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   From: crime.pays@latimes.com   
      
   Jasmine Abuslin aka Celeste Guap   
      
   The city of Oakland, Calif., will pay a 19-year-old woman   
   $989,000 to settle her claim that city police officers sexually   
   abused her while she was an underage prostitute.   
      
   The woman has said she had sex with more than a dozen Oakland   
   police officers, according to the Los Angeles Times. She also   
   alleged that officers tipped her off to prostitution stings in   
   exchange for sex.   
      
   "The settlement occurred with no admission of liability, but   
   obviously, if you pay $1 million, you figure you got some   
   responsibility," the woman's attorney, John Burris, said. NPR   
   generally does not name individuals who are the alleged victims   
   of sexual assault.   
      
   The Oakland City Council voted 7-1 to approve the settlement,   
   according to the Times. Council member Desley Brooks cast the   
   dissenting vote, saying the city should pay more.   
      
   "Think about this young girl, who was victimized under the color   
   of authority," Brooks said, according to the East Bay Express.   
   "There is something wrong with this."   
      
   The scandal dates to September 2015, when an Oakland police   
   officer left a suicide note indicating he had been having a   
   sexual relationship with a young prostitute, the Times reports.   
   An investigation led to criminal charges against seven officers   
   in the Bay Area. Several officers at other nearby departments   
   were fired.   
      
   "It was in the best interest of the city to settle this matter   
   quickly and fairly," Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said, according   
   to The Associated Press. "We remain focused on rebuilding the   
   public trust that was so damaged by this incident."   
      
   The woman said Wednesday she was satisfied with the settlement   
   and felt relief, according to the East Bay Times. "It's taken   
   its toll on me," she said.   
      
   Her attorney described the police officers as a "cabal."   
      
   "People were passing her around as if she was a kickball or   
   something," Burris said, according to the Times.   
      
   Last June, Schaaf placed the police department under civilian   
   control, after the department cycled through three police chiefs   
   in nine days. "I'm here to run a police department, not a frat   
   house," Schaaf said at the time.   
      
   In January, Schaaf named a new chief of police, Anne   
   Kirkpatrick, to "deliver on fair and just policing, prevent   
   violence and increase accountability, and of course, most   
   importantly, build community trust." Kirkpatrick came from the   
   Chicago Police Department and had previously been police chief   
   in Spokane, Wash.   
      
   Council member Rebecca Kaplan attributed the scandal in part to   
   a lack of diversity in the Oakland police force, according to   
   the Express.   
      
   "We need to ensure that we are building the conditions that make   
   it possible to have trust and healing between the community and   
   our law enforcement officers, and cut sexual misconduct and   
   other forms of abuse," she said. "This includes recruiting more   
   women, LGBT people, African Americans and more people from   
   Oakland."   
      
   The AP says the woman continues to pursue her case against other   
   law enforcement agencies in the area, including the police   
   departments in San Francisco, Richmond and Livermore, and the   
   sheriff's offices in Alameda and Contra Costa counties.   
      
   http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-   
   way/2017/06/01/531056653/oakland-to-pay-19-year-old-nearly-1-   
   million-in-police-scandal-settlement   
             
      
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