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Phil Matier: Oakland Crime Rate Soaring As City Loses Officers

OAKLAND (KCBS) – Burglaries are up a startling 43 percent in Oakland this year compared to last, part of an ever-growing crime problem in the city. According to the latest numbers from the Oakland...

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Neighbors Grieve Over Deaths Of 2 Teen Girls In Oakland

OAKLAND (KCBS) — Police have not named any suspects as they continued their investigation into the killing of two teenage girls in East Oakland early Sunday morning. Meanwhile, neighbors who knew the...

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Oakland Suspects Evade Police Following Chase

OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Oakland police have called off the search Wednesday night for three or four suspects who fled from police near Emeryville and later crashed their car east of Lake Merritt. The...

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Oakland Police Reach Deal To Avoid Federal Takeover

OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Civil rights lawyers who had sought a federal takeover of the Oakland Police Department reached a settlement with the city Wednesday that calls for a compliance director, not a...

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Lawyer Satisfied With Oakland Police Oversight Deal

OAKLAND (CBS SF) — An agreement that calls for a compliance director to oversee the Oakland Police Department was needed because the department moved far too slowly in complying with reforms that were...

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Oakland Police Arrest 2 In Armed Robbery Case; 3rd Suspect At Large

OAKLAND (CBS SF) - Two armed robbery suspects were arrested but one evaded capture in a search of an East Oakland neighborhood Monday afternoon, police said. An officer witnessed the robbery in the...

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Judge Approves Plan For New Oakland Police Oversight

OAKLAND (CBS SF) – A federal judge approved an agreement Wednesday to have a powerful outside compliance director oversee the Oakland Police Department and its implementation of reforms mandated by the...

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Bay Area Police Collect Hundreds Of Guns In Buyback Program

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — Police say hundreds of guns have been taken off the streets of Oakland and San Francisco in a gun buyback program that Oakland police Officer Johnna Watson is describing as a...

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Former LA Police Chief Hired To Help Oakland Reduce Crime

OAKLAND (CBS/AP) – Besieged by spikes in murders and violent crime, Oakland city officials said Thursday they have hired former New York City police commissioner and Los Angeles police chief Bill...

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Oakland Crime Fighting Consultant Defends ‘Stop-And-Frisk’

OAKLAND (CBS 5) — The City of Oakland City Council is set to vote on the contract to hire former Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton as a crime fighting consultant. In an interview with CBS 5,...

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Committee Approves Funding To Help Rebuild Oakland Police Department

OAKLAND (KCBS) — Oakland City Council’s Finance Committee approved funding to rebuild the police department by unanimous vote on Tuesday. It has been described as an unusual step to allocate funds...

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Family Feeling Threatened After OPD Blames Crime Wave On Woman’s Murder

OAKLAND (KCBS)— The family of a 16-year-old Oakland girl shot and killed last summer is taking issue with police officials who they say have blamed the city’s rising violence on her murder. One family...

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Retirement, Disability Further Thinning Oakland Police Officer Ranks

OAKLAND (KCBS) – Attrition continues to thin the ranks of the Oakland Police Department, be it by retirement or disability. The force has lost 16 officers since the beginning of December. Oakland...

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Oakland Plan To Hire Police Consultant Under Fire Over ‘Stop And Frisk’

OAKLAND (KCBS) – Emotions ran high at Oakland City Hall on Tuesday night as dozens of people spoke out against a controversial plan to bring a former Los Angeles and New York police chief in to advise...

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Oakland Council Weighs Hiring Bratton, Anti-Crime Measures

OAKLAND (CBS SF) — The Oakland City Council heard public comment Tuesday night on four crime-fighting proposals that proponents say will help Oakland reduce its high crime rate. The most controversial...

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Oakland Hires William Bratton As Police Consultant, Quan Hopeful

OAKLAND (CBS SF) – Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said the City Council’s approval early Wednesday of four measures aimed at beefing up and improving the city’s understaffed Police Department represents “an...

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Officer Shot In East Oakland, Suspect In Custody

OAKLAND (CBS SF) — A 13-year Oakland Police Department veteran is recovering after being shot in East Oakland Friday night, a spokeswoman said. Around 5:25 p.m., two uniformed officers responded to the...

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2 Facing Charges After Shooting Of Undercover Oakland Officer

OAKLAND (KCBS) – Two men have been charged with assault on a peace officer and other crimes in connection with an attack on an undercover Oakland police officer in East Oakland on Jan. 21. Damien...

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Oakland Councilmember Seeks State of Emergency After Girl, Officers Shot

OAKLAND (KCBS) — An Oakland City Council member has asked the City Attorney to declare a state of emergency in the wake of this past week’s shootings of two police officers and an 8-year-old girl....

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Fewer Officers To Patrol Oakland As CHP’s ‘Operation Impact’ Ends

OAKLAND (CBS 5) – The Oakland Police Department is about to lose some precious backup on Thursday. That’s because the California Highway Patrol has decided to wrap up “Operation Impact,” a 90-day crime...

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