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Category Archives: Crime
Judge Appoints Director to Oversee Oakland Police
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A former police commissioner from Baltimore has been appointed by a federal court to oversee the embattled Oakland Police Department. U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson announced Monday that new compliance director Thomas C. Frazier will have … Continue reading
San Francisco Mission Anti-Violence Meeting Brings Tears, Determination
By Alex Emslie Dina Carillo choked up before she could say much to the 200 or so San Francisco Mission district residents in front of her. She managed to say the part about why she brought two of her youngest children … Continue reading
Deliberations in Bell Corruption Trial Hit a Snag
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By Rachael Marcus Jury deliberations over the fate of six former Bell City Council members accused of corruption began anew today after the dismissal of a juror. The case went to the jury last Friday, but yesterday, the court dismissed a juror … Continue reading
Mortgage Fraud in California a Game of Whac-A-Mole for Law Enforcement
In one widely publicized case, the owner spread possum urine around the house, turned up the heat and closed all the windows for a few days. Why?
Slain Santa Cruz Officers Remembered
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Friends and family of two slain Santa Cruz officers offered tributes to them on Wednesday. Officers Elizabeth Butler and Loran "Butch" Baker died Tuesday afternoon after confronting a suspect police identified as Jeremy Goulet, who died in a subsequent shootout. … Continue reading
Does 22 1/2 Hours Alone in an 8 x 10 Cell Every Day Amount to Torture? Video From Inside Pelican Bay Prison
“I haven’t seen the moon since 1998.” That's inmate Jeremy Beasley, talking to me while sitting–shackled–in an interview room at Pelican Bay State Prison, California’s highest security lockup. Beasley, a convicted murderer, was clearly surprised by my presence—he told me … Continue reading
Oakland Police Consultant Defends 'Stop, Ask and Frisk'
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Police can't control crime without stopping and frisking suspects, says William Bratton, a consultant Oakland officials have tapped to cope with the city's surging crime rate. Speaking in an interview on KQED's "This Week in Northern California," on Friday, Bratton … Continue reading
Oakland Students March to Protest Gun Violence
Elementary school students and teachers from New Highland Academy in Oakland marched to the local library Thursday … with a police escort. They used to take the six-block walk every third Thursday, but gun violence in the neighborhood halted the … Continue reading
Rogue ex-LAPD Officer Christopher Dorner Believed Dead After Standoff; Deputy Killed in Gun Battle
Update Feb 13 BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Police scoured mountain peaks for days, using everything from bloodhounds to high-tech helicopters in their manhunt for a revenge-seeking ex-cop. They had no idea he was hiding among them, possibly holed … Continue reading
Oakland's Other Crime Problem: Unsolved Homicides
On a recent morning, an ex-convict named Debonaire Dobbz sat shackled to a chair in an Oakland courtroom, charged with murder in a shooting a year ago. "This is not a whodunit. This is not a whodunit case–that’s the tragic … Continue reading
