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The Oakland Police Department was formed in 1853 by Oakland founder and first Mayor Horace W. Carpentier.Oakland had been incorporated as a town by the state legislature in 1852, and with its rapid expansion, Carpentier felt the need to organize a city government with a police force to provide regular law enforcement.
A Jan 17, 2012, a report by the independent monitoring team found "no improvement in compliance" during the past quarter. [9] In a January 24, 2012, ruling, the district court found that Oakland Police Department had still failed to comply with the terms of the settlement. [10]
The Alameda County Sheriff's Office operates one jail. Santa Rita Jail, located in Dublin, California, is the primary facility that houses most people arrested or convicted of crimes in Alameda County. The Glenn Dyer Detention Facility, also known as the North County Jail, located in Downtown Oakland was closed in 2019 for budgetary reasons.
The Oakland Police Department has been under federal oversight for two decades in the wake of a police corruption scandal in the early 2000s. The federal judge overseeing the case placed the ...
Data from the Oakland Police Department shows the total number of discretionary stops fell to 19,900 in 2018 from 31,528 the year prior — a 37% decrease. From 2017 to December 2018, the overall ...
Police Chief Floyd Mitchell credits some of Oakland's crime decreases to the city's Ceasefire program that targets the repeat offenders and offers at-risk community members social services as well.
Total crime in Oakland dropped by 41% from 1987 to 2012. In 2012, Oakland had the highest total crime rate of any California city with 20,000 or more people, with 8,587 total crimes per 100,000 residents, compared to a statewide average of 3,182 total crimes per 100,000 people.[8] Property crime in Oakland declined by 58% between 1988 and 2009 ...
August 27, 2024 at 7:29 PM. OAKLAND, Calif. - Oakland police are responding to an unfolding crime scene at 25th Avenue and International Boulevard where a fatal shooting happened on Tuesday ...