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The Berkeley Police Department was in turmoil Thursday following the leak of text messages that allegedly show the president of the police officers union making racially charged remarks and ...
Berkeley's fire and police headquarters in 2020. After the police department was rocked by a scandal involving racist texts, past allegations against the interim chief have arisen.
Berkeley Police have arrested a 45-year-old San Francisco man in connection with a recent series of shooting incidents near the campus of UC Berkeley, officials said.
Protesters and police face off at a barricade near People's Park on August 3, 2022. Just after midnight on August 3, 2022, the UC Berkeley Police Department and contractors began fencing off People's Park. Protesters gathered after multiple "bulldozer" alerts were shared when workers began unloading heavy machinery and construction equipment ...
Shortly after Berkeley was incorporated in 1878, a town marshal and constables were elected to provide law enforcement. August Vollmer had been the town marshal since 1905, and was appointed to be the first chief of police in 1909. [1]
In the early morning of Thursday, May 15, 1969, local police cleared the park, arresting three people who refused to leave. [12] [13] University work crews arrived later, destroyed many of the changes that had been made to the park, and erected an 8-foot (2.4-metre)-tall perimeter chain-link wire fence around the site.
Police responded to a report of an armed man on Martin Luther King Junior Way, on the North Oakland/South Berkeley border. Officers were able to detain two suspects, but say there is no ongoing ...
After graduating college, Plummer joined the Berkeley Police Department in 1952. [2] He was a field commander when riots erupted in People's Park in 1969. In 2007, Plummer said: "I wish I would have hit some people harder during the riots. I regret that." [2] [3] In 1976, Plummer was appointed Chief of Police for Hayward, California. [2]