Oakland Police Investigation Panel – Objective, No

The newly appointed committee to investigate the violent police actions on April 7th include a retired court judge who was first appointed to the bench by none other than Gov. Jerry Brown, a lawyer from the corporate world and an assistant police chief. Does this make you wanna cry?

Of course no one from the community is involved. It’s convenient to have people with strong ties to the establishment to be “objective” about what happens at the hands of the police in communities through-out this nation.

From first glance, these are not the kind of people who will gain the trust of the community. What can we do?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/05/28/BA55326.DTL