The State - News from May 5, 1985
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Saying they were punished for opposing racist arrest quotas in minority neighborhoods, six minority police officers sued the City of Oakland in federal court. The suit followed a finding by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last October that Oakland had discriminated illegally by assigning quotas for arrests and citizen “contacts” to a predominantly black police squad patrolling a black neighborhood. The suit said officers who filed the EEOC complaint have been harassed, ostracized and transferred to less-desirable jobs. Assistant City Atty. Jane Williams said she had not seen the suit but that the Police Department denies any wrongdoing.
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