SF News More Oakland Neighborhoods Hiring Private Security Firms To Reduce Crime If the cops don't show up, what's a worried neighborhood to do? As cash-strapped, crime-challenged cities like Detroit, L.A., Atlanta, and Oakland face continually dwindling budgets and smaller police forces, there's been
SF News Oakland Police Release Photos Of Protest Vandalism Suspects The search is on for several suspects wanted for vandalizing city streets and local businesses during last weekend's Justice for Trayvon rallies. Police have asked the public to help identify suspects and have
SF News Oakland Settles With Injured Occupy Protesters For $1.17M In a high-profile case dealing with police misconduct, the City of Oakland has decided to settle lawsuits brought by a dozen protesters from Occupy Oakland, all to the tune of $1.17 million.
SF News Oakland Police Chief's 'Medical' Retirement Might Not Be So Medical The embattled, controversial, and less-than-effective Oakland Police Department made headlines again yesterday when Chief of Police Howard Jordan abruptly announced his retirement. The official word was that he is on medical leave, and
SF News Oakland Cops Shoot A Lot Of People A new piece in the Oakland Tribune by Thomas Peele the author of a recent book about the murder of Chauncey Bailey suggests that the OPD are, in fact, more trigger-happy than cops
SF News Oakland Police Shoot Unarmed Teen This is odd. While responding to a call regarding an armed robbery, Oakland police shot a teen who, it seems, had nothing to do with the robbery. While not seriously injured, the teen,
SF News Oakland Police Brag About Nabbing 'Most Wanted' Criminal Who Wasn't A Criminal At All Not that the Oakland Police Department needs any more bad press at this point we have to assume they don't even give a rat's ass what anyone says but a fellow by the
SF News One Killed, Three Shot at Oakland's First Friday/Art Murmur Event The future of the big outdoor party in Oakland's Uptown known as both First Fridays and Art Murmur may be in question after a shooting last night that took the life of an
SF News Oakland Police Officer Shot, Two Men Arrested An undercover OPD officer was shot in the arm last night in an incident in East Oakland near Seminary Avenue and 17th Street. Police arrested two men in connection with the shooting but
SF News With Five Weeks Left in the Year, Oakland Homicide Count Hits 115 Oakland is on track to close out a particularly violent year, perhaps the most violent since 2008, when the murder total hit 125. Interestingly, the homicide rate can't be blamed on an uptick
SF News EBX: Oakland Police Are the Worst The public outrage about the mismanagement and misconduct of the Oakland Police Department is getting louder as a judge considers initiating an unprecedented federal takeover of the department. Today the East Bay Express's
SF News Oakland Police Deface Photo of Mayor Jean Quan as Department Faces Possible Federal Takeover The Oakland Police Department is in some serious hot water as it faces a possible takeover by the federal government. Meanwhile, a federal monitor has just issued a quarterly report that details the
SF News Dramatic Standoff In East Oakland Ends With One Man Arrested, Another Still At Large Oakland Police were engaged in a dramatic shootout in East Oakland Saturday night in which an attempted traffic stop turned chaotic and near deadly. Cops were trying to pull over a van (allegedly
SF News Indybay Photographer Sues Oakland Police For Constitutional Violations Local news photographer John Weston Osburn, who has worked primarily for Indybay Media, has filed a federal suit in Alameda County against the City of Oakland and several Oakland police officers claiming unreasonable
SF News Movie Theater Shooting Caps Off Especially Violent Weekend in Oakland; Four Homicides In Total It was yet another violent weekend in Oakland, with three fatal shootings Friday and five people shot outside the Regal Cinemas Jack London Square on Sunday. This of course doesn't help the city's
SF News Bomb Hoax Scares Downtown Oakland With Menacing Lunchbox Four blocks around the police headquarters in downtown Oakland were evacuated earlier today after something looking like a bomb appeared on the loading dock of a Salvation Army location. According to the Salvation
SF News Dead Body Found Weighted Down In Oakland Estuary [Updated] Despite being weighted down with four 25-pound weights, a man's body at least his feet floated to the surface of the Oakland Estuary and was spotted early this morning when a fisherman near
SF News Meanwhile, In Oakland, 23 Occupiers Arrested; 3,500 Rallied at Frank Ogawa Plaza Since when are there more Occupy arrests in San Francisco on a day of planned action than there are in Oakland? Oakland Police clearly exercised much greater restraint than they did in 2011
SF News Oakland Police Think They Were Victims In Last Fall's Occupy Kerfuffles A new internal report from the OPD casts the police department as victims who showed "a great deal of restraint while surrounded by an angry, assaultive crowd" during last October's melee with Occupy
SF News Oakland Cop Shoots Oscar Grant's Cousin The OPD has yet more blood on their hands and another potentially disastrous PR problem to contend with as news arrives today that the victim in an officer-involved shooting in East Oakland on
SF News Police Clash With Occupy Oakland on 'Move-In Day,' Tear Gas Deployed, 400 Arrested [Updated] It was "Move-In Day" for Occupy Oakland today, and as we type protesters have once again met with riot-cop resistance in the form of barricades, smoke bombs, and tear gas as they were
SF News Crime Dropped 19 Percent During Week Of Initial Occupy Oakland Raid, Says Investigative Report As KTVU reported on Friday, their office obtained about 1,000 internal emails between Oakland City Hall and the Oakland Police Department discussing how the city should handle the Occupy Oakland encampment before
SF News Oh No They Didn't: Occupy Oakland Proclaims, 'F**K OPD' After encountering several arrests at Frank Ogawa Plaza during the past few weeks, Occupy Oakland has turned the heat up a notch by organizing a "March Against Repression" Saturday night dubbed, "Fuck OPD.
SF News More Arrests As Oakland Occupiers Protest Teepee Removal Approximately 60 Oakland police in riot gear entered Frank Ogawa Plaza around 11:30 p.m. last night and "made several indiscriminate arrests," as KRON4 is reporting. A dozen Occupy Oakland folk were
SF News Oakland Drops $100,000+ On Independent Investigation Into Police Conduct During Occupy We're not sure what's worse: Spending millions of dollars to protect a concrete and grass plaza from a few dozen earnest hippies and ultimately brutalizing several protesters and launching a nationally vilified tear-gas
