California ‘s governor announced plans Thursday to send prosecutors to Oakland in his latest move to crack down on rising crime in the San Francisco Bay Area city where brazen, broad daylight robberies have drawn national attention.
Gov. Gavin Newsom days earlier said he would deploy 120 California Highway Patrol officers to also assist with targeted crackdowns on criminal activity in Oakland, a city of 400,000 people across the bay from San Francisco that has seen a spike in brazen, violent crimes, including serious drug-related offenses, retail theft, and auto burglaries even though crime in other California urban centers is falling.
The additional deputy attorneys general from the California Department of Justice and attorneys from the California National Guard would help Alameda County prosecute suspects arrested for serious and complex crimes, Newsom said. He didn’t say how many prosecutors would be sent or when.
Car break-ins where the thieves use a device to tap a glass window, silently shatter it and then steal belongings left inside the car have become commonplace in the Bay Area.