Mayor Libby Schaaf has tapped a 22-year veteran of the Oakland Police Department to be the agency’s new chief.
LeRonne Armstrong, currently a deputy chief, was sworn in Monday, ending the tenure of interim Police Chief Susan Manheimer.
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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.
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