Department Of Violence Wont Solve Oakland's Income Inequality Problem - Video Department Of Violence Wont Solve Oakland's Income Inequality Problem The Department of Violence Prevention idea that the Oakland City Council will consider is intended to, well, hire someone that Oakland's elected officials can blame for a problem that really is the fault of growing income inequality in our city. The saddest evidence of this problem is in the unpredecented number of homeless people sleeping under freeways and on the streets of our town. Right now, just over one percent (1.02 percent) of Oakland's adult population is homeless, which is my estimate based on East Oakland Community Project Alameda County estimates, with respect to Oakland's percent share of that homeless population, divided by the total number of Oaklanders 18 and up. Think about it. Right now, for every 100 Oaklanders, 1 is homeless. How large does the number have to grow to before we start doing somethi