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1 day agoTIMELINE: Oakland has had 11 different police chiefs in 15 years
He had the job for two years from 2021 to February of 2023. That's when then-Mayor Sheng Thao fired him, citing an investigation that found he'd mishandled two misconduct cases. An independent arbitrator cleared him of those accusations. Armstrong replaced interim Chief Susan Manheimer, who replaced Anne Kirkpatrick, Oakland's first female police chief in 2017. She was on the job for three years and was fired in 2020 for reporting alleged misconduct.
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