Oakland Strip Search Cases: City Ordered To Pay $4.6 Million
More than half of the payouts involved the police department. The most recent settlement came after two men successfully sued the city after they were strip-searched at a busy West Oakland intersection. In that case the city ended up paying $245,000 to ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Talks over Oakland Police Department's future
The Oakland Tribune ( http://bit.ly/PW2pJe) says appointment of a receiver would make Oakland the nation's first city to lose substantial power over its police. The judge who will decide the fate of the Police Department told the city to begin ...www.mercurynews.com
Judge orders Oakland into negotiations over future of OPD
OAKLAND -- The federal judge who will decide the fate of Oakland's embattled police department ordered the city to begin settlement negotiations with attorneys seeking an outside receiver with powers to dismiss fire department brass. Citing several ...www.mercurynews.com
Oakland agrees to pay $4.6M in strip search case
OAKLAND, Calif.—Oakland officials have agreed to a $4.6 million settlement with dozens of men who claimed they were illegally strip searched by the city's police. The San Francisco Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/UFNIHl) that the City Council ...www.mercurynews.com
Oakland: Why feds shouldn't control police
Oakland officials, in a court filing late Thursday, insisted they can comply with police reforms outlined in a decade-old civil rights lawsuit settlement and said there's no justification for a judge to place the city's Police Department under the ...www.sfgate.com
Oakland files response to possible police takeover
to oversee the department, last month. They argued Oakland city officials and the police have chronically failed to meet reforms.www.mercurynews.com
Oakland city officials reject motion for receivership
The OPD's problems stem from the 2003 settlement in the wake of the "Riders" trial, in which a group of four veteran Oakland officers, who called themselves the Riders, were accused of planting evidence, making false police reports and beating suspects.blog.sfgate.com
Jim Chanin Speaks on Federal Receivership for the Oakland Police Department ...
After years of failure on the part of the Oakland police department to satisfy the requirements of the 2003 Negotiated Settlement Agreement, which came into being after numerous corrupt and illegal actions were exposed through the Riders Case, East Bay ...www.indybay.org
Oakland Police Chief filtered out all emails with words 'Occupy Oakland' - for ...
Hollywood producers who are planning an ABC Studios show based on Oakland, CA's City Hall staff and our Mayor might want to have their first episode be about the Chief of Police, a 23-year veteran of the Oakland Police force, who developed a really ...oaklandlocal.com
A federal takeover in Oakland?
In January 2003, the city agreed to settle by paying $10.9 million to the 119 plaintiffs in the case and to implement 51 reforms to prevent future abuse and misconduct by Oakland police. Nine years later, the reforms still have not been fully implemented.socialistworker.org
Federal police monitor 'dismayed' by lack of progress in reforming OPD
A court-appointed monitor has told a federal judge that the Oakland Police Department has shown a disturbing decline in progress in carrying out reforms mandated in the settlement of a 12-year-old civil rights lawsuit. Independent monitor Robert ...www.ktvu.com
Look who's punishing violent cops now!
Olson was only the most prominent of a number of protesters who were badly injured by the police in Oakland. By the OPD's own admission, only about 80 percent of the settlement agreement reforms have so far been achieved. On Oct. 5,, civil rights ...www.pslweb.org
ACLU: Pittsburgh to pay $72000 to settle G-20 lawsuit
The settlement leaves a single lawsuit against the city related to the G-20: police handling of an Oakland gathering the day after the summit.www.post-gazette.com
Larry Reid Touts Police, Again
Elected in 1996, he served on the Public Safety Committee during the period of police excesses that led to the settlement in The Riders case that put the Oakland Police Department under federal court scrutiny because of accusations of beating suspects, ...www.eastbayexpress.com
Seattle police monitor named: Choice was opposed by McGinn
U.S. District Court in Seattle on Tuesday named Merrick Bobb as the independent monitor of the settlement agreement on police conduct between the Justice Department and the city of Seattle. The appointment of Bobb was opposed by Mayor ... Bobb is an ...blog.seattlepi.com
Oakland city attorney race pits council member against veteran city staffer
The office defends the city against lawsuits, gives legal advice to the council and mayor and plays a key role in negotiations including ongoing talks about potentially handing control of Oakland's embattled Police Department to a federal overseer. It ...www.mercurynews.com
Kodak, Rosneft, 'Johnny Football': Intellectual Property
Police investigators told the Times the Siberian company's logo was so similar to the state-owned company's "that they are almost identical.www.bloomberg.com
Mich. police have many obstacles in shooting spree
Fear has prompted some to drive along side streets rather than heavily used thoroughfares. In Wixom - where 10 of the 24 shootings have been reported - police planned special Halloween patrols to protect trick-or-treaters. From Oakland County ...www.nbc29.com
Authorities: Suspect arrested in Mich. shootings
(AP) - Police who arrested a suspect in a Michigan shooting spree that targeted moving cars and resulted in at least once injury were led to the man's home based on one of thousands of tips, authorities said Tuesday.www.nbc29.com
Don Macleay on City Budget, Safeway, Crime: Oakland District 1 Council ...
Retirement obligations are our biggest long term problem. Police overtime is one of our biggest short term costs. Other large short term costs include the cost of litigation and settlement pay outs. In the case of police abuse payouts, we in Oakland ...rockridge.patch.com
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