Police
By SHILANDA WOOLRIDGE The spike in burglaries without forced entry was one of the topics discussed at yesterday’s Neighborhood Council Prevention Meeting.
by SHILANDA WOOLRIDGE The Citizen’s Police Review Board earned permission to move forward with their plans at the Public Safety Comission Meeting; but not without some consternation from City Council Member Larry Reid.
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 Nuisance parking—cars left, abandoned or parked indefinitely—was most on the minds of the dozen or so residents at the West Oakland Senior Center Tuesday night for the joint Neighborhood Crime Prevention meeting.
Mayor Ron Dellums’ proposal to reduce the Oakland Police Department by 140 officers if he fails to get federal stimulus money could end up cutting 202 officers and effectively ending community policing, according to police. The emergency 911 would not be affected, police said. “It is going to be traffic officers and Problem Solving Officers,” said Jeffrey Thomason, the public information officer at the Oakland Police Department. Thomason said that even if the cuts were made, the Oakland Police Department…
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
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.