Police & Fire
"The official Patch Group covering crime and public safety. If you're not following this group Flag as Inappropriate
Posts awaiting your approval 0
Carl Milsum May 20, 2013 at 08:56 am
turns out they tried to force open the neighbors door first - all the lights were on in this home so…Read More this shows they were looking to hold up the residents.
mike lyons May 14, 2013 at 09:02 pm
99.9% of people driving drunk and causing fatalities and accidents have a blood alcohol level way…Read More over .08 This attempt to legislate away DUI is not evidence based.
Borris Batanov May 14, 2013 at 08:42 pm
Why don't they come up with a legal limit for the THC in all the stoners out there?
Michael poland May 14, 2013 at 06:25 pm
No. .08 is DUI and .05 is not. Yes, a person may have had a drink, but would not show impairment…Read More unless mixed with some drugs (legal or illegal).
Cheryl May 14, 2013 at 02:16 am
As one of the victims cited in this article, we want to thank and commend the Oakland and Piedmont…Read More police on working together to bring this unfortunate incident to a speedy resolution. We all were shaken from the situation but are very appreciative of all that was done on our behalf. Bravo to all the officers involved! In addition, we want to thank the neighbors around Warfield Avenue who came out to help us and provided support and first aid. It made a huge difference to us.
Rick Schiller May 12, 2013 at 02:25 pm
Yes, active patrolling lead to this nice piece of work. Thank you, PPD!.
Rick Schiller May 2, 2013 at 09:13 pm
Tim, the Patch article is unclear if the one mobile ALPR Piedmont currently had was with DeWarns.…Read More The story implies the 5 became nervous upon seeing him and pulled over quickly which is behavior officers are trained to spot. If the car was on a known stolen vehicle list, a quick call to dispatch would have revealed that.
You raise a good point, has the one mobile ALPR currently in use been effective?
garrett Keating May 1, 2013 at 11:27 am
Presumably a license plate reader would have detected this stolen vehicle entering Piedmont.
John Hart April 30, 2013 at 10:54 pm
DO complain and take out your phone and take video if you feel like your rights are being violated.
John Hart April 30, 2013 at 10:53 pm
If this story is true, and I believe it is, they should sue the bejesus out of that cop and the…Read More department.
In 2007 I was working in an Oakland house (I am a real-estate developer) near the Piedmont border and two Piedmont detectives came barreling in the house without being inviting, asking about local robberies. The female detective was a real "cowboy", I am surprised if there are no lawsuits following her around. If there is just one female detective then you know who you are. Really bad news and no regard for the constitution.
Judy April 30, 2013 at 09:19 pm
We have lived in Piedmont for nearly 20 years. My Asian American sons have had similar experience,…Read More stopped while driving for no other apparent reasons than their ethnicity.
One son was dragged out of a car his friend was driving and made to sit on the curb for more than an hour at midnight shuddering in cold and being taunted when they said they were cold: "you think this is cold? I'll make it colder if you don't shut up." They were only 2 minutes from home. The guy called two more patrol cars for back up. Imagine, three patrol cars against two defenseless teenagers shivering in shorts in midnight cold. They did not have decency to bring the kids to the station where at least it's warm. The guy was sadistic.
Instead of investigating serious crimes, those police prefer to use energy on less challenging tasks of harassing young non-white male residents. What a waste of tax money, three patrol cars against two teenagers! Exposing them to verbal abuse and freezing temperature. I guess there is bravery in numbers, their sheer number and three cars and guns emboldened them to abuse defenseless Asian kids. How come they always need a squadron of cars and forces to handle the simplest 'perceived or suspected' infractions?
Oh yes, police racial profiling and harassment is very much alive, let's not kid ourselves. We dare not come out and complain in public for fear of retaliation and even more targeted harassment. After all, they know exactly where we live.
Dixie Jordan (Editor) May 12, 2013 at 06:10 pm
It's in the official PPD log, honest! I couldn't make this stuff up...
Bette Spagel May 7, 2013 at 06:53 pm
Traffic police should spend some time on King by the park. People drive up and down as if it were…Read More the Indianapolis Speedway.
Jim McCrea May 7, 2013 at 04:09 pm
Wow: such a crime-ridden city Piedmont is !!
Where else would the police rush out to rescue a…Read More turkey stuck in a storm drain.
(Are you sure these tidbits are not from The Onion?"
A. Rome May 20, 2013 at 12:08 pm
I am sorry these most amazing women had to endure this tragic situation , However if common sense…Read More was applied by everyone involved this would have been 9 women and a driver survived what could have been a devistating fire. Women who are trained as nurses to think quickly and safely. Quid Pro Quo but does no one see that these women did not think logical. They are trained to save lives. Nurses put up with a lot of things doctors are too afraid to. Not One of these women had to die. Maybe what we are seeing is a driver who seen something that happened and is scared to act accordingly. Beat his Ass and find out what he knows. Maybe there was a fight in the limo during the fire. People do some crazy shit in the heat of the moment. The Cali Police are too stupid to ask the right questions because of their politics to Minorities , and the CPUC are too stupid to give the right answers. No One in the CPUC gives a flying fuck til now. NY is on the Motha if it happens they do not care about feelings till some questions are answered. Atlanta has been On it. None of these women had to die it's called " Survival of the Fittest and Someone was not willing to die but to kill others ". Question is Who did it and would you do the same". People are so sensative right now but NOt ONE person is asking the right questions. Because We as Paramedics, Nurses are trained for handle such a serious nature but at the end of the day think about. Do you really want to burn in a fire or will you abandon your friends or in fact even throw them into the blazes of hell just to survive and go home to your child. If all the mothers in that limo got out I would not ask these painful questions but you should really investagate if you want the truth. AND THE TRUTH SHALL COME OUT in time. But right now I can tell you some of those women and even the driver is scared to talk. there is a suspect in this case. how nervous Mr. Brown is something besides watching women burn alive has that man shook up and it is not just the norms in this case. Everyone from that car knows alot more that they are speaking of because they are afraid. take this from someone who studied criminal sciences and currently studying fire sciences. Once these women are burried or creamated this is no evidence that can link to a possible homicide . If I am wrong than these women deaths will not be in vain and they deaths made a change. But if i am right somebody is in big trouble.
ROBERT E. FISHBACK April 26, 2013 at 04:36 pm
c5..just curious....c5 is Pentane...a very light and clear hydro-carbon. I wonder if a person who…Read More had a part of his colon removed would have a semi-colon....Has this thread become an exercise in Scatology ? :)
Kathleen_womac@yahoo.com April 15, 2013 at 08:22 pm
On Tuesday, April 9th, my parked car was struck by a dark gray, Dodge Ram truck in the 100 block of…Read More Olive Ave. I immediately called the police. The driver was cited before he drove off but, important to add: the driver was driving with an expired license, expired insurance and the truck did not belong to him. Too bad for me. I have to pay for the $2000+ damage.
Have a Surveillance Video System? Piedmont Police Want Your…
0 Recommend Dixie Jordan (Editor)