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Oakland mayor seeks to reverse police cuts amid crime spike

Police staffing levels have also fallen below a 2014 voter-approved measure.
Credit: AP
FILE - Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf speaks at a news conference in Oakland, Calif., on July 26, 2021. Oakland officials will reverse plans to cut police funding and seek to hire more officers as soon as possible, Mayor Schaaf said Monday, Nove. 29, 2021, as a spate of gun violence and fatal shootings has left residents on edge. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

OAKLAND, Calif. — Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf says she wants to reverse planned cuts to police funding and instead push to hire more officers as soon as possible.

Schaaf made the announcement Monday after another weekend of fatal shootings in her city. They included a retired police officer acting as a security guard for a television news crew, bringing the number of homicides in Oakland to 127 so far this year. 

Schaaf says she'll ask the city council to reverse cuts to the police budget. Police staffing levels have also fallen below a 2014 voter-approved measure.

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