Oakland Police Department 
Judge dismisses most of Longmire’s lawsuit(1)
A federal judge has dismissed most of a civil-rights lawsuit filed by the former Oakland homicide detective who led the highly criticized investigation of journalist Chauncey Bailey’s 2007 slaying.
Oakland police Sgt. Derwin Longmire sues city
Oakland police Sgt. Derwin Longmire, the former homicide detective who led the highly criticized investigation of journalist Chauncey Bailey’s 2007 death, filed a lawsuit against the city Wednesday, claiming high-level police commanders tarnished his reputation. “I want to restore my good name,” Longmire said.
Longmire returning to duty after OPD declines to discipline officer
Despite state investigators and other experts saying that a detective’s ties to Your Black Muslim Bakery’s young leader compromised his investigation of a journalist’s slaying, the Oakland Police Department will decline to discipline him, police sources say. Sgt. Derwin Longmire will return to work within days, according to three department sources who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Oakland’s next police chief introduced at City Hall
Oakland’s police chief-to-be was formally introduced Monday at an afternoon news conference in Mayor Ron Dellums’ office. “This is a very learned and scholarly person who is brilliant, competent and capable, who has the respect of his fellow police officers in Long Beach and respect for the community,” Dellums said.
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- Commentary: Anthony Batts is a welcome pick as Oakland police chief
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- Lead detective on Chauncey Bailey killing may be fired
- Chauncey Bailey case investigator suspended
- Remembering officers Dunakin, Hege, Romans, Sakai
- Record shows Bey IV not truthful about Bailey killing
- Jailhouse calls between Bey IV, detective revealed
- Documents point to Oakland police cover-up
- Bailey ‘mistakes’ added to police chief’s decision to step down
- Council wants police chief out
- Documents say Oakland police beat suspect who died
- FBI investigating Oakland Police Department
- Dissent on the rise within Oakland Police Department
- Rank-and-file begin to question Bailey probe
- Understaffed Oakland department behind other cities in solving homicides
- Oakland homicide clearance numbers vary
- OPD homicide detectives focus on interrogation, sometimes at expense of other investigation
- Law enforcement reports and statistics are available on the Internet
- Charts: Homicides in California’s largest cities; Oakland homicide detectives’ case loads, wages, overtime
- Newly released document shows further police suspicion of bakery’s violent crime ties
- Commentary: Chauncey Bailey murder could have been avoided
- Commentary: Oakland’s top badges need to explain themselves
- Dellums calls for expanded probe of police handling Bailey case
- Delayed raid likely cost Chauncey Bailey his life
- Homicide chief, detective on Bailey case being transferred to patrol
- Oakland internal affairs wants state to take over Bailey probe
- State probe into police handling of journalist slaying expands
- Bailey Project stands behind its report on police investigation
- Dellums requests state to investigate police handling of Bailey killing
- Dellums to ask state attorney general to investigate handling of Bailey killing
- Dellums to call for outside investigation into journalist’s killing
- Investigator interfered in police probes of former bakery CEO
- Experts Criticize Investigation
- Conspiracy Missed?
- Evidence Ignored
- Evidence Ignored: A Timeline
- Editor’s Note
- Chauncey Bailey Project questions veracity of police investigation
- Sgt. Derwin Longmire
- Chief Wayne Tucker
- ’60 Minutes’ show cuts quote that upset Post chief
- Publisher disputes police statement on ’60 Minutes’
- ’60 Minutes’ airs story on Bailey killing
- Post’s publisher gives IDs of men who threatened him to police
- Boss of slain Oakland journalist reports death threat
- Were Oakland police afraid of Black Muslim bakery?
- Web resources
- Oakland police stop short of taping full interviews
- Attorney criticizes Oakland police tactics
- Did cops drag their feet on bakery probe?
- Big questions linger in Bailey’s slaying
- Cops deny delay in raid on bakery
- Police wrong about gun in Bailey killing
- Confession in Bailey’s killing prompts questions
- Gun that killed Bailey tied to another crime
- Bey told suspect in slaying to ‘tell the truth’
- Attorney says suspect in Bailey’s death told to take fall
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A Day Late in Oakland
Evidence Ignored: A Timeline
Chauncey Bailey
Timeline
The People
Chauncey Bailey: life and work
Bailey killing figure had troubled youth
Secret video raises questions about bakery leader’s role in Bailey killing
Unsolved 1986 slaying of baker linked to founder of Your Black Muslim Bakery
Women, Part II: Testimony reveals a life of abuse, toil for women of Your Black Muslim Bakery
Women, Part I: One police officer cracked abuse case against Yusuf Bey
Nedir Bey evades trouble over election finances
