Police
A $20,000 reward is now being offered for information leading to the arrest of suspects responsible for the shooting death of a Chilean man just blocks from the Berkeley/Oakland border last summer.
The Oakland Police Officers’ Association voted to approve a new contract today that it says will save the City of Oakland $65 million over the next four years.
The Oakland Police Department is consolidating units to reduce the workload on strained divisions, and make better use of a reduced personel, Police Chief Anthony Batts said Wednesday.
Berkeley cyclist Anthony Michael Martin, who was reported missing this weekend, has been spotted in Roseville and is no longer considered missing, Berkeley police said today.
The Oakland City Council heard a report from Chief of Police Anthony Batts about a reorganization of the city’s police department and approved a mail ballot-only special election for November 15 at the city council meeting Tuesday night in downtown Oakland. Now it just needs to be determined what will be on the ballot.
Berkeley resident Anthony Michael Martin is believed to have been riding his bike in the Berkeley or Oakland hills when he disappeared Saturday.
The Oakland Police Department has released information concerning two separate homicides that occurred within a few hours of each other over the Fourth of July weekend.
On Tuesday, BART settled a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by the mother of Oscar Grant for $1.3 million. Grant was shot and killed by former BART officer Johannes Mehserle on a train platform New Year’s Day 2009.
On Sunday, the Coalition for Justice for Oscar Grant met at Humanist Hall in Oakland to share ideas for advancing their overarching goal of preventing police abuse in their communities, and to discuss the group’s successes and failures.