Violence darkening Oakland's Nightlife

[Gas One]

Has anybody scene a group of white men patrolling east Oakland with camouflage and berets?

these cats?

sorry for the small pic. and this was in south of market in SF
(they were actually chasing someone in this pic)

i hear thats been going on in inner city areas since the 70's, it might just be having a resurgence in the bay. i took a pic because i aint heeard of the berets touching down in the ghetto with force in a while.

 

[Handz]

Are they talking about Club 17? I'm sure they are.

 

[City Situation]

so gas, why are they patrolling?

djsincere, like i said we gotta get some proof on the cops.

 

[MuneyHongry650]

those articles posted by djsincere are crazy... good read, makes me grateful I dont live in the town (not meant to be an insult)

 

[djsincere510]

Its a sensitive subject from where you can read in this article All the alphabet boys is getiinis invovled... The media is crazy how they publish fact fiction personal vendetas for co workers,freinds.

Bailey Project Furthers Late Reporter's Work

POSTED: 9:48 pm PST November 13, 2007

UPDATED: 10:10 pm PST November 13, 2007



OAKLAND -- Shortly after Oakland reporter Chauncey Bailey was shot dead in August, a team of journalists banded together to finish the work he started and may have died for.Bailey reportedly was working on stories about Your Black Muslim Bakery, which police say was deeply involved in crime including real estate fraud.An investigation by the Chauncey Bailey Project -- which KTVU is a part of -- recently focused on the alleged real estate swindles. Carried out by people associated with the now closed bakery61-year-old Charles Taylor grew up in Berkeley. He inherited his childhood home and hoped to bequeath to his daughter upon his death.Instead, Faylor finds himself dead broke with no property, seriously ill and living in a Stockton long-term care facility.Taylor is one of a growing number of people in the bay area who claim Antron Thurman -- a.k.a. Tony Donald -- and his real estate agent wife swindled them out of their homes.His wife Esperanza Johnson -- also known as Noor Jehan Bey -- has been involved with Your Black Muslim Bakery.An investigation by the Chauncey Bailey Project into the real estate dealings of Thurman and his wife has documented case after case of questionable transactions in which people have lost their savings and their homes.The transactions are documented in federal and state court files as well as real estate and other public records. These records also show Thurman and Johnson owe more than $1 million in unpaid taxes and penalties to the I.R.S. in addition more than $100,000 to an East Bay credit union in loans and on credit cards.Through her real estate business, Johnson is representing a prospective buyer of the shut-down bakery's Oakland headquarters scheduled for a hearing in federal bankruptcy court at the end of this month.The couple has steadfastly refused to respond to questions.Some of their dealings have led to lawsuits. But so far, there has been no criminal prosecution.Law enforcement officials are not commenting about specific cases.Eric Forster, a real estate fraud expert based in Los Angeles, is broadly familiar with the cases in question."As more and more fraudulent transactions are being unearthed, the banks are going to turn more of them over to the FBI and the respective U.S. Attorneys for prosecution," says Forster. "There is an obligation to identify people who propagate these types of scams and basically segregate them. Keep them away from the public."Taylor successfully sued Thurman and his wife after losing his home and another property in Lake County he had inherited. Taylor walked away from court with just $55,000. That money is all gone now.Today Taylor is being cared for at the Elm Haven Care Center in Stockton. His bills are paid by general assistance and Medi-Cal. Though he may not have any further recourse under the law, the continuing investigations by the Chauncey Bailey Project will hopefully prevent further scams by real estate agents affiliated with Your Black Muslim Bakery

http://www.ktvu.com/news/14590318/detail.html

so gas, why are they patrolling?
djsincere, like i said we gotta get some proof on the cops.

Officer Longmire like officer friendly from im bout it..

jaxon Van Derbeken at [email protected].

Yusuf Bey IV, the young leader of Your Black Muslim Bakery, boasted to his followers that he had avoided being implicated in the slaying of Oakland Post Editor Chauncey Bailey because of his relationship with the officer assigned to investigate the case.

Bey IV's two-year-long relationship with Oakland homicide investigator Sgt. Derwin Longmire had already paid off for police - the bakery leader had helped them get a confession in the Bailey case.

Bey IV talked openly about the payoff from his relationship with Longmire, a 22-year veteran of the department, while being held with two bakery associates in an unrelated kidnapping and torture case. Police secretly recorded the discussion.

"The reason they didn't pin the (Bailey) murder on me was because of Longmire," Bey IV, 21, told his two associates on the Aug. 6 video recording, which was reviewed by The Chronicle.

Three days earlier, Bey IV had helped Longmire to gain a confession in the Bailey case from Devaughndre Broussard, a 20-year-old bakery handyman. Broussard had been arrested in an Aug. 3 raid on the bakery the day after the slaying of Bailey, who was working on stories about the bakery's problems.

Longmire arranged for Bey IV to meet with Broussard alone in a police interview room. In just six minutes, Broussard confessed, according to a police account. Police did not record that meeting.

On the secretly recorded tape of his meeting with bakery associates, Bey IV whispered to his followers that Longmire had made it clear that getting a confession from Broussard would "take the heat off the bakery," which had been linked to a series of increasingly violent crimes.

Broussard's attorney, LeRue Grim, has since attacked Longmire's decision to let Bey IV meet with his client, saying it enabled the leader of the bakery to pressure his underling to "take the fall." Broussard has recanted his confession. Longmire and police refuse to comment on any aspect of the Bailey case. Earlier, they defended allowing Bey IV to meet with Broussard as an "investigative technique."

Police experts said any prior relationship between an investigator and potential suspect is fraught with risk. But, they say, it's not exactly like the kind of conflict of interest that has to be declared by attorneys.

Los Angeles police homicide Detective Dennis Kilcoyne, president of the California Homicide Investigators Association, said such conflicts are inevitable given the recent emphasis on community policing.

"They want you involved in the community and to be a resource in the community," Kilcoyne said.

But that can lead to sticky situations - "having personal relationships with people you have to deal with on a professional level," Kilcoyne said. "That is exactly what you have here."

An unusual relationship

Longmire's relationship with Bey IV developed at a time when the bakery, once hailed as a symbol of black empowerment, was coming under increasing police scrutiny.

