The City of Oakland held a series of town halls on public safety this week to discuss and address residents' biggest concerns about strategies city leaders...
Last Sunday, approximately 200 people came to Lake Merritt’s Amphitheater to shift energy in Oakland, where, after a 12% dip in violence in 2022, the city...
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao announced this week that she has fired Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong, who had been on paid administrative leave pending results of an...
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao held a press conference this week with acting Police Chief Darren Allison and small business leaders to announce new and strengthened public...
Armstrong says there’s a sense of fairness that should be considered due to his track record. “This is not a sport; this is a community in...
In a press statement, Mayor Sheng Thao said that placing Armstrong on paid administrative leave was not punitive but was a standard procedure when investigating possible...
APTP saw their desire for change come to fruition when Oakland adopted the MACRO program. The Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland (MACRO) program handles non-emergency...
After Rev. Phyllis Scott appeared as the keynote speaker at a rally and march around Lake Merritt with Oakland Police Department Chief LeRonne Armstrong last year,...
After decades of overspending on law enforcement, our nation’s police forces have now grown so large there’s simply no way they can keep themselves fully staffed....
“Being a city leader means breaking through the discourse and finding solutions that are effective and holistic,” said Thao. “While important violence prevention programs like Ceasefire...
A suspect was shot by an Oakland police officer early Wednesday and a police officer was also wounded before the suspect discarded his gun, barricaded himself...
City Administration must implement Civilian Crisis Responders Program and keep planned community advisory board
“There have been changes made in Oakland’s police department by the chief that I believe will increase not only the graduation success rates among academies, but...
Oakland city councilmembers on revised the adopted city budget to deliver more resources to East Oakland, Councilmember Treva Reid’s office said on July 26.
To underscore the need for peace in and around our city, an incident occurred just steps away from the Oakland Police Department involving a shooting.
Oakland Chief of Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong has reached out to the community asking for support, and rightfully so. For this is not just an Oakland...
The Oakland Police Department reported some arrests and incidents in a news release on July 19, along with a plea to the community from the chief...
The struggle to open the site began in the summer of 2019 when Oakland’s Mayor Libby Schaaf announced plans for the city to sanction the opening of a...
Councilmembers Send Letter to Mayor and Police Chief Urging Correction of Inaccurate, Fear-Inciting Rhetoric
The announcement comes as rising violence has plagued many U.S. cities during the pandemic, including Oakland and a tendency for violence to rise in the summer.
OPD is working with the San Francisco Police Department and Armstrong announced that they have made a couple of key arrests.
The program is seeking clergy with cultural competency to meet the needs of Oakland citizens who are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Taoist – especially in Asian,...
Armstrong, unlike Schaaf and previous OPD chiefs, said “I apologize to the community.”
The holiday started in 2016, when a group of long-term Oakland residents felt that, in the face of Black and Brown native Oaklanders being displaced through...
Although the audit was vast in its analysis, this guide attempts to outline key points from the audit related only to evictions and hygiene services, police...
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