Like most cities and departments across the nation, the City of Oakland, and the Oakland Police Department (OPD) navigated through an unprecedented pandemic. As new strains of the Coronavirus continued to emerge and impact our Country, Oakland saw an eight percent increase in both, the violent crime index and overall crime. In 2020, the United … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVGUynC88W0 Oakland News Now – Oakland Man Flashes Gun In Video Called “East Oakland Money Vill, Streets Aint No Joke” – video made by the YouTube channel with the logo in the video’s upper left hand corner. OaklandNewsNow.com is the original blog post for this type of video-blog content. In the video, the man shows … Read more
The Oakland Police Commission needs our help. 1. When the November mail-in ballots come out, look for the as-yet-unnamed charter amendment strengthening the power and increasing the funding for the Oakland Police Commission. Tell your friends and neighbors to vote for it. 2. Now: contact your council member and the City Council President, At Large … Read more
The Oakland Police Commission (Measure LL) was created by a vote of 83 percent of Oakland’s residents in 2016 as a way of taking oversight of the Oakland Police Department from a federal district court judge sitting in San Francisco and giving it to the people of our city. But the strong independent Police Commission … Read more
Oakland Police Chief Kirkpatrick Called Wilson Riles To Apologize For “Zoning While Black” Incident ONN – Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick Called Wilson Riles To Apologize For “Zoning While Black” Incident On Facebook, Steve Lowe, the developer of Old Oakland, said this in response to my call for Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf to apologize to … Read more
Wilson Riles Arrested By Oakland Police For “Zoning While Black” – Zennie62 Live Interview ONN – Wilson Riles Arrested By Oakland Police For “Zoning While Black” – Zennie62 Live Interview This is a full interview with former Oakland Councilmember Wilson Riles, Jr. It was held today just after 3 PM PST / 6 PM EST … Read more
Oakland, CA. – Late last night, Oakland’s Police Commission unanimously passed a new policy which requires that police officers have an actual reason to search a person on probation or parole for a non-violent offense. The Oakland’s Police Commission drafted the new policy after consulting with people who had been subjected to repeated searches, criminal … Read more