Thank you. Very detailed and informative. The answer, as always in policy, is to maintain a balance. The history of racial injustice in the US makes it difficult but not impossible. Oakland an extreme case. But imbalance is clearly not an option. Nobody wins, everyone suffers. Will our dysfunctional democracy be able to maintain balance?
For those who have been in regular contact with OPD street cops (thank you!) for a long time, the question is why have (what's left of) the local legacy news outlets not reported this story for years?
The City of Oakland pays Robert Warshaw over $1 million annually—lucrative compensation that ensures HE HAS NO INCENTIVE to remove OPD from oversight as long as he is professionally active. This is an obscenity. The professional social justiceers are in thrall because it keeps the department constantly looking over their shoulder in case Czar Warshaw is offended. Warshaw can "move the goalposts" for any compliance based on a capricious whim. Madness!!
Thank you. Sad, and predictable, like so much else in Oakland politics. It's as if people need to be personally robbed or assaulted before they realize what the police offer. Of course accountability is important, but if you take a harsher stance towards those helping mitigate crime than the actual criminals, then you get a GTA playground, which is pretty much where we are. I cannot see the "progress" in so much of today's "progressivism"
OPD Officer John Jacko Romero had me kidnapped for reporting his cousins illegal cannabis operation. My case is now in federal court, 25-cv-00383 OPD is an organized criminal organization. Their organized gang stalking program is out of control.
This issue has nothing to do with the man's position as a policeman nor did it involve anything he did while on duty. Anyone could have someone kidnapped. It does clearly need to be resolved by the courts and the police department can determine action to take once a verdict has been issued. This should be outside the complaint and disciplinary process.
A police planning an executing a civillians kidnapping has nothing to do with his position as a policeamn... Are you stupid? Never mind. The dirty scum bag piece of shit most certainly did it while he was as work and he did it on your tax dollar. Stay tune.
How does Sheng Thao's suspension and firing of Chief Armstrong fit into this? At the time, some commentators said the rules of the federal monitoring gave Ms Thao no choice but to suspend the chief temporarily.
Thanks for another example of your superb work and painstaking analysis. Please keep it coming,
Thank you. Very detailed and informative. The answer, as always in policy, is to maintain a balance. The history of racial injustice in the US makes it difficult but not impossible. Oakland an extreme case. But imbalance is clearly not an option. Nobody wins, everyone suffers. Will our dysfunctional democracy be able to maintain balance?
For those who have been in regular contact with OPD street cops (thank you!) for a long time, the question is why have (what's left of) the local legacy news outlets not reported this story for years?
Truly an insightful article. Former LAPD Lt. Mike Goldberg
The City of Oakland pays Robert Warshaw over $1 million annually—lucrative compensation that ensures HE HAS NO INCENTIVE to remove OPD from oversight as long as he is professionally active. This is an obscenity. The professional social justiceers are in thrall because it keeps the department constantly looking over their shoulder in case Czar Warshaw is offended. Warshaw can "move the goalposts" for any compliance based on a capricious whim. Madness!!
Thank you. Sad, and predictable, like so much else in Oakland politics. It's as if people need to be personally robbed or assaulted before they realize what the police offer. Of course accountability is important, but if you take a harsher stance towards those helping mitigate crime than the actual criminals, then you get a GTA playground, which is pretty much where we are. I cannot see the "progress" in so much of today's "progressivism"
OPD Officer John Jacko Romero had me kidnapped for reporting his cousins illegal cannabis operation. My case is now in federal court, 25-cv-00383 OPD is an organized criminal organization. Their organized gang stalking program is out of control.
This issue has nothing to do with the man's position as a policeman nor did it involve anything he did while on duty. Anyone could have someone kidnapped. It does clearly need to be resolved by the courts and the police department can determine action to take once a verdict has been issued. This should be outside the complaint and disciplinary process.
A police planning an executing a civillians kidnapping has nothing to do with his position as a policeamn... Are you stupid? Never mind. The dirty scum bag piece of shit most certainly did it while he was as work and he did it on your tax dollar. Stay tune.
How does Sheng Thao's suspension and firing of Chief Armstrong fit into this? At the time, some commentators said the rules of the federal monitoring gave Ms Thao no choice but to suspend the chief temporarily.
I wonder how many erroneous complaints can be quashed by the being able to enforce 148.6PC or at least giving the advisory statement.
https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/penal-code/pen-sect-148-6/
Very interesting - I would think this depends on the district attorney's office.