Stop the presses: Oakland gets tough on crime
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Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums, who was annointed Sen. Hillary Clinton’s urban affairs policy advisor, is travelling this week while — back home, in a city wracked by eight homicides in four days — officials have finally declared war on crime. That word came from City Administrator Deborah Edgerly, who annnounced that Oakland, “in response to complaints from local florists, would enforce a zero-tolerance policy — on illegal street vendors on Valentine’s Day,” my Chronicle colleague Chip Johnson reported this week.
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