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"Los Angeles, Boston and other cities across the country are seeing a bounce in homicides that experts attribute to a slower economy and an accompanying lack of jobs."
"Federal statistics show a 9 percent jump in homicides last year in cities with 250,000 to 499,999 people, a group that includes Oakland. That's the highest increase of any group, including cities with more than a million people."
"Last year, there were 84 murders in Oakland, a 5 percent increase from a year earlier. But things are much worse this year, harkening back to the years of 1986 to 1995, when the city averaged 138 murders a year."
"As of Tuesday, 65 people had been slain. Most of the victims and suspects have been black men, shot in neighborhoods where gangs and weapons are plentiful." |
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