{"id":465073,"date":"2026-09-16T01:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465073\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T01:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:42:14","slug":"how-oakland-pd-will-staff-air-unit-following-helicopter-pilot-indictments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465073\/","title":{"rendered":"How Oakland PD will staff air unit following helicopter pilot indictments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-7521dc01=\"\">The Oakland Police Department says its helicopter unit is down from five pilots to just three following last week&#8217;s federal charges against two helicopter pilots and a former FAA inspector. The department says it&#8217;s now relying more heavily on neighboring law enforcement agencies to help fill the gap. Betty Yu reports.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0September 15, 2026 5:31pm PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oakland Police Department says its helicopter unit is down from five pilots to just three following last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-465073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}