OAKLAND — Citing the ongoing investigation into several Oakland police officers’ alleged sexual relationship with a teenager, activists from more than a half-dozen East Bay community organizations on Tuesday called for the ouster of Mayor Libby Schaaf and a community commission to control the department, among other demands.

“Our local government has demonstrated that they are incapable of controlling or holding accountable this rogue police department,” said Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, adding that the department has, for the past 13 years, been under federal receivership and continues to see alleged criminal conduct by its officers.

Brooks, along with representatives from the Oakland Alliance, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Asians 4 Black Lives, Causa Justa/Just Cause, Black Lives Matter Bay Area, Black Power Network, Oakland Rising Action and The Way Christian Center, channeled outrage over the most recent police misconduct allegations into ongoing concerns about systemic inequality, the lack of affordable housing, mental health services and meaningful job opportunities for communities of color.

In a statement issued Tuesday, Schaaf said she shared the activists’ passion for holding officers accountable and having a police department that every community member could trust, particularly communities of color who have been abused by the department.

“Even today, we know that there are disparate impacts of law enforcement practices on communities of color, which is why I am dedicated to reform of our police department,” she said.

The department came under fire last month after allegations surfaced that several officers were sexually involved with a police dispatcher’s daughter, who said she was underage when some of the activity occurred and who also worked in the sex trade. So far, two officers have resigned as a result of the ongoing investigation, three have been placed on leave, and two other officers have been placed on leave for unrelated matters.

Zachary Norris, executive director of the Ella Baker Center, called the most recent allegations “the tip of the iceberg.” Along with other members of the coalition, he called on city officials to slash the police department’s budget in half and to reinvest the remaining funds in job centers, re-entry services, tenant protections, low-income housing and mental health services.

“We ask that, rather than fund police officers who are supposed to protect and serve, and rather rape and traffic, that you fund services for sex workers,” Norris said. “Fund employment opportunities for young women of color so they are not marginalized and trafficked in our communities.”

Asked how cutting the police department’s budget in half would affect low-income residents and communities of color who are most often the victims of violent crimes, Brooks said systemic poverty and inequality creates conditions for crime to occur, but policing doesn’t make the streets safer.

“If we could police our way out of crime, we would be the safest city on the planet,” Brooks said. “Incarceration and punitive policing does not work.”

The coalition called on city officials to establish a fully funded, community-nominated and controlled civilian review board with the power to hire, fire and disciple police officers. Dan Siegel, a well-known trial and appellate attorney, who spoke on behalf of the Oakland Alliance, said neither the mayor nor the City Council could be trusted to appoint a commission that would be accountable to residents.

“Instead, we need a community process to select commissioners who will be accountable to people in this community, particularly working class people of color, who are impacted by police abuses,” Siegel said.

The coalition also called on city officials to have an outside agency investigate allegations that officers sex trafficked a minor. Nikita Mitchell, a representative of Black Lives Matter Bay Area, called Schaaf a “mouthpiece of two decades of corrupt government in Oakland” and called for her resignation.

For her part, Schaaf has vowed to root out what she described as “a culture that tolerates unethical behavior.”

The ongoing investigation has led to the resignation of Police Chief Sean Whent on June 9. BART Deputy Chief Benson Fairow lasted five days as interim police chief before being fired by Schaaf, and Acting Assistant Chief Paul Figueroa lasted two days at the helm of the department before stepping down.

“I am here to run a police department, not a frat house,” Schaaf said last week.

The investigation has not been confined to the Oakland Police Department but has also included officers from Richmond and Livermore, along with sheriff’s deputies from the Alameda and Contra Costa sheriff’s offices. The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office has placed two investigators on leave pending an investigation into misconduct, though representatives from the office have said those investigations are not connected to the sexual-misconduct scandal.

Contact reporter Erin Baldassari at 510-208-6428. Follow her at Twitter.com/e_baldi.