#10 Budget cuts are making life very difficult in many California cities. For example, Oakland, California Police Chief Anthony Batts says that due to severe budget cuts there are a number of crimes that his department will simply not be able to respond to any longer. The crimes that the Oakland police will no longer be responding to include grand theft, burglary, car wrecks, identity theft and vandalism.
Unbelievable.
Another Bay Area police group could not prosecute rape crimes because they had run out of ‘rape kits’ & because the budget wasn’t signed, they could not get any more on credit.
Over 100 cases were not processed, IIRC.
But I bet he’d respond instantly to any report of “vigilantes” taking care of those crimes.