The grass must seem greener in Fremont for ex-Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell, who quit his Oakland post in October, and now four months later is suddenly taking the job to be Fremont Chief of Police.
Back during Oakland’s Mayor Sheng Thao era, the city went more than a year without a police chief. Then they finally hired former Lubbock, Texas Police Chief Floyd Mitchell, who himself promptly lasted only 17 months on the job before resigning without explanation. So much for that year-long job search.
But Mitchell did not ride off into the sunset, he merely rode off to Fremont. KTVU reports that Mitchell just took the job as Fremont Chief of Police, another position that’s been technically long vacant, as previous interim chief Sean Washington has been serving as interim chief for more than four years…