SF News Activists Now Want To Oust Newly Elected Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Over Police Scandals The drama continues across the Bay as anti-police-violence activists raise a call for the ousters of Mayor Libby Schaaf, saying that the cycle of three fired police chiefs in the last two weeks
SF News State Says It's OK For Oakland To Put Civilian In Charge Of Police; Sergeant On Leave Was Fired Before The mess in Oakland's law enforcement community only deepens with each day, and Monday there was a brief dustup between Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and the California state commission on peace officer standards
SF News Oakland Loses Third Police Chief In A Week Amid Brand New Racist Texting Scandal For an idea about the rank and file's opinion on Paul Figueroa: this was making the rounds in #OPS social circles pic.twitter.com/qyWyF446eR— Ali Winston (@awinston) June 18, 2016 Wow, Oakland.
SF News Why Was The Interim Oakland Police Chief Canned So Quickly? There is a lot of instability right now in our community which is bringing us together on the issue of gun... https://t.co/T9EzHvpiOW— D Mendoza Consulting (@Champ4Justice) June 16, 2016 Yesterday's
SF News Oakland Police Sex Scandal Deepens With More East Bay Officers Implicated, Interim Oakland Chief Fired News of a sex scandal that already cost Oakland's chief of police his job broke over the weekend though hints of it were first reported last month by KRON 4 when an internal
SF News Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent Resigns Amidst Officer Sex Scandal Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent tendered his resignation Thursday night, in the midst of a strange and sordid sex scandal allegedly involving his officers and a police dispatcher's young daughter. News of Whent's
SF News Violent Crime On The Decline In Oakland As Murder Rate Drops The year is off to a slow start in Oakland, and in this case that's a very good thing. The city is experiencing a drop in violent crimes the likes of which it
SF News Oakland Police Department's Radios Keep Failing (Like, All Of Them At Once) In what most likely will be read as a metaphor for larger problems facing Oakland's beleaguered police force, the department last Friday temporarily lost the ability to communicate when a system-wide failure brought
SF News Sunday Sideshows Lead To Oakland Officers Killing One Man Holding Replica Handgun There was some mayhem involving an army of vehicles and multiple separate sideshows in Oakland over the weekend. In addition to the police cars and helicopter that got shot at near a sideshow
SF News Video: Police Cars Attacked As Massive Sideshow In Oakland Gets Rowdy About 700 vehicles participated in sideshow activity around East Oakland early Sunday morning, reports the Contra Costa Times. But this wasn't any old sideshow: in the video above, posted by KRON you can
SF News Here's The Person Of Interest In The Oakland Muralist Slaying Oakland Police have identified a person of interest in last week's slaying of 27-year-old artist Antonio Ramos at least they have a photo of him from surveillance video anyway. The slender, twentysomething black
SF News Leo's Music Club of Oakland Temporarily Closed Following Bizarre Police Raid by Jack Morse Leo's Music Club, the barely-year-old venue in the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland, was forced to shut down over the weekend after a bizarre police raid left the club's owner and
SF News Oakland Cops Didn't Even Bother With 100-Person Protest Last Night Though there was a protest Wednesday night in downtown Oakland to protest Mayor Libby Schaaf's new strictures on nighttime protests, the Oakland police, perhaps wisely, just decided to pretend it wasn't happening. The
SF News Suspect Killed In First Oakland Police Fatal Shooting In Two Years An armed suspect was killed this morning in what authorities say is the first fatal police shooting involving Oakland city police in two years. Police were called to the scene by firefighters just
SF News Oakland's New Mayor To Be Faced With Another Big Demonstration Friday Over Her Protest Crackdown If you've been in the Bay Area more than a minute you should already know that Oakland loves a protest or, should I say, protesters really like to shake shit up across the
SF News CHP Says Plainclothes Officer Who Drew Gun At Protesters Was Justified Undercover police ARE violent protesters. In Oakland, cop pulls gun (not badge) on crowd after being exposed. pic.twitter.com/nBYc8MurZq— The Dreamkiller (@Eyeslam) December 11, 2014 Concluding an investigation into the incident,
SF News Oakland Police Offer Reward In Shooting Death Of 14-Year-Old 14-year-old Davon Ellis was reportedly walking down the street with friends on Saturday evening in Oakland's Fruitvale district when he was fatally shot, and now Oakland police are offering a $20,000 reward
SF News Day Around The Bay: Guinea Pigs Found Roaming Free In Dolores Park Tragically, a 26-year-old local entrepreneur fell to his death after losing his balance while dancing at a rooftop party in S.F. on Saturday. [Mercury-News] Mountain View has kind of had it with
SF News CHP Was Using 'Plainclothes' Officers Since Protests Began, Oakland Police Claim Ignorance Undercover police ARE violent protesters. In Oakland, cop pulls gun (not badge) on crowd after being exposed. pic.twitter.com/nBYc8MurZq— The Dreamkiller (@Eyeslam) December 11, 2014 The CHP drew intense criticism last
SF News A Weekend Of Protests Continues Into Monday Morning At Oakland Police Headquarters Hundreds of protesters demonstrated in well organized, peaceful marches in Oakland and San Francisco on Saturday as part of a national event dubbed Millions March. The San Francisco march included a mass "die-in"
SF News CHP Officer Who Drew Gun After He Was Unmasked As False Protester Thought He Was Going To Die Undercover police ARE violent protesters. In Oakland, cop pulls gun (not badge) on crowd after being exposed. pic.twitter.com/nBYc8MurZq— The Dreamkiller (@Eyeslam) December 11, 2014 An undercover California Highway Patrol officer
SF News Undercover CHP Officer Draws Gun During Oakland Protest Confrontation [Updated] Also, major props to @MikeShortPhoto, who had a gun pointed at him in Oakland, kept working #berkeleyprotests pic.twitter.com/rMImnkxCdn— Vivian Ho (@VivianHo) December 11, 2014 Update here: CHP Officer Who Drew
SF News Second Night Of Ferguson Protests In Oakland Leads To More Looting, Fires, 43 Arrests For the second night, protesters canvassed different parts of Oakland Tuesday in response to Monday's grand jury decision in Ferguson, Missouri, briefly disrupting traffic on two freeways, setting bonfires, looting, and generally harkening
SF News Ferguson-Related Protest In Oakland Snarls Traffic On 580, Causes Late-Night Chaos In Downtown A protest and "die-in" in downtown Oakland involving a reported 1,000 people led to a traffic-snarling march onto the I-580 freeway Monday night, as Bay City News reports. The protesters came out
SF News West Oakland Market Sends Posse Of Goons To Rough Up Thief Who Stole Liquor A tipster sent in this video of a group of men, identified as owners or employees of Ideal Market at 21st and Market Streets in West Oakland, chasing down and roughing up a
