Crime and their message to improve Public Safety includes a state of Emergency Declaration and today target blamed retail theft for a decision to close three bay area stores, including one in oakland. Ktvu is Christina Doan live now in oakland with more on all of this. Christina well, julie, more than 200 businesses took part in this one day strike. Merchants saying that they really feel that city officials arent doing anything to address the crime as these criminals repeatedly target their businesses. Dozens of Business Owners gathered tuesday to strike against crime in oakland and the citys response to Public Safety. Their stories all similar from car breakins to robberies and assaults for about 4 or 5 years. We call them. Nobody showed up for 15 minutes for 911 calls and if we could do the regular calls, its good luck to you. They say just make a police report. I had a group from a group from miami get robbed at gunpoint on a saturday afternoon. All their jewelry taken. Me being bor