Confirmed that at this point. The chief has been with the department for three years. He took over in 2013 and Howard Jordan in anthony creavalle both left position of chief within the same week. He has issued a statement which reads, i am so proud to have served oakland over the course of my two decadelong career. When i took this job three years ago as interim chief i bow to help move the department forward and make oakland safer by forging a stronger relationship with members of the community. I am proud to have done that. Its important to note that in the last year under chief whent direction, crime rates have dropped in oakland including homicides. We will follow on the story and bring you that News Conference from a or shaft later this morning. Earlier in the day it was announced that no charges would be filed in the Sexual Misconduct case involving oakland officers and the underage daughter of a police dispatcher. Officer Terrell Smith and at least one of the officer lost their
Courtroom. It wasnt until they said please ride for the honorable. Judge aaron persky , it click then i realized i was in his courthouse. Reporter persky is under a firestorm for sentencing jot brock turner to just six months in jail, the maximum sentence was 14 years. It wasnt long before persky told jurors he was recently part of a high profile case. He said if there is anyone in the jury that had any feelings towards him to raise your hand. I did. It was just his tone, he talked as if it was nothing. I think thats what got to me and all of the other jurors to raise their hand. Reporter the 19yearold says she and four other people were required to give a reason. She told persky, she didnt feel comfortable being front of a judge who she thought, favored turner instead of the victim in the unrelated case. She also said he made her blood boil. The fact that a judge decided to give the defendant, a rapist, more feelings towards him and wanted him to be okay instead of the victim. Thats w
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Jenkintown, great time and bike safety is what it is all about. Pull one over. Nobody gets tickets. We have a program during the summer, where we ticket kids that are bicycling safely and we see kids wearing helmets driving safely. So for once you want to have a ticket from the police officer. This is a good ticket. I love it. Write them up. Yes. Heres the thing, officer. Yes. Do me a favor do not put a ticket on that mazda over there. So you want two. Do not put a ticket over there. It is a good car that we are giving away. The mazda cx9. That is right alex holley, very excited because mazda is why were here. It is a beautiful car, seriously. I love this helmet. Helmets are decorated. Thanks for coming out, everybody. We will get this thing started. The weather could not be better, it is so nice i wore white pants. Do your white pants dance, here we go. Sue you have to see this dance that mike is doing. It is a little chilly. That is how you warm up with the white pants i got the whit
From 7 00 to 10 00, join the whole gang, sue is out there already, we will be at the town square, there it is, come on over and say hi. You looked at google maps, 47 minutes exactly. You never say even. I come up with 27 minutes. I will make tonight 30, you do 47. Lets go. We ask sue how long it took, good morning, sue, how long did it take you. How long did it take us, george to get here. Fifteen minutes. Im going with george. We even stopped at the wawa to get some coffee, yeah. The most important thing i can tell you however long it takes to you get here wear a jacket this morning because it is on the cool side. That is not stopping anyone from setting up from a party. Look the at this lovely town square in jenkintown, this area has been here since 2001 and there you can see our truck setting up and all businesses that will be here. Mike and alex will be rolling in every second right now. It will be a bought full day, thus the number of the day, which is, ten. Yes, were definitely a