Oakland is getting past a recent crime wave

As in many other big cities, Oakland leaders are trying to fund high-price priorities, particularly bolstering the understaffed police department, while also paying for the kind of social programs that many folks in liberal Oakland believe are key to keeping young people occupied and out of trouble.

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Lee said in an interview that she's juggling all those priorities, trying to bolster the police, while making sure they are accountable, after past incidents of excessive force alienated many in the city's nonwhite majority. "Accountability and safety go hand in hand," she said.

Trump recently dismissed Oakland as "so far gone."