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Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao has claimed life coaching could be the secret to solving the California city's soaring crime.
Oakland City Council held a meeting Tuesday evening to discuss an audit report of an abandoned city program that helped lower gun violence and is now being reinstated. The program, called Ceasefire, was implemented in 2012. During the years that followed, it was credited for a 42% drop in murders in the city, from 2012 to 2017. In 2020, however, it was disbanded after the COVID-19 pandemic began, and homicides started to rise. | By Magaly Muñoz Oakland City Council held a meeting Tuesday evening to discuss an audit report of an abandoned city program that helped lower gun violence and is now ...
The Oakland branch of the 75-year-old company will close its doors in March, as rising crime has put staff and customers in danger, the company's COO, Denny Warnick, said
Wednesday, two senators unveiled the "Preserving Safe Communities by Ending Swatting Act" aimed at curbing swatting crimes.
In September, Illinois became the first state in the country to eliminate cash bail. Four months later, advocates, researchers, and the public are seeing the reform’s effects. The state legislature passed the Pretrial Fairness Act in January 2021 as a part of the larger SAFE-T Act, an effort spearheaded by the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus....