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Solutions for criminal offense
are not elusive

Re. “Third straight 12 months of triple-digit homicides,” Web page B1, Oct. 5:

So the city of Oakland has just marked its third straight 12 months of triple-digit homicides. The write-up states, “The bloodshed has left town and point out officers greedy for concepts to mood the violence.”

Very well, here’s a novel notion – never defund or hamstring the law enforcement, catch these murderers, arrest them, really do not let them out on bail, prosecute them, send them to prison and retain them there for a lengthy time, and at last get started focusing on victims and their families, not criminals.

The resultant reduction in homicides would be beautiful if we just commenced implementing rules and managing criminals the way they need to be addressed – as criminals. No one desires to be “grasping for ideas.”

Joseph Gumina
San Carlos

Powerful family members, faculties
will gradual gun violence

Re. “6 hurt in Oakland faculty shooting,” Webpage A1, Sept. 29:

Just after the tragic shooting at the Oakland college, just about every father or mother interviewed claimed additional safety was vital — a much cry from defund the law enforcement.

Then arrived the chorus to remove a lot more guns. But how can 400,000,000 guns be removed? Of system, this cannot be completed, so we should aim on the lead to of gun violence.

Guns are the symptom, not the trigger of gun violence. The federal government and men and women should recognize the need to handle the trigger of gun violence: broken families and an training system that is not conference the wants of minority communities. Let us aim on enhancing inner town schools and strengthening people to lastly decrease gun violence.

Douglas Abbott
Union Town

Evaluate O will
make improvements to Walnut Creek

I am voting of course on Evaluate O in Walnut Creek. I am the father of three youthful daughters. Measure O will give Walnut Creek crucial means to increase our town. It will permit us to seek the services of and sustain a lot more police officers. It will strengthen our parks and buildings, like the Shadelands Arts Centre, Heather Farm pool and Civic Park buildings. It will also give for further library hours and steady crossing guards for schools.

The very best section for citizens is that over 50% of the revenue from the nominal enhance in our revenue tax will be from readers to our town who occur to Walnut Creek and store in our outlets. This slight product sales tax maximize is only 1-fifty percent of a cent – for example, Evaluate O would insert just 50 cents to a $100 obtain.

Measure O will improve the top quality of daily life for anyone below in Walnut Creek.

Jared Asch
Walnut Creek

DUI suspect really should
have been billed

Re. “Suspected DUI driver in lethal crash is arrested, then launched,” Website page B4, Oct. 5:

I have a really hard time knowing why the girl has not been charged soon after the blood/alcohol stage check was 50% greater than the lawful limit.

Not charging this woman generates a awful case in point for youthful drivers about the seriousness of drunk driving. Several may perhaps believe that drunk driving does not have harsh effects, which might direct them to get at the rear of the wheel following a lot of beverages.

Warnings of drinking and driving are shared so much in faculties, commercials and social media nevertheless the punishments really do not seem to be harsh more than enough.

Matthew Dionisio
Danville

Dwelling, do not punish,
our homeless

Re. “Clearing out two most significant homeless encampments,” Page A1, Oct. 1:

An additional working day and nonetheless yet another tale about homeless individuals getting violently torn from their communities. It would seem cities and the state will examine each “solution” apart from the most apparent and effective of all: providing properties. Even from a purely egocentric perspective, furnishing residences for them would largely resolve the problems of encampments and linked trash, blight, and many others.

The only conclusion I can come up with as to why this clear solution is overlooked is that we as a society hate homeless people today so substantially we refuse to give them with the most simple of methods: a dwelling. And when they cobble jointly a semblance of residence and local community we actually ruin it. Homelessness is pretty much in no way a choice. Cease punishing persons as if it is. Give them households and allow us be accomplished with these stories.

Andy Spivack
Emeryville

Workers are trapped in
unenviable romantic relationship

For practically 50 a long time, significant business has taken most of their workers for granted. When the ordinary American worker starts a task, they enter into a dysfunctional, abusive romance.