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About 200 residents gathered in north Oakland last night to express their frustration with city officials about rising crime. Robberies are up 22% compared to last year and recently the area had 100 robberies reported in a single week, fifty of those happened in a single weekend. The crowd who gathered last night quickly got animated.QuoteWithin the first five minutes of a raucous community safety meeting Tuesday night in North Oakland, residents vented frustrations and fear over a recent crime spike — and their perception that city leaders are doing little to address it.Over the two hours that followed, a crowd of roughly 200 gathered at Oakland Technical High School confronted a panel of city officials, the interaction ranging from volcanic heckling tostunned silence. A woman stood and delivered a wrenching personal story about being beaten in front of her house. The owner of a pizzeria said his employees had been held up at gunpoint four times in six years. One person called the city a “failed progressive utopia.”...Update: Here’s one of the commenters last night. She starts by asking how many people in the crowd have been mugged and it’s about half.
Within the first five minutes of a raucous community safety meeting Tuesday night in North Oakland, residents vented frustrations and fear over a recent crime spike — and their perception that city leaders are doing little to address it.Over the two hours that followed, a crowd of roughly 200 gathered at Oakland Technical High School confronted a panel of city officials, the interaction ranging from volcanic heckling tostunned silence. A woman stood and delivered a wrenching personal story about being beaten in front of her house. The owner of a pizzeria said his employees had been held up at gunpoint four times in six years. One person called the city a “failed progressive utopia.”
Air horns aren't going to protect Oakland from pro-criminal policiesby Zachary Faria, Commentary WriterAugust 09, 2023 02:33 PMCrime in Oakland, California, has become so bad that police are telling people to carry air horns with them so they can alert their neighbors when they are being attacked by the criminals the city refuses to jail.Police have told residents to carry air horns with them and to add security bars to the doors and windows of their homes to deter criminals. Burglaries are up 41% in Oakland compared to last year, and robberies are up 20%. Compared to 2019, thefts and assaults have doubled, and carjackings have tripled.Women are being targeted by repeat criminals, and the Oakland Police Department is estimated to be some 500 members understaffed based on the city’s population and how many emergency calls are being made. Crime has grown so disastrous that the local and state chapters of the NAACP have called for a state of emergency, with the Oakland chapter publicly calling out “our district attorney’s unwillingness to charge and prosecute people who murder and commit life-threatening serious crimes.”That district attorney is Alameda County’s Pamela Price, whose campaign was funded by leftist megadonor and advocate of pro-criminal policies George Soros. Price has amassed a terrible track record in her short time on the job of seeking to get violent criminals off with no jail time, even if they are gang members who killed a toddler in a shootout. ...
