. >> oakland mayor libby schaff and council members shade lauren taylor and treat to read share their reactions to the shooting death of kevin ishida, a security guard who was gunned down last week while guarding kron 4 news crew working on a story in to see that he was, you know, they're in in his capacity to just help with reporting. >> i think that that's something that we need to really take focus on and planned to see how we're going to address this rise in violent crimes. violent gun crimes had the opportunity meet. >> kevin on several occasions and always, a warm inviting sort of smile. company have. my heart broke when i initially learned of his passing the pain and the sense of loss. it gets even more pronounced them or learn about him. his life, its service. 2 bay area residents in terms of keeping keeping us safe. he deserves to be calm. >> and to have been. working with a sense of protection in the city and not shown up for work with any fear or trepidation. losing his life no one should. and then has he come in. you and i know you know him personally. >> and again, our he

. >> oakland mayor libby schaff announces a new housing assistance pilot program called shallow subsidy. it is designed to help prevent homelessness in oakland by paying a portion of a person's rent every month for up to 18 months. >> i don't know what i i mean, i can't pay the rent by receive income or. >> i'm so sick. you are main focus is closing the gap logan mcdonnell, the associate director of the nonprofit housing resource program bay area community services is responsible for implementing the pilot and selecting the families were focus on neighborhoods whose rents have increased by upwards of 90%. people that have been experiencing homelessness in our lives. they paid more than half of their income on rent and their neighborhoods have high rates of gentrification. the total cost of the program. this 3.4 million dollars. the pilots partners includes billionaire philanthropist marc benioff who funded the initial seed money to get the rental subsidy off the ground. we believe in expensive housing market like the bay area. this is the type of intervention that can rapidly stabilize

he says will be increasing staffing to address the violence in general mayor libby schaff releasing a statement. it reads in part, quote. in oakland, our police department increase staffing throughout this busy shopping weekend. also at the next city council meeting. our administration will propose adding an additional police academy to continue our effort to properly staff. the oakland police department oakland is currently at 680 officers. the lowest in a decade. our residents and local businesses deserve safety properly staffed police department to respond to emergency calls and to prevent burglaries before they occur. we've also reached out to the chief for a statement on the ongoing violence tonight as of right now, we're waiting to hear back. to the south bay now san jose officials about lined their plan to tackle the growing number of smash-and-grab thefts around malls there. kron four's, rob fladeboe was at the event today. he joins us now live from the oakridge mall in san jose. >> with details on that. good evening, rob. >> good evening, grant. that's right. i'm here at a sa