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The city's distressed east and west ends remained more dangerous terrain, particularly at night, but violent crime rates were nowhere near the highs of the 1980s and ’90s.
Rising crime in Oakland, California is keeping customers away and hurting sales — leading many small business owners to demand more action from the city and threaten a business tax boycott.
Gov. Newsom announced Friday that Oakland will install about 480 surveillance cameras around the city and on freeways to help combat crime.
Crime in Oakland, California began to rise during the late 1960s after the King assassination riots, and by the end of the 1970s Oakland's per capita murder rate had risen to twice that of San Francisco or New York City. [2] In 1983, the National Journal referred to Oakland as the "1983 crime capital" of the San Francisco Bay Area. [3]
East Oakland stretches between Lake Merritt in the northwest and San Leandro in the southeast. It generally has a diagonal layout. East Oakland has numbered avenues (1st to 109th) that run northeast to southwest, and numbered streets (East 7th to East 38th) that run northwest to southeast. Interstates 580 and 880 also run northwest to southeast.
Closing Oakland's only In-N-Out restaurant due to increasing crime could be the last straw for community members, and possibly a blessing in disguise.
Associated Press 29 minutes ago LA area's 2 biggest blazes burn at least 10,000 structures, while new fire leads to more evacuations. The two biggest wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles area have killed at least 10 people and burned more than 10,000 homes and other structures, officials said as they urged more…
The shooting occurred at approximately 10:30 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, when a gunman opened fire with a Springfield Armory XD.45-caliber semi-automatic handgun with four fully loaded 10-round magazines on the university's campus, located at the Airport Business park in East Oakland, near the Oakland International Airport.