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SWAT
Oakland SWAT Ambush: After-Action Report
The report details a cascade of mistakes that led to the tragic deaths of Sgt. Mark Dunakin, Officer John Hege, Sgt. Ervin Romans, and Sgt. Daniel Sakai. It faults the Oakland PD for poor communication, weak command and control, and poor planning.
January 6, 2010
Blogs
SWAT
February 1, 2012
Special Units
Deputy Who Helped End Oakland Ambush Honored at Sheriffs' Conference
Pope said he was reluctant at first to accept the award, but embraced it when he realized it would be shared with fellow officers involved in the Oakland ambush.
June 28, 2010
Patrol
Top 10 Viewed Stories of 2010
The year was marked by a steady rush of news and analysis of next-generation (Gen4) Glock pistols and new patrol vehicles. To cap it off, Congress and President Obama approved an update to the police carry law (LEOSA).
January 2, 2011
SWAT
Survival Lessons from Oakland and Pittsburgh
The lesson all of us must learn from the Oakland and Pittsburgh tragedies is to honor our fallen brothers in blue by doing whatever it takes to not only survive, or even to win, but to prevail.
April 14, 2009
SWAT
Lakewood Ambush: Not the First or Last
This isn't the first time this year that multiple officers from an agency have been killed in a single incident. While I certainly hope it's the last time, my gut feeling is it probably isn't.
December 3, 2009
Patrol
Protestors Link Oakland Ambush to BART Shooting
By late afternoon Saturday, a group of about 50 people lined 73rd Avenue, a block from where Dunakin and Hege were shot.
March 22, 2009
SWAT
Moving Forward: NTOA SWAT Standards and Oakland PD
The SWAT community, while still affected by the recent tragic loss of fellow officers in the line of duty, are coming together to improve tactics and do what they do best: stop the bad guys.
June 9, 2009
Special Units
Oakland SWAT Gets Additional Review
The Oakland Police Department's SWAT unit will get an additional third-party review, following a Board of Inquiry report that harshly criticized its handling of a desperate parolee's killing of four officers in March.
January 12, 2010
Special Units
Ecumenical Panel Will Investigate Oakland SWAT Tragedy
A board that will include law enforcement experts from across the state and the nation will conduct a "complete review" of the March 21 fatal shootings of four police officers, the Oakland Tribune reports.
June 1, 2009
Patrol
Oakland IA Sergeant Ambushed Outside City Hall, Suspect Killed
The sergeant, who has more than 20 years of experience and was in plain clothes, was on his way to work in an unmarked police car around 4 a.m. when a man on the street, armed with a gun, approached him.
November 8, 2023
Special Units
Oakland SWAT Captain Asks to be Reassigned After Team Expresses "No Confidence"
Capt. Ed Tracey made his request after a meeting with the 24-member SWAT team, during which officers said they "weren't confident in him" because of his conduct during the March 21 incident, a law enforcement source said. Two SWAT officers died in the raid.
May 13, 2009
Special Units
What Can be Learned from the Oakland Tragedy
Four officers murdered. A fifth wounded. One suspect dead. A police department in shock. Not since the 1970 Newhall shooting has an officer-involved shooting reverberated so strongly throughout the law enforcement community.
April 30, 2009
SWAT
Massacre in Pittsburgh: The Unthinkable Strikes Again
SWAT took up positions around the suspect’s brick house as the firefight raged. SWAT’s Lenco BEAR armored rescue vehicle withstood numerous bullet hits, including two very visible hits to the front windshield.
April 14, 2009
SWAT
Is Law Enforcement Entering a Deadly New Era?
The spike in duty deaths has occurred despite the many advancements in police training, equipment (particularly protective armor), and emergency medical trauma care. What does appear to be occurring is more and more criminals are showing an increasing willingness to engage police in armed confrontations.
March 31, 2011
Special Units
Shots Fired: Oakland, California 08/27/2010
After serving several DEA warrants in Oakland, Fremont, Calif., police officer Todd Young and his partner headed into East Oakland in hopes of locating a wanted Union City gang member whose ex-girlfriend had said that he'd been hanging out in the area. The officers were met with gunfire, when they located their suspect.
June 12, 2012
Patrol
Oakland Grieves For Slain Officers
Grief is rippling from department headquarters on Seventh Street throughout the city after the shooting deaths Saturday three Oakland sergeants by a 26-year-old parolee whom police had pulled over in a routine traffic stop.
March 25, 2009
Training
Oakland Chief Announces Medical Retirement
Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan has stepped down from the department for medical reasons, he wrote in a letter to the force Thursday. Jordan, a longtime agency veteran, had led the force for 19 months.
May 8, 2013
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