re: #415 Cannadian Club Akbar

found on the sidebar of this story:

‘Troubling’ frequency of Oakland cops pulling guns
sfgate.com

As part of the fallout from the “Riders” scandal, the monitor looked at a random sampling of police reports from the first three months of this year and found 80 incidents in which officers drew their weapons, two of which resulted in fatal shootings.

Although the analysis found that officers had acted appropriately in a majority of the cases, court monitor Robert Warshaw and his team said they were “troubled by the high number of instances” - 28 percent - in which police didn’t have to draw their guns.

“Officers frequently presumed - often, with no basis - that whomever they were contacting was armed,” their report said.

The report also found that in more than three-fourths of the cases in which officers didn’t have to pull their guns, the suspects were African American. Latino suspects were involved in 17 percent of those cases and white suspects in just 3 percent.