Black infested Oakland: Nigger Chief of embattled Oakland police steps down, citing medical issues (AIDS)

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OAKLAND � The chief of the embattled Oakland Police Department
abruptly announced a medical retirement Wednesday, hours before
a team of consultants � among them former Los Angeles Police
Chief William Bratton � was scheduled to lay out a sweeping
crime reduction plan for the state's most violent city.

Chief Howard Jordan�s announcement came one week after a
compliance director appointed by a federal judge to oversee
significant areas of department operations issued a scathing
report that was critical of management.

A U.S. District judge had appointed the compliance director �one
step short of a receiver � in December, 10 years into the
department�s effort to comply with a civil settlement agreement
relating to racial profiling and inappropriate use of force by
officers.

In his report, Tom Frazier said department supervisors often
failed to intervene in improper officer behavior and failed to
thoroughly investigate allegations of officer misconduct.
Executive leadership, he added �has permitted members of the
organization to believe that the behaviors � are both tolerated
and acceptable.�

Jordan had been a member of the force for more than two decades
when he took the helm as interim chief in the fall of 2011 �
just weeks before Occupy Oakland protests erupted near City Hall
and images of officers lobbing tear gas and other projectiles
into a largely peaceful crowd made international news.

He was named permanent chief in February 2012. As he moved to
discipline officers for improper use of force during Occupy
protests and inch forward on compliance with the settlement
agreement, Jordan was also forced to contend with a shrinking
department.

Budget cuts and attrition have led to a 25% reduction in sworn
officers over the last five years and an even greater drop in
civilian staff. As crime soared, city officials sought to get
ahead of the trend and win community trust that has long been
absent in African American and Latino neighborhoods here.

Earlier this year the city hired Massachusetts-based Strategic
Policy Partnership � which brought Bratton in as a sub-
consultant � to devise a broad crime reduction plan that called
for smarter policing and more community input.

The consultants were primed to release that plan with Jordan at
a midday Wednesday news conference, which was abruptly canceled
after the chief announced he was stepping down.

"I wanted you to be the first to know that this morning I
advised City Administrator Deanna Santana that, effective
immediately, I am on medical leave and taking steps toward
medical retirement,� he wrote in a brief morning letter to
Oakland police employees.

"This decision has been difficult but necessary. Through my 24
years of wearing an OPD badge and uniform I have emulated the
department's core values: Honesty, Respect and Integrity �
values I have observed in all of you. I know that you and the
department will carry on these values to generations to come. It
has been an honor to serve the city of Oakland with you."

Frazier was given the power by the federal court to recommend
the removal of top department leadership but it was not clear
Wednesday whether he had pressed for Jordan�s departure.

The president of the Oakland Police Officers Assn. could not be
reached for immediate comment but a rank-and-file officer who
asked not to be identified said he was �not surprised.�

�My guess is the writing was on the wall to him that if he
didn�t retire he was probably going to get fired,� said the
officer, adding that the core focus of whoever replaces him will
no doubt be to get out from under the federal settlement
agreement.

�It doesn�t take a rocket scientist to figure out what the
priority is,� he said.

Santana, the city administrator, and Mayor Jean Quan, who both
praised Jordan as the answer to the department�s problems when
he was named to the top post, had not commented on his
announcement by mid-afternoon.

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