Police in Oakland Investigate Shooting at 8th and Broadway Near Chinatown
Police in Oakland on Tuesday afternoon were investigating a non-injury shooting in the downtown area not far from Chinatown, according to authorities.
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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.
Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong on Wednesday talked about his new strategy for combating a surge in violent crime that has gripped his city this year, just hours before going public with his road map for the department through 2024.
Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong is set to announce a safe streets initiative in the wake of a chaotic 4th of July weekend punctuated by shootings, illegal fireworks, a homicide, and another raucous sideshow.
A man driving a vehicle in San Francisco was accosted at gunpoint, driven in his vehicle to Oakland, and eventually released by his kidnappers who then drove away in his car, authorities said Tuesday.
The deaths of three men fatally shot over the weekend and another who died last week from wounds suffered earlier this month in Oakland raised the city's homicide count for the year to 65, police said.
The Oakland City Council voted last week to divert money from the police, which led many to believe the department budget was being cut. But some who made that decision told KPIX 5 that's a misunderstanding.
A day after the majority of Oakland's city council voted to slash over $17 million from the police department budget over the next two years, some residents were weighing on on how they felt about the cuts.
The Oakland City Council approved a budget early Thursday evening that will strip $17.4 million in funding from the Oakland Police Department and direct the money toward other programs.
An Oakland man has been arrested and 165 pounds of illegal fireworks were seized following a crackdown by Oakland Police ahead of the July 4 holiday.
Alicia Garza, co-creator of Black Lives Matter, on the progress of social change since George Floyd was killed.
The City of Alameda hired an Oakland deputy police chief to take over as chief of the Alameda Police department.
Police in Oakland on Friday released the names of two recent homicide victims who were among those who lost their lives in the latest surge in street violence.
Police in Oakland are investigating a fatal shooting that left a male victim dead early Wednesday morning, according to authorities.
As a life-long Oakland resident, Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong said Monday that his department was determined to halt the recent surge in gun violence which included two homicides and nearly a dozen shootings over a 36-hour span.
Two separate shootings overnight in Oakland in the span of four hours left two people dead, police said. The deaths are the latest a surge of homicides and gun violence in the city.
The Oakland Police Department was seeking the public's help with the unsolved homicide of Henry Texada, a college student gunned down one year ago Wednesday.
Police in Oakland are seeking the public's help and offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of whoever was responsible for a shooting that killed a man who would have been celebrating his 19th birthday Thursday.
Police in Oakland and Antioch announced on Thursday the arrests of suspected gang members involved in a feud that authorities say is fueling much of the gun violence plaguing both cities.
A man died in a shooting Thursday afternoon in East Oakland, police said Friday.
Violent crime has gotten so bad in Oakland, police are creating a new investigative unit to stop it.
Illegal sideshow activity in Oakland Sunday resulted in the arrest of two people, ten others issued citations, and the towing of six vehicles. A firearm was also recovered, police said Monday.
A suspect in yet another unprovoked attack on an elderly Asian man in Oakland has been arrested and identified by a police source, authorities said Thursday.
Oakland stepped closer Tuesday toward a program for mental health crisis response that does not involve police.
