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The Oakland Police Department (OPD) is a law enforcement agency responsible for policing the city of Oakland, California, United States.As of May 2021, the department employed 709 sworn officers and 371 civilian employees.
Demonstrators continued through City Hall Plaza, with angry splinter groups of rioters smashing the windows of Oakland Police Department's Internal Affairs and Recruiting Office at the east side of 250 Frank Ogawa Plaza. Windows of police cruisers parked outside the offices were also smashed.
The Chief of the Oakland Police Department is an office held by the executive head and highest-ranking officer of the Oakland Police Department. The chief was first established in 1853. The chief manages and oversees the planning, development and implementation of all law enforcement and crime prevention programs for the city.
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 ...
Two police cars belonging to the Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Department were part of a three car accident that occurred at 2:45 pm local time on Saturday near the West Oakland train station near ...
A former California police chief fired from his post last year has sued the city of Oakland and its mayor, saying he was unlawfully terminated in retaliation for criticizing the federal court ...
Fruitvale Station is a 2013 American biographical drama film written and directed by Ryan Coogler.It is Coogler's feature directorial debut, and is based on the events leading to the death of Oscar Grant, a young man killed in 2009 by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officer Johannes Mehserle at the Fruitvale district BART station in Oakland, California.
Oakland has been without a permanent police chief since, even as violent crime, robbery, and vehicle theft climbed in the city of 400,000 across the bay from San Francisco.