Posted on 01/20/2024 5:55:52 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Community members, religious leaders, and formally incarcerated individuals gathered on the steps of Oakland City Hall Friday, calling for more programs to address and prevent violence in the city.
The push comes after an audit this week found the dismantling of “operation ceasefire,” a key violence intervention program, resulted in a spike in crime in the city over the past few years.
“The lives that people going to prison, people going to jail. It could’ve been prevented,” said Oakland resident Robert McDaniels.
“The most important fact is to bring the community, sit the community back in the driver’s seat, into this fight of prevention,” said safety activist Shedrick Henry.
To do this, the Oakland Police Department is restructuring positions. The Violent Crime Operation Center will be disbanded, and its officers reassigned. The Department of Violence Prevention will be restructured next month.
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Why does it have to be “revived” ?
Of course the program has the word “ceasefire” in its name.
Could go the alternative ... give them all guns and ammunition and deal with the survivors.
Are they going to “restructure” the criminals?
Typical liberal crap. Form a committee, then congratulate themselves.
(In an election year)
Oh, good grief, if they just passed a few more gun laws violent crime would stop immediately. 🙄
wouldn’t it be more efficient if they told homeowners and business owners to arm themselves and shoot the thugs?
“”The Violent Crime Operation Center will be disbanded””
And.........Shazam! No more violent crime/s/s/s/s/s/s
quick- disarm all law abiding citizens there- that should solve all the gun crime problems! /s
“The most important fact is to bring the community, sit the community back in the driver’s seat, into this fight of prevention,” said safety activist Shedrick Henry.
Was Kamala Harris on hand to add to these word salad statements?
I became an expert at rarely going that office.
Advice to anyone driving by the once very nice city of Oakland (880, 580 etc) keep going. There is absolutely no good reason to offramp there (or anywhere in the east bay.)
Eight ‘priceless’ BONSAI trees are stolen from volunteer garden in crime-ridden Oakland - the fourth such theft in two years - as California city’s progressive mayor and DA both face recall efforts
EXCLUSIVE Is this the most dangerous square mile in America? Crime hotspot in Oakland where gas stations and In-N-Out are hit by brazen car thieves dozens of times EVERY DAY - but cops say they are powerless to stop it
Back in 1978 I owned a logistics company based in Fremont, California. Twice a week we sent 2 trucks north into Oakland.
It was a miserable Hellhole even back then. If the driver/driver helper didn’t lock the roll up door on the trailers as they moved product from the vehicles to the customers in just the short time it took to walk 50 feet or so they would return to find the trailers being looted, generally by very young, under 18, groups of feral 13%’ers.
I eventually stopped going into Oakland and at the same time San Jose, which at the time was much more dangerous than Oakland.
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