Why isn't the newly hired Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell wearing a uniform? He has been attending all the meetings and crime scenes in a suit and tie. Mitchell told the audience at Allen ...

The Black Panthers' iconic uniforms have been ... 17-year-old party treasurer Bobby Hutton at the hands of the Oakland Police Department. We marvel at the resilience, beauty and brilliance of ...

Huey Newton, cofounder of the Black Panther Party (BPP), referred to West Oakland in his ... first official day in uniform. On June 18, a rested Batt showed up at the Police Administration ...

LeRonne Armstrong, who became police chief in February 2021, faced scrutiny for department-wide failures to analyze the wrongdoing of a sergeant involved in a hit-and-run accident. Oakland’s ...

Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao has fired the city’s Black police chief, a move that comes about a month after she and the city administrator put LeRonne Armstrong on leave amid an investigation that ...

In a 1973 issue of the Black Panther Intercommunal News Service, an article titled “Will Police Patrol Oakland Schools?” describes an “ominous” effort by administrators to reduce ...