Now? Ever been to Oakland? I was born in Oakland and there have always been hoods that you could get robbed in broad daylight. The difference now is that the hoodlums commute on BART.
Has all of the charm of a predator ridden Serengeti watering hole and Baltimore slums, but with nice weather, when you aren't in perpetual evasion and avoidance hyper alertness.
culture of crime's slippery slope effect as they get more brazen, no different than a historically corrupt town where bribes and kickbacks are part of the legacy and rationalized as bidness as usual
A guy I used to work with just got robbed in Oakland a few days ago by three black guys at a traffic light, one with a gun. They took all his stuff but not the car.
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