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The Oxnard Police Department is no stranger to controversy, including several fatal shootings by police officers which drew a lot of criticism by many in the community.<\/em><\/p>\n

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In 2014, the city of Oxnard had to pay $6.7 million to settle the wrongful death lawsuit filed by \u00a0Alfonso Limon Jr.\u2019s family\u00a0which\u00a0is the largest wrongful death settlement the city of Oxnard has paid.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

A 2001\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/a>\u00a0analysis stated that Oxnard police have fatally shot more people in the first eight months of 2001 than peace officers in many U.S. states and major American cities kill in an entire year.<\/em><\/p>\n

The article stated that Oxnard\u2019s five police homicides this year equal the number reported since January by the Los Angeles Police Department, whose jurisdiction is 22 times larger than the 170,000-resident Ventura County city.<\/em><\/p>\n

The city of Oxnard hired a new police chief, Scott Whitney, after former police chief Jeri Williams left to become Phoenix\u2019s new police chief.<\/em><\/p>\n

Whitney, who is the assistant city manager of Oxnard, will head a department with 230 sworn officers. The 25-year police veteran and Oxnard native is 50 years old. He will begin his new job with the police department later this month.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here, Armando Vazquez, who is the executive director of Acuna Art Gallery\/Caf\u00e9 on A, writes about the city\u2019s new chief and praises the city\u2019s decision to name Whitney to head Oxnard\u2019s police force. But Vazquez said “crime and fear” still exist, and there is a lot of work to do.<\/em><\/p>\n

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By Armando Vazquez<\/strong><\/p>\n

We at the Caf\u00e9 on A have just learned, effective Sept. 16, 2016, that Scott Whitney has been named the new Police Chief of Oxnard.<\/p>\n

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The City of Oxnard’s new Police Chief Scott Whitney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is great news for the community of Oxnard! For close to two decades we have worked with Officer Whitney, and we have come to know from our long working relationship that he is honest, hardworking, empathetic, intelligent, street-trained\/street-smart, a straight talker, inclusive; the consummate professional, a local caring cop who knows and loves Oxnard.<\/p>\n

Scott Whitney is one of those rare individuals who pursued his profession with passion, empathy and intelligence and never let his ego or professional aspirations taint his judgement.<\/p>\n

Scott never lost his way as a cop, even when all hell was breaking loose in the OPD which has in the past at times, lost its way!<\/p>\n

Whenever Officer Whitney dealt with us at the Caf\u00e9 on A on often sensitive, heated and contentious safety, enforcement and delinquency issues with youth and their families we found him to be smart, thoughtful, caring; a proactive law enforcement officer and problem solver.<\/p>\n

Over the years we have worked on many very delicate crime, safety and social justices\u2019 issues and situations and Officer Whitney has always made it a personal mission to listen, stay professionally objective and dedicatedly work with us to craft out equitable and fair resolutions for our community.<\/p>\n

The Caf\u00e9 on A. through its KEYS Leadership Academy, has worked with thousands of at-promise, troubled and disenfranchised youth and their families for over two decades.<\/p>\n

\"PoliceIn this period we have been witnesses to the often heavy handed tactics deployed by the OPD in its application of it often ill-advised tough on crime tactics and programs promulgated and sanctioned by the previous four (4) OPD Chiefs that many have suffered through here in Oxnard over the past two decades.<\/p>\n

On many of these questionable community law enforcement policies , the Caf\u00e9 on A opposed and fought the OPD openly and assertively, demanding more accountability, transparency and fairness, and equitable justice.<\/p>\n

The Caf\u00e9 on A and our community friends fought against the Civil Gang Injunctions, the sobriety check stops, introduction of cops in both elementary and high schools of Oxnard, the OPD working with ICE, youth and minority profiling, quasi-operation and management of PALS and other \u201csocial services\u201d programs; and other questionable programs that the previous OPD Chiefs created and championed for apparent career and self-serving purposes.<\/p>\n

We at the Caf\u00e9 on A challenged the OPD to work on overhauling its so called community- policing programs, to be good at being professional cops and not lousy or questionable mixed focus as social workers.<\/p>\n

We have demanded that the OPD vastly improve its obligatory mandate, to stop crime and serve all of Oxnard community.<\/p>\n

\"20141004_150357\"We challenged the OPD to be true community servants and to do real community policing and not just show case \u201ccommunity policing\u201d as a pathetic mindless public relations ploy of cover ups, whenever a PR need occurred.<\/p>\n

The past four Oxnard Police Chiefs, and their unsuccessful policies we have known and tried to work, with are now gone, but crime and fear in Oxnard is here and ticking back up.<\/p>\n

Chief Whitney has a chance to create a new vision for the OPD; a professional police department that serves the community, works with the community and helps create a compassionate progressive environment where cops and community are working together; not as surrogates or rats but as equal partners in the pursuit of an enlightened community safety paradigm.<\/p>\n

We know many residents, especially youth of color, of Oxnard that do not trust the OPD and for good reason!<\/p>\n

Conversely there are those residents of Oxnard that want the cops to be even tougher; as though brutish toughness by OPD cops, at the expense of mostly youth of color will bring about community safety and security to fearful hearts and minds.<\/p>\n

\"OxnardPolicing in America, in Oxnard, is a daunting often paradoxical job, as we have witnessed on a national and local level. We have all witnessed and perhaps experienced that rabidly blind tough on crime policing can lead to tragic and deadly consequences.<\/p>\n

I have worked in the trenches of disenfranchised Los Angeles and Ventura County communities for over50 years, attempting; always attempting to work with cops and to help them serve our disenfranchised communities.<\/p>\n

It has been an impossibly difficult task because the rank and file cops follow the \u201cblue code\u201d of conduct (as the Police Chiefs work on bolstering their political capital and careers with statistical law enforcement numbers, i.e., arrest, tickets, infractions, confiscations of property rule the day). In the \u201cblue code\u201d of policing true community policing is often hypocritical sloganeering.<\/p>\n

We are sure that Chief Scott Whitney is an honest and highly intelligent cop, a hard working career professional and is the best man to lead the OPD.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, Chief Whitney has a daunting job before him; namely bring the OPD into the 21st<\/sup> century of community policing. Some Oxnard residents have suffered tremendous injustices at the hands of the OPD in recent years.<\/p>\n

Fear of crime, both real and imagined, has driven previous OPD Chiefs to militarize some parts of Oxnard; an us against them mentality has resulted from this \u201cwar on crime\u201d philosophy.<\/p>\n

Chief Whitney has partnered with the Caf\u00e9 on A and other community- based organizations that work with youth delinquency for close to two decades; he has always been a man of his word and a good cop, that understands that compassion often works better than robotic force.<\/p>\n

Many times, in the past, we have turned to Scott for help in a time of need, and he has always done his personal and professionally diligent best to assist.<\/p>\n

Congratulations, Scott!<\/p>\n

We know that you are equal to the tough tasks ahead of you, and we at the Caf\u00e9 on A are ready, willing and able to work with you hand in hand to bring compassionate, intelligent restorative justice to youth, their families and the entire wonderfully diverse city of Oxnard. Let us know how we can help.<\/p>\n

Armando Vazquez, M.Ed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Executive Director, Acuna Art Gallery\/Caf\u00e9 on A<\/strong><\/p>\n

Executive Director, The KEYS Leadership Academy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chairman, of the Oxnard Multicultural Mental Health \/coalition<\/strong><\/p>\n

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