{"id":69072,"date":"2026-03-16T10:58:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/oakland-homicides-fall-to-25-year-low-how-did-it-stem-the-violence\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:58:25","slug":"oakland-homicides-fall-to-25-year-low-how-did-it-stem-the-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/oakland-homicides-fall-to-25-year-low-how-did-it-stem-the-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland homicides fall to 25-year low \u2013 how did it stem the violence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Trump\u2019s claims, California city has found success in lowering deadly violence, thanks to pioneering efforts to steer people down a different path<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 2025, as Donald Trump rolled out his plan to deploy the national guard to Washington DC and Chicago, he suggested other American cities were overrun with violence and could soon see federal troops: Memphis, Los Angeles, New York.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/ZtVMoko3mSI?t=3448s\">the president argued<\/a>, was beyond saving. \u201cAnd then you have, of course, Baltimore and Oakland. They\u2019re so far gone. We don\u2019t even talk about that any more,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/16\/oakland-homicides-gun-violence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Trump\u2019s claims, California city has found success in lowering deadly violence, thanks to pioneering efforts to steer people down a different path In the summer of 2025, as Donald Trump rolled out his plan to deploy the national guard to Washington DC and Chicago, he suggested other American cities were overrun with violence and &#8230; <a title=\"Oakland homicides fall to 25-year low \u2013 how did it stem the violence?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/oakland-homicides-fall-to-25-year-low-how-did-it-stem-the-violence\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Oakland homicides fall to 25-year low \u2013 how did it stem the violence?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}