Oakland Homicides 2025 List. The oakland police department provides crime data to the public through the city of oakland’s crime watch web site. So far this year, the areas with the most homicides are area 3, the region encompassing fruitvale and central oakland, and area 5, oakland’s easternmost section — consistent.
The three weekend deaths mark oakland’s second, third and fourth homicides in 2024. Oakland recorded 120 homicides in 2022 — a homicide rate of more than 27 per 100,000 residents, by far the highest of the 15 cities that provided data to the chronicle.