Oakland ranked fifth most dangerous US city

Oakland Police Department officers cordon off a block in East Oakland on November 5, 2010. Photo by Nicole Jones.

On Monday, the Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Press released its annual City Crime Rate Rankings list, which ranks cities from highest number of crimes reported to lowest. Little has changed since last year—the top five remain the same—and Oakland, California, is still one of them. The good news, sort of, is that Oakland has dropped out of third place and is now No. 5.

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