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Phil in Seattle

Oakland commissioned an outside investigation into several very deficient IAD investigations into one officer. The Chief of Police is now on leave.

Posting here from my Seattle account because I'll bet the sort of thing uncovered here is 99% certain to be happening at OPA and with Seattle's Chief of Police.

s3.documentcloud.org/documents

Former OPA directer Andrew Myerberg explicitly prioritized comity with SPOG in order to reduce the number of appeals. And there were numerous OPA Case Summaries I reviewed in 2020 and 2021 where obvious things to be investigated clearly weren't mentioned.

I saw so many things not included in summaries that when people asked me for help in filing complaints with OPA, I highly encouraged them to name & list every policy violated in the text of their complaint so that OPA couldn't quietly *not* investigate.

I haven't been keeping up with the South Seattle Emerald's Watchdog series since last summer, so I don't know if it's since been resolved, but an outside firm was retained specifically to investigate Andrew Myerberg's own violations of SPD policies.

Another thing that's already been revealed was that OPA under his direction misclassified many complaints as "contact logs" so they wouldn't be investigated.

This is why I'm certain Seattle's OPA is doing extremely similar things as Oakland.