At Longmire's prompting, Bey IV described their relationship during a taped portion of a police interview the day after the Bailey killing.

Longmire said he was asking so "the biographical information between you and I is settled."

Bey IV said he came to know Longmire at least two years ago, but had seen him around the bakery long before that. The officer, Bey IV said, had always treated him with fairness and respect.

"Have I ever made you any promises that I did not keep?" Longmire asked Bey IV.

"Not promises, no."

"Beyond that, how would you characterize our relationship?" Longmire asked.

"Like I say, you're fair. I know that you are doing the right thing, regardless," Bey IV said.

"You're not one of the corrupt cops that are on the streets of Oakland. I'm willing to talk to you without having a lawyer, without having someone tell me what to say or not to say, because I believe whatever you hear me say, you'll take that and accept that without twisting it around and making it something that it's not."

Longmire, 43, joined the Oakland Police Department in 1985, working in patrol and narcotics, where he eventually supervised undercover street operations. He then investigated thefts and assaults. For the last eight years, Longmire has served in the city's homicide unit.

Longmire briefly left the homicide unit in 2003 to run the Oakland police intelligence squad. He was handpicked for the assignment by then-chief of police Richard Word. His job was to monitor protests and criminal organizations.

"I trust the guy with my life," Word said of Longmire. "No questions, no doubt there. I have absolute trust in him."

But by 2004, Longmire had left the intelligence unit.

"He chose of his own accord to return to homicide," Word said. "That was his love and passion."
Longmire as a mentor

Over the years, Longmire regularly visited Your Black Muslim Bakery on San Pablo Avenue in Oakland and became acquainted with Yusuf Bey Sr., who founded the bakery three decades earlier. The bakery earned praise from government officials, including a U.S. congressman who would become Oakland's mayor, Ron Dellums.

"You always patronize the bakery, you and your partner, I believe, for a long time. ... A good supporter, you know," Bey IV told Longmire in the first interview police had with Bey IV following the Aug. 3 raid.

Lorna Brown, an attorney who has represented Bey Sr. and Bey IV in various cases, saw Longmire as a mentor to her young client during the past two years. This came even as Bey IV was arrested in connection with a series of increasingly violent crimes.

"Detective Longmire has always tried to be an older brother to him and give him advice," Brown said. "He was always concerned because Yusuf was so young."

"I know on occasion, Yusuf's mother has asked (Longmire) to talk to Yusuf," Brown said. "I have spoken to Longmire. He has always been kind of a nice guy. He would say, 'You have to tell your client, he has got to shape up.' I always had the feeling that Longmire had Yusuf's best interests at heart, and that he was trying to help another young African American guy."

Word, who left the department in 2004, said it would not be out of character for Longmire to befriend someone like Bey IV.

"That's Derwin. If he sees this young man, who has some potential, I could see him reach out and try to help. That's who he is," Word said. "Derwin is a good guy with a big heart.

"That is what makes him a very good homicide detective. He builds a bond," Word added. "You got a guy in an interview room. To be able to get someone to talk to you and have that relationship, that is what Derwin does very well. He builds a bond, he connects with people, and they talk to him. That is a gift - you can't really teach that."

Some on the department noted that Longmire was even known to wear the bakery's trademark attire, a suit and bowtie. But Word said he knew Longmire patronized the bakery, but that was all.

"If there were ties beyond just a visit to go buy food, that could complicate matters," he said.

Kilcoyne, of the Los Angeles Police Department, said such entangling relationships are common in small towns. In each case, he said, it is up to the investigator and his supervisor to decide on whether the relationship could damage the case.
Bakery turmoil

Bey Sr. died in late 2003 from prostate cancer. At the time of his death, he was awaiting trial for allegedly raping several young girls who worked at the bakery. Soon, members of the family engaged in what police believe was a violent struggle over who would take control of the bakery.

Waajid Aljawwaad Bey, the elder Bey's 51-year-old accountant at the bakery, handpicked successor and "spiritually adopted" son, vanished in February 2004, shortly after he took over the bakery. His body was found five months later in a shallow grave in the East Oakland hills.

While Aljawwaad was missing, Bey IV's older brother, Antar Bey, seized control of the bakery. But on Oct. 25, 2005, Antar Bey was gunned down at an Oakland gas station. Police originally suspected that Bey was killed in a power struggle within the family, but soon learned from an informant that Bey may have been the victim of a botched robbery.

Longmire was one of the investigators assigned to that case, and he and his partner soon identified a suspect, a local crack addict named Alfonza Phillips III.

Longmire arrested Phillips and took a taped statement at the Police Department from the girlfriend who was with him, Althea Foy. She told Longmire that Phillips had confessed to her that he had killed Antar Bey.

Foy said on tape that Phillips told her he had shot a man because he wanted to steal the rims on his BMW.

During an appearance at Phillips' murder trial late last month, Foy testified that Longmire, in an unrecorded exchange during the same interview, pushed her into a seat and told her that he "hadn't slapped a young black bitch around in a long time" and that she was "lucky to still have her teeth." Longmire told her that "a swarm of Muslims" would harm her and her family if she didn't cooperate, according to Foy's account.

On the stand, Longmire dismissed her accusations as false but acknowledged that a portion of the interview was not taped. The reason, he said, was that he wanted witnesses to feel free to talk and to build a rapport with them. He said taping such a session, openly or surreptitiously, would have a "chilling effect" on building trust.The case continues in court, with closing arguments set for Tuesday.
Liquor store vandalismAbout the time of Antar Bey's slaying, Bey IV met Longmire, according to the statement the bakery leader made to Longmire on Aug. 3.

Bey IV said he and Longmire got acquainted while Bey IV was on a sympathy mission to the family of an East Oakland homicide victim.

As the two developed a relationship, Bey IV had several run-ins with Oakland police, records show. Police say it was during this time that Bey IV led bakery members on a string of crimes that included robbery, vandalism, assault, kidnapping and torture.

In November 2005, a month after Antar Bey was slain, Bey IV assumed control of the bakery. That month, Bey IV allegedly led an attack on two Muslim-operated liquor stores in West Oakland in which the display cases were smashed up and a shotgun was taken. That Mossberg shotgun would turn out to be the weapon used in Bailey's slaying.

Through a store videotape and informants, police soon identified Bey IV as having led the attacks, denouncing the two stores for selling alcohol to the black community.

