mayor sheng thao named floyd mitchell, the city's new top cop. most people in the bay. >> know very little about him other than maybe he used to be the police chief in lubbock, texas. >> tonight, kron four's dan kerman has some insight into who he for some oaklanders. it was last month's police commission candidates forum when they first got a look at oaklands new police chief floyd mitchell. i believe it's going to be a very challenging. >> opportunity for a police chief to come in and work with not only the members inside the department. >> community members and multiple governing authorities to work to move the the oakland police department forward. >> mitchell began his career with the kansas city, missouri police department after 25 years there, he became police chief in temple, texas population. 82,000 in 2019, he became police chief for the city of lubbock, texas, population 257,001 thing that you consider probably the biggest accomplishment of his time here was the search allies in the police force. >> and that really helped his goal of c