Oakland Group Files Petition To Recall Mayor Quan
A group of Oakland residents has filed a petition seeking to recall Mayor Jean Quan, saying she is ignoring public safety as the city's most pressing issue.
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A group of Oakland residents has filed a petition seeking to recall Mayor Jean Quan, saying she is ignoring public safety as the city's most pressing issue.
Ahead of the safety summit, Quan would only talk in general terms about efforts to improve public safety in Oakland, including maximizing the value of more than 60 police officers being added to the police department.
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan announced Thursday that Assistant Police Chief Howard Jordan will serve as acting police chief for the city following the surprise resignation of Chief Anthony Batts earlier this week.
Officers swearing on the job could be a thing of the past in Oakland if Chief Anthony Batts has his way.
The 25 new officers will mainly focus on patrolling areas near schools and fighting human trafficking in the city.
The Oakland Police Department is facing new scrutiny, as a San Francisco federal judge has questions about police misconduct, nearly a decade after the Riders Case.
Oakland police hit the streets Thursday with extra tools in their patrol cars after a spate of violent crimes that victimized children.
Oakland police officers are often too quick to draw their guns, especially when confronting African-American suspects, according to a federal court monitor.
Layoffs and budget cuts have hurt the department in their efforts to get the deadly weapons off the streets and out of the hand of criminals.
Two suspects are in custody and two others remain at large following an armed carjacking Monday in West Oakland neighborhood and then an officer-involved shooting in East Oakland.
Groups held a protest outside Oakland Unified School District headquarters Wednesday to demand that the district's acting police chief be fired because he was involved in the fatal shooting of a suspect earlier this year.
The city of Oakland's new police radio system is still not working properly, two months after being installed, and the president of the Oakland Police Officers Association (POA) is worried public safety will be compromised until the radios are fixed.
Kamala Harris has sent special agents to Oakland in an effort to stop violence in the streets.
One man was injured in Oakland on Friday night during an officer-involved shooting, a police spokeswoman said.
A brief court appearance occurred Friday for a 26-year-old alleged gang member accused in the fatal drive-by shooting of a 3-year-old Oakland boy, while family members maintained the man's innocence.
A drive-by shooting that killed a 3-year-old boy in East Oakland on Monday appears to have been gang-related, Oakland police said Wednesday.
Oakland police said the two other male victims, who suffered non-life-threatening injuries, appeared to be targeted by the suspect or suspects.
A federal judge has ruled that Oakland police unlawfully strip-searched two men in public in 2005 and ordered the city to pay them a total of at least $200,000 in damages.
The Oakland Police Department will soon re-hire eight more of the officers laid off last year because of budget cuts, Police Chief Anthony Batts said.
The Oakland Police Department is beefing up its force, just as the city went through a weekend of violence.
A handful of police officers from Oakland, Alameda and BART are the first to complete crisis intervention training to help de-escalate from potentially violent situations with the mentally ill.
Severe budget cuts have led the Oakland Police Department to solicit outside donations to pay for new touch screen computers that have been replacing older laptops in its patrol vehicles.
The Oakland Police Department, in partnership with the Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services, hosted the first Crisis Intervention Training for law enforcement officers this week. The first group of CIT trainees graduated on Thursday.
The family of an unarmed barber who was shot to death by Oakland police is suing the City of Oakland.
Two Oakland City Council members deny receiving special treatment from police after their cars were burglarized.
