{"id":1985214,"date":"2023-07-28T15:04:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T19:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oakland-naacp-calls-for-state-of-emergency-over-crime\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T15:05:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T19:05:19","slug":"oakland-naacp-calls-for-state-of-emergency-over-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oakland-naacp-calls-for-state-of-emergency-over-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland NAACP demands &#8216;State of Emergency&#8217; due to crime."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foakland-naacp-calls-for-state-of-emergency-over-crime%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1985214&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>The Oakland NAACP Calls for State\u2062 of Emergency to Address\u200d Rising Crime<\/h2>\n<p>The\u2063 Oakland NAACP released a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/naacp-op-ed-7-27-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> on Thursday, urging state and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-cnn-legal-analyst-laura-coates-speculates-about-an-acquittal-in-the-derek-chauvin-trial\/\" title=\"WATCH: CNN Legal Analyst Laura Coates Speculates About An Acquittal In The Derek Chauvin Trial\">local elected leaders<\/a> to declare a &#8220;state of emergency&#8221; in response to the alarming increase in violent crime \u2063within the city of California.<\/p>\n<p>The statement, authored by Cynthia Adams, President of the Oakland NAACP, and Bishop Bob Jackson of Acts Full \u200cGospel Church, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oakland-naacp-calls-for-state-of-emergency-over-crime\/\" title=\"Oakland NAACP demands 'State of Emergency' due to crime.\">strongly criticized lenient local officials<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tulane-university-to-host-event-on-decolonizing-study-abroad\/\" title=\"Tulane University To Host Event On \u2018Decolonizing Study Abroad\u2019\">left-wing activism<\/a> for\u2062 contributing to the surge in criminal activities.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Failed leadership, including the movement to defund the police, our District Attorney\u2019s \u200bunwillingness to charge \u2063and prosecute\u2062 people who murder and commit life-threatening serious crimes, and the proliferation of anti-police rhetoric \u2063have created a heyday for Oakland \u200ccriminals,&#8221; Adams and Jackson wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Adams and Jackson\u200d further emphasized the disproportionate impact of crime on \u200bAfrican Americans and condemned misguided attempts to combat racism by refusing \u200cto prosecute violent offenders.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;There is nothing \u200ccompassionate or progressive \u200dabout <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/portland-businessman-targets-elected-officials-with-national-legal-initiative-over-covid-lawlessness\/\" title=\"Portland businessman takes legal action against elected officials for COVID lawlessness.\">allowing criminal behavior<\/a> to fester\u200c and rob \u2064Oakland residents\u2063 of their basic rights to public safety. It is not racist or unkind to want to be safe from \u2063crime,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Addressing the urgency of the situation, Adams and Jackson called upon city and state officials to allocate additional \u2063resources, including an increase in police officers, to \u2062effectively address the problem:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We are\u200d in crisis, and elected leaders must declare\u200b a state of emergency and bring resources \u200btogether from the city, the county, and the state to end the crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This \u200bstatement comes at a\u200b time\u200c when the Bay Area is experiencing a significant \u2062spike in crime. In neighboring San Francisco, Mayor London Breed was \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/san-francisco-mayor-flees-speech-on-crime-as-violent-crime-is-committed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forced to flee<\/a> a speech on combating \u200dviolent crime after someone threw a brick into the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, several <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/california\/nordstrom-saks-become-latest-high-end-companies-to-flee-crime-ridden-san-francisco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">big-name brands<\/a> like \u2064Nordstrom and Saks OFF 5th, along with various <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/california\/hotels-are-dumping-property-in-san-francisco-as-tourists-shun-crime-ridden-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hotel chains<\/a>, have \u200calready relocated from the area due to concerns\u200d about public\u200d safety.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oakland NAACP urged state and local leaders to declare a &#8220;state of emergency&#8221; due to rising violent crime. Cynthia Adams, the president of Oakland NAACP, and Bishop Bob Jackson from Acts Full Gospel Church, criticized lenient local officials for their approach towards crime in a statement released on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2109,"featured_media":1985215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1985214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1985215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}