SF News Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan Announces Retirement Routinely criticized Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan announced his retirement today. Effective immediately, his he is on medical leave. In a statement sent to OPD, Jordan writes: "To the members and civilian staff
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 After Another Extra-Long Meeting, Oakland City Council Approves Hiring Controversial Police Consultant We thought this hiring was already done in December, but it turns out that Bill Bratton, formerly Chief of Police in L.A., still needed formal Council approval to begin his consulting gig
SF News Oakland Hires Former L.A. Police Chief to Consult on Crime It's been a rough year for murders in Oakland, and critics have been saying the department can't catch criminals anymore and calling for a federal takeover of the department. Now, the City Council
SF News Why Can't Oakland PD Lower The Crime Rate? Because They Can't Catch Criminals What sounds like a bad joke about Oakland's struggling police force is actually the headline to an investigative report by the East Bay Express this week. In the Express' cover story, reporter Ali
SF News Two Shot While Driving In West Oakland Monday night, two men were shot to death while driving near the Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School in West Oakland. The men, ages 19 and 28, had been driving on the 1000
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 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 Photo: Cop Doused With Paint During Oakland May Day Melee Jeez. According to @abc7newsbayarea, this officer (one of several) was drenched in a substance believed to be yellow paint during today's May Day protest in Oakland. As SFist reported earlier that paint was
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 Oakland Cops Demoted, Suspended For Covering Name Tags During Occupy Oakland Protest Do you remember this footage of an OPD officer covering his name tag with black tape (which is a no-no) during the Occupy Oakland general strike? Viemo user BLK PXLS (AKA Terrence Jerod
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 Police Officer Busted for Covering Name Tag During Occupy Oakland Strike BLK PXLS captured this superb footage of an Oakland policer officer covering up his name tag during Wednesday's chaotic, tear gas-filled Occupy Oakland general strike. When asked about the black tap over his
SF News Jon Stewart On City's Response to Occupy Oakland "What the fuck happened in Oakland?" Jon Stewart asked during last night's Daily Show. "Seems a little heavy handed... unless some of the protesters were Godzilla," he went on to quip. The comedian
SF News Oakland Police Fling Flashbang Grenade Into Crowd Helping Ailing Man [Video] As a woman man lies crumpled on the ground after a beanbag assault by Oakland police during last night's scuffle between the city of Oakland and Occupy Oakland, several bystanders and protesters came
SF News Scenes From the Occupy Oakland vs. OPD Tuesday Night Melee Oakland, dude. There's hella more angry, semi-organized, semi-maybe-unemployed, restless kids over there. Well, at least a couple hundred more than there have been in the daily occupation at Occupy SF. And last night
SF News Occupy Oakland "Not Finished" After this morning's temporary disembowelment of Occupy Oakland by the city of Oakland, the group sent out a strongly worded message in which they claim a) "it's not finished" and b) that they
SF News Quote Du Jour: Tupac And The Oakland Police Department Fifteen years ago today, Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in Las Vegas. His murder remains steeped in questions and controversy. However, while the Oakland artist was alive, he tossed off the following
SF News Oakland Musician Allegedly Gay Bashed Speaking of hate crimes, local musician Brontez alleges that he was gay bashed last night while leaving Club Paradiso (2272 Telegraph) in Oakland. Via his Facebook page, he writes: Got gay bashed last
SF News Did Police Use Excessive Force at Merhserle Verdict Protest? Some members of the National Lawyers Guild and a smattering of community activists claim the Oakland Police Department "used excessive force in responding to a large protest after the verdict in the trial
SF News 80 Oakland Police Officers to Lose Jobs at 5 p.m. In an effort to reduce a $31 million deficit, a whopping 80 officers from the Oakland Police Department will lose their jobs today. "Hopes appear to be fading but they are not gone
SF News Veteran OPD Officer Commits Suicide The Oakland Police Department revealed yesterday that "Officer Murray Hoyle committed suicide in an unincorporated area of Brentwood on Saturday." Hoyle, it seems, was with the OPD for more than 28 years. According
SF News Oakland Cops Kill Suspected Rapist Yesterday. after two Oakland officers confronted a man on the 1400 block of 16th Avenue a little after 3 p.m., "the suspect pulled out a handgun and started firing at the officers.
SF News Fallen OPD Officer to Get I-580 Honor The California State Assembly introduced la bit of legislation, one that would "designate a portion of Interstate Highway 580 in unincorporated Alameda County as the Sgt. Daniel Sakai Memorial Highway in honor of
