SF Politics Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Threatens to Declare ‘State of Emergency’ Over Lack of City Police Chief The city of Oakland has now gone seven months without a proper police chief while crime is spiking. Mayor Sheng Thao says the police commission is dragging its feet, so she’s threatening to declare a state of emergency over the matter.
SF News Crime in Oakland Soaring Across the Board, According to New Statistics It’s not just sideshows, as every major crime category shows sharp increases in Oakland, with spikes of 20%, 40%, or even 90% in specific crime categories compared to before the pandemic.
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 Oakland Police Are Warning Drivers About a Wave of Carjackings and Robberies That Start With Intentional Collisions The Oakland Police Department (OPD) says that they are getting an increased number of reports about armed robberies and carjackings that follow a similar pattern, and they were urging drivers to be "vigilant" and take steps to reduce their risk of being a crime victim.
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.
city of oakland Three People Died Within Three Hours in Separate Shooting Incidents in Oakland Friday Evening The Oakland Police Department called it "a bloody Friday night" and is still investigating all three shootings, but no more details have been released.
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 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 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 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 Oakland’s Top Cop Says Lenient Bail is To Blame for Oakland Crime Spike Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong is pleading with the Alameda County Superior Court to end the pandemic-era loosening of bail fees, saying this is responsible for an alleged Oakland crime spike.
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 Police Release Picture of Suspect Car in KRON4 Security Guard Killing; Trust Fund Established to Support Victim's Family Oakland police released an image of what's thought to be the vehicle — an early 2000s white Acura TL — carrying the person responsible for killing a KRON4 security guard. The department is asking for anyone with knowledge of the car to come forward.
SF News Oakland Police Dept. Instagram Meme Scandal Could Keep It Under Federal Oversight Longer An independent review of the Oakland Police Department's handling of a scandal involving an offensive meme account created by a recently fired officer — and the many still active OPD officers who liked and commented on its posts — has determined that the department still has a lot to learn.
SF News Oakland Police Chief Releases Soaring New Crime Stats, Asks the Public For Help Just eight months on the job, Oakland Police chief LeRonne Armstrong decries a 100% increase in carjackings and a 50% increase in shootings compared to this point last year.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Oakland Police Get Funding Back For Sideshow Unit The Oakland City Council voted unanimously to re-fund the police department on Monday following cuts last year, another drop-in vaccination site opens Thursday in the Mission, and Steph Curry just surpassed Wilt Chamberlain's career point record with the Warriors.
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.
