{"id":1986024,"date":"2023-07-29T22:12:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T02:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oakland-naacp-blasts-city-leaders-over-crime-calls-for-state-of-emergency\/"},"modified":"2023-07-29T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T02:15:00","slug":"oakland-naacp-blasts-city-leaders-over-crime-calls-for-state-of-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oakland-naacp-blasts-city-leaders-over-crime-calls-for-state-of-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland NAACP condemns city leaders on crime, demands state of emergency."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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-blasts-city-leaders-over-crime-calls-for-state-of-emergency%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=1986024&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--><h2>The Oakland\u2064 NAACP Calls for State of Emergency \u2064Over Crime &#8220;Crisis&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>The Oakland chapter of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/naacp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NAACP<\/a> has strongly\u2063 criticized city leaders\u2063 and \u200cdemanded\u2062 a\u200c state of \u2062emergency in response to the \u200dcity&#8217;s \u2063escalating crime rates. In a statement released on Thursday, the liberal California city&#8217;s NAACP chapter, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oakland-naacp-blasts-city-leaders-over-crime-calls-for-state-of-emergency\/\" title=\"Oakland NAACP condemns city leaders on crime, demands state of emergency.\">black civil rights \u2063organization<\/a> that tends to lean\u2064 Left, specifically blamed\u2064 the \u200b&#8221;defund the police&#8221; movement as a contributing factor to the surge in\u2064 crime.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oakland NAACP editorial today: \u2064&#8221;Failed\u2064 leadership, \u200cincluding &#8230; our District Attorney&#8217;s unwillingness to charge and prosecute people \u200bwho\u2064 murder and \u200ccommit life-threatening\u2064 serious crimes,\u2062 and the proliferation\u200d of anti-police rhetoric have created a\u2063 heyday for Oakland criminals.&#8221; \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QmUUuf3e9H\">pic.twitter.com\/QmUUuf3e9H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan \u2062Noyes (@dannoyes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dannoyes\/status\/1684764187762012160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July \u206328, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The statement, \u2063issued by Oakland NAACP President Cynthia Adams\u2062 and Bishop Bob Jackson of the Acts Full\u200c Gospel Church, expressed frustration \u200cwith the \u200bcity&#8217;s leadership and the District Attorney&#8217;s \u2063failure \u2064to prosecute individuals involved in serious crimes. They \u2063also highlighted the negative impact of anti-police rhetoric on \u2063public\u200b safety in Oakland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oakland residents are sick\u200c and tired of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-is-not-racist-to-be-against-crime-oakland-naacp-slams-defund-the-police-and-failed-leadership\/\" title=\"Oakland NAACP criticizes 'Defund The Police' and 'Failed Leadership', says opposing crime is not racist.\">intolerable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-mayor-seems-to-suggest-it-was-right-to-violate-officer-rolfes-due-process-to-avoid-more-blm-rioting\/\" title=\"Democrat\u00a0Mayor Seems To Suggest It Was \u2018Right\u2019 To Violate Officer Rolfe\u2019s Due Process To Avoid More BLM Rioting\">public safety crisis<\/a><\/a> that overwhelmingly \u2063impacts\u2063 minority communities,&#8221; the statement\u200b continued. &#8220;Murders, shootings, violent armed robberies, home\u2063 invasions, car\u2062 break-ins, \u200bsideshows, \u2064and\u2062 highway shootouts have\u200d become\u200b a pervasive fixture \u2062of life in Oakland.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The NAACP\u2063 chapter called on elected leaders to declare a state \u200dof emergency and \u200callocate significant resources to address the public safety crisis. They emphasized\u200b that the exodus of residents from Oakland due to \u2062fear \u200cand the resulting \u200deconomic decline further exacerbate the conditions that contribute to\u200d crime.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY \u200bWIRE\u2062 APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The group argued that \u2063Oakland needs an additional 500 police officers to \u2064effectively combat crime, as the current 911 system is\u2062 inadequate and\u2063 criminals are aware of this. \u2062They emphasized that prioritizing public \u2063safety is\u200b not racist \u2064or unkind, but a\u200b fundamental right for all \u2062residents.<\/p>\n<h3>Alarming \u200bCrime Statistics<\/h3>\n<p>According to police data, violent crime in Oakland has risen by\u2062 11% this year. The city has\u2064 already experienced over 3,300 incidents\u200d of violent \u200dcrime in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Robberies have \u200cincreased by 14%, with over 1,500\u200b reported cases, while rapes \u200dhave risen by 16% \u200bto\u200b over 90 incidents. Strong-arm robberies account for more than 470 cases, and nearly 600 robberies involve firearms.<\/p>\n<p>Car thefts have surged by 33%, surpassing \u20636,200 incidents, an increase \u200cof \u200bover 1,500 compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland residents have been expressing their concerns about the escalating violent crime for months. \u200cIn May, hundreds of\u200c angry residents attended\u2062 a\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-equality-act-is-the-greatest-threat-to-religious-freedom-in-our-lifetime-we-must-stand-against-it\/\" title=\"The \u2018Equality Act\u2019 Is The Greatest Threat To Religious Freedom In Our Lifetime. We Must Stand Against It.\">town hall meeting<\/a> to address the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Stories of victims, such as\u2064 a woman in\u200c her 50s \u200bwho was brutally attacked by teenagers in front of \u2063her\u2063 home, and a 63-year-old woman assaulted in broad daylight, highlight the urgency of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Business owner Adam Stemmler, who has experienced multiple armed \u2062robberies \u2062at\u200c his pizza shop,\u200b accused the city of \u2064enabling such behavior by failing \u200dto take\u200b action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oakland NAACP criticized city officials, urging a state of emergency due to the crime &#8220;crisis.&#8221; The left-leaning chapter blamed the &#8220;defund the police&#8221; movement for exacerbating the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":1986025,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1986024","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1986025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}