Oakland Beefs Up Patrols To Stop Sideshows Thanks To Traffic Safety Grant
More police officers will be patrolling the streets of Oakland to stop sideshow activity, thanks to a $500,000 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety.
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More police officers will be patrolling the streets of Oakland to stop sideshow activity, thanks to a $500,000 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety.
An Oakland police officer remains in stable condition late Sunday night after he was shot while off duty Saturday in San Leandro, an Oakland police spokeswoman said.
An Oakland police officer saved a newborn baby's life on Tuesday afternoon by performing CPR on the infant, police said Wednesday.
Police were investigating whether a decaying human head found in an Oakland backyard belongs to a recently discovered headless corpse.
Authorities in the East Bay on Friday were investigating a decayed human skull that was found in the backyard of a home in Oakland.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf says she has ordered an end to a police department's policy that forced job applicants to give it access to confidential records, including those that would disclose if they had been sexually assaulted.
The Oakland police department asks officer applicants if they've ever been sexually assaulted and experts are divided over whether the question is legal.
Five men were detained following a pursuit in East Oakland early Monday morning.
After making arrests and the towing almost 100 vehicles following the massive sideshows that occurred in Oakland early Sunday morning, Oakland Police are now trying out a new social media-focused strategy to sideline illegal sideshow activity.
A rescued pig named Vivienne that KPIX 5 reported on last week got to visit her new owner's place of employment Friday: Oakland police headquarters.
A suspect was arrested in San Leandro after a shooting in Oakland Wednesday morning that led officers to believe he was holed up inside a building nearby, according to police.
The woman at the center of a sex scandal involving several San Francisco Bay Area police departments has dropped her last pending lawsuit against the agencies.
The Oakland Police Department is encouraging immigrants who were victims of crime to reapply for a temporary visa certification because it may have wrongly denied as many as 25 of the applications.
The last charge against a former Oakland police officer accused in a wide-ranging police sex scandal involving a teenager has been dropped.
Police in Oakland are searching for two suspects in a stabbing attack Tuesday night, according to police.
A high-profile sexual misconduct case that cost 12 Bay Area officers their jobs is fizzling in court.
A man who allegedly tried to flee the scene of a car crash died while in the custody of Oakland police after officers used an electronic stun gun to detain him.
A person who was in the custody of the Oakland police department died Thursday afternoon.
Officials in say two police officers in Oakland have been hospitalized after crashing while responding to a call about a shooting.
A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced 27-year-old Damion McDaniel in the 2013 shooting of an Oakland police officer.
Police have been serving warrants throughout the Bay Area Friday morning as part of a multi-agency operation.
A former Oakland police officer accused in a prostitution case was scheduled to challenge the re-filing of two felony counts of conspiracy to obstruct justice against him at a hearing Thursday, but the matter was postponed until Friday.
From the mayor on down, a court-appointed investigator said Wednesday that Oakland city officials mishandled, downplayed and ignored sexual misconduct allegations about the city's police department that turned into a far-reaching scandal.
The city of Oakland is looking to hire ex-convicts to oversee the Oakland Police Department.
The odds of hearing a police officer say thank you, or utter an apology during a routine traffic stop in Oakland are much higher for a white driver than a black driver.
