Judge: 5 Oakland Police Officers Involved In Death Of Joshua Pawlik Were Wrongly Fired
An Alameda County judge ruled that five Oakland police officers who fatally shot a homeless man in 2018 were unjustly fired and should have kept their jobs.
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An Alameda County judge ruled that five Oakland police officers who fatally shot a homeless man in 2018 were unjustly fired and should have kept their jobs.
Reviving the ancient call of beating swords into plowshares, Oakland police are using a gun buyback program to turn guns into gardening tools.
The Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council and California Waste Solutions has donated $80,000 to the Oakland Police Department to buy a tool that many law enforcement agencies already own.
The driver of a stolen van being tracked by police was killed in a fiery crash in an East Oakland neighborhood after hitting a spike strip Wednesday. Two police officers were hurt trying to rescue the driver.
A San Francisco resident was fatally shot early Wednesday morning in East Oakland, police said.
A person was injured in a shooting Sunday afternoon in East Oakland, police said Monday.
A man was found dead in the middle of the street in an East Oakland neighborhood and police were investigating it as a suspicious death.
Oakland police and the FBI on Thursday renewed an appeal to the public for information on the four-year anniversary of the murder of Patrick Scott Jr.
A woman died and a man was injured Tuesday morning in a shooting inside a spa located in the busy Grand Ave. business district near Lake Merritt in Oakland.
Police recently arrested three adults and a juvenile as suspects in more than a dozen armed robberies in Oakland this month, authorities announced Wednesday.
Oakland Police announced Tuesday that officers arrested the suspect believed to have pushed an elderly woman in the city's Chinatown district weeks ago.
Police in Oakland on Monday confirmed the recent arrest of a suspect who was wanted for shoving an elderly Asian woman to the ground earlier this month.
A person's death is under investigation after being found pinned between a truck and a pole Wednesday night, police said.
Two men are dead in separate shootings this week in Oakland, police said Thursday.
Pain and heartbreak are etched across Rita Warda's face. She was taking her beloved French bulldog out of an evening walk in a neighborhood near Oakland's Lake Merritt, a man walked up with gun and now 'Dezzie' was gone.
Police are looking for the person who casually shoved an elderly woman to the ground in Oakland's Chinatown in an assault captured on a surveillance camera, and are also looking for the victim.
An Oakland man is dead following a shooting Thursday evening near a school in East Oakland, police said.
Two people were shot Tuesday evening in Oakland and one of those shootings was at a homeless encampment, police said Wednesday.
Amid a continuing debate over the role and size of urban police departments, 10 years of Oakland police data show that shootings and homicides declined in number as the city's police force grew.
The Oakland Police Department is putting additional resources into East Oakland as the city continues to grapple with a rise in gun violence and homicides in that area.
An Oakland resident died Sunday from a gunshot wound following a shooting on the east side of town, police said Monday.
Amid a surge in violence in Oakland, including the highest number of homicides in years, Mayor Libby Schaaf called on Gov. Gavin Newsom for additional aid to curb crime.
Taking a step towards increasing accountability at the Oakland Police Department, the city's police commission hired its first independent inspector general this week.
The Oakland City Council voted to fund two more academies to add 60 more officers to help bring the department back to the 737 authorized positions.
A report released late Monday afternoon by a public safety advocacy group says Oakland police do not have a staffing problem as elected city leaders have been saying but a mismanagement problem.
