This is the kind of reporting that makes my blood boil. It provides details of how many women are being brutally assaulted and robbed on Oakland city streets, often in broad daylight. It also reveals how little is done to provide these victims with any kind of justice. A police department deliberately stretched pitifully thin by the City Council is unable to handle the volume of crime. A 9-1-1 call system barely works. And still, we have racist politicians who demand that OPD be defunded. So-called “anti-violence” programs that are nothing more than an ability to reward political allies with taxpayer money.

Dena Aslanian-Williams is Mayor London Breed’s latest nominee to San Francisco’s homeless commission, but she’s getting major blowback from pro-homeless advocates who are questioning her “credentials and understanding of homelessness” over something she wrote on nextdoor.com.

I was walking down to Jack London Square along Broadway when I came across the graffiti. It was in big, red letters:

The essence of Carroll Fife’s willful twisting of reality is contained in these two quotes, which are from an Oaklandside Q&A a few days ago.

Talk about chutzpah! This grifter, “Madame D.A.” as she calls herself, has the nerve to compare backers of the recall effort against her to the Jan. 6 insurrectionists who tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election. “These are election deniers," said Price. "We had an election. We won the election by an overwhelming majority. It wasn’t a small close election and so the people who lost, they lost, and when you lose an election you shouldn’t be able to overturn the will of the voters. That’s what happened during the insurrection on Jan. 6."