Pamela Price Unfiltered
Pamela Price Unfiltered
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Exposing injustice. Holding the powerful accountable. Turning awareness into action.This podcast goes beyond the headlines to break down the biggest issues shaping our communities—systemic racism, police accountability, economic injustice, and more. With unfiltered insights, bold analysis, and real conversations with changemakers, Pamela Price tackles the truth behind the systems impacting real people, real families, and real lives.If you're ready to challenge the status quo and push for real change, this is the podcast for you.
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Focuses on systemic injustice, police accountability, economic disparities, and immigrant rights with episodes discussing the Oakland leadership crisis, police brutality cases, and the influence of ICE in schools, aiming to shed light on historic and contemporary injustices.
Exposing injustice. Holding the powerful accountable. Turning awareness into action.
This podcast goes beyond the headlines to break down the biggest issues shaping our communities—systemic racism, police accountability, economic injustice, and more. With unfiltered insights, bold analysis, and real conversations with changemakers, Pamela Price tackles the truth behind the systems impacting real people, real families, and real lives.
If you’re ready to challenge the status quo and push for real change, this is the podcast for you.
James Beere’s appointment as the Chief of Police for Oakland marks the end point of 10 years of drama inside the Oakland Police Department (OPD).
OPD has some unfinished business, however, that may impact Chief Beere’s tenure. The most serious threat with long-term consequences for the Department is the case of OPD Homicide Detective Phong Tran.
In April 2023, while I was the Alameda County District Attorney, we charged Detective Tran with felony perjury and bribery. At the time, I noted that we were required to review at least 125 cases as a result of Tran’s alleged misconduct. Almost every case Tran touched was vulnerable to challenge because of his lack of credibility. Eventually the number ballooned to 200 cases.
This episode walks you through the flawed investigations riddled with conflicts of interest and attempted cover-ups of Detective Tran's misconduct, and the consequences for Oakland residents: a two-year extension of federal oversight, hundreds of convictions over ten-year period in jeopardy and potentially millions of dollars in damages for wrongful convictions.
In the face of it all, it is unclear if the new District Attorney will be able (or willing) to prosecute Detective Tran, or get to the bottom of what is potentially deep corruption inside OPD. Failing to effectively prosecute Tran will effectively close the books on the 200 cases allegedly infected by his misconduct. And we will never know where Tran got the money to allegedly bribe witnesses and who else was in on that scam?
If the District Attorney drops the case against Tran, Chief Beere may also be able to close that chapter in Oakland’s history and put the Tran scandal behind him without addressing the unethical and possibly illegal “practice” of paying witnesses for their testimony in Oakland.
If the Tran case ever actually goes to trial, it may open the door for more scandalous revelations about OPD and practices inside the DA’s office for getting convictions in Alameda County.
Then the question will be, how will Chief Beere respond and what will he do about it?
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