The Northern California city of Antioch is auditing its troubled police department after racist text messages sent by officers were made public.
Officials in the Bay Area city of Antioch are undertaking an audit of the troubled police department, the latest development in a yearlong federal investigation that blew up this month with theAngry residents crowded City Hall on Tuesday evening as the Antioch City Council unanimously approved audits of the police department’s internal affairs unit, its hiring and promotional practices, and.
Defense attorney Ellen McDonnell has asked Dist. Atty. Diana Becton to dismiss all cases involving the public defender’s office and the Antioch Police Department. Becton said she is reviewing cases for potential dismissal or re-sentencing. It’s unclear how many cases are at stake.“The public simply cannot have trust or confidence in any criminal prosecution involving the Antioch Police Department,” McDonnell said in an email Wednesday.
The city of 115,000 residents, about 45 miles east of San Francisco, was once predominantly white but has diversified in the last 30 years. Mayor Lamar Thorpe is among three Black, progressive members of the five-person council who have said they are committed to holding police accountable and protecting tenants’ rights. In 2021, the city issued an apology for its“What you’re seeing is a maturation process — it’s like watching a teenage kid develop pimples,” he said in an interview Wednesday. “The institutions have taken a long time to catch up with where the voters and public have been.
The text messages came out as part of an investigation launched in March 2022 by the FBI and the Contra Costa District Attorney’s office into a broad range of offenses, including what prosecutors called crimes of “moral turpitude,” by officers with the Antioch and
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