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HOW IT STARTED: Oakland City Council Votes to Defund Police, Stripping More Than $17M from Department Budget.
—Bay Area CBS affiliate KPIX, June 24th, 2021.
How it’s going: Rising Oakland crime draws fervent pleas for city action.
—The Berkley Scanner, yesterday.
Here’s the linked-to Berkley Scanner article
Hundreds of Oaklanders demanded answers and action from city leaders Tuesday night amid recent sprees of violent crime that have increasingly targeted women.
"It's all women," said one local resident who described being attacked outside her North Oakland home earlier this month.
"Two kids beat the shit of me in front of my house last Monday night," she said. "Down on the pavement. Punching me, kicking me, dragging me through the street."
During the robbery attempt, she said, a teenage boy who tried to take her purse had body-slammed her. When he failed to take her to the ground, a teenage girl joined in on the assault.
"They did not get my purse. I have lungs. And my neighbors heard me and they came out," she said. "I’m almost 60 years old. I’m one of the old women that just got taken down. And it’s happening everywhere."
She said she'd heard about women in the hospital with concussions from similar incidents in Oakland.
In Berkeley, a woman in her 70s was recently attacked right outside the police station.
That followed a robbery outside Market Hall earlier this month where a woman in her 60s was attacked in broad daylight.
OPD announced arrests in that case and said it had linked the nine-person robbery crew — all children — to three dozen crimes. Within days, however, all but one member of the alleged crew had been released without charges.
Many of the people targeted during that robbery series were women who were violently assaulted and dragged by their hair, authorities have said.
Earlier this month, a woman in Berkeley was attacked, her head stomped by teenage girls, on her way to a memorial for Jen Angel. Angel sustained critical injuries during a robbery in Oakland in February and died days later.
Rising violence against women was a recurring theme throughout the night, although people also shared concerns about gun violence, property crime and encampment-related issues.
Violent crime in Oakland has increased 7% this year and robberies are up 12% compared to the same period last year, according to Oakland police data.
Last week, OPD announced that the city had seen 100 robberies over a single week in May, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
And North Oakland alone, according to the Chronicle, "has seen a 22% increase in robberies over last year — from 101 reports to 123 — and an 18% increase in violent crime, from 211 incidents to 249."
North Oakland Councilman Dan Kalb, who organized Tuesday night's crime and violence prevention meeting at Oakland Technical High School, was joined on stage by OPD Capt. Jeffrey Thomason and Kentrell Killens, interim chief of Oakland's Department of Violence Prevention.
The officials spoke briefly to start the meeting, but members of the crowd — whose rage and frustration were on full display throughout the night — largely called on them to listen.
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Local residents and business owners called for a stronger police presence and more funding for OPD in addition to stepped-up enforcement from the city and stricter penalties for those who break the law.
They also talked about long wait times to reach Oakland's 911 dispatchers and how long it can take for officers to respond — if they ever do.
Lisa McNally, a public school teacher and third-generation Oaklander, said OPD should resume writing tickets for low-level traffic offenses, starting with license plate violations.
"Don’t tell me it’s profiling — because you can’t even see who’s in the car," she said.
… Despite having called the meeting, Kalb was subjected to significant criticism throughout the night from community members who felt he had let them down over the years or failed to respond without repeated prodding.
Sue Saito, a 25-year Oakland resident, described how nine kids who caused problems for the neighborhood had lived in an RV outside Kalb's home for a period of time.
"I don’t think you did know, Dan, because you never opened your fucking blinds," she said. "How do you lead a city when you don’t look out your window?"
Notice that the miscreants mentioned here are teens, and, count on it, black. It’s a trend that’s being seen in many (all?) of our big cities, all of which are run by Democrats elected by progressives and blacks alike, even though black children are suffering most from these crimes.
Here’s a story from yesterday: it happened in D.C.
11-year-old charged in robberies as D.C. struggles to quell youth violence
As soon as he confronted the masked youth who seemed to be trying to rob him with a gun last week on Irving Street in Northwest Washington, Ryan Cummins knew the assailant was young.
“When I shoved him, he weighed nothing,” Cummins said in an interview.
The 45-year-old told police that he thought his attacker weighed about 90 pounds and was between 12 and 14 years old.
