Oakland Homicides – OPD Police Reports 96 Homicides, On Pace For 134 By End Of 2021

Oakland – It’s been astir a decennary since the City of Oakland has experienced specified a melodramatic summation successful Oakland homicides. This twelvemonth the Oakland Police Department (OPD) has investigated 96 homicides, six of which occurred successful the past 5 days. According to ZENNIE62MEDIA estimates, that puts the City astatine a complaint specified that it volition scope the 134 homicide people by the extremity of the year.

The all-time-high Oakland homicide complaint is 175, acceptable successful 1992.

Thursday night, 2 lives were mislaid to unit wrong 8 hours. The archetypal incidental happened conscionable aft 3:45 PM erstwhile officers responded to a telephone of a shooting successful the 2400 Block of 57th Avenue. Upon arrival, officers located an big antheral Hayward nonmigratory suffering from gunshot wound(s). The unfortunate was treated by aesculapian unit astatine the country wherever helium died.

The 2nd incidental happened conscionable aft 11 PM, arsenic officers responded to a ShotSpotter Activation, followed by a study of a idiosyncratic lying connected the thoroughfare successful the 4500 artifact of Fairfax Avenue. Upon arrival, officers located an big antheral Stockton resident, lying successful the thoroughfare who appeared to person been struck by a conveyance successful the country of the shooting scene. The unfortunate was transported to an country infirmary wherever helium died. Officers were incapable to find immoderate victims suffering from gunshot wounds astatine the country of the shooting.

The identities of some victims are presently being withheld pending notification of the adjacent of kin.

“How galore much tears request to beryllium shed, however galore much lives request to beryllium lost,” Oakland Police Chief LeRonne L. Armstrong said? “I americium committed to my imaginativeness for a Safe Oakland by continuing to enactment with the assemblage to extremity the unit successful our City. Also, determination volition beryllium further officers retired connected Oakland’s streets this weekend, with the sole intent to absorption connected convulsive crimes and those causing it.”

Chief Armstrong besides reassigned six officers to enactment successful the homicide section. Also, the Violent Crime Operations Center (VCOC) is the Department’s superior absorption to supply a timely effect to homicides, each gun-related crimes and supporting the Department’s Ceasefire strategy. Since the implementation of the VCOC officers person arrested much than 30 homicide suspects arsenic good arsenic recovered dozens of firearms.

The Department volition besides person an accrued beingness of officers with OPD’s amerciable sideshow enforcement details.

OPD encourages residents & businesses to see installing information cameras.
https://www.oaklandca.gov/services/register-your-security-camera

Oakland Police Records 830 Firearms Off The Streets Of Oakland

Our hardworking officers are focused connected making Oakland safer. Since the opening of the year, OPD officers person recovered much than 830 firearms, which averages retired to 3 A DAY. Some of the recoveries are acknowledgment to reports from our community. Stand Up for A #SafeOakland #OPDCARES pic.twitter.com/9lyYaFsdH4

— Oakland Police Dept. (@oaklandpoliceca) September 16, 2021

Oakland Police Reports Over 1,800 Robberies In Oakland For 2021

The Oakland Police reported this connected Twitter:

OPD has investigated much than 1,800 robberies up 15% YTD.

Reduce Your Risk:
•Do not resist/Property tin beryllium replaced.
•Don’t beryllium distracted by your physics devices.
•Limit the idiosyncratic items you transportation to an ID & Debit/Credit Card

More successful the link. https://t.co/WElglBW3T9 pic.twitter.com/5Yt6Hv0Y76

— Oakland Police Dept. (@oaklandpoliceca) September 17, 2021

That’s implicit 1,800 robberies for 2021, and the twelvemonth is not over. That comes to 6.89 – rounded to 7 – robberies a time successful Oakland implicit the year. Every 3.48 hours of each day, idiosyncratic is being robbed successful Oakland.

Stay tuned.