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Topic: Oakland leaders have
lost grip on violence |
Oakland leaders have
lost grip on violence
San Francisco Chronicle, by Chip Johnson
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Posted By:Ribicon, 1/15/2013 4:35:40 PM
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| Just before Oakland city officials held a news conference Monday in East Oakland to assure everyone that they´ve got a handle on crime, I took a little walk around the neighborhood to ask local residents if they felt safe. Vincent Peters, 32, who was waiting for a bus with his wife and their 2-month old daughter, definitely does not. He said he´s preparing to move his family from the area because he values their safety. "You can hardly walk down the street without someone pushing a gun at you," Peters said. "These kids are scared, and that´s why they´re
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California officials boast the toughest anti-gun laws in the nation, local leaders claim crime is under control, yet people on the street say otherwise.
Can´t blame cultural issues, so blame the gun. Ban the guns, then pretend the ensuing crime wave does not exist. No wonder trust in government keeps hitting new lows.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
NYBruin, 1/15/2013 4:40:31 PM (No. 9118405)
These street thugs stick people up and shoot rival gang members. That´s breaking the law right there! Does anyone really think ANOTHER law about their weapon of choice will cause them to moderate their anti-social behavior? If so, why??
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Hammock, 1/15/2013 4:46:14 PM (No. 9118423)
There are 2 motives behind removing firearms from ordinary citizens. First, it makes it much easier for the government to have their way with them. Second, it makes it more likely that helpless, terrorized citizens will approve the coming police state. The verbiage is just cover for the easily led.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
4Justice, 1/15/2013 4:57:26 PM (No. 9118451)
It isn´t guns...it is the youngsters they have running around nowadays. Those "kids" (and I am talking about young adults too) have NO respect for life anymore. Even my friends who came from the older generations of Oakland were telling me that they are afraid of the "youngsters" now. It used to be that I could walk around anywhere in town and feel quite comfortable. I haven´t hung around there for a few years since most of my friends there have died or moved away, but the few times I´ve gone back to visit my friends, I have been very apprehensive. The youngsters look at me like "what the hell is a white girl doing here?" and they give me the suspicious eye like I am a cop or something. It was never like that 6-7 years ago. But I did feel the changing atmosphere. I guess I didn´t want to believe it was getting as bad as Los Angeles.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
laotzu, 1/15/2013 5:01:25 PM (No. 9118461)
"These kids are scared, and that´s why they´re carrying guns and knives too.
I´d be scared, too, if I lived on the wrong side of the bars in the progressive built zoo called urban America.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
NorthernDog, 1/15/2013 5:10:04 PM (No. 9118491)
The underlying problem is the deteriorating social structure. Unless that is addressed, the crime wave will continue more or less until no one lives there anymore.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
wws, 1/15/2013 5:25:39 PM (No. 9118528)
Oakland is only getting what they deserve.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ktwo, 1/15/2013 5:35:57 PM (No. 9118548)
If only Jerry Brown was still Mayor.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 1/15/2013 5:51:14 PM (No. 9118580)
My last jury summons was for the courthouse in Oakland. I wrote them back telling them I was to scared to go near that city. The previous weekend 7 people were murdered.....
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
tennman, 1/15/2013 6:16:39 PM (No. 9118621)
It gets better. Apparently
Oakland´s listed as one of the best 50 cities in the US to live. Makes you wonder about #51.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
otronome, 1/15/2013 6:32:10 PM (No. 9118656)
The crime stats do not tell the story on naything but the most violent crimes.
Policy in the state of CA is to releaase "non violent" offenders to save money. The average non violent ffender being released is, in facr, violence prone and has been involved in half dozen arrests, or so.
Crimes such as breaking and entering, smash and grabs are seldom reported due to the farcical response when one contacts the police department. Leave anything showing in a car and the wndow will be smashedd in and items taken. THe gutters are lttered with safety glass.
They no longer pretend to have any interest unless chalk is needed (to outline the body.)
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 1/15/2013 7:30:21 PM (No. 9118763)
Crime is increasing everywhere under Obama and democrats. With a leadership with no morals, no ethics, and thumbing their noses at the constitution and law, many unemployed and don´t care, crime is skyrocketing.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Wendybird, 1/15/2013 7:38:01 PM (No. 9118776)
Don´t you believe it. There is no crime and there are no guns in California. How could there be? The laws forbid both.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
peasantnumberthree, 1/15/2013 7:39:47 PM (No. 9118781)
Things are definitely bad in Oakland. But they could easily be worse.
For example, if Oakland went officially broke, the city would lay off police and firemen before they would lay off diversity coordinators and community organizers.
All you have to do is look at nearby Stockton to see the effects those changes would cause. Crime is rampant there and the drug cartels have all set up their CA headquarters there since there´s no real police presence. Life is tough when you screw up so badly that Wells Fargo repossesses your City Hall...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Japanorama, 1/15/2013 10:53:15 PM (No. 9119015)
Tired of crime?
Move.
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