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Oakland Crime Shows City Losing in California Rebound


               
2014 Jul 26, 3:14am   4,182 views  8 comments

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-29/oakland-crime-shows-city-losing-in-california-rebound.html

Oakland, California, officials worry that a surge in crime will cost the city employers even as the state begins to shake off the worst recession since the Great Depression. The city of about 396,000 has hired former New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton to boost crime-fighting in a community where census data show 1-in-5 residents live in poverty.

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1   John Bailo   2014 Jul 26, 3:25am  

And yet...

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2   Ceffer   2014 Jul 26, 3:48am  

Come for the weather, stay for the crime! is Oakland's new motto.

3   mell   2014 Jul 26, 4:11am  

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

Step out of your million dollar townhouse every morning and shoot your way through a sprawling city-wide free fire fight and piss on the faces of the vanquished before you even get into your car to go to work!

Call your friendly agent now!

4   Ceffer   2014 Jul 26, 4:20am  

You can't get this kind of free entertainment outside of Baghdad!

5   toothfairy   2014 Jul 26, 9:40am  

the great thing about Oakland is that people are afraid to live there which keep rents nice and high in the surrounding cities.

6   Ceffer   2014 Jul 26, 12:25pm  

It isn't dangerous until you have a flesh wound every month, you have to steal all the stuff back that got stolen from you every week, and you can hear the whistle of bullets in your ears at least five times a day.

Otherwise, it's just another day in paradise.

7   Carolyn C   2014 Jul 28, 4:38am  

Ceffer says

It isn't dangerous until you have a flesh wound every month, you have to steal all the stuff back that got stolen from you every week, and you can hear the whistle of bullets in your ears at least five times a day.

Otherwise, it's just another day in paradise.

So how many time have you been shot at while visiting friends and relative in Oakland?

8   CL   2014 Jul 28, 4:56am  

Carolyn C says

So haw many time have you been shot at while visiting friends and relative in Oakland?

Barely ever! And since I'm not a kid, I survived!

That's quite a low bar, even though I love Oak-town. I've lived there for a very long time and no matter where I've lived there have been shots fired.

Of course, I witnessed a murder in Indiana, and we were shot past in Chicago. I barely ever witness murders in Oakland.

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