The leafy East Bay city of Antioch is in the grip of a spiraling gang war after police numbers collapsed under the Democrat run council and its 'equity conscious' mayor. Crime was already spiking on every major metric before a weekend of unprecedented gun violence left one man dead, emptied the city center and left business owners fearing for their future. Police numbers have plunged from 115 to 76 in the last four years under the tenure of Mayor Lamar Hernandez-Thorpe who was elected in the teeth of opposition from the local police Officers' Association.