On Friday's broadcast of NewsNation's "On Balance," Oakland NAACP President Cynthia Adams discussed a letter she wrote calling for officials in the city to declare an emergency on crime and blasted "the movement to defund the police, our District Attorney’s unwillingness to charge and prosecute people who murder and commit life-threatening serious crimes, and the proliferation of anti-police rhetoric" for creating crime and "progressive policies and failed leadership" for harming economic opportunity and stated that crime is so bad people are afraid to even check the mail, take out the garbage, or get groceries.