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Reeling from a depressed economy and increased crime, Oakland Chinatown enters city s policing debate FacebookTwitterEmail 1of7 Armed security members from Goliath Protection Group, contracted and funded by a GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign, patrol on Webster Street in the Chinatown district of Oakland, California Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021.Photos by Stephen Lam / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of7A grocery worker, right, passes a bundle of fresh longan to a woman in the Chinatown district of Oakland, California Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. Community members are on heightened alert after the recent increase in violent crimes, many caught on camera, toward the Asian American community throughout the Bay Area. Despite an increased police presence, armed private security, and volunteer groups patrolling the area around Oakland Chinatown, many businesses continue to worry and are taking extra precautionary measures such as boarding up storefronts and closing hours earlier desp ....
Oakland Chinatown turns to private, armed security in wake of assaults, robberies FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Business owners in Oakland’s Chinatown raised more than $80,000 to hire private guards.Scott Strazzante / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of2 Pressure to increase public safety in Chinatown has mounted since early this month, when surveillance videos of robberies and attacks began surfacing on social media.Scott Strazzante / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less As Oakland Chinatown reels from a recent string of assaults and robberies some of them captured in stark, instantly viral video footage merchants are testing a controversial solution: armed security guards. A six-person foot patrol roamed along 9th and Webster streets on Tuesday morning, each guard clad in a black uniform with a tactical vest. Three of them carried expandable batons and guns in leg holsters. Volunteer ambassadors in blue vests also thronged the area around Pacific Renaiss ....
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