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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.
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A 2020 report by the UC Berkeley School of Law's International Human Rights Law Clinic, Living with Impunity: Unsolved Murders in Oakland and the Human Rights Impact on Victims' Family Members, criticized the OPD's interactions with the families of homicide victims, writing that the department had failed to make victim services available to the ...
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 ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) sent a letter to Oakland officials Friday urging them to tighten their police pursuit policy. “Although some California jurisdictions allow vehicle pursuits for ...
The CHP is not under the same restrictions as the Oakland police department and can pursue criminals, placing that burden entirely on the CHP. According to Newsom, the CHP has made 1,347 arrests ...
The Fresno Police Department initially denied all requests. [9] The San Jose Police Department, under Chief Edgardo Garcia, released only six full files 1.5 years after the law took effect. [10] In March 2021, the San Francisco Police Department said it would take 10 years to get through its backlog of record requests. [11]
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