SF News Four People Shot In Less Than 24 Hours In Oakland as Surge of Violence Continues Two men were shot, one of them fatally, late Thursday night in East Oakland, and the double shooting followed two other fatal shootings earlier in the day, and months of escalating killings on the city's streets.
SF News Oakland Police Backsliding on Bad Habits And Use-of-Force Reforms, Feds Say Last year’s shooting of a homeless, mentally ill man is among many factors renewing criticism of police chief Anne Kirkpatrick’s tenure in Oakland.
SF News Oakland Gone Wild: DUI, Child Porn Charges For Police And Fire Department Officers Wednesday was a hell of a day for the Oakland Police and Fire Departments, as today we have separate reports of disturbing DUI and child pornography charges for officers from both organizations. While
SF News Oakland Police Department Chastised In Federal Court Over Recent Sex Scandal A judge who ordered reforms and imposed federal oversight on the Oakland Police Department nearly a decade and a half ago took the city and department to task again Monday at least verbally
SF News Yet Another Oakland Police Scandal Leads To Discovery Of Drug Stash The Oakland Police Department is nothing if not newsworthy, and this week we learn via the East Bay Express of a new story involving a sexual misconduct probe that led internal investigators to
SF News [Update] Ghost Ship Proprietor And Second Tenant Charged With Manslaughter In Deadly Oakland Fire #NEW: Derick Almena mugshot from Lake County jail after #GhostShip arrest https://t.co/V1t24zXUcB pic.twitter.com/4wRgQRK8xB— Matthias Gafni (@mgafni) June 5, 2017 Derick Almena, who also goes by the name
SF News As New Oakland Police Chief Is Sworn In, Officers Are Ordered To Report All Unpermitted Parties After an order was given, rescinded, and then re-issued last week by Oakland's assistant police chief David Downing, Oakland Police officers are now being instructed to report all unpermitted events and gatherings that
SF News Oakland City Records Show Police And Firefighters Had Both Been In Ghost Ship Space; Fire Chief Goes On Leave The City of Oakland released a trove of documents Wednesday pertaining to the December 2 Ghost Ship fire, and as the Chronicle and others are reporting, they reveal what we already mostly knew:
SF News Oakland Police Officer Arrested, Accused Of Inappropriate Conduct An Oakland police officer was arrested and booked into Oakland downtown's Glenn Dyer Jail at 1:00 a.m. this morning, with the department saying the charges are related to prostitution. Interestingly, as
SF News First Mug Shot Released Of Law Enforcement Officer Accused In Jasmine Abuslin Exploitation Scandal Brian Bunton, an Oakland police officer accused of tipping off Jasmine Abuslin to a coming prostitution sting in exchange for sex, was one of three officers charged last week by Alameda County District
SF News Three More Officers Formally Charged In Oakland Scandal, Including One Who Tipped Off Sex Worker To Sting Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley continues filing the formal criminal charges already promised against seven East Bay law enforcement officers, with three more officers charged on Monday. As KQED reports, those include
SF News Oakland Police Say They Accidentally Deleted 25 Percent Of Their Body-Cam Archive While the SFPD continues its deployment of officer-worn body-cameras, the Oakland Police Department has had them for some time. Since 2009, to be precise. However, according to the Chronicle, that roughly seven-year headstart
SF News Celeste Guap Offered Plea Deal On Battery Charge In Florida; Richmond Police Deny Criminal Wrongdoing By Officers The young woman at the center of a wide-reaching sexual exploitation case involving local law enforcement, Celeste Guap, was charged with misdemeanor battery in a Florida court Monday after her alleged altercation with
SF News Seven East Bay Law Enforcement Officers Charged In Celeste Guap Scandal Alameda County District Attorney Nancy E. O'Malley announced Friday that her office would be pursuing multiple charges, including including sex offenses and obstruction of justice, against seven members of three different law enforcement
SF News Oakland Mayor Terminates Four Officers, Disciplines Eight Others In OPD Sex Scandal Along with City Administrator Sabrina Landreth (who is acting as temporary administrative head of the Oakland Police Department), Mayor Libby Schaaf gave a press conference late Wednesday announcing the disciplining of a dozen
SF News Oakland Suspends Two Police Officers In Racist Texting Scandal A series of racially offensive texts sent by two Oakland police officers, the revelation of which led directly or indirectly to the removal of the third of three police chiefs in quick succession
SF News Celeste Guap's Grandmother Says Officers Who 'Used' Granddaughter Should Be In Jail Celeste Guap, the 18-year-old woman at the center of a sex scandal that has rocked the Oakland Police Department but extends to multiple law enforcement agencies including the SFPD, continues to make headlines
SF News SFPD Officer Implicated In Oakland Scandal Allegedly Had Sex With Celeste Guap While She Was Underage Yet another detail emerges in the ever deepening Oakland Police Department sex scandal: Celeste Guap, the young sex worker at the center of it, revealed via her cell phone records that she first
SF News Oakland Officer's Suicide, And His Wife's Earlier Suicide, Confirmed In DA's Probe Officer Brendan O'Brien, who committed suicide in September 2015 at the age of 30, has been cleared in the death of his wife a year earlier, who also committed suicide but whose death
SF News Oakland Police Officer Shot At By Armed Suspect After Car Crash A female Oakland police officer who was involved in a major collision in her vehicle in East Oakland Saturday night was shot at by a male suspect while still stuck in the vehicle.
SF News Protesters Chain Themselves To Oakland Police Officers' Association Cops are trying to negotiate the opening of this set of doors so credit union employees can go home. pic.twitter.com/0JWwDkzrVU— Cat (@CatsCommentary) July 20, 2016 Calling for the city of
SF News And Now A Federal Officer Is Accused Of Trying To Pimp The Oakland Teen At Center Of OPD Scandal The sordid tale of a minor allegedly exploited for sex and trafficked by numerous members of East Bay law enforcement continues to deepen, as we learn today via the East Bay Express that
SF News Sex Worker At Center Of Oakland Police Scandal Reveals How And Why She Went Public; Three SFPD Officers Involved Too Celeste Guap, the 18-year-old Oakland prostitute who had sex with over a dozen OPD officers as well as a half dozen in the Richmond PD, and allegedly three in the SFPD, sat down
Arts & Entertainment Larry Wilmore Mocks Oakland's Police Chaos; Former Prostitute Speaks Out About Her Assault Case Against OPD "There's a crazy situation going on in Oakland right now," says comedian Larry Wilmore. "And for once it's not Raiders fans." Now that Oakland cycled through three police chiefs in nine days and
SF News Beset By Police Scandal, Oakland Hires Investigator To Stop Media Leaks With too many ongoing scandals to count, including the removal of three police chiefs in nine days, Oakland city officials are looking inward — just not perhaps in the manner we might expect. The
