SF News Oakland Residents Fume Over Crime at Community Meeting With DA, Oakland Police As an East Bay crime wave continues, Alameda County DA Pamela Price and Oakland PD top brass faced the music at a Thursday night community meeting, where people largely just shouted the speakers (and each other) down.
SF News Arrest Warrant Issued for Oakland Police Officer On Suspicion of Perjury, Bribery It’s likely to cause more tension between the Oakland Police Department and Alameda County DA Pamela Price that Price has issued an arrest warrant for OPD officer Phong Tran on five felony counts of perjury and bribery.
SF News More Oakland PD-LeRonne Armstrong Drama, Fired Captain Claims He Was Made A Scapegoat A subplot of Oakland PD chief LeRonne Armstrong’s February firing has spawned another subplot, as a former captain who lost his job over a seemingly botched internal affairs investigation insists he’s not the one who botched the investigation.
SF News Now Oakland Burglars Are Disguising Themselves as Amazon Delivery Drivers The Oakland Police Department sent out a warning Thursday about “an uptick in residential burglaries where the individuals involved are disguised as Amazon workers” who ring the bell to see if you're home, and then they bust right in.
SF Politics Supporters Rally To Get Fired Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong His Job Back Less than 24 hours after Oakland mayor Sheng Thao fired police chief LeRonne Armstrong over the alleged mishandling of an internal investigation, Armstrong’s supporters gave an earful at Oakland City Hall Thursday afternoon demanding Armstrong be reinstated.
SF News Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Fires Police Chief Over the Handling of Officer Investigations Citing evidence that Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong's actions and statements reflected "systemic issues" within the police department, Mayor Sheng Thao made the decision to fire him Wednesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Report Calls Oakland Police Chief 'Not Credible' A new report from investigators into the latest Oakland police scandal calls Chief LeRonne Armstrong "not credible" in statements he made; the SFPD announced a $50K reward in a Sept. 2022 Fillmore shooting case; and UC Berkeley has "unnamed" another building that was named for a white supremacist.
SF News Oakland Police Department Reportedly Facing Lawsuit for Alleged “Ghost Pursuit” that Resulted in Death of Bystander The family of Lolomanaia “Lolo” Soakai, who died in June of 2022 following an alleged Oakland police chase without lights, sirens, or prior authorization, have filed a civil rights suit against the department.
SF Politics Oakland NAACP Rallies Behind Suspended Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong, Whose Supporters Are Closing Ranks A week into his suspension for allegedly mishandling internal discipline, Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong is mounting an aggressive PR campaign to get his job back, with the Oakland NAACP and several community figures rallying for him outside an Oakland courthouse.
SF Politics Suspended Oakland Police Chief Swings Back, Mounts Campaign to Be Reinstated Placed on paid administrative leave over alleged mishandling of internal discipline, Oakland police chief LeRonne Armstrong is going on offense with a lawyer, PR representative, and allies he’s rounded up.
SF News Oakland Police Chief Placed on Administrative Leave Over Alleged Mishandling of Internal Investigation New Oakland mayor Sheng Thao is moving fast, placing the city’s police chief LeRonne Armstrong on paid administrative leave just one day after an internal report was made public saying he’s failed to hold officers accountable for misconduct.
SF News Man Shot Near Bus In West Oakland Is City's 112th Homicide of the Year A man was fatally shot Monday night in West Oakland, and an AC Transit bus may have been struck by the gunfire.
SF News Oakland Police Mull Acquiring Robots Armed With Shotguns The shotgun-toting robots prefer to be called “percussion actuated nonelectric disruptors,” and the Oakland Police Department wants some, though is currently offering a compromise measure where they’d only be armed with pepper spray.
SF News Oakland Settles for $250K With Two George Floyd Protesters, Agrees to Not Use Explosives on Demonstrators Two demonstrators from a June 2020 George Floyd protest won a quarter million dollars after being shot with rubber bullets, and the Oakland Police Department has agreed to not use “explosive grenades on peaceful crowds.”
SF News West Oakland Shooting and Traffic Collision Incident Leaves Three Dead According to the Oakland Police Department (OPD), three people were killed after a car crash, which involved multiple vehicles, and a shooting occurred on the 2800 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Way Friday night.
SF News Fired Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick to Get $1.5M Settlement After Court Win Oakland's former police chief won a wrongful termination case two months ago, and now the Oakland City Council has approved a $1.5 million settlement for her, which includes a year's pay.
SF News Source: Two Rookie Oakland Cops Engaged Sideshow Car In Chase That Ended In a Pedestrian Death New allegations are emerging from an Oakland Police Department source regarding a Sunday morning crash in East Oakland that may have been spawned by an unsanctioned high-speed chase by rookie officers — who then allegedly fled the scene without calling for medical help.
SF News Oakland Police Department Wants Out of Their 20-Year-Long Federal Oversight, Will Get Their Day in Court The Oakland police have been under the oversight of a federal monitor for nearly 20 years after the long-ago “Riders” scandal, but on Wednesday will make their case to end this arrangement.
SF News Retired Oakland Police Captain, Left With 22 Bullet Wounds From Gas Station Shooting, Tells His Story In First Interview Former Oakland PD captain Ersie Joyner still has lead in him for the day he suffered 22 bullet wounds at a Chevron station shakedown in West Oakland in October, but is back to full health and just gave his first interview describing what happened that day.
SF News Oakland City Council Approves Additional Police Academies to Staff Up Amid Spike In Violence The Oakland City Council on Tuesday voted to authorize two additional police academies over the next two years in order to help fill vacancies and address attrition in the police department.
SF News Retired Oakland Police Captain Shot Six Times, Condition Critical A retired Oakland Police Department captain, known for working much of the last decade on the city's Ceasefire strategy to reduce gun violence, was shot six times Thursday in an attempted robbery at a West Oakland gas station.
SF News 22-Year Department Vet LeRonne Armstrong Named New Oakland Police Chief After an almost year-long search process, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced Deputy Chief LeRonne Armstrong as the next chief of the Oakland Police Department.
SF News Oakland Police Face New Possible Scandal Involving Social Media Accounts, Racist and Sexist Memes The Oakland Police Department has reportedly seized as many as 100 city-owned cellphones from officers in a new potential scandal that shows officers allegedly following and liking social media posts promoting racist and sexist jokes, and pro-Trump conspiracy theories.
SF News New Report Ranks How Much Bay Area Law Enforcement Agencies Pay For Violent Officer Misconduct You would think that how much a city pays in police misconduct settlements would correlate to the size of its police force. Such is not the case, according to information obtained by KTVU.
SF News Fired Oakland Police Chief Files Whistleblower Lawsuit Citing Corruption Allegations Against Police Commission As Kirkpatrick warned she would, she has filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that her firing came after she had sought to challenge "corruption and abuse of power" by members of the city's police commission.