Police records show that Longmire interceded on Bey IV's behalf, apparently over the objections of the lead investigator on the case in the robbery detail.

Longmire's actions, in effect, prevented Bey IV from making a voluntary statement about the case to Sgt. Dom Arotzarena, the investigator assigned to the vandalism case.

In his case log, Arotzarena recounted a phone call he got from Longmire four days after the attacks.

According to Arotzarena's log, Longmire told him that Bey IV's mother had called Longmire about the vandalism case. "Longmire asked me what he could tell (Bey IV's mother) about this case," Arotzarena noted in his log. "I told him not to reveal any details about the case, including the possibility of Bey (IV) being a suspect."

Ninety minutes later, Longmire called back, saying that Bey IV's mother had called him again and that she wanted Longmire to talk to her son.

The next day, Nov. 28, Arotzarena learned from his superiors that Bey IV had arranged on his own to talk about the vandalism case. It was decided that if Bey IV was "completely forthcoming with information," he would be freed pending a decision by prosecutors, Arotzarena wrote in his log.

Bey came in, but instead of meeting with Arotzarena, he met with Longmire and then asked for a lawyer. Any hope Arotzarena had that Bey IV would make a statement about the vandalism was dashed, Arotzarena wrote.

"I never asked for Bey to come down to the Police Department during this investigation," Arotzarena wrote in his log. "Sgt. Derwin Longmire organized his visit. Bey asked for an attorney when he got to the station. At this point, I never spoke to Bey nor told him that he was under arrest."

Arotzarena declined comment about Longmire's intervention in the case.

Although Bey IV was subsequently arrested in connection with the vandalism, he was soon free on bail, and he and his fellow bakery members allegedly engaged in an increasingly violent crime spree, police say.
Crime spree

After being released on bail, Bey IV was arrested in Vallejo for possession of a handgun and forgery, was charged with assault on a strip club bouncer in San Francisco, and had several clashes with police outside the bakery.

In May 2007, Bey IV and others allegedly followed a mother and daughter home from a night of bingo in a decommissioned police car purchased at an auction. They pulled the women over and then allegedly kidnapped them, later allegedly torturing the daughter in a home in Oakland.

In June of this year, a rookie Oakland police officer, A. Humphrey, pulled Bey IV over outside of the bakery for not having license plates. Ten officers arrived to provide backup, according to the police report, as the bakery was known for "incidents of hostile crowds forming around officers who had stopped members of YBMB."

"I must have a lot of power. Look at how many (police officers) it takes to give me a ticket," Bey IV said to Sgt. K. Thomas at the scene.

Bey began to mock officers, the sergeant noted, and it was decided to simply cite him and leave.

As the officers began to leave, "I heard approximately five large-caliber handgun shots coming from directly behind YBMB," the sergeant said in his report. "Mr. Bey began to ask, 'What's that?' in a very mocking manner, while I began to instruct all of my officers to tactically retreat ... while instructing Mr. Bey and the others to immediately go inside the business."

The following month, Oakland police tied two seemingly unrelated and random street killings to the bakery.

On July 8, Odell Roberson Jr. was shot and killed as he walked near San Pablo Avenue and the bakery. Police would later learn that Roberson was the uncle of Alfonza Phillips, the suspect in the slaying of Bey IV's brother, Antar.

Four nights later, the same AK-47 used to kill Roberson was used to gun down Michael John Wills Jr., a sous chef who lived near the bakery and went out on a late-night errand.

Police also learned that the weapon used in the slayings had been tied to a bakery-related attack in December on a car that belonged to a former boyfriend of Bey IV's wife.
The raid

Finally, Oakland police decided to raid the bakery. They obtained warrants for the raid on July 30. But they delayed the operation until Aug. 3, the day after Bailey was gunned down on his way to work. Police said the delay was due to mustering the 200 police officers needed to take part.

Police arrested Broussard as he tossed the shotgun out a window, according to Longmire's sworn account.

Bey IV, who was also detained in the raid, first told police that he suspected Broussard was involved in Bailey's assassination and that one of his bakery workers had told him that Broussard had used the bakery's van - like the white van witnesses described as used in the slaying - and that the worker was upset because Broussard broke a window.

During that morning interview with Longmire, Bey IV made a taped statement, provided to The Chronicle by Broussard's attorney, Grim.

"The primary purpose of the bakery, which my father started, was to help the lower class people who needed help, to give them opportunity nobody else was going to give them, because of their background, because of where they came from, which is from the streets," Bey IV said to Longmire.

He told Longmire that he did not know Bailey, but knew of him. "When my father was going through his court cases, he was going through his trials and tribulations, him being a reporter wrote things about Dr. Yusuf Bey, slanderous things about Dr. Yusuf Bey, that's how I became aware of him, as a name," Bey IV said.Bey IV also said he "heard rumors" that Bailey was working on stories about the bakery's legal troubles, including its bankruptcies.He said that on the morning of the Aug. 2 killing, he got a call from his business manager about the slaying and later went to the scene with two members of the bakery - Broussard and Antoine Mackey. Bey IV said the three then went to Lake Merritt and got out and talked for five to 10 minutes.

"At some point, did it ever occur to you to ask one of these two men if they were responsible for Mr. Bailey's murder?" Longmire asked Bey IV.
Bey IV replied that, at that time, he didn't know the victim was Bailey. "Anybody know what happened?" Bey IV recounted asking the men. " 'No, we don't know.' That was the response they gave me."
When Longmire asked Bey whether he suspected the two men were lying at the time, he said, "In a way, yes."

Bey IV did not go into detail, but said, "I never did like (Bailey), anyway, based on previous issues."

Later, in a separate interview with Longmire on Aug. 3, Bey changed his account, saying that Broussard confessed to him after they drove to Lake Merritt, according to a tape of the interview. "I stopped by the lake, got out of the car, walked with him, talked with him. He said, 'This guy was going to write bad things about the bakery and about you. So that's what I did.'"I immediately said, 'We can't bring this kind of heat on the bakery. You can't. We don't need this right now. It's not that serious right now. It's not important right now.' That's what I said to him."

Bey IV said he was angry that Broussard's actions meant "heat will be drawn to the bakery."

