In all, 153 candidates have applied to join Oakland’s new seven-member Police Commission overseeing officer misconduct investigations — including some very familiar names on both sides of the issue.

Those looking to serve on what is likely to be a high-profile panel include:

•Downtown developer and Jerry Brown buddy “Shotgun” Phil Tagami, who tells us that “after a three-year break from public service, I want to help where I can.”

During the 2011 Occupy riots, the onetime Port Commission member made national news for guarding his Rotunda building with a shotgun. More recently he’s been in the headlines for suing Mayor Libby Schaaf and the city over Oakland’s ban on coal going through the $250 million shipping complex he is building near the port.

•Cat Brooks, founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project. Brooks, whose group is “dedicated to ending state-sanctioned murder,” was among four people who shut down a City Council meeting last month when they chained themselves to the dais to protest the police budget.

•Carroll Fife, a community organizer and paralegal who works with Dan Siegel, the civil rights lawyer and former mayoral candidate who has repeatedly sued the city over alleged police misconduct.

•Gay Plair Cobb, chief executive of the Oakland Private Industry Council, who has clashed with city officials over the group’s $1 million-a-year contract to provide job training and placement services. Cobb is also the wife of Oakland Post newspaper owner Paul Cobb.

Other applicants include former Oakland school board President David Kakishiba, Justin Rausa, a local staffer to Democratic state Assemblyman Rob Bonta of Alameda, and Regina Jackson, president of the East Oakland Youth Development Center.

The selection panel consists of a representative from every City Council district and an appointee of the mayor — plus at-large member John Jones III, a social justice advocate who counsels at-risk kids and who spent years eight years in state prison.

The city actively recruited people with convictions to apply to serve on the commission — but since the selection panel is not asking for criminal background checks, we don’t know how many applied.

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