Contact: Oakland Police Officers' Association

                                                                                                            Phone: (510) 834-9670 

                                                                                                            Email: policeofficers@opoa.org

May 17, 2021 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

OAKLAND – Crime numbers released this morning showed that, including the two homicides last night, Oakland’s homicide rate has more than doubled year over year. On average during 2021, Oakland suffers a homicide every three days.    

To make matters worse, last Thursday the Police Chief advised Oakland’s Police Commission that ten (10) Oakland Police Officers left the department in the previous three weeks. The total number of officers left is 706, the lowest number in six years, while violent crime is at the highest level in a decade.     

“Oakland’s shrinking police department is struggling to respond to the escalating bloodshed on our streets. Oakland’s City Council ignores the violence and considers further defunding of the police. The impacts of their ‘defund the police’ strategy are plain to see in the carnage and danger our residents are subjected to daily.” said Oakland Police Officers' Association President Barry Donelan.  

Click for Oakland’s crime statistics year to date.