Bey said that if he hadn't been caught up in the raid, he would have contacted Longmire."I was going to come to you (Longmire) today ... (and ask) what do you think I should do about it?"
An ominous warning

During the raid on the bakery, Bey IV, Tamon Halfin and Joshua Bey were arrested and jailed for the May 2007 kidnapping and torture of the mother and daughter in Oakland. But, lacking evidence against Bey IV, police decided to take a gamble.

Three days after the raid, they put the three bakery associates in a wired room at the San Leandro Police Department. Police said they told the three men they had to get a tire repaired.

In the interview room, the men alternately laughed and despaired about their predicament. Bey IV repeatedly urged both of his followers - who had already given statements to police - to say they were forced to talk. That way, Bey IV said, the statements would be discredited.

But Halfin said a police officer saw him at the scene of the kidnapping in May - explaining that he had no choice but to make a statement. But Bey IV said even a police officer who might be called to testify against Halfin could be targeted and might not be able to testify.
"We got some crazy-ass hitters, trust me. They don't mind getting an officer," he said.

Bey IV also talked about the Oakland City Council. "If they let us out, the city is gonna be terrified of us," he said. "After what happened to dude (Bailey), they gonna be like, 'No, I don't want to go back to working with them.' "On the other hand, he said, the council might end up seeing the group as so "crazy" that it would have to work with the bakery again.

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these cats?

Something like that in formation walking in pairs in a line of about 12-14...It was saturday night...alot of Out of town raider tailgaters in the area...Thse tailgaters are a mfka..

 

[djsincere510]

OPD cops to work 12-hour shifts
Union says schedule will exhaust officers, make recruitment difficult
By Kelly Rayburn, STAFF WRITER
Article Last Updated: 11/13/2007 06:08:32 AM PST

OAKLAND — Oakland Police Department patrol officers will work 12-hour shifts under an arbitrator's decision released Monday, in what Police Chief Wayne Tucker described as a key victory for public safety in Oakland. Tucker was pitted against the Oakland Police Officers Association for more than a year on the issue. The union had hoped to stay on 10-hour shifts.
The two sides reached an impasse and argued it out before Arbitrator Charles Askin in October.
In a 34-page ruling, Askin concluded the 12-hour shift plan best served the welfare of Oakland residents.
"The City has identified inefficiencies in the current system," Askin wrote, adding, "It has proposed an alternative scheduling model that eliminates that inefficiency, provides additional work hours in the context of its undermanned staffing, will likely reduce the current reliance on overtime, and provide, at least marginally, a more efficient ratio of staffing to workload."
Tucker applauded the decision.
"I'm very pleased that the arbitrator was convinced of the wisdom of our argument," he said.
Tucker called the shift change crucial to his plan to implement a new model of geographic policing in Oakland designed to boost efficiency and area accountability.
Under that model, three police captains will

oversee area commands in North and West Oakland, Central Oakland and East Oakland.
Both the 12-hour shifts and the new area command plan will go into effect in January, Tucker said. Officers will work seven 12-hour shifts every two weeks, as opposed to four 10-hour shifts
every week. The arbitrator's decision leaves little recourse — if any — for the union.
Police union attorney Michael Rains said, "We feel the arbitrator, in doing what he did, made a mistake. I think that will be proven over time."
At the same time, Rains acknowledged that state law is designed to make it very difficult to appeal these type of rulings.
He said appeals are an option in "very limited" scenarios and that any appeal would be "an uphill battle."
Union president Bob Valladon said officers were left with no option but to work the 12-hour shifts.
"We have to go to the plan that is going to bury the Oakland Police Department," he said.
Before the decision, Valladon said the shift-change proposal was the most important issue facing the union in 20 years.
"Guys are going to stress out," he said Monday. "They're going to get fatigued. They're going to get hurt ... it is the worst plan that any city could go to, especially the city of Oakland."
Valladon said officers will leave the department because of the new shift, and that it would also make recruiting more difficult.
Police brass said the 12-hour patrol shifts will make operations smoother since 12-hour shifts fit neatly into a 24-hour days, whereas 10-hour shifts had caused overlap in shifts and inconsistent working schedules.
Tucker disagreed with Valladon's assertions about officer retention and recruitment.
"I think that Mr. Valladon is looking at this in the same negative way the POA has looked at this for many years," he said.
Tucker was backed throughout the arbitration by Mayor Ron Dellums, whose staff often speaks of the importance of "letting the chief be the chief."
If Valladon's prediction that officers will leave the department comes true, however, Dellums could be in a tough spot.
Since October, the mayor and his staff have repeatedly said that getting the Police Department up to its authorized strength of 803 officers is a priority for Dellums.
As of mid-October, the department was at 730.
The Police Department and union will now brace for what could be another bitter struggle, this one over a new contract for officers.
Arbitration hearings on the contract are scheduled to begin in December and will run into January.
Asked if the shift-change decision would affect the contract dispute, Jon Holtzman, the city's lead negotiator on police issues, said, "All I can say is I hope it will cause them to reassess what is essentially a hard-line stance they take on any issue that involves change in the department."
Rains said all the decision will do is embitter a department already struggling with low morale.
"If anything the mood of the Oakland police officers toward the city ... is only going to get worse," he said. "They're only going to get angrier because of this decision."

Contact Kelly Rayburn at [email protected] or 510-208-6435

Oakland Police Chief Wayne Tucker is looking at stretching the city's thin police ranks and getting a grip on the city's crime by hiring non-cops to answer the more mundane calls for help.

But the plan to have civilians respond to complaints about barking dogs or cars that block driveways probably hangs on whether the city can work out a contract with the powerful police officers' union.

The Oakland Police Officers Association, which represents the department's 730 police officers, has been working without a contract for 16 months. Arbitration hearings begin in December.

Tucker said he can free up more sworn officers for emergency calls - situations like fights, shootings or even requests for crowd control - by parceling other problems off to a less-expensive civilian corps.

Such an effort would help support other efforts, including violence prevention programs funded with $4 million in voter-approved Measure Y funds.

There are plans in place to hire another 63 officers. But hiring an extra 300 sworn officers - the number critics say would raise the force to the national average for a city of its size - would cost $60 million. Tucker said the department should first study whether current efforts are working.

