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Category Archives: Law Enforcement
Oakland City Council Considers Consultant Contract For William Bratton
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Recent Oakland City Council meetings have proved loud and contentious, and with the proposed $250,000 contract to bring on controversial police consultant William Bratton on the agenda, tonight's meeting may be just as raucous. The former Los Angeles police chief … Continue reading
State Disability Center Forfeits Funding Over Abuse
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Ryan Gabrielson, California Watch California's largest board-and-care center for the developmentally disabled will surrender more than $1 million a month in federal funding for failures to protect patients from abuse and provide quality medical care, state officials announced Friday. In … Continue reading
SF Mayor Lee Says Police Substation on 6th Street to Open Next Month
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SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) A long-planned police substation along San Francisco's blighted Sixth Street will open some time next month, Mayor Ed Lee said today. Supervisor Jane Kim asked Lee about the substation during his monthly voter-mandated question-and-answer session with the … Continue reading
Besieged Oakland Residents Rally Against Gun Violence
by Ingrid Becker Four more dead, 11 shot. That’s the grim tally coming out of another bloody weekend in Oakland. A tragedy of “epic proportions” is how District 4 Councilwoman Libby Schaaf characterized six killings that have rocked Oakland in … Continue reading
Oakland Hires Proponent of 'Broken Windows Theory' as Police Consultant; Dept. to Return to Neighborhood Policing
Oakland has hired policing superstar William Bratton as a consultant. From AP: Oakland city officials have hired former New York City police commissioner and Los Angeles police chief Bill Bratton as a consultant. City Council President Larry Reid confirmed Bratton's … Continue reading
Timeline: A History of Marijuana in California and the U.S.
Last Friday Mendocino County announced it was fighting federal grand jury subpoenas demanding that four county officials hand over all documents related to its now-abandoned medical marijuana permitting program. The legal action came even after the county had effectively gutted … Continue reading
Federal Crackdown on Medical Marijuana: Oakland Fights Back, Mendocino County Still Deciding
Last week on ABC News' 20/20, Barbara Walters asked President Obama if he thought marijuana should be legalized. "I wouldn't go that far," Obama said. "But what I think is that at this point, Washington and Colorado, you've seen the … Continue reading
Judge Approves Oakland Police Dept. Settlement
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge has approved a plan to have a court-appointed director oversee the embattled Oakland Police Department. U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson signed off on the arrangement on Wednesday. It falls short of a complete … Continue reading
How a CHP Sergeant Stops Suicide Attempts on the Golden Gate Bridge
About 1,500 people have committed suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge during its 75-year-history. It's a tragic number, but it would have been much higher if not for Kevin Briggs and other members of the California Highway Patrol. … Continue reading
