Crime
By SHILANDA WOOLRIDGE Oakland Acting Police Chief Howard Jordan opened the doors of his monthly senior management meeting to reporters.
By SHILANDA WOOLRIDGE The spike in burglaries without forced entry was one of the topics discussed at yesterday’s Neighborhood Council Prevention Meeting.
The BART boardroom opened its doors Tuesday night and community leaders and members said they feared the “top to bottom” assessment by an outside consulting group was nothing more than a public relations ploy by BART. “You don’t know the facts as we know the facts,” Dr. Ramona Tascoe, an ordained minister and medical doctor practicing in Oakland, told the consultants, the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, known as NOBLE The NOBLE assessment team of eight began their…
By SHILANDA WOOLRIDGE Crime in Temescal is down, but residents have a few reasons to keep an eye out.
By SHILANDA WOOLRIDGE Summer may not bring heat to the weather in North Oakland, but it’s bringing heat to the streets.
There’s an awful lot that happens outside the Alameda County Superior Court room. By SHILANDA WOOLRIDGE
Gabriel De Jesus is bent over a laptop, eyes moving back and forth between the screen and the stack of forms on the desk next to him, jotting occasional notes. An older man knocks on the door and says he’s there to pick something up; De Jesus has him sign in on the sheet outside while he looks for his file. The phone rings; he answers, “Citizens for Education, this is Gabriel.” De Jesus works four days a week here…
Diana Montaño/OaklandNorth Last month, a youth curfew ordinance was voted down by the City Council’s Public Safety Committee. And while the ordinance failed to become law, it did succeed in rousing the voice of Oakland’s youth.
About a month ago, the North Oakland branch of the San Leandro-based chain Pet Food Express was hit by an armed robber. Two weeks later, it happened again, this time at the Pet Food Express Rockridge store, located in the Safeway shopping center at 51st and Broadway. According to employees, it was the same guy. It was then that the vice president of Pet Food Express, Mark Witirol, started hearing of other armed robberies at the Rockridge shopping center….