Police said the youth they arrested Saturday in Cummins’s case and two nearby robberies is even younger: 11. He is among the youngest arrested in the District this year in an armed robbery.
“It’s pretty disgusting,” said Cummins, who has lived in a neighborhood east of Columbia Heights for more than two decades.
The youth’s arrest comes as D.C. authorities are struggling with violence against and perpetrated by juveniles, and as some fear younger children are more at risk than they used to be. Less than a month ago, police announced they had charged a 12-year-old in connection with nine carjackings, robberies and assaults.
Jawanna Hardy, founder of the local nonprofit Guns Down Friday, said her organization has shifted its focus from high-schoolers to middle-schoolers, and for the first time this year, she selected children younger than 13 as the highest priority for her summer mentorship program.
Shootings of youths are soaring in D.C., vexing city leaders
Hardy said she made the change after noticing last summer that the 15- and 16-year-olds had started to encourage their younger siblings to join them on the streets — a trend she called new in D.C. and alarming.
“Back in the day, that was against the code. You protected your younger siblings against things going on in the world,” she said. Hardy also said the 15- and 16-year-olds were increasingly hard to reach. By that age, she said, they had already lost so many friends to gun violence that “it was hard to get them not to retaliate. The pain was so deep.”
D.C. police say that more than half the 43 people arrested for carjacking this year are juveniles, mostly 15- and 16-year-olds. Outgoing Police Chief Robert J. Contee III has told the D.C. Council that more juveniles are being arrested in connection with a serious crime as their first offense. Last year, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) declared youth crime an “emergency.”
Eight youths under the age of 18 have been killed in the District by gunfire this year. Police said that through May 18, 48 juveniles have been shot, double from this time last year.
Cummins said he believes the 11-year-old and an older accomplice who remains at large tried to rob him, although it was unclear what they may have wanted.
He told police that one of the youths mumbled “get him” or “get that” when they first approached, according to the police report on the May 24 incident.
In the interview, Cummins said he pushed the youth, then turned “and saw him point a gun at me.” He said that he took cover behind a stone wall and threw a rock at them and that they sped away on bicycles.
The 11-year-old was charged as a juvenile with armed robbery in a May 21 incident involving two young males who robbed a man of a bicycle near his home on Lamont Street NW. Police said the man at first refused the assailants’ demands but complied when one pulled a gun from his fanny pack.
He was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon in Cummins’s case and with robbery in a May 26 incident on Luray Place NW in which car keys were taken.
…. Several juveniles are accused of serious offenses this month in and around the District.
Police in D.C. and in Prince George’s County said Monday that authorities have arrested a 15-year-old wanted in the attempted killing of a teenager aboard a school bus. Officials have said that teen also is a suspect in the killing of a woman in the District. Earlier this month, police said they had arrested a 15-year-old in an armed carjacking, a 16-year-old in two armed robberies with firearms, and a 14-year-old in three armed robberies using a knife.
On Tuesday, a D.C. Superior Court judge said the 12-year-old, now 13, charged in nine separate carjackings, robberies and assaults over five weeks in Southeast Washington had fled a youth detention shelter.
He had been moved to a less-secure shelter after his attorney successfully argued that District prosecutors failed to provide any evidence in eight of the alleged crimes. Judge Robert A. Salerno ordered police to pick up the youth after he learned the youth was not at the shelter.
Cummins blamed the mayor’s office and council members for failing to keep crime down in the city. Some lawmakers have stressed rehabilitation over incarceration for juvenile offenders. Contee has pushed for more consequences for young and older criminal suspects.
Cummins said he was shot in the leg last year in an alley near his home when he came across a dispute between two men. Police described him as an apparent unintended target, but Cummins said the gunman fired multiple rounds down the alley at him and others.
He said police told him that efforts to arrest the adult suspect were put on hold by prosecutors. A D.C. police spokesman confirmed the prosecution in the case was declined.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office for the District [the U.S. Attorney prosecutes, or doesn’t, crimes in the federal district of Columbia — thank you, Merrick Garland] said her office does not comment on charging decisions.
Cummins said he had video of the incident and the license plate of a vehicle the gunman used. “I don’t know what else you need,” he said, adding, “It’s amazingly frustrating.”
…. [Cummins] said that to the assailants, robbing and pointing guns at people “is like a big game.”
“They don’t care,” he said. “No one else’s lives matter to them anymore.”
