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...
View ArticleNeighbors 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...
View ArticleOakland 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...
View ArticleOakland 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...
View ArticleLawyer 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...
View ArticleOakland 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...
View ArticleJudge 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...
View ArticleBay 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...
View ArticleFormer 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...
View ArticleOakland 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,...
View ArticleCommittee 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...
View ArticleFamily 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...
View ArticleRetirement, 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...
View ArticleOakland 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...
View ArticleOakland 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...
View ArticleOakland 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...
View ArticleOfficer 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...
View Article2 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...
View ArticleOakland 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....
View ArticleFewer 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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