After a viewer called the Investigative Unit about the slow police response to a large Oakland sideshow, our team requested incident reports, 911 audio and an interview with the police chief to find out why it took a half hour for a single unit to arrive.
After an NBC Bay Area viewer contacted the Investigative Unit with concerns about the Oakland Police Department’s slow response to this sideshow, our team filed public records requests for incident logs, CAD reports and 911 audio to figure out what really happened. We also reached to Oakland Police Chief Leronne Armstrong with questions about his department’s response.
“We are putting officers on the streets every weekend to address sideshows, but it’s not nearly enough officers,” Chief Armstrong said. “We are prioritizing violent crime first. And, so, when our officers are assigned to a violent crime investigation, whether that be a homicide or shooting, it makes it difficult for us to break and go to other calls like those.
The Investigative Unit obtained records showing the calls for service for the same hour as the sideshow that night. They show police were consumed with reports of violent crimes including a possible dead person and four reports of shots fired. Patrols were also responding to a separate sideshow event on the West side of Oakland. Chief Armstrong that was, unfortunately, a typical weekend night in Oakland for his officers.
“One of the things we are doing is taking photos of vehicles involved, photos and video of vehicles in sideshows and then writing search warrants and getting them approved by judges to go to the individual’s homes and tow those vehicles as an instrument of a crime,” Chief Armstrong said. Chief Armstrong said his department is intent on breaking and ending sideshows because they are inherently dangerous. Some have turned deadly. Last June, Chief Armstrong placed two police officers on leave after they were involved in a sideshow-related high-speed pursuit where the black Nissan involved spun out of control and crashed into four men walking on the sidewalk.
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