(5 Jan 2017) Oakland leaders on Wednesday hired an outsider and the first woman to run and reform the city's troubled police department that cycled through three chiefs in as many weeks this summer after several officers were implicated in a sex-abuse scandal with an underage girl.
Mayor Libby Schaaf called Anne Kirkpatrick "the reform-minded leader that Oakland has been searching for." She takes over a police force under federal court oversight since 2003 and without a chief for seven months.
Kirkpatrick began her 34-year policing career in her native Memphis, Tennessee, and has risen to lead four different departments. She has a track record of trying to overhaul troubled police agencies.
Chicago hired her six months ago to lead an effort to oversee police reforms. She was a finalist for chief after a video showing an officer fatally shooting a black teenager 16 times led to the superintendent's firing.
Speaking with a distinct southern drawl, Kirkpatrick vowed to rebuild damaged relations with Oakland's significant black community while working to revitalize a demoralized rank-and-file force.
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