Pamela Price Unfiltered

Oakland’s public safety crisis is decades in the making 🏙️⚖️. In this episode of Pamela Price Unfiltered 🎙️, DA Pamela Price sits down with community leader John Jones III ✊🏾 to break down the conversation on public safety in Oakland, the infamous Riders scandal 🕵🏾‍♂️, and why OPD keeps failing its probation after more than 🏛️ 22 years.

We talk about:

How corruption and misconduct ⚠️ shaped Oakland’s police ...

Oakland is in Donald Trump’s crosshairs. He’s planning to send the National Guard into our streets any day now. He did it in LA, he did it in DC.

We are on his list of “very bad” cities that he intends to liberate from the Democrats. The Trump Administration is NOT playing by the rules and it's time to take his threats seriously.

So, how did we get here?

For the past 2 years, the right wing doom loop...

A Culture of Cheating and Lies

In 2024, as the Alameda County District Attorney, my team and I uncovered and exposed a 30-year history of unethical prosecutorial misconduct in the Alameda County District Attorney’s office in prosecuting death penalty cases. 

In February 2025, the new tough-on-crime District Attorney stopped the efforts to address the constitutional crisis before she was actually sworn in and while she was still a sit...

“You never know how tall a giant is when you’re standing next to him.” That’s a reflection from Oakland’s Hometown Hero Mistah F.A.B. on his childhood friend, filmmaker extraordinaire Ryan Coogler, but it rings just as true for Mistah F.A.B. himself. 

Mistah F.A.B. is a multi-platinum songwriter and record producer, a successful entrepreneur, the owner of Dope Era, a clothing line, streetwear boutique and community hub and Dezi, a l...

Donald Trump appears to be winning his war against the First Amendment. Whether it’s high-dollar settlements against major media outlets, coercive terminations of high-profile media personalities, or crippling public broadcasting, the well-coordinated campaign against freedom of speech in America is going well for Trump.

Hon. Pamela Price interviews Regina Brown Wilson, the Executive Director of California Black Media, a network of ...

In this episode, we take a deep dive into the pending confirmation and appointment of Emil Bove to the Third Circuit Court of Appeal. Senate Democrats tried to get in the way of Mr. Bove’s confirmation, and they failed. They walked out of the Senate confirmation hearing when Senate Republicans refused to allow testimony from a whistleblower about Mr. Bove’s directives on immigration.

Closer to home in Alameda County, Hon. ...

In this engaging conversation with Hon. Ryan LaLonde, the first Communications Director under DA Price, shares his insights on the first 90 days of communications warfare in the Alameda County District Attorney's office.

Topics include the lack of a communications infrastructure both internally and externally, the fight to create a user-friendly website, how victims were manipulated and weaponized in ways that undermi...

What happens when politics “trumps” public safety? The double standard that gives “tough on crime” prosecutors the benefit of the doubt vs. the extreme criticisms of reformers has real human consequences. Certain people are protected, and others are not. 

Our guest this week on Pamela Price Unfiltered is the gifted Chesa Boudin, former San Francisco District Attorney and, now the founding Executive Director of Berkeley’s Criminal La...

In this quick clip, Hon. Pamela Price breaks down the history of Juneteenth - what actually happened - and how its legacy is tied to the current fight to abolish prison labor. A brief Juneteenth history followed by a special segment of Legally Speaking discussing the 13th Amendment's exception for slavery "as a punishment for crime." 

The Legally Speaking segment discusses the California Supreme Court case-Ruelas v. A...

In this powerful episode of Pamela Price Unfiltered, we have a "racy conversation" about building interracial sisterhood, the stunning primary victory of Zohran Mamdani in the race for NYC Mayor, and the escalating attacks on Democratic elected officials by Trump and his minions. 

Attorney Karen Fleshman shares her mission and goals for creating safe spaces for interracial sisterhood conversations and coalitions,...

In the world of information overload, we hear a multitude of lies on the news everyday. It is true: ‘A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.’

In December 2021, Linton Johnson, the founder and Chief Visionary Officer of OVIS, launched the world’s first blockchain powered news network, which allows everyday people to end fake news by incentivizing the truth. OVIS is the antidote to "fake news."

We a...

What happens in America in 2025 when the President seizes control of the national law enforcement apparatus to violate the Constitution? The people resist.

Across the country, the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has escalated based on quotas for arrest that feel more like a military operation than law enforcement. From Chicago to Los Angeles, the National Guard has joined ICE and the Dept. of Homeland Security to s...

In this episode of Pamela Price Unfiltered, we tackle the fight for birthright citizenship as Trump pushes to dismantle the 14th Amendment — and what that means for families across America.

Then, we sit down with Dr. Vicki Alexander, a trailblazing OB/GYN and revolutionary public health leader, to talk about Black maternal justice, movement work, and what it really takes to fight for our people.

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Elaine Brown. The Rights of the Child. White Refugees.
This week’s Pamela Price Unfiltered is unmissable.

🔥 Civil rights icon and former Black Panther Party leader Elaine Brown joins us for a powerful conversation on revolutionary struggle, Black liberation, and why she’s still in the fight.

⚖️ Then, we break down the United States’ failure to protect children in our criminal justice system — from trying youth as adults to defu...

Justice is under attack—from the courtroom to the jail cell.

In this powerful episode, Pamela Price sits down with activist mother Terry Lovett, whose son Jalani died in LA County Jail under suspicious circumstances. Together, they expose the silence around in-custody deaths, the unchecked power of deputy gangs, and the growing threats to judicial independence—including the shocking arrest of a sitting judge.

💥 This episode pulls no...

What happens when the systems meant to protect our children—schools, police and policymakers—fail to do so? 

In this week’s episode, I sit down with Angelique Paige, founder of the Vernon Eddins Jr. Foundation, for a powerful conversation on youth violence, bullying prevention, and what real safety in schools should look like.

Angelique’s story is rooted in unimaginable loss—her 14-year-old son, Vernon Eddins Jr., was shot ...

What if one redemption story could change the future for thousands of young people?

This week on Pamela Price Unfiltered, I'm joined by two extraordinary guests who know firsthand how powerful real redemption can be—and why the system wasn’t built for it.

Barbara Becnel—fearless journalist, advocate, and scholar—breaks down how her experience working with Stanley "Tookie" Williams showed her that redemption is not just...

Second Chance Month isn’t just about second chances—it’s about justice, redemption, and fighting for the people most impacted by our broken system.

In this episode of Pamela Price Unfiltered, I sit down with human rights advocate Jamilia Land to break down how felony murder laws continue to devastate families and why California—and the nation—must reckon with the economic and racial injustices fueling mass incarceration.

We’re diving...

This week on Pamela Price Unfiltered, I'm pulling back the curtain on something too many people are ignoring: the real threat to our privacy, our rights, and our democracy.

I'm sitting down with Brian Hofer, Executive Director of Secure Justice and a national leader in the fight against mass surveillance. Together, we break down how policies like Prop 36—to some, seen as reform—are now being used to fuel mass dep...