The Oakland Police Officers' Association in a Tuesday news conference urged Mayor Sheng Thao to resign immediately and allow others to vie for her post in the November election.
The Oakland Police Officers' Association in a Tuesday news conference urged Mayor Sheng Thao to resign immediately and allow others to vie for her post in the November election.The embattled mayor, along with Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price and other elected officials, are to blame for local crime that has 'spiraled out of control' over Thao's two-year-long stewardship of the city, OPOA leadership said.
Thao said rates of homicide, rape, burglary, robbery, aggravated assault and motor vehicle theft all decreased over the previous year.However, OPOA said that fewer reports of property crimes in Oakland do not reflect a reduction in those crimes. The police union contended that residents' frustration with police understaffing has driven them to not report property crimes to the police, making property crime data unreliable.
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