Mayor accused of fiddling figures to make it look like crime dropping

Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and Governor bragged that a huge drop in meant the city was 'turning the corner'.

Total crime across Oakland for the first four months of the year appeared to show a 33 per cent decline when compared to 2023's early-year crime wave.

But on closer inspection, the statistics they cited amounted to comparing apples to hand grenades in the notoriously crime-plagued city.

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