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Patrol
Oakland PD Will Investigate Badge vs. Badge Boxing Melee
The Oakland Police Department will investigate its officers' role in a melee that followed the "Badge vs. Badge" boxing match in northern California on Friday.
May 23, 2010
Patrol
Oakland Chief Releases List of 44 Crimes PD Won't Respond To
Chief Batts released a list of situations police won't respond to that includes grand theft, burglary, car wrecks, identity theft and vandalism. Several of the lesser crimes include discarding an appliance with a lock, an unauthorized cable TV connection and a stolen license plate.
July 13, 2010
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
Patrol
Oakland PD Searches for Apartment Sniper
Oakland police officers were searching for a gunman, who fired several shots at officers Sunday evening from an apartment.
July 18, 2010
Patrol
Oakland PD Adds 47 Patrol Officers
Nearly four dozen new police officers will soon start walking their beats on the Oakland streets, as the California city’s embattled department welcomes its largest-ever class of recruits to graduate from its police academy.
April 6, 2014
Patrol
Video: Oakland PD Deputy Chief Named Acting Assistant Chief
Oakland (CA) Police Department's Deputy Chief David Downing has been named acting assistant chief after Oakland city officials were allegedly informed that the appointment of the city administrator over the Oakland Police Department may have been in violation of state laws.
June 21, 2016
Patrol
Vallejo Police to Offer Aid to Oakland
The Vallejo Police Department will be helping its Oakland counterpart in the wake of the weekend shootings of four officers, Chief Bob Nichelini said Sunday.
March 22, 2009
Vehicle Ops
Oakland PD Buys Ford Interceptor SUVs
The department is receiving 82 of the new vehicles, marking the largest fleet purchase since 2001.
December 18, 2013
Patrol
Police ID Man Shot By BART, Oakland PD After Foot Pursuit
Fred Collins led five officers on a foot pursuit from the Bay Area Rapid Transit's (BART) Fruitville Station in Oakland. He had yelled "shoot me, shoot me, shoot me," to officers, who initially tried to stun him with TASERs.
July 18, 2010
Training
Interim Oakland PD Chief Gets Permanent Position
Oakland, Calif., interim Police Chief Sean Whent has been named the department's new permanent police chief.
May 15, 2014
Patrol
Oakland PD Deputy Chief Named Acting Assistant Chief
Oakland (CA) Police Department's Deputy Chief David Downing has been named acting assistant chief fter Oakland city officials were allegedly informed that the appointment of the city administrator over the Oakland Police Department may have been in violation of state laws. More Here.
June 21, 2016
Special Units
Discovery Channel and Oakland PD Argue Over Gang Crime in City
Oakland, according to police spokesman Jeff Thomason, has only a half-dozen gangs. What's even more astonishing is that police say that just a dozen of the more than 200 homicides in this city in 2008 and 2009 have been listed as gang-related killings.
September 14, 2009
Training
Oakland PD's Recruit Class Is First In Two Years
The diverse group includes 13 minorities, six women and nine bilingual speakers—Spanish and Cantonese are the most predominant second languages. The majority live in the East Bay, with seven residing in Oakland.
April 19, 2010
Command
Former Oakland Chief Tapped to Lead New Orleans PD
Anne Kirkpatrick has been hailed as a reformer by her supporters. If she is approved by the City Council, she would head an understaffed police department that has been operating under a broad reform agreement with the U.S. Justice Department that was app
September 12, 2023
Patrol
Oakland PD Cancels Cinco de Mayo DUI Checkpoint After People Take Offense on Social Media
The lengthy warning, titled “Fiesta Time or Jail Times,” about driving while intoxicated made many references to such drinks as tequila and margaritas, and many people complained it was offensive.
May 6, 2016
Patrol
After 3 Chiefs in 9 Days and Multiple Scandals, Oakland PD Now Run by City Admin
A visibly frustrated Mayor Libby Schaaf revealed the probe at a news conference Friday night that she began with a simple declaration: “I am here to run a police department, not a frat house.” With that, she disclosed that her city’s department, already engulfed in a sex scandal, was also being probed for racist communications that were “wholly inappropriate and not acceptable for anyone who wears the badge of the Oakland Police Department.” More Here.
June 20, 2016
Patrol
Video: After 3 Chiefs in 9 Days and Multiple Scandals, Oakland PD Now Run by City Admin
A visibly frustrated Mayor Libby Schaaf revealed the probe at a news conference Friday night that she began with a simple declaration: “I am here to run a police department, not a frat house.” With that, she disclosed that her city’s department, already engulfed in a sex scandal, was also being probed for racist communications that were “wholly inappropriate and not acceptable for anyone who wears the badge of the Oakland Police Department.”
June 20, 2016
Special Units
Gang Wars: Oakland
This two-part documentary that aired on "The Discovery Channel" in September, examines the activities of gangs in Oakland and the efforts of the Oakland PD's eight-man task force (including "Operation Nutcracker") to counter them.
December 10, 2009
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