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There is hope:

A woman who lives in the East Oakland neighborhood where four police officers were shot dead told The Chronicle that she was the tipster who alerted police to the small apartment where the gunman was holed up.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...BAQD16LJOV.DTL

It's time for every Oakland resident who can lift a sign, shout a slogan - or use a pair of binoculars in a neighborhood watch program - to do so. Because if we don't all come together to put an end this madness, what happened Saturday may turn out to be not just one of the worst days in Oakland's history, but a sad harbinger of its future.

and despair...

By late afternoon Saturday, a group of about 50 people lined 73rd Avenue, a block from where Dunakin and Hege were shot. Some shouted obscenities aimed at police. Others said the officers' deaths were retribution for the fatal shooting of Oscar Grant, the unarmed Hayward man killed by a BART police officer on an Oakland train platform New Year's Day. Shouts of, "They had it comin!' " were heard in the crowd.

http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/johnson/