Occupy Oakland

Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan abruptly resigned Wednesday saying a medical condition has forced him from the job. Jordan leaves OPD after moving from patrol officer to chief during more than 24 years of service on the force. Following are a list of...

OAKLAND — The embattled Oakland police chief abruptly announced a medical retirement Wednesday, hours before a team of consultants — working for former Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton — was scheduled to lay out a crime-...

OAKLAND — The chief of the embattled Oakland Police Department abruptly announced a medical retirement Wednesday, hours before a team of consultants — among them former Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton — was scheduled to lay...

The Oakland Police Department is slowly making progress toward meeting reforms mandated by a decade-old lawsuit settlement of police brutality cases in West Oakland, a court-appointed monitor found. In his 13th quarterly report on police department...

Never before has an interview subject assumed/joked that RedEye was a communist newspaper. Fans of Boots Riley’s veteran, socially conscious hip-hop act The Coup probably won’t be surprised that he mentioned it. “Do people assume that...

The U.S. government should take over the Oakland Police Department — the California agency led for two years by Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts — because of a chronic failure to comply with a decade-old reform settlement,...

When Occupy Wall Street started a year ago it spread across the country and eventually reached Sacramento. Occupy Sacramento began on Oct. 6, 2011 in Caesar Chavez park. The movement gained a lot of support with dozens setting up camp, others bringing...

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- A protester associated with Occupy L.A. was arrested Thursday after he allegedly bit off a security guard's ear during a fight in downtown's Pershing Square. Police say Jose Navarro, 20, approached a private security guard Tuesday...

Los Angeles police have arrested a man they said seriously injured a security guard after biting his ear during a fight in downtown's Pershing Square....

Authorities are trying to sort out an altercation in which a protester associated with Occupy L.A. allegedly bit the ear of a security guard in Pershing Square....

At least three people were detained by Los Angeles police Thursday morning during a "chalking" protest in downtown L.A.'s Pershing Square, the beginning of what is expected to be a day and night of protests by Occupy L.A. activists. There......

The Oakland Police Department's response to an Occupy Oakland protest in October was flawed by poor planning, inadequate staffing and outdated policies and protocols, an independent study found....