Federal Judge Thelton Henderson is monitoring how the Oakland Police Department (OPD) is handling the investigations of three officer-involved shootings this year, including the killing this...
The City Council took a first step this week to enact a policy that has been four years in the making and could improve the level...
A coalition of community leaders and advocates of the Citizens’ Police Review Board (CPRB) are pushing for the City Council to move forward on consolidating all...
by Marc H. Morial, President and CEO, National Urban League “There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of...
By Publisher, Post News Group The recent allegations involving Michigan Police officers who are being accused of planting evidence on a retired Black gentleman, along...
Federal Judge Thelton Henderson issued a court order this week criticizing the City of Oakland for failing to consult the court-appointed federal overseer when the City...
Two leading local civil rights attorneys, John Burris and Jim Chanin, met this week with community members who belong to an Oakland police accountability coalition that...
Community members continue to express anger and frustration toward the Oakland City Council as it moves forward with plans to put several measures on the November...
When a community coalition sought the City Council’s approval recently to put a police oversight commission on the November ballot, most of them opposed it. The...
A push by a community coalition asking the Oakland City Council to put a police accountability commission measure on the November ballot was always a long...