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San Francisco Supervisors Want To Restore Police Academy Classes
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – A push is underway within the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to prevent the loss of police officers in the city by restoring police academy classes. With a number of officers...
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Former Oakland Raider Turned Actor Bubba Smith Dies
LOS ANGELES (CBS SF/AP) – Former Oakland Raider/NFL defensive star Bubba Smith, who found a successful second career as an actor, died Wednesday in Los Angeles at age 66. Los Angeles County coroner’s...
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Oakland Launches First Police Academy Since Last Year’s Layoffs
OAKLAND (CBS SF) – The Oakland Police Department on Monday began its first police academy since the City Council voted to lay off 80 officers in July 2010 in a budget-cutting move. The academy consists...
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SF Police Chief Calls For More Academies, New Officers
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr is hoping that a June police academy will help boost manpower in the department, which is still hundreds of officers short. The department is...
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Oakland’s Police Chief Gives Himself Tough Grade As Violent Crime Rate Rises
OAKLAND (CBS SF) – Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan recently gave himself some low marks for job performance while still sounding an optimistic tone about the future safety of the streets of Oakland....
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Now Hiring: Oakland Set To Add Police Officers
OAKLAND (KCBS) – The city of Oakland is looking for a few good men and women who are looking to work in the field of law enforcement. Over the last few years, the city has struggled to maintain the...
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San Jose Begins First Police Academy In Nearly Three Years
SAN JOSE (KCBS) – The thinning ranks of the San Jose Police Department will soon be getting some much needed reinforcements, as the department begins its first police academy in nearly three years. 44...
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Phil Matier: Oakland Crime Rate Soaring As City Loses Officers
OAKLAND (KCBS) – Burglaries are up a startling 43 percent in Oakland this year compared to last, part of an ever-growing crime problem in the city. According to the latest numbers from the Oakland...
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Proposals Aim To Recoup Training Costs For Departing San Jose Rookie Officers
SAN JOSE (KCBS) – Two proposals are in the works that could force new San Jose police officers to repay some of their training costs if they bolt for another job. The police department has struggled to...
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Phil Matier: Few Recruits For Oakland Police Lateral Academy
OAKLAND (KCBS)— The Oakland Police Department started a new lateral academy Tuesday designed to help rebuild its understaffed force. While city officials had hoped between eight and 15 recruits would...
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Oakland Police On Track To Hire 100 New Officers By Year’s End
OAKLAND (KCBS)— The Oakland Police Department (OPD) says it’s on track to hire 100 new officers by the end of the year, signaling a potential turnaround for the force that has struggled with dwindling...
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Shrinking San Jose Police Department Has Few Recruits For New Academy
SAN JOSE (KCBS)— San Jose is having a hard time attracting new police officers and has only filled 29 of 60 slots in next month’s police academy. San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed admits that’s not an...
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Oakland Police Department Gets 47 New Officers From Big Recruiting Class
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Forty-seven new officers joined the Oakland Police Department on Friday in a graduation ceremony for what the department said was the largest recruiting class in its history. The...
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San Jose’s Mayor Considers Investigation Of Police Officer Union Leader Over...
SAN JOSE (KCBS)— San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed has asked that the city council appoint a special investigator as well as a U.S. attorney to look into the alleged comments made by the head of the police...
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45 New Police Officers Receive Their Badges At San Francisco Graduation Ceremony
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Forty-five men and women joined the San Francisco Police Department as new officers Friday, officials with the police department said. The new officers were expected to begin...
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San Francisco Police Trained To De-Escalate Violence In Encounters With...
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — More than a third of the 168 police shootings in California last year involved suspects that showed signs of mental illness, according to a Washington Post report. Police officer...
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‘Punky Brewster’&‘Police Academy’ Star George Gaynes Dies
(CBS NEWS) – George Gaynes, known to a generation as the grouchy but lovable Henry Warnimont on “Punky Brewster,” died Monday at his daughter’s home in North Bend, Washington. He was 98. George Gaynes...
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OPD Teen Sex Scandal Puts Police Academy On Hold, Delays Plan To Hire New...
OAKLAND (KPIX 5/CBS SF) — Oakland mayor’s campaign promise to make the city safer is going to be hard to keep given the sex scandal that has called into question the police department’s hiring...
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SFPD Dismisses 2 Recruits Over Cheating Allegations
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – Two police recruits have been dismissed by the San Francisco Police Department over allegations they cheated on tests given during field training. KCBS and Chronicle Insider...
View ArticleBay Area Cop Shortage Prompts Police Departments To Entice Rookies With Cash
FREMONT (KPIX 5) — Bay Area police departments are offering huge cash incentives to new recruits to fill the ranks during a shortage of police officers in the region. According to a Fremont police...
View ArticleSan Francisco Police Making Strides To Diversify Department, Recruit More Women
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — New numbers released by the San Francisco Police Department on Tuesday showed the department is making strides in its effort to recruit more women and create a more diverse...
View ArticleSan Jose Police Graduates Mark End of Record-Length, COVID-Delayed Academy
SAN JOSE (KPIX) — A group of newly-sworn San Jose police officers made history Friday even before they hit the streets. “One year of work and intense training and stress, it’s just kind of been lifted...
View ArticleSan Francisco Grapples With Drastic Drop in Police Recruits
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — As police departments across the country have had up to a third of its force quit or retire within the last year, the SFPD is facing a similar shortage. Department officials...
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