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'
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
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
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,
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
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
SF News Oakland City Council Decides Not To Sic Cops On Every Last Protester At their meeting last night, the Oakland City Council rejected a proposed resolution which we discussed yesterday that would have authorized Oakland police to use "whatever lawful tools" necessary to prevent
SF News Video: New Upsetting Footage Shows Second Iraq Vet Beaten By Oakland Police Some new footage has surfaced, oddly via the UK Guardian, showing exactly what happened when 32-year-old Kayvan Sabehgi was beaten by a riot cop, lacerating his spleen after the General Strike
SF News Another Showdown Afoot Between Occupy Oakland and Police It looks like Oakland mayor and incessant flip-flopper Jean Quan is once again about to try to oust the dirty hippies from her front yard, and we can promise you this isn&
SF News Video Shows Oakland PD Officers Undercover at Occupy Oakland Way back in 2003, current interim police chief for the Oakland Police Department Howard Jordan was recorded discussing the need to be "way ahead of the curve" when it comes to
SF News Two Men Arrested in Oakland in Connection With Burning Body Last week's disturbing case of a burning female body that was dumped in the middle of a quiet Rockridge Street early one morning appears to be heading somewhere. First, the victim
SF News Police Kill Two Suspects In East Oakland Shootout Oakland police responded to a tip yesterday that an act of violent crime was going to take place on the 3000 block of Curran Way. When they arrived, they saw a blue van
SF News Man Walks Into Oakland PD, Says He Was Shot At, Admits to 30 Armed Robberies 21-year-old Walter Sayles went to speak with the Oakland police about being shot at around 5 a.m. yesterday morning. Cops started speaking with Sayles about some robberies that were happening
SF News Oakland Police Shoot, Kill Unarmed Man The Oakland Police will have to answer to the public after fatally shooting an unarmed "popular store owner" on Monday. The man, identified as 37-year-old Derek Jones, was killed
SF News Sniper Takes Aim at Police in West Oakland We might want to chalk this up to some copycat anti-cop rage following on that major shootout with the CHP on 580, but last night around 11:30 p.m. the Oakland
SF News Oakland Police: Too Bad-Ass For Boxing The International Boxing Association has banned the Oakland Police Department from future fights in the "Badge vs. Badge" police boxing series pending an investigation of the causes of an audience brawl
SF News Independent Report on Oakland Police Shooting Means Demotion For Two Officers The deadliest day in Oakland Police history, on which four officers were shot and killed last March, led to an inquiry by an independent panel of police experts whose report was just released
SF News Thousands of Cops Arrive for OPD Funeral Fuzz from "throughout California and from as far away as New York and Florida" showed up today to attend the funerals of Sgt. Mark Dunakin, Sgt, Ervin Romans, Sgt. Daniel Sakai,
SF News Freeways to Close for OPD Funeral Procession While tomorrow's funeral for the four Oakland police officers is anticipated to draw 18,000 people to the Oracle Arena, almost every East Bay freeway will be affected as the bodies
SF News Images: Memorial of Slain OPD Officers Photographs of the makeshift memorial for Mark Dunakin, John Hege, Ervin Romans and Daniel Sakai, the four officers gunned down by Lovelle Mixon on Saturday, March 21.
misc Bay Area Wanderer: It's Been A Tough Weekend * Bay Area Wanderer: 19th Avenue and Winston, San Francisco Flags at half-mast in the cold light thrown by the sunset. It's been a tough couple days for The Bay Area.
SF News Following Oakland Cop Shooting, San Francisco YouTuber Says 'Down with the 2nd Amendment' San Francisco resident and YouTuber Jacquelineveronique has posted a number of anti-gun videos on the site, and in the wake of the tragic murders of 4 Oakland police officers yesterday, she is
SF News Indybay's Fetishization of the African-American Male Continues Oh, Indybay.org, you know we like you. Why? Because you're so hot-headed and loopy; the flipside to zombietime, if you will. But this takes the soy-based vegan carrot
SF News "He's Not a Monster," Says Oakland Cop Killer's Family New information is coming out about Lovelle Mixon, the man accused of shooting four Oakland police officers during a routine traffic stop Saturday afternoon. The Oakland parolee, according to SF Chronicle, "was
