Rising crime and how to deal with it was one of the big topics. D.A. Price spent time explaining how her office is responding and the reforms that she was elected to implement.

Price responded by saying that enhancements don’t deter crime and are racially biased.

“And number three, because they require longer sentences, they force us to invest in prisons,” Price said. “Enhancements have been at the heart of incarceration. It is absolutely essential that we stop using them.”

When asked if he was satisfied with what he heard at the community forum, Oakland resident Julian Heard responded: “No, I wasn’t!”

“If you are dealing with a person, (who) they deal with fear and intimidation, you can’t meet them with compassion. You have to deal with them with fear and retaliation,” he said.

Fuck this guy. ^^ Sounds like a real asshole.

I live in Oakland. I worry about crime and see the videos of assaults and snatch-and-grabs. I absolutely don’t want retaliation to be the primary motivation for crime reduction. I want education and opportunities (the article goes on to mention both). Tell this asshole to move somewhere else.