One #Oakland police officer , a top #cop #union honcho, made over $879,000 in total compensation via prodigious #overtime hrs, submitting time cards that he'd worked 23-hour days.

https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=2111026&post_id=190510287 #CopWatch #OPD

Police overtime report shows $16.9 million over budget halfway through the fiscal year

Oakland police department is dangerously understaffed with only 509 sworn officers on active duty – far below the minimum threshold of 700 set by Oakland voters in Measure NN

Oakland Report

H Stengel, Gertraud Iberl, Dr. Michael Moritz, Manuela Schmid, A.Winter, Linda Schoetschel, Robert Maier, Birgit Frey-Schuster,Andreas Macher, Rosi Maier, Andreas Schoetschel, Claudia Winter, Petra Stiegler, Veronika Lehmeier, Carolin Felbermayr, Anton Steinmetz+Richard Rupp.

Da die Ödp bisher nicht im Stadtrat vertreten ist, benötigt sie bis 19. Januar 2026 die Unterschrift von 215 Unterstützern, die sich für die Zulassung zur Wahl aussprechen!
www.oedp-neumarkt.de
@oekologische Partei
#öpd

anyone else attending #oakland #publicsafety tonight, probably because of #OPD asking for extending #Flock cameras?

See also:

#CelesteGuap #OaklandCA #OPD #sexwork #hypocracy #ACAB

Flashback (7-13-2017)

"Damning New Report Shows How Oakland Cops Covered Up Their Sexual Exploitation of a Minor

Making matters worse, the report concludes, was 'the tone at the top.'

While Kamala Harris was bringing trumped-up child-exploitation charges against a classifieds website, a cadre of California cops was actually paying, pimping, and passing around an underage girl for sex and getting away with it. A damning new report explains the extent that the Oakland Police Department (OPD) was involved with the girl, who goes by the pseudonym Celeste Guap, and also details OPD leadership's myriad attempts to make the scandal disappear."

https://reason.com/2017/07/13/oakland-police-corruption-comes-out/

Damning New Report Shows How Oakland Cops Covered Up Their Sexual Exploitation of a Minor

Making matters worse, the report concludes, was "the tone at the top."

Reason.com
Oakland police and expired film

#35 #35mm #film #filmisnotdead #kodak #portra #kodakgold #iso200 #gold200#portra400 #oakland #thetown #cali #california #police #cops #opd

CPH Daily Bulletin 9/11/2025 Cont

OPD’s decision to encrypt its radio feeds caught city officials by surprise

https://oaklandside.org/2025/09/11/oakland-police-department-opd-radio-dispatch-encryption/

#Oakland #OPD #PoliceTransparency

OPD’s decision to encrypt its radio feeds caught city officials by surprise

Oakland leaders don’t appear to be informed about OPD’s decision to hide its radio broadcasts from the public. Critics say encryption undermines the public’s right to know.

The Oaklandside

#FirstAmendment and #CopWatch advocates have condemned #Oakland #Police efforts to begin hiding their #radio communications with new #Encryption techniques which ends decades of public #transparency.

Well, the public access to cop communications continues, but now only because of #OPD technical trouble “working with a vendor” ...

Dozens of #LEO agencies had timed their scanners to go dark to the public throughout the #EastBay — the move by many scandal plagued regional #California #LawEnforcement agencies has been widely condemned by #OpenGov advocate groups.

https://www.EastBayExpress.com/2025/09/04/snafu-keeps-oakland-police-radio-traffic-public-as-east-bay-wide-shutdowns-loom/?share=f2scrnrm0oaus9aeoba9 #GiftLink #SharedStory #PaywallLift

Inspection racket: Oakland bars forced to pay for harassing cop visits - The San Francisco Standard

Bar owners feel targeted and harried by a dedicated police unit they have to fund themselves.

The San Francisco Standard
Oakland has a cop shortage. Why are officers busting bars for fruit flies?
Bar owners feel targeted and harassed by a dedicated police unit they have to pay to fund
A Rockridge bar owner said she has been visited by ABAT regularly, but the police failed to respond on five separate occasions when the bar was robbed.
https://sfstandard.com/2025/05/09/abat-cops-fruit-flies-oakland-bars/
#Oakland #OPD #Bar
Inspection racket: Oakland bars forced to pay for harassing cop visits - The San Francisco Standard

Bar owners feel targeted and harried by a dedicated police unit they have to fund themselves.

The San Francisco Standard

Under embarassing #Federal judicial oversight due to rampant police misconduct uncovered in a horrendous 2003 #scandal, Oakland #California police were due to emerge renewed 5 years later after a period of reforms ...this apparently
did not happen, and federal #oversight continued.

A "monitor" was appointed back then (who lately hasn't even visited the #Oakland #Police department in over 5 years), and since then, many mayors, and an ever rotating cast of nearly a dozen ousted dept chiefs and add'l #interim administrative overlords came through city, while budget cuts severely impact staffing and compliance during constant #crime waves.

Unfortunately sad and disturbing #lawenforcenent #scandals kept coming over past decades, and in 2025 many citizen observors wonder how, when or even "if" the #OPD agency can ever emerge on its own ?

First link is look at how we got here, and second provides peak at the moving #CopWatch targets set by #regulators and where efforts to comply still stand...

https://oaklandside.org/2024/01/08/hiring-oakland-police-chief-has-always-been-messy/

https://www.oaklandreport.org/p/twenty-years-under-watch-will-oakland?utm_source=substack

Hiring a police chief in Oakland has always been messy

The challenges and conflicts swirling around the city’s current search for a chief are hardly new.

The Oaklandside