And you wonder why certain sports franchises (Warriors, A’s)—not to mention corporations—aren’t falling over themselves to stay in Oakland? The City Hall/law enforcement dysfunction gets another raking over by Chronicle columnist Chip Johnson today, following the newspaper’s statistical look at its broken crime-fighting apparatus.Among the low-hanging fruit: the crime rate soars, but arrests are way down. There aren’t nearly enough cops. And a judge will decide soon whether the city suffers the ultimate humiliation of having its police force placed under federal control, following years of dragging its feet on court-ordered reforms.
