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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.
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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.
Read More →Oakland police officers were searching for a gunman, who fired several shots at officers Sunday evening from an apartment.
Read More →The department is receiving 82 of the new vehicles, marking the largest fleet purchase since 2001.
Read More →Oakland, Calif., interim Police Chief Sean Whent has been named the department's new permanent police chief.
Read More →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.
Read More →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.
Read More →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.
Read More →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.”
Read More →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.
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