NAACP leaders in California are calling for a state of emergency over crime in Oakland after the organization's branch in the East Bay blamed efforts to defund police and limit prosecutions for putting the city in a 'doom-loop.'
The NAACP said increases in violent crime and a lack of urgency to get a handle on the issue are hollowing out Oakland’s economic activity, and the vicious cycle will create more desperate people who will turn to crime to get by.
Statewide leaders were backing the Oakland NAACP’s admonishment of the city’s “failed leadership” Thursday for allowing criminals to act with impunity. “Residents now know that help will not come when danger confronts them. Worse, criminals know that too,” Ms. Adams and Mr. Jackson wrote.
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