"We need to get to 803 (officers) and see how effective we are before we look at hiring more cops," Tucker said. "I'm not so sure if hiring cops is the best use of our money.

"Without prevention and intervention, we are going to miss the mark. You can't arrest your way into (public) safety," the chief said.

The idea of a civilian crew isn't new.

"There are police departments around the country that use civilians to handle calls, from traffic control officers to crime scene investigators," said Bill Tegeler, an acting director at the Police Executive Research Forum, a law enforcement think tank in Alexandria, Va.

Tegeler said this trend started with hiring civilian parking control officers in the 1950s. Eventually, some evidence collection was handed off to workers outside the police ranks.

"We have found that collecting evidence, photos and fingerprints can be done just as well by a civilian with proper training," Tegeler said. Oakland already has more than a dozen employees serving in such roles.

Tucker said it could save millions of dollars to hire civilian workers to respond to "kinds of things where you don't need a police officer immediately."

Some technicians, for example, cost about half of what it takes to hire a police officer, each of whom costs the department about $200,000 a year in salary and benefits.

Under prior budget decisions, the number of technicians in the Oakland Police Department was reduced. However, authorities in July were given permission to hire 15 civilian employees.

The plan for hiring more civilians faces a big hurdle: looming contract arbitration hearings between city officials and the union.

City Hall wants significant changes in the union contract, which the department's brass believes hindered law enforcement efforts in the past.

In March 2006, the police officers' union temporarily stopped a City Council plan to place another two dozen officers on the street. And under the now-expired contract, the union had wide latitude in dictating when officers worked, effectively barring Tucker from moving quickly to redeploy officers as he saw fit.

Scheduling will be among a host of management changes Oakland city officials are seeking when the talks begin.

David Chai, Mayor Ron Dellums' chief of staff, said as many as 60 positions have been identified as possible civilian jobs, but they are all issues for the bargaining table.

If those sorts of issues can be worked out, Tucker believes he can reconfigure a department that provides a higher level of service to residents who are clamoring for extra officers and new efforts to fight crime.

Although the department has recently hired 180 officers, 150 others have retired, gone out on disability, quit or moved to other agencies. The attrition could get worse before it gets better.

About 50 police officers are close to the age of 50 and most could leave soon and earn 80 percent of their current salary. But a more generous pay package could persuade some to stay a few more years, Tucker said.

Tucker has publicly endorsed giving Oakland police, whose starting pay is $69,000 annually, a salary hike. But he's been clear about expecting in return more authority over issues like staffing assignments.

At a time when there is a statewide shortage of 15,000 sworn officers, requests for law enforcement services are in high demand. Tucker is eager to see what he can do with greater control of his own department and another 63 police officers. What happens after that, however, may include a civilian crew of responders.

"It's not easy to be a cop in Oakland, and I want them to be the highest-paid officers in the state," Tucker said. "I'm a fan of the POA (police union) and their president, but I want to be able to be the one making the decisions in the department."

The coruption in the Hayward Police;

Police vet faces molest sentence
Judge convicts officer after plea of no contest
By Jason Sweeney, STAFF WRITER
Article Last Updated: 10/26/2007 02:40:24 AM PDT

HAYWARD — Eighteen-year Hayward Police Department veteran Jeff Cristofani will appear Dec. 4 for sentencing at the Hayward Hall of Justice after pleading no contest to two counts of child molestation.

Officer Cristofani, 41, who lives in Tracy, entered his plea on Oct. 19 and has been out on $250,000 bail since his arrest on April 5.

An Alameda County Superior Court judge found Cristofani guilty of two separate felony counts of lewd and lascivious conduct with force with a minor.

Cristofani was arrested after an investigation by the Hayward Police Department and the Alameda County District Attorney's Office into allegations of child molestation made by a man who said he had been molested as a minor by Cristofani.

"We found out about it and we investigated it," Hayward police Chief Lloyd Lowe said. "The district attorney's office was brought right in."

The Daily Review reported in April that Cristofani allegedly engaged in oral sex with a 17-year-old boy from January 2000 to December 2001 and threatened to shoot him if he ever told anyone about the "affair." A second youth listed in the court complaint said he was sexually assaulted by Cristofani when he was 16 at the officer's Tracy home in April 1997.

In an Internet discussion with one boy, Cristofani allegedly made "specific reference" to the other boy by name, and reminded the first boy that he needed to keep the other boy quiet, according to court documents.

After his arrest, a search warrant was served at Cristofani's home, and a majority of the images found on his computer could be classified as child pornography, according to the complaint. Many of the photos were of Cristofani "engaging in sexual relations with unknown young males," as reported by The Daily Review in April.

"We were all shocked when we heard about it," Hayward police Lt. Reid Lindblom said of the case earlier this week. "Policemen do get involved in criminal activity. The expectation is that if you break the law, you're going to have to face the consequences like everyone else.

HAYWARD — A group of female police employees who say they were subjected to "severe and pervasive sexual harassment and discrimination" at the Hayward Police Department includes high-ranking veterans of the force, according to their lawyer and documents obtained this week from the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing.

According to the complaints, which The Daily Review received in redacted form more than a month after requesting them on Sept. 18, the discrimination claims stretch as far back as 1982 and as recently as July.

All of the women say they were exposed to a hostile work environment and retaliation because of their gender and, in many cases, their sexual orientation.

The women are represented by a Walnut Creek attorney Stan Casper, who won a similar case against the Concord Police Department in 1999. That lawsuit, on behalf of eight female officers, cost the city more than $1.25 million.

Casper said he is representing a total of 13 women in the Hayward case. The lawsuit will most likely be filed within the next two weeks, he said Tuesday.

The women, who live in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Joaquin and Santa Clara counties, all said Hayward Police Department supervisors retaliated against them for protestingtheir harassment, and that they were denied employment, promotion, special assignments and special recognition. Some say they were demoted or fired.

The group includes one of the Hayward Police Department's eight
lieutenants, who are the highest-ranking sworn officers in Hayward after three captains and Police Chief Lloyd Lowe.

Only two of Hayward's police lieutenants, and none of its captains, are females, according to department records from the fiscal year that ended in July.

At least one of the women is a sergeant, and many are officers, the redacted records show.

Police officials have declined to talk about the pending lawsuit or the department's internal policies on harassment.

