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Oakland Chinatown turns to private, armed security in wake of assaults, robberies FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Business owners in Oakland’s Chinatown raised more than $80,000 to hire private guards.Scott Strazzante / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of2 Pressure to increase public safety in Chinatown has mounted since early this month, when surveillance videos of robberies and attacks began surfacing on social media.Scott Strazzante / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less As Oakland Chinatown reels from a recent string of assaults and robberies some of them captured in stark, instantly viral video footage merchants are testing a controversial solution: armed security guards. A six-person foot patrol roamed along 9th and Webster streets on Tuesday morning, each guard clad in a black uniform with a tactical vest. Three of them carried expandable batons and guns in leg holsters. Volunteer ambassadors in blue vests also thronged the area around Pacific Renaissance Plaza, a cluster of

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