At least two members of the Oakland Police Commission this week called on two of their own, including the chair, to step down amid allegations of chaos in the body that oversees the city’s Police Department, which has been under federal monitoring for more than 20 years.

Commissioner Regina Jackson, who has been on the commission since its inception less than six years ago and previously served as chair, and Commissioner Marsha Peterson took part in a rally Tuesday afternoon outside Oakland City Hall to make their demands known publicly.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.