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DESCRIPTION:Our proposal, which cleared the Public Safety Committee on June 23rd with 
 the help of many of you, is headed to the full City Council tomorrow night, 
 Tuesday, July 7th. It’s Agenda Item #16, so it should be heard sometime 
 between 7 and 8 PM, we think.\n\nProposal: To close Internal Affairs to 
 citizen complaints against Oakland police officers, and send all complaints 
 to the Citizens’ Police Review Board instead.\n\n \nWhy?\n\n1.      
 Citizen investigators are much less expensive than sworn officers who 
 investigate citizen complaints;\n\n2.      Sworn officers should be doing 
 police work, not investigating citizens’ complaints;\n\n3.      Citizens 
 are more likely to file complaints if they know that their complaints will 
 be taken my fellow civilians, not police officers;\n\n4.      Although this 
 proposal involves just the intake and preliminary investigation of 
 complaints, it is anticipated that, eventually, the CPRB will do the full 
 investigation of all citizen complaints;\n\n5.      The CPRB conducts 
 hearings of complaints, where fellow Oakland residents hear both sides and 
 decide if misconduct occurs; Internal Affairs does not conduct 
 hearings;\n\n6.      Many of the complaints filed at Internal Affairs are 
 re-directed to  and investigated by the supervisors of the officers who are 
 the subjects of the complaints;\n\n7.      Oakland residents deserve the 
 same kind of objective, independent and professional oversight of Oakland 
 police as BART riders deserve of the BART police;\n\n8.      CPRB has 
 public reporting responsibilities but Internal Affairs does not. CPRB can 
 track complaints and analyze many aspects of the complaints; Internal 
 Affairs can not.\n\n\nIf we can get Council approval of this proposal, we 
 can move forward to seek grant funding (no City funds are available because 
 of our deficit). So, it is vitally important to get the Council to cast an 
 affirmative vote tomorrow night. Please plan to attend and speak in 
 favor.\n\nIf you are not available, please phone or email Council members 
 indicating your support for Item 16 on tomorrow night’s Agenda.\n\nFeel 
 free to forward this notice to your distribution lists, as well --- the 
 more, the more powerful! \n\nThis is ‘our time’ to make an important 
 move for police accountability in Oakland, but we can’t do it without 
 your support!\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/06/18605972.php
SUMMARY:Stand Up for Civilian Oversight of OPD
LOCATION:City Council meeting\nOakland City Hall\nFrank Ogawa Plaza\n14th Street at 
 Broadway
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/06/18605972.php
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