Boise Deputy Police Chief Tammany Brooks Oversaw Cesspool of Racism in Antioch, California

Source: Daily Beast

WORKING BLUE

He Oversaw Cesspool of Police Racism—and Paid No Price

Tammany Brooks ran the Antioch, California, police department—where cops sent appalling text messages. Now he’s a big shot in Boise.

Michael Daly
Special Correspondent
Published Apr. 28, 2023 4:30AM ET

Racist, homophobic, and sexually explicit texts describing routine brutality, faked confessions, and other civil right violations were sent between 2020 and 2021 by 17 of the 100 police officers in the Antioch, California, police department.

The text chains—recovered from officers’ phones during a joint investigation by the FBI and the Contra Costa County District Attorney— were viewed by nearly half of the department.

But nobody said anything.

And the police chief at the time, Tammany Brooks, did nothing.

If Brooks did not know what was going on in the small department where he spent two decades, he certainly should have as it continued to go on right under his nose.

He nonetheless went on to become deputy police chief in Boise, Idaho. ...

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