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So many scandals have emerged from the Oakland, Calif., police department that it may be tough to make sense of it all. Thankfully, writer Aura Bogado has come up with a handy outline to disentangle the web of lies, sex trafficking, murders, suicides, cover-ups and just general corruption allegedly going on: Bogado also points readers toward pieces by Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham at East Bay Express for more information.

— Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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