Oakland Teen Mistakenly Shot By Police Retains Lawyer
The family of an innocent 16-year-old boy shot in the face by Oakland police Wednesday night has retained a civil rights lawyer.
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The family of an innocent 16-year-old boy shot in the face by Oakland police Wednesday night has retained a civil rights lawyer.
Police arrested a man who fired shots at officers in East Oakland late Thursday night.
An Oakland police officer responding to a report of an armed robbery near a downtown restaurant on Wednesday night shot and injured a teenager who wasn't involved in the robbery, Police Chief Howard Jordan said Thursday.
A man was critically injured Tuesday in a shooting and crash in the Oakland hills, a police spokesman said.
In a major step to improve low staffing levels, on Friday the Oakland Police Department graduated its first academy since 2008.
At a town-hall meeting, the OPD said making important arrests known to the public will be a part of their community-policing strategy.
Following reports that the Oakland Police Department will divide patrolling the city into five districts from the previous two, Chief Howard Jordan announced police commanders will be more accountable as part of a new community policing strategy.
This weekend Oakland's Police Department is changing its strategy per the recommendation of consultant team on fighting crime by shrinking police districts. Critics say it doesn't add more police.
Alleged members and associates of an Oakland gang that Police Chief Howard Jordan said is probably the most violent group of young people he's seen were arraigned earlier this week on a variety of charges, including conspiracy to commit murder.
A lawyer for a man who claims he was wrongly put on the Oakland Police Department's "Most Wanted" list for six months in 2012 called the incident "an egregious and scandalous error."
Oakland police joined forces with state and federal agencies to arrest several suspected violent offenders in a crime sweep Friday morning, a police spokeswoman said.
Police expert William Bratton said Wednesday that he thinks fighting Oakland's crime problem is "a very winnable situation."
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and civil rights attorney John Burris on Tuesday both welcomed the appointment of police expert Thomas Frazier to oversee long-overdue court-ordered reforms of the Oakland Police Department.
An assault rifle stolen from an unmarked San Francisco police car has been recovered in Oakland, according to police.
A former police commissioner from Baltimore has been selected as the court-appointed director to oversee the embattled Oakland Police Department.
A SWAT team surrounded a home in East Oakland overnight after a shooting in another part of the city on Monday afternoon, a police spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Oakland's crime problems have gotten so bad that some people aren't even bothering to call the cops anymore. Instead, they're trying to solve and prevent crimes themselves.
The hiring of the additional officers comes after many area police departments, including Oakland and San Jose, lost nearly 1,000 officers when the economy began to decline about five years ago.
The Oakland City Council approved spending $162,000 for two more months of the extra patrols.
Police chief Howard Jordan disputed an account in a court-appointed monitor's report that described two Oakland officers pointing their loaded weapons at a sleeping toddler, while serving a search warrant.
The California Highway Patrol has agreed to extend its assistance to the understaffed Oakland Police Department for at least another 30 days, but the question of who will pay the bill hasn't been settled.
Two Oakland police officers recently pointed their guns at a sleeping toddler while investigating a misdemeanor case, according to the court-appointed monitor overseeing the Oakland Police Department.
The Oakland Police Department is about to lose some precious backup as the California Highway Patrol's "Operation Impact" is set to end Thursday.
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.
Court documents are shedding new light on the details surrounding last week's shooting of an undercover Oakland police officer, allegedly by a 23-year-old man who has been identified as Damien McDaniel.
