Someone Is Shooting A Gun Just Over An Hour, Hourly, Daily, In Oakland
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Someone Is Shooting A Gun Just Over An Hour, Hourly, Daily, In Oakland
As the mainstream media focused exclusively on the naming of LeRonne Armstrong as the new Oakland Police Chief, the Oakland Police Department released the latest data from its ShotSpotter system. ShotSpotter records shots in a given area, in this case, five different Oakland areas in the flatlands.
What ShotSpotter revealed was that there were 220 recorded gun shots from February 1 to February 7th 2021. There were a total of 997 gun shots recorded by ShotSpotter in Oakland for the year to date. But the 220 shots divided by six days (assuming that the day periods are estimated such that day 7 is midnight, rather than the end of that day), yields 36.6 gun shots over that period, or just over 1.5 shots per hour. That’s much greater than the 24 gun shots per hour for the total year to date. The point is, the use of guns is increasing in Oakland.
The reasons for this have nothing to do with police ranks and everything to do with lack of money. Oakland activists like John Jones, who will be on Zennie62 YouTube live Thursday February 11th at 5 PM EST, say that helping to improve the financial position of the middle class in Oakland who are suffering during The Pandemic would cause gun use to decrease.
Indeed, that claim is supported in the literature. The Urban Institute, in “Economic Impacts Of Gun Violence” reports that:
While the specific economic effects of gun violence differ by city, the results demonstrate that gun violence is detrimental to neighborhood economic health. “Surges” occur when gun violence increases sharply and suddenly. In the neighborhoods where gun violence surges take place, they significantly reduce the growth of new retail and service businesses, leading fewer local jobs to be available for neighborhood residents and fewer local establishment available for residents to shop at. And, housing values appreciate more slowly.
It does not take much thought to realize that local Oakland policy responses to The Pandemic, like forcing businesses to close without compensation, and World economic harm done by The Pandemic, have caused the current problem of dramatic economic decline.
But that fact has not stopped the Oakland electeds from arguing over police spending, and ugly name calling. The fact is, reductions in police spending have not caused increased gun use, economic problems due to The Pandemic have. The watch word should be “grants not guns” in Oakland.
Stay tuned.
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