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Enforcement, more aggressive with the changes in our policies, and less tolerant of all the bullshit that has destroyed our city. >> she's not alone. in the city across the bay, oakland mayor libby schaap distanced herself from when faced with the reality of a major spike in gun crime saying there's nothing progressive about unbridled gun violence. you're damn right. she also told cnn this. >> let me be clear, oakland needs more police. we have bip impacted by staffing reductions. covid interrupted our recruitment and training processes, and the defund rhetoric and challenging our ability to a...

Headway in arresting any of these people when you are talking about that many people involved? >> yeah, arrests have been made both in oakland and other cities. we are working together to connect these crimes. they -- it's occurred throughout the bay area. san francisco and walnut creek and other cities have been impacted by these groups. we know that they didn't just impact one city. that this is a collective group of people who have impacted multiple cities. so our district attorneys are all working together to levy charges against the people that have been arrested so far. >> chief, we spok...

These prime targets. there is a political angle to this, as well. we heard today from the democratic mayor of the city from oakland. she spoke to our colleague, indicate bolduan. she said in her view the lack of police officers, not enough police on the street are partially to blame. take a listen to what she said. >> let me be clear, oakland needs more police. we have been impacted by staffing reductions, covid interrupted our recruitment and training processes, and the defund rhetoric is challenging our ability to attract and retain recruits. >> reporter: so all those things taken together, ...

Answering those questions will help them try to find and arrest those responsible. now, as far as the question of why this is happening, we know this say holiday season, store shelves are full, we also know there remains a lucrative market for black market items. but this is also taking on a political angle as well, colleague kate bolduan spoke last night with the democratic mayor of the city of oakland who said in her view, this wave of smash and grabs as well as the surge in violent crime in that city is partly due to a lack of police funding. take a listen. >> but let me be clear, oakland n...

Interrupted are recruitment and training processes and the defund rhetoric is challenging our ability to attract and retain recruits. >> reporter: so all those things taken together, the targets themselves prime for these robbers staging their acts and at least in the mayor's view there, the lack of police on the street is the perfect storm that's allowing this to continue and worth pointing out there are things that police officers are trying to do both behind the scenes and things that we can see with our own eyes. we know they're working together, trying to build out the networks. gather in...