The State - News from May 5, 1985
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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