Fault Lines Project
By Crosscurrents Producer on Apr 4 2011 - 5:00pm
By Alexa Vaughn
In Oakland, there are many strategies at play in the struggle to stem violent crime, which has actually decreased in recent years, though it’s still higher than in most cities of its size. Some credit the change to Measure Y Street Teams, who spend nights walking in Oakland’s most...
By Sarah Gonzalez on Feb 2 2011 - 4:30pm
The Violence Policy Center in Washington DC released a study, this week, called “Lost Youth”. It found that homicide is the leading cause of death for African Americans aged 10 to 24 in California. And young African Americans are more than 14 times more likely to be murdered than young whites....
By Sandhya Dirks on Nov 8 2010 - 2:18pm
Anti-violence efforts in Oakland were bolstered, last week, when voters passed Measure BB. It’s actually an amendment to an initiative voters passed in 2004 – Measure Y – which pays for community police officers as well as employment, counseling and training programs, so long as the city employed...
By Sarah Gonzalez on May 18 2010 - 9:00am
Jobs continue to be scarce all over the country right now. In California, the unemployment rate is at a record 12.5 percent, and in Oakland, it’s over 17.5 percent. But when you drive down the main drags of East Oakland, people are hard at work in a different economy. You’ll see some young men...
By Sarah Gonzalez on May 10 2010 - 4:21pm
Guns are dangerous weapons that can kill. But some people think having a gun may help them survive, especially in neighborhoods with heavy murder rates, like places in East Oakland. Some people argue that simply showing one can be protection enough. There’s a paradox here: young men carry firearms...
By Martina Castro on Dec 11 2009 - 8:25am
16-year-old Akeila Tolson is one of the Youth UpRising contributors to the Fault Lines Project. She is a thoughtful and creative young poet and rapper, who learned to love music from her older brother. She tells us about her experience looking up to him as she grew up in East Oakland, and how he...
By Sarah Gonzalez on Dec 11 2009 - 8:15am
Guns, drugs, prostitution...these are some obvious roots to the violence in Oakland. But then there are some that are less obvious, like lack of access to healthy food.
In our last installment of the Oakland Fault Lines Project, we have part two of our look at holistic solutions to violence. Today...
By Daniella Pineda on Dec 11 2009 - 8:00am
Todd White has lived in the Rockridge, North Oakland area for 20 years. He shares his thoughts on solutions to violence in Oakland for our Fault Lines Project.
By Sarah Gonzalez on Dec 10 2009 - 8:06am
So often when people think of violence in Oakland, they think of drugs, guns and murder. It’s what’s most visible, and it is certainly what catches headlines.
But when reporters Sarah Gonzalez and Sandhya Dirks asked residents what violence means to them, they got more complex...
By Sandhya Dirks on Dec 9 2009 - 9:16am
Yesterday we took a closer look at a violence prevention initiative passed in Oakland five years ago, called measure Y. Now halfway through its ten-year span, it is still unclear how effective the initiative has been. Measure Y funds have been used to create employment and training programs,...
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