Oakland To Spend $5.8 Million To Fill Vacant Police Officer Positions
Oakland's mayor unveiled a plan Friday to reduce violence across the city by spending more money to fill vacant police officer positions.
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Oakland's mayor unveiled a plan Friday to reduce violence across the city by spending more money to fill vacant police officer positions.
The Oakland police department is partnering up with the police department in Hammond, Indiana to search for a missing 25-year-old woman, the department announced on Thursday.
Three men have been charged folllowing the attempted murder of Ersie Joyner, a former Oakland Police captain who shot a fourth suspect dead during an armed robbery at a gas station last month, with the charges including murder for the suspect's death.
In a one-on-one interview with KPIX 5, Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong discussed the brutal violence his city has seen so far this year and made an urgent plea with the community.
A man is in critical condition after he was shot Thursday afternoon in East Oakland, police said.
A shooting in Oakland near Lake Merritt early Thursday morning has left a victim in "grave condition," police said.
A woman was wounded in a shooting near Oakland's Fox Theater on Wednesday afternoon, police said.
An armored truck was robbed at gunpoint in Oakland Tuesday, with the suspects fleeing the scene.
A man was shot in the face as he was holding a child Saturday evening in West Oakland, police said.
Oakland police have taken a man into custody Wednesday afternoon who, they say, pointed a replica firearm at an OPD helicopter that was tracking him from the air.
An investigation is underway into a fatal freeway shooting on westbound Interstate 580 during the Wednesday afternoon commute.
Alcohol appears to have played a role in a crash that claimed the life of a Hayward woman early Sunday morning in Oakland, police said.
The family member who was driving when a teen girl was fatally shot during a road rage incident in Oakland last week told KPIX Friday that Oakland police have identified the wrong car as the suspect vehicle.
An emotional Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong went again before cameras Thursday to condemn the latest shooting which left a teenage girl dead, imploring members of the community to work together with police to help stop the scourge of gun violence.
A suspect wounded an Oakland police officer early Wednesday and was also shot by police before barricading himself inside a building, triggering a tense standoff that ended when negotiators convinced him to surrender, authorities said.
In a 6-to-2 vote, the Oakland City Council voted to increase the number of new police recruits in the face of the city's escalating problems with deadly street violence..
Oakland police reported a carjacking and shooting Tuesday afternoon, the latest in a recent spate of gun violence.
When Gaspar Gamez checked his surveillance camera video at his Oakland business, he was shocked to see what it had recorded.
Ten people, including six children, were injured in a crash involving a suspected drunk driver in Oakland Thursday evening, with two children in critical condition.
An Oakland city councilmember thinks the council will have enough votes later this month to provide more police officers to the Police Department.
By January, victim's attorneys hope to be able to end federal oversight of the Oakland Police Department, civil rights attorney John Burris said Friday.
Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong paused 87 seconds during a media briefing Thursday afternoon in honor of the 87 lives lost to violence in his city this year.
Police in Oakland on Tuesday afternoon were investigating a non-injury shooting in the downtown area not far from Chinatown, according to authorities.
Oakland police were investigating a pair of shootings Thursday night after being alerted by residents who heard a fusillade of bullets in their neighborhood.
One man was killed and two others injured in early morning shootings in Oakland, police said Thursday.
