All right kron fours always tracking local stories here in the bay area. Theres whats happening. Lets going to start in the east bay. Dramatic spike in gun violence in the city of alameda. Its a disturbing trend of the Police Department is working to control kron fours phillipe djegal spoke with city leaders who believe the pandemic is playing a role. The alameda City Attorneys Office says it has made prosecutions of any violent or gun related crimes, a priority. This as the city is in the midst of a rapid rise in criminal activity interim police chief randy fenn says property crimes are down significantly compared to last year, especially burglaries assaults are also down nearly 19 . But robberies have increased more than 5 and a half percent and the use of firearms is escalating i think this is a societal issue why we write why have we come to this point where so many of our grievances are shuttled. With gunfire for 2 years from 2018 to 2019 there were 10 reported shootings in the ci
Forcefully to go spoke with city leaders who say they believe the pandemic has played a role. It alarming since june first 14 shootings have been reported in the city of alameda criminals shouldnt the better armed and our police what troubles interim police chief randy fan is that number accounts for the total number of shootings all year long there were 9 for the first 5 months of the year we had 3 shootings in 2019 just 7 in 2018. Here we are again towards end of october weve got this many arrests have been made in 5 of the 14 shootings investigations. Though these cases have resulted in increased workload for a department that is also trying to adapt to the pandemic watching whats happening with more folks not being in jail when theyre arrested because of covid people being released because of covid criminal Justice Reform theres just so many factors were taking a look at mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft understands residents and Business Owners are concerned about the violent trend Dome
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