Archive for 2008
Rank-and-file begin to question Bailey probe
OAKLAND — As 2008 ends, more questions than answers remain about the brazen slaying of journalist Chauncey Bailey 17 months ago, and they raise increasing concerns about this city’s beleaguered police force — questions that some officers say are now being asked within their own ranks.
Commentary: Chauncey Bailey Project
COMMENTARY – The idea for the project started with a message to this column from freelance journalist Kenneth J. Cooper and took off from there.
Understaffed Oakland department behind other cities in solving homicides
The Oakland Police Department has the lowest homicide clearance rate among California’s large cities because the department is understaffed and the detective work in certain instances is not thorough, an investigation by The Chauncey Bailey Project has found.
Oakland homicide clearance numbers vary
At a time when law enforcement leaders nationwide are stressing that accurate data is critical to good police work, the Oakland Police Department cannot produce reliable homicide statistics that meet national standards.
OPD homicide detectives focus on interrogation, sometimes at expense of other investigation
The Bailey Project reviewed cases where defense attorneys and public defenders complained that confessions and witness statements were coerced during long, unrecorded interrogations and other clues were ignored.
Law enforcement reports and statistics are available on the Internet
Law enforcement reports and statistical data are available on the Internet.
Charts: Homicides in California’s largest cities; Oakland homicide detectives’ case loads, wages, overtime
Three charts detail (1) Homicides in California’s largest cities, (2) Oakland homicide detective case loads, (3) Oakland homicide detective wages and overtim
Newly released document shows further police suspicion of bakery’s violent crime ties
OAKLAND — By late July 2007, detectives investigating two North Oakland street killings had strongly tied them to Your Black Muslim Bakery and had a witness who saw a gunman running from a scene, according to a search-warrant affidavit a judge allowed to be released Monday.
Commentary: Chauncey Bailey murder could have been avoided
COMMENTARY: Reporters Without Borders voiced outrage today after learning that a delay in an Oakland police raid on Your Black Muslim Bakery could have cost Chauncey Bailey his life.
Commentary: Dellums Urges Expansion of Bailey Investigation
COMMENTARY – Oakland, Calif., Mayor Ron Dellums called for an expansion of the state investigation into the Police Department’s handling of journalist Chauncey Bailey’s slaying to include a newly reported delay in the raid of Your Black Muslim Bakery, an operation Bailey was investigating, Thomas Peele and Bob Butler reported for the Chauncey Bailey Project.
The Chauncey Bailey Project: Media coalition reinvents Arizona Project model 
Women, Part I: One police officer cracked abuse case against Yusuf Bey 
’60 Minutes’ airs story on Bailey killing 
Police reopen 1968 Santa Barbara mosque slaying investigation 
Unsolved 1986 slaying of baker linked to founder of Your Black Muslim Bakery 
Secret video raises questions about bakery leader’s role in Bailey killing 
Bailey killing figure had troubled youth
Evidence Ignored
Delayed raid likely cost Chauncey Bailey his life 
OPD homicide detectives focus on interrogation, sometimes at expense of other investigation 
A Day Late in Oakland
Grand jury votes to indict bakery leader in slaying of Oakland journalist 
Slideshow: Michael J. Wills Jr.
Two years later: The Chauncey Bailey slaying 
Exclusive Interview with Jane Doe 1 
