Oakland Police Department Reflects on a Challenging Year in Violent Crimes

After investigating 134 homicides this year, the astir since 2012, the Oakland Police Department said they are committed to addressing a emergence successful convulsive crimes successful the city.

Oakland besides experienced a 21 percent summation successful shootings, with galore cases linking to pack and radical subordinate conflicts, said the department.

In response, Chief LeRonne L. Armstrong hired six investigators to the homicide conception to lick much cases. As a result, the section accrued their homicide clearance complaint from 33 percent successful October to 47 percent successful December. The section besides arrested 60 suspects progressive successful homicide cases, according to year-end data.

The section said it is focused to initiate convulsive transgression prevention strategies similar ceasefire, though it stated the pandemic affected officers' quality to trim outreach efforts for those considered high-risk for weapon violence.

The section besides applauded Armstrong for his 2 initiatives to make beardown ties with assemblage members -- one, a rally called "Stand Up for a Safe Oakland," and the second, assemblage meetings called "Conservations Towards Solutions." Oakland constabulary volition soon reallocate 48 officers to Bureau of Field Operations East and acceptable up a six-area patrol program to code the disproportionate fig of calls for convulsive transgression that comes from East Oakland.

"Public work and information are successful the highest contented of the Oakland Police Department, which we volition proceed to show each day. With continued enactment from assemblage members, City leaders, and Oakland Police Commission, we look guardant to a unified effort successful making Oakland a harmless city," the section said successful a statement.