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Cooperation Helps Reduce Crime In East Palo Alto

Bill Hughes
Oakland Post
01-05-1994
Cooperation Helps Reduce Crime In East Palo Alto.

A beefed up law enforcement program in East Palo Alto is credited with an outstanding reversal in the crime rate.

Slayings in the city fell 86 percent from 1992, when a record 42 deaths were recorded, out of a population of 24,000, to only six homicides in 1993.

Other categories of criminal behavior also declined, according to figures released December 31.

Residents of East Palo Alto, a predominantly minority city, were under siege in 1992 as drug dealers and street gangs fought for turf and its profits, overwhelming the undermanned police department.

"The criminals were literally roaming the streets at will," ...

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