Batts quit as court report blasted Oakland cops (over beating and framing)

[alp227]

(10-12) 19:05 PDT OAKLAND -- Oakland Police Chief Anthony Batts announced his resignation after receiving a highly critical report from a court-appointed monitor tracking reforms the department was ordered to make after four officers were accused more than a decade ago of systematically beating and framing suspects.

The monitor found that the Police Department was backsliding in implementing changes that a federal judge mandated to prevent a repeat of the scandal in which the officers, who called themselves the "Riders," were accused of imposing vigilante justice in West Oakland.

A draft of the report, looking at the department's performance under Batts from April to June, was delivered to city officials and other parties in the court case this week. The Chronicle obtained a copy Wednesday.

"We are seriously concerned with the department's stagnation - and now, reversal - in achieving compliance," wrote the court-appointed monitor, Robert Warshaw, a former police chief of Rochester, N.Y., and deputy drug czar under President Bill Clinton. "It is ultimately the leadership of the department that must be the impetus for reform and public confidence."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/12/MNRB1LGVRA.DTL

[KamaAina]

1. True to form, Batts is pointing the finger of blame at Mayor Quan and the City Council

darn pesky civilian oversight.

Looks like San Jose dodged a bullet by not picking him.