Increase the police force? In a liberal bastion like Oakland? Good luck with that. A friend who works for a major law enforcement agency in SoCal says applications have cratered. He says they went from around 20,000 applications per year to just over 3,000. They are either going to start hiring a lot of people who don’t belong in uniform or they won’t keep up with attrition.
The gangs will sign up. Same protection racket as always, different players.