Wednesday and the start of June also marked the start of a yearlong probationary period for the Oakland Police Department that could end with the department being released from two decades of federal oversight.
In order to move out of two-decades of federal oversight, the Oakland Police Department must complete a one-year probationary period, starting June 1. KTVU spoke with a woman who was a plaintiff in a case that led to that oversight. She said police planted drugs in her pocket and arrested her. She faced drug charges as a result. To talk about her ordeal still makes her sick to her stomach.
The four officers allegedly planted drugs, falsely arrested suspects, and falsified police reports. None of the officers were convicted of criminal charges, but all four left the department. One fled the country before he could be tried. The city paid $10.4 million in civil rights claims to the victims.
"It's important that we demonstrate that we are a different department, that we have satisfied the requirements of the negotiated settlement," Armstrong said. Following last month's ruling, John Burris, one of the attorneys representing the victims in the lawsuit that spurred the reforms, said he was "cautiously optimistic" about the move to a probationary period, though Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project that seeks to eradicate police misconduct, particularly against people of color, had her doubts.
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