How one Oakland police officer made $500k in overtime…on the podcast

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1 week ago

February 6, 2026

MM Team

This week, investigative journalist Beck Klein and information editor Darwin BondGraham information us by means of their blockbuster investigation into OPD’s runaway extra time spending, a narrative that has practically 300,000 readers.

Plus: a council member’s questions on conflicts of curiosity, the newest on Ken Houston’s controversial encampment coverage, college students strolling out to protest ICE violence, Mayor Lee’s sturdy mayoral proposal and the place to observe the Tremendous Bowl and Unhealthy Bunny’s halftime present in Oakland.

Tales we cowl on this episode:

OPD extra time investigation

Metropolis Corridor

Immigration enforcement and protests

Neighborhood

Meals and enjoyable

Discover all these tales and extra at Oaklandside.org. Do you’ve gotten any suggestions or story concepts? E mail us at editors@oaklandside.org.

Tasneem Raja is editor-in-chief of The Oaklandside. A pioneer in information journalism and native nonprofit information startups, she co-founded The Tyler Loop, a nationally acknowledged neighborhood information platform in East Texas. She was a senior editor at NPR’s Code Change and at Mom Jones, the place the group she led helped construct America’s first-ever database of mass shootings. She started her profession as a reporter at The Chicago Reader and The Philadelphia Weekly, and lives in Oakland along with her husband and daughter.

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