Gangs have turned them all into killing zones. Age knows no immunity from the bullets.
Wonder how many of these are “sanctuary” cities?
Wonder if these cities (Camden, NJ and St. Louis, MO. Other cities joining Oakland in the top 10 include Detroit, MI, Flint, MI, New Orleans, LA, Birmingham, AL, Cleveland, OH, Jackson, MS and Memphis, TN) are run by Democrats and Minorites???
no connection /soff
...I can tell you why Baltimore is on the list...it’s because black DEMOCRATS began to legally sieze power over three decades ago....since then they have demonstrated their capacity to govern.
I believe that it was last year.......truckers were going to refuse to go into Oakland. They need to do this again and close down the city. The only problem is that the people will go else where. They really need to close this city down and put a fence around it. If those people want to live like animals, treat them like animals.
No shocker here... Urban Democrats tend to be far more tolerant of blight and crime than people in the suburbs. You can always tell when a bunch of Democrats from the city move out because quality of life always goes into the toilet when they start voting.
It’s actually kinda strange about the “reporting” dynamic. Houston would be at the top of the list but for some reason, the City can get away with massive under reporting of crime. Of course, every couple of years or so, the FBI comes in to do an audit and slaps HPD wrists about “mis-reporting” but by then, it’s all history anyway. Their biggest help in this ruse is the local newspaper which only covers the most outrageously pulbic type crimes; I have to I suppose because of the large number of witnesses. We hear gunshots every week; but the “clean up crews” that make up the remnant of HPD come out and scrub up the area before anyone much knows what happened.
I totally ignored them cuz they were itching for a confrontation with anyone. And who knows what else they had besides a hammer.
And then there were the January riots where I could see burning cars from the bedroom window.
Oakland is getting progressively worse. Businesses closing. More people wandering the streets. It really is a battle between thugs/gangs and their enablers at city hall, and law abiding citizens.
I dispute this part of the article. Maybe they didn't make the top 20 in those days in this survey, but Oakland has been a crime ridden hell hole since I can remember, along with Richmond, SF and other Bay Area cities.
Oakland: CA, ME, MD, IL, FL, KY, AL, AK, CT, DE, GA, LA, MA, or... which?