Oakland NAACP Begs For More Cops Amid ‘Heyday For Criminals’

The Oakland department of the NAACP says that due to the town’s “failed” management and the motion to defund the police, crime is rampant and “everyone’s in danger.” In a blistering op-ed, the NAACP slams the town – together with DA Pamela Price, for public security spiraling uncontrolled, Golden Gate Media studies.

“Oakland residents are sick and tired of our intolerable public safety crisis that overwhelmingly impacts minority communities. Murders, shootings, violent armed robberies, home invasions, car break-ins, sideshows, and highway shootouts have become a pervasive fixture of life in Oakland. We call on all elected leaders to unite and declare a state of emergency and bring together massive resources to address our public safety crisis,” reads the letter.

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“Failed leadership, including the movement to defund the police, our District Attorney’s unwillingness to charge and prosecute people who murder and commit life threatening serious crimes, and the proliferation of anti-police rhetoric have created a heyday for Oakland criminals,” reads the op-ed by Cynthia Adams, President of the Oakland Branch of the NAACP, and Bishop Bob Jackson of the Acts Full Gospel Church. 

“We urge African Americans to speak out and demand improved public safety,” it continues. “We also encourage Oakland’s White, Asian, and Latino communities to speak out against crime and stop allowing themselves to be shamed into silence. There is nothing compassionate or progressive about allowing criminal behavior to fester and rob Oakland residents of their basic rights to public safety. It is not racist or unkind to want to be safe from crime. No one should live in fear in our city.”

In March of 2021, The Guardian famous that Oakland noticed a horrific spike in crime after the town pushed ahead with defunding their police division.

Following the discount in police presence, the town skilled a 314% enhance in homicides vs. the identical time in 2020, and a 113% enhance in firearms assaults.

In Oakland, Defund OPD, a five-year-old marketing campaign housed inside the Anti-Police Terror Project (APTP), is a number one voice within the metropolis’s efforts to cut back police spending and put money into areas resembling housing, unarmed psychological well being responses and violence prevention packages.

The marketing campaign started in 2015, a yr that the APTP co-founder Cat Brooks refers to as a “bloody” one. The metropolis’s police division killed 11 people and the next yr was embroiled in scandal after officers sexually exploited and trafficked an adolescent. Since their defunding effort launched, APTP has saved sustained stress on metropolis officers to chop the division’s price range by not less than half. -The Guardian

And now, residents are starring in their very own model of Escape from Oakland.