13 Oakland Police Department (OPD) pays consultants $350k in 2013 and $1m+ 2012

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/

12 Oakland Police Dept (OPD) - Oakland declared the nation's robbery capitol (2013)

May 2013
Confirmed: Oakland Has More Robberies Than Any Other American City

The newspaper reported that during the first half of 2012, Oakland's robbery rate was 36 percent higher than the second-ranked city, Cleveland. In the Bay Area, Oakland's robbery rate was nearly double that of Richmond, which has its own fair share of crime problems.

No wonder residents -- and journalists -- have been hiring their own private security guards. In the last year, reporters and photojournalists have been repeatedly robbed and some beaten while on the job. Now, many of those television crews are refusing to do the good ol' fashioned man-on-the-street interviews.

http://archives.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2013/05/08/confirmed-oakland-has-more-robberies-than-any-other-american-city


May 2013
Oakland Assigns Just One Cop to Investigate 10,000 Burglaries

Former L.A. police chief Bill Bratton, who was hired by the city of Oakland to straighten out the crime mess, decided that what the city desperately needs (besides more cops) is a burglary unit in each of Oakland's five districts.

"Burglaries have gone up through the roof, and it's got to be stopped," said William Andrews of the Bratton Group, "And the way to do it to assign burglary investigators and hunt down those burglars."

Upon hearing the news, residents interviewed by CBS News described the situation as "frustrating," "upsetting," "amazing," and downright "crazy."

http://archives.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2013/05/10/oakland-assigns-just-one-cop-to-investigate-10000-burglaries