PLEASANTON — Several law enforcement and emergency crews from near and far will window shop the Urban Shield vendor displays Friday. The large-scale trade show will give law enforcement workers the ...

The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously today to continue supporting the sheriff's office's controversial "Urban Shield" first-responder training exercise despite strong opposition ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KTVU) - In recent years, questions have been raised about a law enforcement training exercise known as Urban Shield. It’s an event that prepares emergency personnel for things such as ...

PLEASANTON — This week’s Urban Shield “real time training for real world events” will be the last of its kind in Alameda County with a militaristic bent. The purpose of the five-day Urban Shield event ...

The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 at the end of a contentious hearing today to fund the sheriff's office's controversial "Urban Shield" first-responder training exercise this year but ...

Credits: Darwin BondGraham The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted this afternoon to approve only one more year of funding for Urban Shield, a law enforcement and first responders training ...

In its final meeting, the Ad Hoc Committee on Urban Shield approved a report Wednesday containing recommendations for the replacement of Alameda County’s controversial Urban Shield program, which will ...

BERKELEY — The city should quit the federal Urban Shield program, the Police Review Commission said this week in a recommendation to the City Council. A Palo Alto Police tactical unit converges on ...

BERKELEY — Despite claims by some two dozen speakers that the Urban Shield exercises feed into a growing militarization of police, the City Council voted 5-3 Dec. 15 to approve all of Berkeley’s ...

This piece originally appeared on Waging Nonviolence. Between October 25 and 28 a major urban security training event and trade expo will invade Alameda County, Calif. Urban Shield, now in its seventh ...