Officer Shot In East Oakland, Suspect In Custody
A 13-year Oakland Police Department veteran is recovering after being shot in East Oakland Friday night. The officer's injuries are not considered to be life threatening.
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A 13-year Oakland Police Department veteran is recovering after being shot in East Oakland Friday night. The officer's injuries are not considered to be life threatening.
The Oakland City Council approved four crime-fighting measures early Wednesday morning, including a controversial measure to hire former New York and Los Angeles police chief William Bratton as a consultant to provide advice to the Oakland Police Department.
The Oakland City Council heard public comment Tuesday night on four crime-fighting proposals that proponents say will help Oakland reduce its high crime rate.
Emotions ran high at Oakland City Hall on Tuesday night as dozens of people spoke out against a controversial plan to bring a former Los Angeles and New York police chief in to advise Oakland's Police Department.
The department has lost 16 officers since the beginning of December, with many retiring and others by disability.
The family of a Oakland teenage girl shot and killed last summer is taking issue with police who blamed the city's rising violence on her murder and are calling it defamation of character.
Oakland City Council's Finance Committee approved funding to rebuild the police department by unanimous vote on Tuesday. The three-step plan now goes to a vote before city council.
In an interview with CBS 5, William Bratton talked about his crime fighting strategy and his support of the practice called "stop-and-frisk."
Besieged by spikes in murders and violent crime, Oakland city officials said Thursday they have hired former New York City police commissioner and Los Angeles police chief Bill Bratton as a consultant.
Hundreds of guns have been taken off the streets of Oakland and San Francisco in a gun buyback program that a police spokeswoman described as a "huge success."
A federal judge approved an agreement Wednesday to have a powerful outside compliance director oversee the Oakland Police Department and its implementation of reforms mandated by the settlement of a 12-year-old civil rights lawsuit.
Two armed robbery suspects were arrested but one evaded capture in a search of an East Oakland neighborhood Monday afternoon, police said.
James Chanin said he and co-counsel John Burris sought to have an outside person oversee the Oakland Police Department because, "We got tired of waiting."
Civil rights lawyers who had sought a federal takeover of the Oakland Police Department reached a settlement with the city Wednesday that calls for a compliance director, not a receiver, to oversee the department.
Oakland police have called off the search Wednesday night for three or four suspects who fled from police near Emeryville and later crashed their car east of Lake Merritt.
Police have not named any suspects as they continued their investigation into the killing of two teenage girls in East Oakland early Sunday morning. Meanwhile, neighbors who knew the victims are consumed with grief.
Burglaries are up a startling 43 percent in Oakland this year compared to last, part of an ever-growing crime problem in the city.
Oakland's police union is criticizing the department's leadership, as a judge gets ready to decide whether to hand control of the force to federal authorities.
A federal judge has ordered city officials to negotiate with two lawyers who want the embattled Oakland Police Department to become the first in the nation to be taken over by the federal government.
An Oakland couple on Tuesday thanked three Oakland police officers who helped them successfully deliver a healthy baby boy under frantic conditions at a gas station Friday night.
Three Oakland police officers who helped deliver a baby boy over the weekend are assigned to a different type of delivery duty on Tuesday.
Residents of the Oakmore District of the Oakland Hills , where Mayor Jean Quan resides, met on Wednesday night to demand city leaders provide more police to stop escalating home-invasion robberies and other violent crimes.
An armed suspect was arrested on suspicion of selling drugs near McClymonds High School on Friday, after a search prompted the lockdown of the school, according to Oakland police.
The California Highway Patrol announced Thursday that it will deploy officers to help the understaffed Oakland Police Department as early as next week.
The City of Oakland and its Police Department are fully aware of the planned Occupy Oakland protest on Thursday, and they are prepared for whatever comes of it.
