages is unconnected to the investigation of sex trafficking, Schaaf
said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/19/u...land-police-to-get-new-leader-again.html?_r=0
For the fourth time in less than two weeks, the police department in Oakland, Calif., is answering to a different leader.
The changes have come as the city deals with two investigations involving its officers: a widening sex scandal and a series of racist text messages sent within the department.
“As the mayor of Oakland, I am here to run a police department, not a frat house,” Mayor Libby Schaaf
said at a news conference on Friday.
The Associated Press reported that of the
14 Oakland police officers involved in the sex scandal, two have resigned and three others are on paid leave.
