City Council OK’s hiring law enforcement consultants including ex-LAPD chief William Bratton
“I’m getting a little bit concerned that we bring in consultants, we’ve got a compliance director, and a Wasserman contract; we’ve got other jurisdictions in here helping address the issues in our city,” Brooks said. “When all of those people go away, we are back to the same leadership. What will we do after 180 days?”
https://oaklandnorth.net/2013/01/23/city-council-oks-hiring-law-enforcement-consultants-including-ex-lapd-chief-william-bratton/
June 2012
Damning Report of OPD
And, moreover, the Frazier Report gives a detailed and somewhat devastating list of criticisms focusing on OPD's system for investigating officer misconduct and crime. Not only does the department not learn from past mistakes, the reports states, but Oakland police officers even acknowledge that the lack of consequences for violating policy or engaging in criminal misconduct has fostered a culture of impunity. Thus, the report raises serious questions whether the recommended reforms can so easily be completed.
The Frazier Group's findings identify systematic deficiencies that largely reflect OPD's failure since 2004 to implement the court-ordered reforms demanded by US District Judge Thelton Henderson. The report gives a detailed accounting of organizational dysfunction, inadequate planning and investigations, and a lack of accountability
Despite the city's claims of reform, the Frazier Report details the Oakland police department's culture of impunity and failure to change.
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/damning-report-of-opd/Content?oid=3244833
Oakland Crime Reduction Project
Bratton Group Findings and Recommendations
May 8, 2013
https://www.scribd.com/doc/140618581/Bratton-Group-Report-051813
May 2013 / August 2016
In a critique that should sound eerily familiar to Oakland police leaders, a star-studded consultant team on Thursday said the department needed to beef up investigative units and improve its focus on identifying crime trends in order to reduce sky-high rates of burglaries, robberies and shootings.
The team, headed by former New York City and Los Angeles police Chief William Bratton, found that Oakland police effectively were not investigating burglaries in a city where the crime jumped 43 percent last year.
Harnett and Andrews, another longtime associate of Bratton’s, are no strangers to Oakland. The duo was paid $50,000 six years ago to produce a report that made several of the same recommendations that they are once again making as members of the Bratton team, which the city is paying $250,000.
http://www.mercurynews.com/2013/05/09/new-oakland-crime-plan-has-a-familiar-ring/
Feb 2013
Is 'Supercop' William Bratton the Answer to Oakland's Police Problem?"
Oakland recently hired famed police chief William Bratton as a consultant in an effort to find a solution to its ongoing problems with its Police Department
Also troubling about OPD's current operations is the ongoing lack of accountability and internal monitoring, which is at the core of the consent decree. Many observers believe that the most important reforms that were to be undertaken through the consent decree have largely been ignored.
The internal affairs process has generally been seen as either incompetent or corrupt, or a combination of both.
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=9755#pop1
May 2013
Bratton trots out ‘broken windows’ for Oakland
The Bratton Group, which he heads, was paid $250,000 for their six-page report of findings and recommendations for the OPD.
https://sfbay.ca/2013/05/11/bratton-trots-out-broken-windows-for-oakland/
December 2012
Oakland hires former LA police chief as consultant
The city will pay $350,000 for the services of Bratton and Wasserman's group. It has spent about $1 million this year on police consultants, mainly to help reduce a backlog of internal affairs investigations
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-oakland-hires-former-la-police-chief-as-consultant-2012dec27-story.html
May 2013
REPORT CRITICAL OF OAKLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT'S COMMAND STAFF
OAKLAND, Calif. -- The people running the Oakland Police Department claim they welcome a new report that is critical of the command staff. That report comes just one day after Chief Howard Jordan suddenly quit.
This is the long-awaited report following the controversial hiring of police consultant Bill Bratton. Protesters say his methods attack Constitutional rights. On Thursday, Bratton's report took aim at the Oakland Police Department's poor implementation of its crime-fighting plan.
"They broke my door. They were inside the house when I opened the door into the hallway," said Oakland resident Marilyn Rhodes.
http://abc7news.com/archive/9096095/
May 2013
Bratton: Oakland's police lack accountability (Full report)
A report by former Los Angeles police chief Bill Bratton says that high-ranking Oakland police officers are not being held properly accountable for the crimes occurring in the areas they oversee.
The report was issued a week after a court-appointed overseer criticized department leadership, and a day after Police Chief Howard Jordan surprisingly stepped down citing health issues.
http://www.scpr.org/news/2013/05/09/37204/bratton-oakland-s-police-lack-accountability-full/
