21st-quarterly-report.pdf

Twenty-First Quarterly Report of the Independent Monitor for the Oakland Police Department May 4, 2015 Page 4 The Court ordered the City to “work to eliminate the problems identified” in the Court-appointed investigator’s report, and to file a status report on or before September 1, 2015 to discuss its progress. In the coming months, the Monitoring Team and I intend to work closely with the Department, the Office of the City Attorney, the Mayor, and other City officials on the City’s efforts to address the findings and work to implement the recommendations listed in the investigator’s report. For as the Court pointed out in its recent Order, the high-profile disciplinary decisions that were later overturned or gutted at arbitration “go to the very heart of this case.” It continued: “[T]he goal in this litigation has always been to protect the public against police misconduct – including the racial bias, excessive force, planting of evidence, and falsifying of reports alleged by Plaintiffs – and to ensure accountability whenever misconduct occurs.” Chief (Ret.) Robert S. Warshaw Monitor Monitoring Team: Chief (ret.) Charles D. Reynolds, Deputy Monitor Lt. Colonel (ret.) J. Rick Brown Robin Busch-Wheaton Eric P. Daigle, Esq. Commander (ret.) John M. Girvin John M. Klofas, Ph.D. Assistant Director (ret.) Joseph R. Wolfinger