You have to love the quote in today’s San Francisco Chronicle story on Sen. Chuck Poochigian attacking Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown on the city’s crime problem (78 homicides this year so far compared to 41 at this time last year).  Kevin Spillane told the paper, “Brown has ignored the City of Oakland to run for attorney general, and it’s having disastrous effects. Violence is out of control. People are dying. This is serious.”  Brown spokesman Gil Duran responded that "there is probably not a mayor in the state that spends as much time with police on crime issues as Jerry Brown."

Jerry, it is quality—not quantity—that the Oakland residents want and need.  We don’t care that the police higher-ups get a ton of your time.  We just want the killings, beatings and rapes to stop.  Now we’re supposed to be excited about a new anti-crime program that Brown will debut NEXT MONTH.  What’s he waiting for?  Poochigian should keep up the attack.  Maybe shining a light on the city’s problem will cause the mayor and city council to think out of the box and do something radical to get this city’s crime problem under control.

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