Every other day on average last month someone was slain Oakland, police said this week.
The 15 homicides are the greatest number of killings for a January in the city in 20 years. Only one homicide occurred in the city a year ago in January.
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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.
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