The number of homicides in JanuaryOctober increased 17%, from 523 in 2020 to 613 in 2021. After sending out a mass email to the entire department, the Instagram account posted an image with the attached caption that referred to the department-wide email about us. The investigation is ongoing.. It expects profits to increase because sales to dealers should rise 5% to 10% over last year despite high interest rates and inflation. But with all things considered, increasing the number of police officers on the streets may not be the wisest choice for the city of Oakland. After that, violent crime increased from about 8,0008,500 per month to around 9,50010,000, where it has stayed since July 2021. Over 2001 to 2011 as a whole, the City of Oakland paid about $57 million "for claims, lawsuits and settlements involving alleged misconduct by the Oakland Police Department"the most of any city in California, and more than double what San Francisco paid out over the same period, even though San Francisco has more than double the population of Oakland. A lot of bystanders are seniors, so they cant help. He has reported on gun violence for The Guardian, and was an enterprise reporter for the East Bay Express. The spike was largest in Hayward, where reported vehicle thefts shot up by nearly 400 per 100,000 residents. Some said it felt as though outsiders were coming in without knowing what the community wanted or really needed, and without consulting people with neighborhood knowledge. Meanwhile, auto burglaries and petty thefts decreased sharply in 2020, likely because people were out less due to stay-at-home orders and other pandemic health measures. It is important to note that while these cities make their data quickly available for analysis, the numbers are preliminary: law enforcement agencies update and review the data before submitting them to the Department of Justice as official statistics. The act is remembered as the first piece of major federal legislation barring a specific community from immigrating to the U.S. Kev Choice, an Oakland-based musician, educator, and activist, grew up in East Oakland and near Lake Merritt, and says many of his friends and classmates were Vietnamese, Cambodian, Chinese, and many other ethnicities. Some types of crime particularly low-level property crimes like petty theft are often not reported to police, making accurate counts difficult. ??? It includes the police beat where each incident occurred, which is not available in Oaklands FBI reports, and allows a closer look at the geography of the citys reported crime. Ultimately, in Oakland, as in other cities, the police werent defunded.