Oakland police

Oakland police and Chinatown leaders are working to identify a victim of what appears to be another instance of violence against an elderly Asian woman.

Oakland police are investigating the beating of an 80-year-old man, who they said was assaulted and robbed while on his way home.

The death of Daunte Wright at the hands of police in Minnesota is reenergizing the push to defund police in Oakland and it’s raising a key question about traffic stops.

After a number of violent attacks on Asian Americans, including two high profile cases in Oakland’s Chinatown, a newly appointed police Asian liaison officer began working Thursday.

The Oakland Police Department’s new chief spoke exclusively with NBC Bay Area about the violence against Asian seniors, a spike in homicides, sideshows and how he plans to turn it all around.

Police in Oakland announced Saturday that a person of interest has been identified in a string of violent attacks targeting elderly people in the city’s Chinatown.

West Contra Costa Unified and Oakland Unified are making moves to eliminate school police from campuses, a movement sweeping the country following the death of George Floyd.

About 300 people marched in Oakland Tuesday in honor of George Floyd, a smaller and more peaceful group than previous nights.

A 12-year-old Oakland girl who had been missing since early Sunday morning has been found safe, according to police. Further information regarding Brianna Zamora’s discovery was not immediately available. Before she was found, Zamora’s family believed she was brainwashed and taken by a predator through gaming. She last seen by her brothers Saturday. Her parents were out of...

Oakland on Tuesday became the second U.S. city to decriminalize magic mushrooms after a string of people shared how psychedelics helped them overcome depression, drug addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder. The City Council voted unanimously to decriminalize the adult use and possession of magic mushrooms and other entheogenic, or psychoactive, plants. Denver voters approved a similar measure for people 21...

Authorities arrested a man suspected of shooting the security guard of a news crew that was robbed while covering the Oakland teachers strike, according to a statement by the CBS affiliate.

Police are searching for the occupants of a vehicle they say struck a 14-year-old boy and dragged him four blocks in Oakland.

An off-duty Oakland police officer was in stable condition Monday after accidentally shooting himself Saturday night in San Leandro, according to police.

After it was revealed Sunday that the Oakland Police Department asks officer applicants to disclose whether they have been sexually assaulted, Mayor Libby Schaaf said she has ordered the removal of that waiver.

Oakland police arrested at least two people and towed at least 85 cars while working at the scene of illegal sideshows at various locations across the East Bay city early Sunday, the department announced.

An Oakland police officer is under investigation by the department after photos of him sleeping on the job surfaced on social media Friday afternoon.

El conductor se fue a la fuga.

Anne Kirkpatrick is Oakland’s fourth top cop in seven months, and is inheriting a beleaguered police department that has been embroiled in a high-profile police sex abuse scandal of a teenage girl, which led to three former police chiefs being sacked.

A go-kart was recently spotted racing down an East Bay freeway and being pursued by police.

A sex scandal involving Oakland police has spread to other area police departments, with the woman at the center of it claiming she had sex with two dozen current and former officers in five cities, a newspaper investigation published Sunday found.