East Bay city becoming even more dangerous as police are badly understaffed and response are times pathetically slow.
There is one slightly positive trend in Oakland’s violent crime data. Homicides so far in 2023 are down 13% compared to the same period in 2022. Nevertheless, when adjusted for population, Oakland this year has experienced about three times as many homicides as San Francisco and about seven times as many as San Jose.
Data from the Oakland Police Department show that response times have spiked this year and are now far worse than they were just four years ago. Now it’s a common occurrence. Indeed, since the start of the second quarter of this year, the number has frequently topped 200. Which helps explain why response times for urgent and emergency calls roughly doubled from the first quarter of 2023 to the second.Priority One includes calls that involve imminent potential for serious injuries, prevent violent crimes or increase chances of apprehending felony suspects. For those, the average response time was about 12 minutes in spring 2019.
Priority Three calls are the “cold” reports, non-emergencies with no indication of danger to life or property. In spring 2019, a response would have taken an average of about six hours. In May and June this year, it was about 17 hours.City officials, City Council members and Mayor Sheng Thao tout the civilian violence protection and mental health intervention programs the city has been launching.
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