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Federal oversight of Oakland Police Department is ending after 20 years

Two decades after the federal government began its oversight of the troubled Oakland Police Department, that monitoring is coming to an end. Critics say change took too long and remains fragile.

NPR’s Eric Westervelt reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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