Oakland crime articles
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Newsom sent CHP officers to fight crime in Oakland. Now he's sending them to Bakersfield
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that he's sending California Highway Patrol officers to Bakersfield, an expansion of a law enforcement campaign launched earlier this year with an effort to tamp down crime in hard-hit California cities. Kern County, home to Bakersfield, has higher rates of violent and property crime and more arrests compared to the statewide average, crime statistics show. The CHP officers will focus on reducing car theft, retail crime and bolstering traffic enforcement,...
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Crime Alert Berks Crime of Week 4/28/24: Exeter police seek shoplifting suspects
Exeter Township police are seeking to identify two people who have been shoplifting in the area, including the Giant store on Perkiomen Avenue in the township.
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The "Twinkie defense": What we know about diet and crime
In 1978, Dan White murdered San Francisco city Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. Of this, there was no doubt. White had turned himself in, then tearfully and remorsefully confessed to shooting each of the men — his former colleagues — multiple times. At White’s 1979 trial, the only question was how stiff his penalty would be. White’s lawyers ran a skillful defense during the court proceedings. They claimed that their client’s mental capacity was diminished by stress and severe...