Casper's settlement with the city of Concord called for

$690,000 to go to the eight women who sued the city, according to March 1999 news coverage in the Contra Costa Times, a sister publication of this newspaper. The city also had to pay the women's attorney fees, which totaled $560,000. The city racked up $375,000 in its own legal fees.

Hayward's last big legal battle over a discrimination case ended in August 2006, when a jury found the city liable for fostering a hostile work environment that led to the departure of a longtime building inspector who alleged harassment based on her gender and sexual orientation.

The building inspector, Margaret Dufresne, was awarded $472,890 in the case.

Staff writer Jason Sweeney contributed to this report.
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HAYWARD — Police sought comments from more than 50 residents at Wednesday's citywide Neighborhood Alert meeting regarding the formation of the department's first strategic plan for the future.

Neighborhood Alert is a nonprofit group that seeks to strengthen the community's partnership with the police.

"We want to know your vision from the outside looking in," said Cindy Waters, Hayward police support operations director. "What are our strengths and weaknesses?"

She spoke to a handful of residents who met in one of 10 small groups to provide ideas. In one group, one woman had her car stolen and the other three had been victims of identity theft, including Mary, who declined to give her last name because of the recent theft. Mary was appreciative of the department's follow-through with her case.

The 63-year-old Hayward resident was especially pleased when she received a letter that the U.S. Justice Department had indicted the suspects. However, she was bothered that she waited 11/2 hours at the department Wednesday to talk to an officer about how financial businesses are still stalking her. She found out about Wednesday's meeting from being at the police station.

"You can just see the need and frustration," Mary said of the overworked officers and those waiting for their help.

The therapist suggested that there be a police department employee in the front lobby for residents to talk to.

She explained that the victim becomes re-victimized when forced to either wait a long time for attention or is sent somewhere else, rather than have his or her problems addressed.

A need for more staff appeared repeatedly on lists at the meeting. The department has 188 sworn officers and 127 non-sworn staff, said Bob Weldon, community policing division chief. The City Council approved a budget earlier this year that provides for six new officers.

Weldon said the department would be meeting with schools and religious groups as well as taking comments from the City Council for the department's growth, development and operation. Police aim to compile the strategic plan by next February or March.

Next, they will be meeting with businesses, organized through the Chamber of Commerce, on Nov. 15.

"We don't want to impose on them what we think is important," said Darryl McAllister, captain of the department's community policing division. "We want to hear from our stakeholders."

To let the Hayward police know what you think, write to [email protected] or call 510-293-7272.

Neighborhood Alert is not meeting in November, but all are welcome to its Holiday Party at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 5. The potluck will be held at Southland Mall in Community Room C. To sign up for a committee or help with this event, call Joline Mallory at 510-885-1954.

Hayward Neighborhood Alert is also participating in a Litter Clean-up & Graffiti Removal with the Keep Hayward Clean & Green Task Force from 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday at Kennedy Park, near Target at Hesperian Boulevard and West A Street.

And their was also another hayward police officer who mollested a teenager last year and got away with it. And recently you had a sf police officer get away with mollesting a teenager in oakland.


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[TOMMYJAMES]

its the end of the world...

 

[TKASH]

Great post Sincere.

 

[City Situation]

so the civilian police are punks as well? are they the ones in cop cars that arent the official cop cars?

 

[djsincere510]

Sometimes i dont know who be reading these Bart boards...

FACTS & POINTS WE QUESTIONG ON BART ... is getting Brought up in court this week ....In Oakland & Hayward... OFFICER LONGMIRE whom is a corupt cop from Oakland not being put on the stand this week with help from the alameda county districts attorneys office... The alameda D.A works hand in hand with the police....and trying to keep this as quiet as possible... This shit is big...Its like the COUNTY is trying to cover this up before the FEDS get more involved and indictments start coming down for Oakland Veteran officers,alameda county d.a's...hayward internal affairs,hayward police officers..as well as others...

As far as the female Hayward police officers filing suit...I feel em...Female officers out of Hayward have actually been coo to me (durring my personal run ins..But im not co signing em ...)Its the MALE officers in the city causing damage...and they trying to cover their shit up... Why...cause this is a direct threat to their Lives,their homes,their paychecks and careers...

Alot of these officers are very friendly with cops from other citys and jurisdictions and compare notes about their citys major criminals... Cops from different agency's in the Bay are known to take vacations together to build friendships...so all the Bay areas police is virtually intertwined...

But then i believe the feds is already involved into bigger umbrella operations and dont want to publically get involved with whats goin on in Oakland with the police,city council( de la fuente).This shit goes all the way to the California attorney general former oakland mayor Jerry brown... And the system former sheriff Charles plummer put in place that is now crumbling due to negligence of cheif tucker(opd cheif,personally appointed by plummer),cheif lowe(hpd cheif) and sheriff gregory ahern (#1alamda county sheriif)...

Female officers sue Hayward PD
Attorney: Suit results from 'long, entrenched history'
By Matt O'Brien, STAFF WRITER
Article Last Updated: 11/15/2007 06:46:53 AM PST

HAYWARD — Thirteen female police officers, including top department brass, sued the Hayward Police Department on Wednesday alleging discrimination and harassment. Their joint 85-page lawsuit details a long and sometimes lewd history of unrest at the department, involving sexist, anti-gay and hostile treatment of female employees.
Many of the women also allege that the department's internal affairs unit, or Office of Ethical Standards, provided little relief from abuse and instead was used as a tool to retaliate against them.
"After years of trying to get the department's attention in these matters, they just — basically — couldn't take it anymore," said Walnut Creek lawyer Stan Casper, who is representing the 13 women and asking for an untold amount of damages from the city.
He said the suit is "the result of a long and entrenched history of the department demeaning female officers and their value to the department."
Some, such as Lt. Christine Orrey, one of the department's two highest-ranking females, claim they have been unsuccessfully fighting institutional discrimination since the 1980s.
Other plaintiffs were hired within the last two years, and four of the 13 no longer work there — some because they were fired.
Veteran police Officer Renee McKee, who was terminated in February, traced the root of her harassment to several years ago, when her ex-husband, a fellow Hayward police officer, allegedly used department

