It was one of Oakland’s most violent years in decades. In 2022, the city was mired in a three-year spike in violent crime that coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic.
A handful of groups were behind an outsized portion of the violence.
One of them, according to the police, was the Ghost Town gang, a network of East Bay residents with deep ties to the Oakland neighborhood of the same name, located just southwest of the MacArthur Maze…