GOODER AND HARDER: Oakland on track for record-breaking year in murders. “The police union attributes the deadly violence to a number of factors. Key being the lowest number of officers in recent years. This time last year, the city of Oakland recorded less than a dozen homicides. This city has currently experienced close to three times as many people killed.”
Flashback: How It Started: Defunding the police: Oakland, Berkeley could be test cases for Bay Area, nation.
—The San Francisco Chronicle, July 21st, 2020.
How it’s going: Shootings in Oakland soar as cuts to Police Department take hold.
—The San Francisco Chronicle, January 31st.