equipment to film himself engaged in sexual activity with a female dispatcher. When Renee McKee was angered by the incident and protested having to work with the dispatcher, the lawsuit alleges that supervisors tried to label her as "unfit for duty" and unable to work effectively with people. Asked about the video incident Wednesday, Alameda County District Attorney Tom Orloff said he recalls that it was investigated several years ago but that he did not remember the conclusion. He said potentially criminal activities by police employees would be investigated by the District Attorney's Office, but not allegations of discrimination.
"If there's an indication of criminal violations, the Hayward Police Department has been good over the years in bringing us into the loop," Orloff said.
Of the numerous male officers of various ranks blamed for contributing to the discrimination, some represent parts of familial networks or close networks within the department. One of the officers named in the lawsuit is the son of an assistant district attorney. Another is a son of a former Hayward mayor. Two are twin brothers. One is a son of a Hayward police officer. One was the best man for the wedding of the officer he was tasked to investigate.
Casper said many of the women found themselves falsely accused, through the police department "rumor mill," of having sexual relations with numerous men in the department. Occasionally, the rumors were used as a basis for discipline or investigation, he said.
"Rumors of sexual activity or imagined alliances, conspiracies, bribes and tiffs are not discouraged by the management," the suit states. "The social hierarchy within the department is maintained through the rumor mill."
The women said the department frequently failed to recognize them for brave or skilled work that they did, and applied double standards for hiring, promotion, training, special assignments and punishment.
Several of the plaintiffs are lesbian and said top police officials looked unfavorably upon their relationships or launched malicious investigations into them.
The suit was filed by police Lt. Christine Orrey; Sgt. Judy Bergeleen; Acting Sgt. Beverly Young; Inspector Ramona Hernandez; current sworn officers Angela Averiett, Anna Christensen Demeduk, Irene Martinez, Jessica Perryman and Michele Winters; and former officers and employees Renee McKee, Monique Mavis Limon, Shannon Gann and Marian Westfield.
Through their lawyer, all declined to comment.
"We have every reason to believe that the harassers will try to retaliate against the complainants," Casper said. "It's our sincere hope that more intelligent heads will prevail and prevent that from happening."
Mayor Mike Sweeney and other city and police officials have declined comment.
In an e-mail to the Hayward City Council on Wednesday morning, Acting City Attorney Maureen Conneely said the council will have a closed-session meeting to discuss the lawsuit after Thanksgiving.

Staff writer Jason Sweeney contributed to this report. Reach Matt O'Brien at 510-293-2473 or [email protected].

Hayward police accused of bias against female, lesbian workers


Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Thirteen current or former female officers and civilian employees of the Hayward Police Department filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the city, saying they were harassed or discriminated against because of their gender or sexual orientation.
The plaintiffs said in the suit that the work environment at the Hayward Police Department includes practices that are "hostile toward female and lesbian officers" and a discriminatory culture in which women are "regarded as 'fair game' for potential sexual conquests."
Many male officers are openly resentful of female officers and seem to regard law enforcement as "men's work," said the suit filed in Alameda County Superior Court.
"Such men express or maintain a view that women cannot or should not wield power or authority, particularly when such power may be enforced through the threat of physical violence or the application of physical strength," the suit said.
Daniel Connolly, a Hayward assistant city attorney, said Wednesday that his office had not had a chance to review the lawsuit and could not comment.
Stan Casper, the attorney for the plaintiffs, said the suit was necessary because of a "long and entrenched history of demeaning women officers and their value to the department."
Their complaints had long been ignored "at the highest levels," Casper said.
All but two of the 13 plaintiffs are or were sworn officers, the attorney said. The other two are or were civilian employees of the department. Four of those suing the city of Hayward are no longer employed with the department; three were terminated and one was forced out, he said.
Many of the plaintiffs filed complaints against the city with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing earlier this year, Casper said.
The plaintiffs said women who made themselves "sexually available" to male officers were promoted. Any woman who was promoted, however, was victimized by rumors that she "provided sexual favors to a male superior," the suit said.
Lesbian officers, meanwhile, were considered targets for "conversion," or trying to get them to become heterosexual, the suit said.
The 85-page complaint details affairs, threats, internal-affairs investigations and a locker-room groping between a then-police clerk and an on-duty officer.
Former Officer Shannon Gann said she was the victim of rumors that she was sleeping with five male officers and that the department did nothing when she complained. A sergeant told Gann that "there was nothing that could be done to stop these rumors, since she was young and pretty," the suit said.
Officer Michelle Winters was off duty in March when she chased a convicted robber who had stolen her purse, which had her off-duty gun. The suspect tried to shoot her with the gun when she caught up to him and fought him. He could not disable the gun's safety mechanism and he beat her with the gun before fleeing, according to the suit.
Winters reported the attack and the suspect was arrested a block away. The suit alleges that any male officer in that situation would have been treated as a hero, but in Winters' case, rumors circulated that she had been "foolish to take action herself rather than calling the 'real cops,' " the suit said.

Officer Longmire gets called to testify but the Judge and D.A dont let it go down....why?

