Oakland City Leaders Take Your Questions on Safety and the Surge of Violent Crime

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🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Two Berkeley High School students were shot and killed at an Oakland birthday party on Saturday. On Wednesday six adults were shot at an Oakland school. The week before, two men were killed near their mosque after attending services, and in a shooting outside of city hall during a city council meeting, one man was killed, one injured. Forum talks with Oakland’s mayor, chief of police, and the city’s chief of violence prevention about what explains the surge in violent crime and what can be done about it. Guests: Libby Schaaf, Oakland mayor LeRonne Armstrong, police chief, Oakland Police Department Guillermo Cespedes, chief of Violence Prevention, City of Oakland Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal. The first and most important thing to say is that a lot of people in Oakland are hurting.
1:05.0	They've lost loved ones, they've seen people shot and killed.
1:09.0	The increase in violence in Oakland over the past couple years,
1:11.6	with homicides up more than 50% in 2021 from the pre-pandemic years, is not abstract.
1:18.1	We need to try to understand the dynamics of this ongoing tragedy. And as an Oakland resident,
1:23.2	I know that everyone was happy to take credit when crime fell through the 2010s, but how about now?
1:28.6	Who can be held accountable? Today, we've got Mayor Libby Schaff, police chief Laurent Armstrong,
1:34.5	and the head of violence prevention, Guillermo Cespides. Join us for a conversation about
1:38.5	Oakland's path forward.
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