going through the Alameda Police Department clip files in the Oakland Tribune archives and the headline writer for a story about Chief Robert Shiells "retiring" in 1993 nailed it:
"Alameda& #39;s police chief retires at 48"

(same chief who ordered shredding of records showing officers in the nearly all-white department were exchanging racist messages over patrol car computers)

The great Tribune columnist Brenda Payton wasn& #39;t messing around and printed the transcript. It& #39;s terrifying.

1991: "Once you cross the bridge or go through the tube you& #39;re in a different world," said Darrell Hampton, a black Oakland resident, who was punched by an Oakland policeman in a well-publicized incident last year...I don& #39;t feel comfortable there and none of my friends do either"

During Chief Shiells tenure, commanders had an officer alter his police report describing how he brutally beat John Mitcheom, a white real estate agent and WWII veteran. Mitcheom told the Tribune "you get a lot of heat" for selling houses in white neighborhoods to black families.