The mayor of Oakland, California, has fired the city’s police chief for allegedly downplaying an officer’s misconduct.
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao placed police chief LeRonne Armstrong on leave last month after findings from an investigation were released. The report alleged Armstrong failed to discipline a sergeant involved in a hit-and-run adequately. “This was not an easy decision,” the mayor said. “But I believe reform and progress must continue,” she said at a news conference.
Too bad more Mayors and Governors do not have the character and testicular fortitude to act to prevent these marauding gangs of uniformed thuggish killers now operating as legitimate police officers from doing more harm…
Obviously, pleasing police unions by keeping dirty and dangerous cops in police departments are far more important than protecting the citizens they swore to defend.
What’s worse in this Oakland case is that the department has been under Federal oversight for two decades — the longest of any police department in the US — because of a police corruption scandal in 2000 involving an anti-gang unit called “The Riders”.
The Oakland police department has had seven (7) chiefs in seven (7) years.