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 governor and some city leaders have fiercely pushed for looser pursuit rules in Oakland. Critics say last week’s deadly ...

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 ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Oakland police on Tuesday discussed a car crash where a black BMW sedan ended up wrapping itself around a lamp post on 54th Avenue and International Boulevard. At a news ...

An Oakland Black man was placed in handcuffs by police after a couple wrongfully accused him of driving their stolen vehicle. OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- An Oakland resident was placed in handcuffs ...

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 ...

who was not in uniform, happened at 16th Street and San Pablo Avenue. "The officer came to work, came out of his car and the suspect ambushed him," said Sgt. Barry Donelan with the Oakland Police ...

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 ...

Later Friday morning, numerous Oakland police officers — some in uniform, others in plainclothes — were seen entering and leaving the hospital, many of them through the rear ambulance bay.

Four officers were charged with making false arrests, planting evidence, using excessive force, falsifying police reports and assaulting people in the predominantly Black area of west Oakland ...