'This is really a failure of city government when our community's not protected,' a community member said.
"It looks like to me, it's like a flash mob, they're very organized," Francis Lan, president of the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce said.
In an emergency meeting held for these concerned business owners by the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce Friday morning, many had questions for police. "We are still waiting for an evidence tech to come out, that's the latest, and until then we possibly have some more damages that we need to assess and accumulate before we can reset our restaurant to reopen," Darlene Wong, spokesperson for Lounge Chinatown said.
ABC7 reached out to Oakland police about this issue and while they declined our interview request, in their own video statement, they said they are taking steps to cut down the number of burglaries.
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