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#oakland-policing

OAKLAND - Floyd Mitchell is leaving his job as Oakland's police chief in part because he grew frustrated at needing to answer to so many bosses - or, at least, that is the consensus among several Oakland police and city officials who worked closely with him. The chief, who will have lasted just over a year and a half by his Dec. 5 resignation, is the latest in a long line of top cops to exit sooner than expected.

Mac Muir returned to his hometown of Oakland in 2023 to run the city's civilian police watchdog. However, it was a tough time for the Police Commission. The Community Police Review Agency, which operates under the authority of the Police Commission, had become overwhelmed with pending cases and enormous expectations and was struggling with too few staff. Muir spent two years rebuilding the agency, hiring investigators, developing a new case management system, cleaning the case backlog, and managing high-profile reviews of police misconduct.