Anthony Batts
| Anthony Batts | |
|---|---|
| Police career | |
| Current status | was fired from Baltimore city police July 8, 2015 |
| Department |  Baltimore City Police Department Oakland Police Department Long Beach Police Department |
| Allegiance |  State of Maryland |
| Country |  United States of America |
| Years of service | Baltimore (2012-2015), Oakland (2009-2011) |
| Rank | Baltimore: Commissioner, Oakland: Chief of Police, Long Beach: Chief of Police |
Anthony W. Batts is the former Police Commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department, the eighth largest municipal police department in the United States.
Career
Batts has been the chief of police for the Californian cities of Oakland and Long Beach. Batts worked in the Long Beach Police Department for 27 years,[1] rising to Chief of Police in 2002.[2] Under Batts, homicides decreased 45% and overall crime decreased 13% in Long Beach.[3] Batts has said that he was motivated to seek the Oakland Chief of Police job by the aftermath of the killing of four Oakland police officers in March, 2009.[4] After less than one-and-a-half years[5] on the job in Oakland], to the surprise of city officials, it was revealed Batts was seeking the position of Chief in nearby San Jose California. According to an article in a [6] Long Beach paper, Batts was turned down for that appointment due to a history involving domestic violence.
On October 11, 2011, after a controversial period including dealing with Federal oversight, union[7] and political conflicts, plus mass "Occupy" demonstrations, Chief Batts announced approximately two years since his hiring date, he was resigning from the Oakland Police Department in November. In a letter to Oakland city workers, he stated "It is with great regret that I tender this official notice of my intent to resign as chief of police for the city of Oakland."[8] After a brief period in a research post at Harvard, Batts became the police commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department on September 27, 2012.[9]
On July 8, 2015 Batts was fired from the Baltimore Police Department in the aftermath of a spike in homicide rates weeks after the 2015 Baltimore riots.[10]
Personal life
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Batts's former wife is Laura Richardson, who was a member of the United States House of Representatives.
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ [1][dead link]
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ SFGate.com
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
| Police appointments | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by | Chief of the Oakland Police Department 2009–2011 |
Succeeded by Howard Jordan |
| Preceded by | Baltimore Police Department Commissioner 2012–2015 |
Succeeded by incumbent |
- Articles with dead external links from July 2015
- Articles with hCards
- No local image but image on Wikidata
- Living people
- Year of birth missing (living people)
- American municipal police chiefs
- People from Oakland, California
- Law enforcement in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Commissioners of the Baltimore Police Department
