Officers in Oakland, California introduced on Wednesday that police arrested 9 kids over the weekend allegedly linked to a sequence of 35 crimes spanning 14 neighborhoods. That string of crime, officers claimed, displays a surge in juvenile crime throughout the town, ABC 7 Bay Area reports. These arrested vary between 12 to 17 years previous. As a part of a press convention headed up by Oakland Mayor Sheng Tao, metropolis officers introduced their intention to develop a youth intervention plan in collaboration with violence prevention leaders and Oakland Police.
Kentrell Killens, Oakland’s Interim Chief of Violence Prevention, emphasised the work the Division of Violence Prevention plans to do with the kids and youngsters impacted and their households. “Via our present relationship with probation, our workers will conduct particular person teaching with the younger folks to start this strategy of constructing relationships whereas they’re in custody in addition to by their transition again to the group,” Killens stated in a statement launched by the Mayor’s workplace.
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