Discovery Channel and Oakland PD Argue Over Gang Crime in City

Oakland, according to police spokesman Jeff Thomason, has only a half-dozen gangs. What's even more astonishing is that police say that just a dozen of the more than 200 homicides in this city in 2008 and 2009 have been listed as gang-related killings.

Oakland, Calif., according to police spokesman Jeff Thomason, has only a half-dozen gangs. What's even more astonishing is that police say that just a dozen of the more than 200 homicides in this city in 2008 and 2009 have been listed as gang-related killings.

How can that be?

Well, according to an unedited screening of "Gang Wars: Oakland," a two-part documentary film, Oakland police have vastly underestimated the gang problem.

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