Anne Kirkpatrick (born 1959) is an American law enforcement officer, the former Chief of the Spokane Police Department and the first woman to head the

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Early life and education

Kirkpatrick is from

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, where she graduated in 1977 from Hutchison School and earned a master's degree in counseling psychology from the

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; she later studied at

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Career

Kirkpatrick began her career in law enforcement with the

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, and in Washington State was a police officer in Redmond and then a college instructor in criminal justice. She later served as Chief of Police for five years each in

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, and finally

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, from which position she retired in 2012 to become a leadership instructor for the

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. She was also Chief Deputy of the

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for two years. In 2016 she was one of three finalists to become Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department; Mayor

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subsequently appointed her Chief of the department's Bureau of Professional Standards.

Oakland, California, Chief of Police

On January 4, 2017, after six months in Chicago, Kirkpatrick was appointed by Mayor

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, as the city's first female Chief of Police. She was sworn in on February 27, 2017. On November 6, 2017, the chair of Oakland's privacy advisory commission, Brian Hofer, and seven others filed a complaint with Oakland's Citizens Police Review Board claiming that Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick had made false statements about an August raid in West Oakland. On February 20, 2020, the Oakland Police Commission voted unanimously to fire Kirkpatrick with Schaaf joining in the decision as required by the law for a police chief to be fired without cause, saying that the commission's trust in Kirkpatrick was "irrevocably broken". Kirkpatrick later revealed that she was terminated in retaliation for not performing special favors for commission members. She filed a Federal whistleblower lawsuit against the city.

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