Half a year after a set of scandals beset the police department in Berkeley, threatening to derail the appointment of interim chief Jen Louis as the new permanent police chief, city leaders moved recently to put the episode behind them.…
Pamela Price is the new District Attorney (DA), or chief prosecutor, of Alameda County. She was just elected in November 2022, and has been in office barely half a year. She is a reformer, one of many “progressive prosecutors” across…
Berkeley has a council/manager form of government, as opposed to a “strong mayor” government as bigger cities like Oakland and San Francisco have. This means that power is divided between the city council, which includes the mayor, and the city…
How the BPD fails to oversee problem officers On November 10, 2022, the Berkeley Police Department’s Bike Team was implicated by a former member of the team in a pattern of bias-related misconduct. The whistleblower revealed multiple text messages within…