CRIME IS SURGING in Oakland because Mayor Sheng Thao fired Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong in February, according to a letter released over the weekend by the Oakland branch of the NAACP.
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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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