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The Richmond Police Department or RPD is a public safety and law enforcement agency founded in 1910 that is in charge of protecting and safeguarding the city of Richmond, California.〔(RPD main page )〕 The city has struggled with serious violent crime for decades and is often described as crime ridden and as one of the "rougher" parts of the San Francisco Bay Area; in fact, in 2010 the city was the sixth most dangerous in the nation.〔(East Bay cities ranked among most dangerous in U.S. ), Bay City News Services. Contra Costa Times. November 23, 2010. Retrieved November 24, 2010.〕〔〔(Top managers in Mountain View, Santa Clara earn top dollar compared to peers in larger San Jose ), by John Woolfolk, Diana Samuels, Bay Area News Group/San Jose Mercury News, August 8th, 2010, accessed August 8th, 2010〕〔 〕〔 〕 ==History== The department was founded in 1910 and celebrated its hundredth anniversary in 2010.〔 In 2009 a female student at Richmond High School was brutally gang raped by half a dozen men and boys while dozens more looked on and took photographs.〔()〕 The police department came under national scrutiny for its investigation and the abhorrent acts that took place.〔 In 2011 the force came under scrutiny due to a federal probe investigating the hiring of two of the city's "explorers" (members of a Junior Police program) by a private security firm operated by the police officers that illegally armed the young men and sent them to patrol city streets.〔(Cops investigated for gun buying scandal ). Cecilia Vega. KGO-TV/ABC News. 05-04-2011. Retrieved 07-04-2011.〕〔(Richmond officers accused of arming teens for private security business ). Karl Fisher. Contra Costa Times. 05-04-2011. Retrieved 07-04-2011.〕〔(Former Richmond chief: I never OKd security firm ). San Francisco Chronicle. 2011. Retrieved 07-04-2011.〕 The FBI is investigating the case, which concerns events that occurred from 2004 to 2011.〔〔〔 The news has reported that once the former explorers came through with their allegations that their former mentors hired prostitutes or strippers into attempting to coax them into driving drunk in order to jail them for DUI as retaliation.〔〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richmond Police Department (California)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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