Cynthia Adams, president of the Oakland branch of the NAACP told Newsweek: 'We need the police!'
The Oakland NAACP statement, which was also signed by Bishop Bob Jackson from the Acts Full Gospel Church, said:"Oakland residents are sick and tired of our intolerable public safety crisis that overwhelmingly impacts minority communities. Murders, shootings, violent armed robberies, home invasions, car break-ins, sideshows, and highway shootouts have become a pervasive fixture of life in Oakland.
A stock photo shows a police officer in Oakland in 2013. The Oakland NAACP branch has urged authorities in the city to declare a state of emergency to fight rising crime.It continued:"African Americans are disproportionately hit the hardest by crime in East Oakland and other parts of the city. But residents from all parts of the city report that they do not feel safe. Women are targeted by young mobs and viciously beaten and robbed in downtown and uptown neighborhoods.
The statement blamed the crisis on"failed leadership, including the movement to defund the police, our District Attorney's unwillingness to charge and prosecute people who murder and commit life threatening serious crimes, and the proliferation of anti-police rhetoric" that"have created a heyday for Oakland criminals."
It urged African Americans to"speak out and demand improved public safety" along with"Oakland's White, Asian and Latino communities." The authors added there is"nothing compassionate or progressive about allowing criminal behavior to fester," and concluded:"It is not racist or unkind to want to be safe from crime."
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