CI OF OAKLAND CITY OF OAKLAND OAKLAND POLICE COMMISSION Meeting Minutes Thursday, July 26, 2018 6:30 PM City Hall, 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Council Chamber Oakland, CA 94612 I. Call to Order Thomas Lloyd Smith The meeting started at 6:30 p.m. II. Roll Call and Determination of Quorum Thomas Lloyd Smith FINAL Commissioners present: Mubarak Ahmad, Jose Dorado, Ginale Harris, R. Jackson, Mike Nisperos, Edwin Prather, and Thomas Smith. Quorum was met. Alteate Commissioners present: Maureen Benson and Andrea Dooley. Counsel Meredith Brown. III. Welcome and Open Forum (2 minutes per speaker) Thomas Lloyd Smith will welcome and call the public speakers. Lorelei Bosserman regarding Cathy Leonard, is a member of the Community Policing Advisory Board, he was at the march r Nia Wilson on Monday night and two of the police officers present had shot black people in the past and that seemed like a bad choice to send them to that march. She suggested that the Chief of Police be contacted regarding this matter. Saleem Bey said it was suggested that he come bere this Commission and announce what was going on in his case(s). He gave a brief overview of the cases and those that were closed. When a case was closed, we had a meeting with the police department and the police department came to them and said that during the seven-month investigation, they couldn't find any files on any of the cases and still closed the case but sustained that there was systemic ilure in the investigation of this case. This is something that we called the unico letter because it is something that you never see. You never see a police department admit that they did something wrong. Mr. Bey also spoke about the CPRB closing a case. In 2005 my brother was ambushed by three teenagers in Montclair at 6:30 a.m. In 2005 the police closed that case in 63 days. They told them that r the next ur years up until 2011 that they are working on the case. It wasn't until 2011 in a request r documentation associated with these cases, that we und that the case was closed in two months and three days. What we ended up doing was filing a complaint. What ended up happening in 2007 was that I made another complaint with the CPRB and 07-0538. In that 2007 complaint, he complained against failure to investigate my brother's 2005 case as well as my other brother's 2004 case in which he was murdered. It turns out that the police department 1