In Oakland, Commissioner Batts' former post, police reforms criticized

The U.S. government should take over the Oakland Police Department — the California agency led for two years by Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts — because of a chronic failure to comply with a decade-old reform settlement, attorneys overseeing the case said in court papers last week. The document cites remarks made by Batts early in his tenure that "there shouldn't be any excuse" for not meeting the terms of the settlement, and again a year later when he said the agency had "dropped the ball."

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