A new police district will be added in East Oakland to increase safety there, Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong said this week.

Sixty percent of calls for service are coming from East Oakland so Armstrong is creating the sixth district, he said at a Dec. 20 news conference from the police substation in East Oakland at 2651 73rd Ave.

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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.