i wasnt payin attention to all that..

i was lookin at those titties..

I've never liked her and I'm glad that other people are starting to see how shie is. What I don't get is the fact that you said you liked her music? Ain't you a male? Have you heard her cd?? It's chuck full of male bashing!! I bought that shit for my girl when it 1st came out and hated that shit since then. She can sing pretty well, but all she makes songs about is male bashing.


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IAM FROM HERE FOLKZ




11-25) 04:00 PDT Oakland -- With one month to go in a bloody year, Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown is crunching the numbers to find a way to halt the killings.

"There have been 314 firearms assaults for the year," Brown said, reciting statistics he's pored over. "That's a 40 percent increase.

"Let's see. There are about two more shootings per week, and we've had about 90 shootings and 24 more murders," the mayor said, figuring out loud. "Hey, these guys are better shots than they were last year."

They sure are.

Brown called out all cars last week, ordering the formation of a roving squad of 50 officers and seven sergeants to patrol the city's most violent areas -- and prevent more murders.

"This is a short-term response," said police Capt. Jeff Israel. "The goal is not arrests, but merely to stop people from getting killed."

The strike force hit the streets a week ago -- just days after Oakland voters rejected Brown's call for higher taxes to boost the police force by 100 officers.

Oakland's homicide toll hit 100 on Friday.

A triple-digit murder rate for the first time since 1997 -- the year before Brown was elected -- presents a failure for the mayor's administration. Brown swept into office with enough anti-crime rhetoric to make former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani blush.

With Brown set to begin his second four-year term in January, the city's police force remains understaffed and is mired in changing deployment strategies -- the same problems that plagued it under previous chiefs and mayors.

Now Brown is pulling out all the stops, but it's too little, too late. And Oakland will most assuredly finish the year with one of the highest murder rates in the country.

The mayor wants to enlist state, local and community organizations to operate under a task force, led by the Oakland Police Department, that can address problems from crack houses to parole violators.

Under his plan, government would enforce the law while community activists squeezed slumlords with public actions.

"Shame them at their place of business, church or country club," Brown said.

"Put pressure on from the outside."

Brown knows that it's hard to polish the city's image and attract investment when people in pockets of West and East Oakland are dropping like flies.

The former-governor-turned-mayor is all too aware of the impact that a benchmark like 100 homicides can have on public perceptions. City officials have spent years trying to discourage such negative views of Oakland.

Two years ago, City Councilwoman Nancy Nadel demanded a retraction after producers of CBS's popular news program "60 Minutes" described a portion of the West Oakland neighborhood she represents as a "rundown minority neighborhood with nothing there."

Nadel never got the retraction and didn't deserve one because what the network reported was right on the money.

These days, city officials are acting like deer caught in the headlights. They are desperate for something -- anything -- that can turn around the murder trend and boost the city's flagging image.

Amid all the clamor, residents in some better-off neighborhoods are complaining about the lack of police services. Some Redwood Heights residents, for example, think the department is giving short shrift to car break-ins and residential burglaries.

Those residents are right, said Israel, whose command area stretches from Lake Merritt to the hills and flatlands of central East Oakland.

"I cannot guarantee that an officer will respond (to a burglary incident) within a certain amount of time, and I don't know when an (evidence) tech will get there," he said. "If they want to wait, it could take a day -- or up to two days," Israel added.

The department also accepts police reports by fax or invites victims to come to a substation and fill out a report.

No residents are suggesting that property is more important than the life of someone at risk, but siphoning off patrol officers to quell the violence in East and West Oakland will undoubtedly have an impact on service in other areas of town.

Those residents who live in the vast part of Oakland that is not affected by the spiraling murder rate still have a need for police help. Not getting attention on quality-of-life issues such as filing a burglary report or towing a parked car can chip away at your civic pride.

Whether you consider them whiners or not, homeowners in the city's well- heeled neighborhoods have a certain expectation of adequate police services. And who would blame them?

But frustrated hills residents should be prepared for a long wait, because while 100 more cops would provide some relief for an overburdened police department, even the mayor knows more must be done.

"To believe that more after-school programs will result in fewer murders is a bit naive," Brown said. "We need to take a common-sense approach, because the police can't handle this alone."

E-mail Chip Johnson at chjohnson@sfchronicle.com or write to him at 483 Ninth St., Suite 100, Oakland, CA 94607



























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