Oakland PD's inaccurate crime reporting leads to questions about what's going on in city (youtube.com)
Very low clearance rates (clearance just means an arrest, not actually getting the perpetrator). Why? Clearance rate for property crimes close to 0.1%? 3% for violent crimes.
The police departments refused the news agency's request to talk about it.
‘They don’t even bother calling the police because they don't think they'll show up.' So that puts the responsibility back on them. Many types of thefts have doubled recently.
Oakland PD said the data issue in the news is because of an anomaly caused by a worker. So maybe it's not that bad?
Oakland is now installing surveillance cameras with license plate readers. Will this make enough of a difference in their clearance to warrant the (unconstitutional) invasion of citizens' privacy?
Oakland clearance rates have descended from 1985 to 2020, jaggedly. Again, what does that mean? How many are false arrests or arrests just to make quota?
Law enforcement is understaffed. People aren't going into the profession. The response time is slower. And then the witnesses have already left. How valuable really is the police force, if they only arrest 3% in the percentage of violent crimes people even bother to report?
I've lived in places where the local gangs/cartels control certain blocks quite well. The organized gang sometimes is moved out by cameras and a huge increase local police stationed in the spot. But the police can't police the area in the same way the cartels did. It's arguable the police do a better job, in some locations anyway.
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