SF News Oakland City Council to Decide Whether to Renew Controversial ShotSpotter Gunfire Detection System Several US cities have recently ditched the police surveillance tool ShotSpotter that’s used to detect gunfire, and Oakland could become the latest, as critics say it bogs police down with false-positive notifications.
SF News Dramatic Video Shows Oakland Police Rescue Drowning Man From Lake Merritt Channel Bodycam video from the Oakland Police Department shows a high-stakes drowning situation in the Lake Merritt Channel, but officers were able to rescue a man by jumping into the water themselves to pull him ashore.
SF News Report: Oakland PD Offering Rewards From Oakland Crime Stoppers, Which Oakland Crime Stoppers Cannot Pay An NBC Bay Area investigation found that even though an organization called Oakland Crime Stoppers was offering financial rewards for information leading to an arrest, they can’t access their bank account, and their nonprofit status has been suspended for years.
SF News Oakland PD Officer Placed On Leave After Giant Illegal Marijuana Grow Found in His Antioch Home Last week CNN ran a report detailing that more than 50 very nice houses in Antioch were just giant hidden illegal pot grow operations, with no one living in the houses. Now it turns out one of those homes is owned by an Oakland police officer.
SF News Charges Dropped Against Man Accused of Aiding Burglary That Led to Oakland Police Officer's Shooting All charges have been dropped in the case against Marquise Cooper, one of four suspects who has been jailed in connection with the December 29 shooting death of Oakland police officer Tuan Le.
SF News New Oakland PD Chief Vows Sex Work Crackdown; In SF, Mission Residents Sue City Over the Scene on Shotwell There’s pushback against the sex worker situation on both sides of the Bay, as the new Oakland Police chief is promising a coming crackdown on International Boulevard, while Shotwell Street residents have sued SF over sex work on that street.
SF News Off-Duty Oakland Cops Seen Using Police Boat to Take Pleasure Cruise to Tiburon An off-duty Oakland police officer or two appeared to have taken an Oakland Police Department boat out for personal use on Saturday, along with their significant others and at least a couple of children, for a trip up to Tiburon.
SF News Former Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick Strikes Two Pedestrians While Driving on the Job In New Orleans The new gig is not currently working out too well for former Oakland Chief of Police Anne Kirkpatrick, as she apparently ran her car into two pedestrians in New Orleans on Saturday night.
SF News FBI’s Sheng Thao Raid Investigation Has Now Expanded to the Oakland Police Department It may just be a legal technicality, or it may be a sign that the FBI smells something fishy with the Oakland PD, as the latest federal subpoena in “Sheng Thao raid-gate” asks for a slew of records from the Oakland Police Department.
SF News Arrest Made, Charges Filed In Murder Near Oakland's Lake Merritt An arrest was made within 30 hours of a Sunday morning shooting near Lake Merritt in Oakland, and the suspect has a known history of violence.
SF News Oakland Approves $365,100 Salary For New Chief of Police Floyd Mitchell, Who Starts Next Week The City of Oakland's 15-month saga of not having a full-time police chief will officially end next week when former Lubbock, Texas chief of police Floyd Mitchell takes over the job, but his compensation package is already drawing some complaints.
SF News Oakland Finally Names a Police Chief: Former Lubbock, Texas Police Chief Floyd Mitchell The year-plus search for a new Oakland Police Chief has finally concluded, as Mayor Sheng Thao has named Floyd Mitchell as the new chief, who’d previously held that role in Lubbock and Temple, Texas.
SF News Oakland Police Warn of Rise In Smash-and-Grabs of Occupied Vehicles The Oakland Police Department says that it's deploying more officers in response to the uptick in crime, but department-wide response times still lag.
SF News Fourth Suspect Charged With Murder in Fatal Shooting of OPD Officer in December Dispensary Burglary While three suspects had been charged with murder in the December 29 shooting and killing of Oakland police officer Tuan Le, a fourth figured he could just plead guilty to robbing the cannabis shop and have that be that. But now that suspect is facing murder charges too.
SF News San Leandro Police Chief Steps Down Amidst Investigation, So He Likely Won’t Be Oakland Police Chief San Leandro's chief of police Abdul Pridgen was already on administrative leave over some undisclosed, alleged violations of department policies. That made him an odd candidate for Oakland Police Chief, and now he’s officially gone from the San Leandro job.
SF News Federal Judge Has Had It With Oakland Taking So Long to Find New Police Chief The U.S. District Court judge in charge of the Oakland Police Department's federal oversight says he’s “concerned” that the city hasn’t had a police chief for a full year now. Well, how do you think 450,000 Oakland residents feel, pal?
SF News Now Even the Mother of Man Accused of Killing Oakland PD Officer Has Been Arrested as an Accessory A highly unusual development in last week's fatal shooting of undercover Oakland police officer Tuan Le, as the mother of the man accused of pulling the trigger has herself been arrested as an accessory to the crime.
SF News New Details on Killing of OPD Officer: He Was a Four-Year Veteran, Shooting Was Over Dispensary Robbed Twice Friday We still don’t know the identity of the undercover Oakland police officer who was shot and killed this morning, but at a Friday press conference, we learned he was shot by suspects who robbed an Oakland cannabis dispensary for the second time in one night.
SF News [Updated] Oakland Police Officer Shot and Killed In 'Ambush' Near Jack London Square Details are starting to emerge in an early Friday confrontation near Oakland's Jack London Square, which ended in a crashed pickup truck and one Oakland police officer shot and critically wounded.
SF Politics Oakland Police Chief Search Down to Three Candidates, Still Mired in Controversy The search for a new Oakland Police Department Chief has now dragged into its tenth month, and is apparently down to three final candidates, but it’s unclear if fired former chief LeRonne Armstrong is one of them.
SF News Report Alleges Oakland PD Officers Lied About No-Headlights, 100-MPH Car Chase That Killed Bystander An Oakland Police Commission report seems to confirm the allegation that two officers lied about a June 2022 high-speed chase of a suspected sideshow participant they conducted with no headlights or sirens on, a chase that killed an innocent bystander.
SF News Oakland Police Claim Early Success In Car Break-In Crackdown, Tout Seven Arrests in One Day With smash-and-grab auto burglaries up a stunning 40% over the last year in Oakland, police claim their new crackdown is getting results, with seven car break-in suspects arrested in three separate incidents last Thursday.
SF News Oakland PD Announces Arrests of Ten Alleged Gang Members, All Tied to Carjackings and Armed Robberies As Oakland gets more restless over the city's current crime spike, Mayor Sheng Thao and the Oakland police held a Thursday press conference making a big to-do over the arrest of ten alleged gang members they say were running a significant carjacking and robbery ring.
SF Politics Oakland Police Chief Search Halted as Police Commissioners Boycott Their Own Meeting Some next-level dysfunction in the search for a new Oakland police chief, as the members of the Oakland Police Commission boycotted their own meeting Thursday, denying the commission quorum or the ability to make a vote.
SF News US Marshals Arrest 4,500 Nationwide in Crackdown, Including 137 in Oakland A more than year-long crackdown called Operation North Star has yielded its third mass arrest of thousands of suspects across the country, including 137 in Oakland on murder, assault, robbery, and gun charges.
