10,000 reported burglaries in Oakland last year. One part-time investigator assigned.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

"The Oakland Police Department has been so ineffectively structured that only one part-time investigator was assigned to handle 10,000 reported burglaries last year, a stunning deficiency revealed Thursday by police consultants hired by the city to develop a crime-fighting plan.

"Given the way the organization was structured, burglary was not being investigated," said William Andrews, one of the consultants working on a team hired by Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and the City Council to help police reduce the crime problem.

"Burglaries have gone through the roof," Andrews said.
...
"Burglaries increased each of the last two years, including a 43 percent spike from 2011 to 2012. Auto burglaries jumped 77 percent last year, while home burglaries rose 24 percent."

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Oakland-burglaries-barely-investigated-4503461.php

[LooseWilly]

1. I am so not surprised...

last I knew, the city was relying on a temporary federal grant to pay for their fingerprinting lab... and when hiccups in the funding occurred, the lab shut down...

[DCKit]

2. Dude, there's weed and, under Federal law, they can sieze your property...

with no trial.

Not going to get better until it gets better.

[Scuba]

4. Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.

[Downwinder]

3. How much overtime did they pay to police Occupy?