Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao knows that Wednesday will mark a 30-day deadline whether she plans to discipline the police chief or not.
and then left the scene, the outside investigation found. The city of Oakland learned about it when the neighbor filed an insurance claim with the city. A captain in the department told a subordinate to water down the report into Chung, finding that he was part of a "preventable" collision, instead of a hit-and-run that caused $14,000 in damage, the investigation found. Armstrong acknowledged that he signed off on this report without reading it – as he said most chiefs do.
that they felt that Armstrong displayed a "lack of attention to internal processes that should have been laser-sharp and focused on an investigation involving a pattern of criminal misconduct," the report continued. Armstrong disputes the negative findings in the report, adding that he has reformed the police department more than any other chief.
He said that some of his subordinates made mistakes and gave him incomplete information when he signed off on Chung's discipline and that he shouldn't be held responsible for others' errors.
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