Oakland police face deep staffing shortages as efforts to recruit and retain more women officers stall. Four years after OPD ...

Oakland has a police academy and a fire academy, intensive training programs where cadets are given skills they’ll need to work as police officers and firefighters. In two years, it will also have a ...

There is a new effort in Oakland to address the drastic need for more police officers on the street. Councilmember Charlene Wang, Oakland's NAACP, the City of Oakland and other city and faith leaders ...

OAKLAND — The city’s police department is no closer to ending two decades of direct oversight by a federal judge, having ...