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Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and police addressed a recent spike in robberies and their plan to combat those crimes involving young suspects.

Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao on Wednesday said that following the arrest Sunday of nine juveniles for nearly three dozen robberies, the city will provide resources...

Oakland police arrested a man in connection with Louis Truehill, the city's 100th homicide victim, who was the uncle of a city violence prevention coordinator employee.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta and other prosecutors convened Tuesday in Oakland - a city that just reached its 101th homicide - to discuss how to reduce the number of murders.

Oakland’s 100th homicide of 2022 on Monday was the fatal shooting of a city violence prevention coordinator’s uncle. But then some 12 hours later, the city saw its 101st killing of the year.

Kentrell Killens didn't know until he arrived at the scene that Oakland's 100th homicide victim of 2022 would be his uncle: Louis Truehill, 60, who lived just one block away.

Four people were shot and killed in Oakland in a 24-hour string of violence plaguing the city.

Five years since its inception, Oakland’s Department of Violence Prevention has barely...

As homicides continue to climb in Oakland and nationwide, and an unrelenting pandemic...