Defendant in Muslim bakery chief's slaying loses court ruling


Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 14, 2007


Citing what he called an "unhealthy relationship" between an Oakland police investigator and Your Black Muslim Bakery, a defense attorney sought unsuccessfully Tuesday to reopen testimony in the murder trial of a man accused of killing a bakery leader.
Alfonza Phillips III's attorney asked Judge Jon Rolefson to allow him to recall witnesses to explore the relationship between homicide Sgt. Derwin Longmire and bakery figures at the time the group's leader, Antar Bey, was killed in October 2005.
Longmire, who has been with the department for 22 years, played a key role in the investigation of Phillips. He interviewed the defendant's girlfriend and obtained a statement from her implicating Phillips. She testified that Longmire had threatened to harm her and said she would face retribution from Black Muslims if she did not cooperate.
Longmire was also a key player in the recent police investigation into the assassination of Oakland Post Editor Chauncey Bailey. Longmire decided to use the leader of the bakery, Yusuf Bey IV, in an effort to persuade bakery handyman Devaughndre Broussard to confess to the Aug. 2 killing.
Broussard did so and has been charged with Bailey's murder.
The tangled relationship between Longmire and the bakery - including his apparent intervention into a criminal investigation of Bey IV in a November 2005 vandalism case - was explored in an article in Sunday's Chronicle.
"This is information I should have had before this trial," Phillips' attorney, Leonard Ulfelder, told the judge in a hearing outside the presence of the jury in Alameda County Superior Court. "It explains a lot about this case."
He said calling Longmire and other police investigators to the stand would help him explore the "unhealthy relationship" between the homicide detective and the bakery.
Prosecutor Colleen McMahon dismissed Ulfelder's assertion.
"All of this is based on a newspaper article," McMahon said. "Do we believe everything we read in the newspaper? I don't think so."
The article "simply isn't exculpatory," McMahon said. She added that she believed "Sgt. Longmire (would take) great issue with most of the facts" in the piece.
The judge concluded that there was not enough to justify reopening testimony. "I don't think denying the defendant's request to reopen and call Sgt. Longmire (would jeopardize) the defendant's right to a fair trial here," Rolefson said.
After the ruling, McMahon outlined her case against Phillips in her closing argument.
She said Antar Bey had been killed as a result of a botched carjacking in which Phillips was after the $5,000, 22-inch rims on the bakery leader's BMW. She said Phillips had left a fingerprint on the car, boasted of the shooting to a friend who testified against him, admitted the slaying to his girlfriend and had been identified by a bystander as the killer.
Ulfelder rejected the carjacking theory in his closing argument, suggesting that Phillips was the fall guy for a professional hit on the head of the bakery.
He disputed that Phillips' fingerprint was on the car. The rest of the case, he said, relied on unreliable testimony from the "snitch" friend - a career criminal who reaped $1,000 as an informant - along with a frightened girlfriend and an eyewitness who saw the killing from more than 150 feet away.
"This case is riddled with reasonable doubt," Ulfelder said.

 

[Norcal916]

Let's face the facts, niggas got a PHD in fuckin up shit.

DATZ REAL MUTHAFUCCIN TALK RIGHT THERE NIGGAZ CANT NEVA EVA JUSS HAVE A GOOD TIME. AND IT'S ONLY NIGGAZ THO WHITE OR MEXICANS DONT FUCK UP THEY SHIT JUSS US

 

[Black Reign]

DATZ REAL MUTHAFUCCIN TALK RIGHT THERE NIGGAZ CANT NEVA EVA JUSS HAVE A GOOD TIME. AND IT'S ONLY NIGGAZ THO WHITE OR MEXICANS DONT FUCK UP THEY SHIT JUSS US

I think some of us aint used to havin' shit.

 

[djsincere510]

If you got some time and Like to read...check out this 85 page lawsuit against the Hayward police and certain high ranking officers >> http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site181/2007/1115/20071115_074349_1%20COMPLAINT.pdf

It talks about how Hayward police falsified records and lied about stats to please supervisors etc, talks about how officers can MANIPULATE reports based on their own judgment and how GUILTY THEY feel you are....talks about how the cheif of police in hayward sexually harased a fellow officer by placing pics of dildos in they notebooks, Hayward pd is roughly only 190 people deep...And from this lawsuit you can tell the whole force is tainted...Also about 1-2 years ago...top ranking officers had a coup and took the cheif of police out of commison and replaced him with someone they would like better....


heres a few words from the law suit:

YOUNG had an affair with Hopfe that had ended in 2002 - five years earlier. It had never interfered with their work. YOUNG was absolutely stunned, given all of the shenanigans involving personal relationships between coworkers that routinely occurred in the Department without any intervention by Department management, much less the CITY’s Human Resources staff. She exclaimed, “How can they investigate me, when no one has ever investigated the officers who had sex with the janitor, in the janitors’ closet, while on-duty?”

This whole shit is crazy....they talkin about offciers fuckin each others wives and fighting at the station... And that janitor they talkin about i seen her..she was this petite lil hispanic mami that cleans the small ass city jail...This whole shit is fucked up...cause its like can u arrest and fire the whole citys police??
Its like a soap opera with the amount of sex,gossip,backstabbig,deceiving shit goin on at the hayward police station....But it seems like the book has just opened on all of this....

More excerpts:

A member of the Department asked her, “Is there any truth to the rumor that you’re fucking Captain McAllister in the Property Storage Room?”

During PERRYMAN’s first year on the force, she was told repeatedly by Sergeants Weldon, ORREY, Vargas, and Lt. Mark Koller that her outspoken disapproval of sexist comments and discriminatory actions by other officers would “make life hard” for her in Hayward.

ORREY passed the eligibility test and was hired as a Police Officer in 1987, when she was 21 years old. ORREY had learned that then-Chief Charles Plummer had said that he “would never hire a homosexual.” ORREY had a sexual encounter with a male sergeant, to prove that she was not gay, and could be hired onto the force.

In 2003 a male Hayward police officer, Rodney Posey, admitted under oath that he had lied in two police reports that had caused a false conviction

In one notorious incident, then-officer (later Chief) Lowe placed photographs of “dildos” in Officer Bumpass’ notebook.

Detective Phil Wolley routinely had pornographic images and pop-ups with naked women on his computer screen.

While working as a clerk, AVERIETT was sexually assaulted by an on-duty Hayward Police officer, who forced her into a private room, groped her body, forced his tongue into her mouth and continued to have his way with her, until AVERIETT pushed him away and told him she did not want to have sex with him. The officer finally relented. AVERIETT was physically intimidated by this officer and never made an official complaint because he was favored by management and she feared retaliation.

Even more notorious was the treatment of RENEE MCKEE, beginning in 2002 when she learned her husband, Officer Ron McKee had been engaged in a lengthy affair with Hayward dispatch employee Janice Lampkin, who was married to Hayward Police Officer Rob Lampkin. The affair had apparently commenced in 2001 when Renee was pregnant with the McKee’s third child. Once the story broke, Ron McKee flaunted his conquest, even filming himself engaging in sexual activity with Janice Lampkin using the Department’s video equipment, and leaving the film for Renee to find. Management attempted to have RENEE MCKEE found unfit for duty because these events made her angry! This malicious and transparently retaliatory effort was rejected by the evaluators.

 

[C.M.P CEO]

damn i didnt even kno club 17 was closed down,i was wonderin why i didn see nobody ova by there last friday around 130am..

i been stayin in oakland for like a month now,i stay in a koo ass lil area tho,white people be joggin and walkin they dogs and shit late at night,its peaceful