Oakland police place 4th officer on leave in misconduct probe

A fourth Oakland police officer has been placed on administrative leave as a result of an ongoing sexual misconduct investigation by the police Internal Affairs Division, according to Oakland Police.

Police, who remain tight-lipped about the case, said Wednesday that three police officers were placed on leave as the department’s Internal Affairs Division looked into allegations of sexual misconduct involving officers.

[...] on Friday, Police Chief Sean Whent and Mayor Libby Schaaf held a news conference and revealed that the Alameda County district attorney’s office would begin a parallel investigation into the misconduct case, and review the department’s handling of another case involving two suicides: the 2015 suicide of police Officer Brendan O’Brien and the 2014 suicide of that officer’s wife, Irma Huerta Lopez.

In April, another Oakland officer, Cullen Faeth, was charged with four misdemeanors, battery, trespassing and public intoxication, for an incident in which a family complained that a man tried to break into their home and attacked a woman who lived there.

Schaaf has made law enforcement a pillar of her administration, promising to boost Oakland’s police force to 800 officers by the end of her term in 2018.