Monday, March 2, 2020

SOUR GRAPES, OR SOMETHING ELSE ?

by Bob Walsh

Anne Kirkpatrick, 60, the Chief of Police of Oakland who was sacked last week by the civilian police commission, is heading back home to Seattle, but she is not doing so smoothly. She is asking the DOJ to investigate the federal court oversight of the department. That court oversight was supposed to last five years. It has in fact been 17 years and 10 police chiefs.

The federal monitor, Robert Warshaw, works for the court. He and the chief did not get along. She also had a serious problem with one of the commissioners, Ginale Harris. Apparently Ms. Harris thinks her position on the board gives her exemptions from certain laws, like parking regulations. She was pissed when she had to pay her own tow bills and when the chief would not personally come down to the tow yard to pay for the tow and get her car out.

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