加利福尼亚州奥克兰讯 — 联邦法官周二终止了对奥克兰警察局长达23年的联邦监管，结束了美国历史上持续时间最长的警局监督案。
OAKLAND, Calif. — A federal judge on Tuesday ended federal monitoring of the Oakland Police Department after 23 years, capping the longest-running oversight of a police department in U.S. history.
旧金山法官威廉·奥里克表示：“我特别感谢奥克兰警察局的男女警官们……取得了实质性合规，愿这种状态永远持续下去。” 该警局于2000年因一名新人警官举报一伙被称为奥克兰“骑手”的警官滥用职权而登上全国新闻头条。这四名警官被指控在以黑人为主的西奥克兰地区实施虚假逮捕、栽赃陷害、过度执法、伪造警方报告和袭击他人。经过两次陪审团审议均未能就大部分指控达成一致裁决后，其中三名警官被宣判无罪。第四名警官潜逃在外，据信已逃往国外。
“I’m particularly grateful to the men and women of the Oakland Police Department ... for achieving substantial compliance,” San Francisco judge William Orrick said. “May it ever be thus.”The police department made national news in 2000 after a rookie officer came forward to report abuse of power by a group of officers known as the Oakland “Riders.”The four officers were charged with making false arrests, planting evidence, using excessive force, falsifying police reports and assaulting people in west Oakland, a predominantly Black area. Three of the officers were acquitted after two separate juries deadlocked on most of the charges. The fourth officer is a fugitive and is believed to have fled the country.
此案导致该警局于2003年被置于联邦监管之下，被要求实施数十项改革措施，并向外部监督员和联邦法官汇报进展。同年，这座约40万人口的城市就一起涉及119人的集体诉讼警方滥用职权案达成和解，赔偿金额为1100万美元。
The case resulted in the department coming under federal oversight in 2003 and being required to enact dozens of reform measures and report its progress to an outside monitor and a federal judge. That same year, the city of about 400,000 people settled a class-action police abuse lawsuit involving 119 people for $11 million.
该警局的联邦监督员于5月发布报告称，奥克兰警察局已遵守源自2000年警暴腐败案的所有51项法院强制改革要求。
The department’s federal monitor in May issued a report saying that the Oakland Police Department had complied with all 51 court-mandated reforms stemming from the 2000 police brutality and corruption case.
奥里克在5月的听证会上表示：“这是23年来奥克兰警局首次完成（和解协议中的）全部51项任务。没人能说‘任务完成了’。但我确实要祝贺该市和奥克兰警局走到了这一步。”
“This is the first time in 23 years that OPD has achieved each of the 51 tasks in the (settlement agreement.) No one can say, ‘mission accomplished.’ But I do congratulate the city and OPD for getting this far,” Orrick said during a hearing in May.
一些民权组织曾请求奥里克法官推迟至少一年解除该部门的联邦监管，因为法庭指定的监察员罗伯特·S·沃肖在本月的进度报告中表示，他发现奥克兰警察局再次未能达到及时调查严重不当行为违规的门槛标准。
Some civil rights organizations had asked Orrick to delay releasing the department from federal oversight for at least a year after court-appointed monitor Robert S. Warshaw said in a progress report this month that he had found that the Oakland Police Department had again fallen below the threshold for timely investigations into severe misconduct violations.
但奥里克周二指出，法庭“退出”是很重要的。虽然原告律师在听证会上指出该部门未能在180天内完成85%的严重不当行为调查，但他们并不反对结束联邦监管。
But Orrick noted Tuesday it was important for the court to “get out of the way.”While plaintiff attorneys at the hearing noted the department fell short of completing 85% of its serious misconduct investigations within 180 days, they did not oppose the ending of federal oversight.
奥克兰警察局局长詹姆斯·比尔向法官承认了这些案件，并解释说其中许多是复杂的警员涉枪射击案件。
Oakland Police Chief James Beere acknowledged those cases to the judge, explaining that many were complex officer-involved shootings.
“我们确实有所松懈，”比尔说，据KTVU报道。“但我们承认错误。”民权律师约翰·伯里斯回顾了过去二十年取得的进展，以及在奥克兰市领导下继续推进这一进展的重要性。
“We did slip a little bit,” said Beere, KTVU reported. “But we own our mistakes.”Civil rights attorney John Burris reflected on the progress made over the past two decades and the importance of continuing that progress under the leadership of the city of Oakland.
“对我来说，重要的不是今天，而是明天……这里建立的机制能否经得起时间的考验，”伯里斯说。
“For me, it’s not today that’s important, it’s tomorrow … whether or not what’s been put in place here stands the test of time,” Burris said.