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yuiyoshida

(41,759 posts)
Wed Mar 19, 2014, 03:31 AM Mar 2014

Oakland Neighborhood Credits Private Patrols For 85% Drop In Crime



OAKLAND (KPIX 5) — Residents in several Oakland neighborhoods credit private patrols for a significant drop in crime, with one neighborhood claiming a drop of 85 percent. Meanwhile, the Oakland Police Department and some community members remain skeptical about the patrols.

Neighborhood watch groups have been crunching the numbers and told KPIX 5 that patrols are working. People in Lower Rockridge said burglaries and robberies have dropped 45 percent in the last three months. Meanwhile, people in the Oakmore neighborhood claim an 85 percent drop in crime.

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Oakland Neighborhood Credits Private Patrols For 85% Drop In Crime (Original Post) yuiyoshida Mar 2014 OP
Things (like politics too) usually dotymed Mar 2014 #1
I've never even heard of the Oakmore neighborhood KamaAina Mar 2014 #2

dotymed

(5,610 posts)
1. Things (like politics too) usually
Wed Mar 19, 2014, 06:40 AM
Mar 2014

improve when we Unite and work together.
I hope that they do not equate these results with privatization.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
2. I've never even heard of the Oakmore neighborhood
Wed Mar 19, 2014, 12:29 PM
Mar 2014

and I visit Oakland fairly frequently and have friends there.

I'd take these figures with a grain of salt, while noting that crime is down significantly throughout Oakland, not just in the affluent, largely white neighborhoods that have these private patrols.

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