Mayor Quan Hires Longtime Right-Wing Cop to "Investigate" OPD Attacks on Occupy Oakland

Yesterday, it was announce that Thomas Frazier has been hired to "investigate" Oakland police department violence against Occupy Oakland protesters. Mayor Jean Quan has touted the investigation as supposedly independent, but let's take a look at who this guy is. He is currently already a paid special adviser to the City of Oakland police department, helping lead the city in it's never-ending Negotiated Settlement Agreement compliance efforts. Tom Frazier was the Director of the COPS Office in the United States Department of Justice, Police Commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department, served twenty-eight years with the San Jose Police Department, and was a Military Intelligence officer in Vietnam. He has a "close relationship" with the Major Cities Police Chiefs Association (http://www.fraziergroupllc.com/?page_id=166). He works with the very right-wing Heritage Foundation think tank responsible for much of the increasing economic inequality and despair of the last thirty years. And he was past president of PERF (Police Executive Research Forum), a group that assisted in organizing and coordinating the recent raids on Occupy encampments nationwide in the United States (http://inewp.com/?tag=thomas-c-frazier). What's not to love about Thomas Frazier doing this investigation?