The city of Vallejo was turned down by the state for a grant request to tackle organized retail and vehicle theft despite many other Bay Area cities being awarded millions of dollars, City Manager Mike Malone said Thursday.
. The city was recently awarded $15 million from the grant program.
"Our retail stores get hit tremendously," he said, adding that the thefts are often organized "in the sense that multiple players conspire to carry out crimes against these businesses and do so effectively." In the Police Department's most recent crime stats posted Wednesday, vehicle thefts are up 15 percent over last year, with 809 so far in 2023. Commercial burglary is also up 3 percent, with 534 cases so far this year.
A retired woman at the town hall said that she was leaving Vallejo because the crime was so bad. She said she had to sleep in her kitchen one night because of the gunplay in front of her house.
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