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Oakland Police

July 14, 2010 Police As Agent Provocateurs: Oakland Cops Set Violent Tone At ... Send by Steven Tavares Over the course of two hours Thursday night a line of Oakland police clad in riot gear creeped towards the vast majority of people protesting the involuntary manslaughter verdict against BART cop Johannes Mehserle in the death of Oscar [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 14, 2010 Thank The Police -- Post Oakland Outrage Baby Thrown Into Traffic ... Send by Kevin Weston Then on Saturday the story that is so outrageous you couldn't make it up: A father throws his 18-month-old into East Oakland traffic. The little girl is hit by a car and survives with minor injuries. An off duty Oakland Police officer [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 14, 2010 Town Of Oakland Police Department Posted by Willian Smith 1 Jun 2010 [...] The mission of the Oakland Police Department is to enhance the quality of life in the Town of Oakland by working cooperatively with [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 14, 2010 BART Verdict Unrest; Oakland Police Arrest 83 After Involuntary ... Posted by Willian Smith Former Officer Johannes Mehserle Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter Read more by Naimah Jabali-Nash on CBS News' Crimesider. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 14, 2010 Suffer These Crimes In Oakland? Don't Call The Cops | NBC Bay Area Posted by Willian Smith 12 Jul 2010 [...] Oakland's police chief is making some dire claims about what his force will and will not respond to if layoffs go as planned. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 14, 2010 EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Oakland Police Chief Promises His ... Send by Robert Wenzel The budget problems will only get worse for the city in 2011 and 2012, more police lay offs are expected. The Oakland police chief, Anthony Batts, has promised all 911 emergency calls will be responded to. When a police chief has to [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 14, 2010 Oakland Police Report No Arrests After Verdict In The Johannes ... Posted by Willian Smith Oakland's police chief says a small incendiary device was set off near his department's downtown station as a crowd of about 500 people protest the verdict in the case of a former transit officer. [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 14, 2010 Think You're In Trouble? Oakland Police Say DON'T Call 911! Send by hiphopdemocrat Just when you thought Oakland publicity couldnt get any lower, it does. Oaklands Chief of Police, Anthony Bates, held a press conference to announce the. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 14, 2010 Oakland Police Layoffs Set For Tuesday Send by cbs5.com Oakland city officials and police union leaders trying to prevent 80 officers from being laid off failed to come to an agreement Monday evening and planned to be back at the negotiating table on Tuesday. The cuts scheduled to take effect by 5 p.m. Tuesday would impact nearly 10 percent of the city's 776 officers in what is regarded as one of the nation's most crime-ridden cities. [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 14, 2010 Oakland's Verdict: In The Oscar Grant Movement, Steel Sharpens ... Posted by Willian Smith The response by the Oakland Police Department and the thousands of other officers drafted into an ironically-titled ?mutual aid? scheme has been predictably overblown: alarms have been triggered in major buildings downtown to force [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 14, 2010 Oakland Out Of Time On Police Layoffs | EmploymentSpectator ... Send by joe The deadline has arrived and still there are no answers in Oakland. Barring a last-minute breakthrough, 80 police officers will be laid off at midnight. [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 14, 2010 Oakland Police Prepare For BART Shooting Verdict Posted by Willian Smith CBS OAKLAND, Calif. Oakland Police officers are now working 12-hour shifts until further notice. Future vacations are on indefinite hold. Operation Verdict - a regional police response operation - is. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 14, 2010 Pat Dollard | Young Americans | Blog Archive ?Dire Claims ... Send by Erik Wong According to the city of Oakland, each of the 776 police officers currently employed at OPD costs around $188000 per year. Most of the officers who will be affected by the layoffs were on the streets of Oakland when Johannes Mehserle's [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 14, 2010 BART Verdict Unrest; Oakland Police Arrest 83 Posted by Willian Smith Oakland police arrested 83 people Thursday night after a group of looters destroyed local businesses following the involuntary manslaughter verdict in the trial of Johannes Mehserle. Original Story: [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 14, 2010 Talks In Final Hours Over Oakland Police Layoffs | San Francisco ... Posted by Willian Smith Oakland city officials and police union leaders were in 11th-hour talks Monday to prevent 80 officers from being laid off. [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 14, 2010 Oakland Cops Won't Respond To Minor Crimes Send by skitzoe Suffer These Crimes in Oakland? Don't Call the Cops | NBC Bay Area Dozens of layoffs effective at midnight, barring last minute deal Oakland's police. [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 14, 2010 2009 Shooting Of Oakland Police Officers - Wikipedia, The Free ... Posted by Willian Smith The 2009 shooting of Oakland, California police officers took place on Saturday, March 21, 2009, when four Oakland police officers were killed by a convicted felon wanted on a no [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 14, 2010 BART Verdict: 'Anarchists' Clash With Oakland Police [Updated ... Send by worker Oakland Police Chief Anthony Batts said at a news conference that about 8 p.m., a group of people dressed completely in black and wearing black face masks moved south on Broadway, taking an aggressive posture. Batts described the group [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 14, 2010 Racial Cowardice From The Obama Administration On Oakland Shooting Case Posted by Willian Smith The Obama Administration's reaction to the Johannes Mehserle case is a superb example of our 'post-racial' president in action. Former Oakland transit cop Johannes Mehserle made two huge mistakes. The first one happened back on New Year's Eve, 2009 when he accidentally grabbed what he thought was hi [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 14, 2010 Oscar Grant Murdered By Police And The Officer Has Been Charged ... Send by Jade West Oscar was murdered by a police officer and many are outraged that the officer in question has been charged with involuntary manslaughter. [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

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