The summit was the beginning of a second phase in the mayor’s plan to reduce violent crime and provide safe neighborhoods fostering hope and opportunity for children and families.
Chief Probation Officer David Muhammad noted that in order for Oakland neighborhoods to become safe we must “fundamentally change” the city. Mayor Jean Quan reiterated the sentiment, saying that Oakland is a “city of dreams, and we need to keep that dream alive.” However, the mayor also acknowledged “unless we change kids’ lives, it doesn’t matter.”
Data gathered by the mayor suggests that the majority of Oakland’s violent crime takes place within 100 distinct city blocks. Located mostly in East and West Oakland along major thoroughfares and historically stricken with “prostitution, high rates of poverty, economically depressed commercial corridors, and numerous open air drug markets,” these blocks account for more than 90 percent of city-wide shootings and homicides.
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