On Tuesday, the violence has city and state officials grasping for ideas to temper the violence.
OAKLAND — Minutes after the city’s police chief wrapped up a press conference Monday decrying a grievous run of violence across the city, yet another person lay dead in West Oakland in what appeared to be the 100th killing so far this year.
Her comments came hours after the city’s most recent killing, the 101st investigated as a homicide by Oakland police this year. A 60-year-old man was fatally shot at about 4:05 a.m. in the 4000 block of Everett Avenue in Oakland’s Glenview neighborhood, authorities said. Speaking ahead of Schaaf at Tuesday’s forum, California Attorney General Rob Bonta — a former Alameda County state assembly member — called the killings “unacceptable” and decried gun violence as “a disease unique in the world to America.”
“Every bullet has the power to leave a victim and in recent days what once felt like a flood has turned into an ocean of gun violence, hate and heartbreak for survivors and their families,” he said. But in 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic, homicides investigated by Oakland police jumped to 109 — part of a national trend that saw a spike in violent crime in cities across the country. That trend continued in 2021, when police responded to 134 homicides in Oakland — the most since 2006, when 148 people died here.
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