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When the Crime Wave Hits Your Family. Our nanny’s living room in Oakland was sprayed with bullets. It didn’t even make the local news.
Common Sense (Bari Weiss Substack) ^ | December 9, 2021 | Leighton Woodhouse

Posted on 12/09/2021 3:03:00 PM PST by karpov

My wife and I are scrambling to find daycare for our 16-month-old son. We’ve had a “nanny share” up until now, which means we and another couple employ a nanny for both couples’ kids and split the cost. Our nanny is wonderful, and she lives just a few blocks from us. But a few weeks ago, someone walked up her street spraying bullets into random houses. One of the bullets found its way into her living room, as she and her family ducked for cover. At that moment, she and her husband decided they were moving their family out of Oakland.

The shooting didn’t even make the local news. Apparently, in the Bay Area right now, you can walk up a residential street firing your gun into houses, and you still won’t be able to compete for attention with all of the other sensational crimes.

Perhaps you’ve heard about some of them or seen the videos.

Shoplifters casually walk into Walgreens stores in San Francisco filling garbage bags full of merchandise. They’ve spat on, bitten, assaulted, and thrown bottles of urine at employees.

The flashmob-style “smash and grab” robberies that originated here—in places like Union Square in San Francisco and the shopping plaza in affluent Walnut Creek—have now spread across the country.

Asian seniors are brazenly assaulted in the street; one octogenarian was body slammed to death. This week, an Afghan refugee—a father of three who had worked as a translator for the U.S. army—was shot dead near a playground in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood.

And now freeway shootings are a thing. A few weeks ago, at nine in the morning, a 29-year-old mom on her way from Oakland to San Francisco for a job interview with her fiancé and two kids was randomly shot and killed

(Excerpt) Read more at bariweiss.substack.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; banglist; california; crime; dystopia; oakland
There is a Hacker News (techies, venture capitalists) thread where people vehemently deny that defunding the police and other left-wing policies have anything to do with the crime surge: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29503089
1 posted on 12/09/2021 3:03:00 PM PST by karpov
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To: karpov

Another Liberal Paradise...


2 posted on 12/09/2021 3:06:50 PM PST by simpson96
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To: karpov

Stuff like that will make the news when it happens to the “important people”(/sarc). When it happens to regular folks, it don’t matter.

It’s like the recent video of the old Boston DA, now US Attorney, berating a reporter for confronting her as she gets out of her car. Nasty woman. Nasty indeed. Talked about “making up an allegation” against the reporter lady. How dare someone come to her home.

Wonder, was she that upset when folks showed up at McConnell’s home, Carlson’s home, Hawley’s home. Heck, protestor’s showed up at the home of the Governor, wonder what punishment they got. Did the Boston DA make any public statements about that?


3 posted on 12/09/2021 3:10:20 PM PST by qaz123
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To: karpov

It’s always been this way... Most crimes in high-crime neighborhoods don’t make the news. Stories make headlines when they are unusual.

For many crimes, the police won’t even come out to take a report.


4 posted on 12/09/2021 3:13:35 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: karpov

Feral negroe behavior isn’t newsworthy, it seems.


5 posted on 12/09/2021 3:19:43 PM PST by Noumenon (Black American flag time. KTF)
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To: karpov

So liberal white people don’t care until they can’t get cheap hired help?


6 posted on 12/09/2021 3:27:43 PM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: karpov

The best defense is a good offense.


7 posted on 12/09/2021 3:28:40 PM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: karpov
FWIW, Bari Weiss has an absolutely excellent podcast. I strongly recommend it.

A recent episode with Dr. Marty Makary about our "Pandemic of Lunacy" response to Covid had my blood boiling. It might've been her best ever.

Weiss is a liberal Jewish lesbian, but very much a contrarian in the mold of Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi and she's been hammering liberals over cancel culture and wokeism. She's one of the small handful of liberals that I respect.

8 posted on 12/09/2021 3:38:02 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024.)
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To: karpov

I think this “awakening” is too little, too late. You can’t fix stupid, and you can’t negotiate with insane. What’s left is to get OUR people out of anti-America.


9 posted on 12/09/2021 3:53:40 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (Culture, culture, culture. Not partisan politics. )
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She must be a RACIST to want to leave this utopian Liberal City, just because some minority yutes are practicing thier chosen profession...


10 posted on 12/10/2021 6:44:50 AM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: karpov
Yah, it's Oakland. Fully expected.

If there is one city I find pretty terrifying, it's Oakland.

11 posted on 12/10/2021 6:50:14 AM PST by riri (Hope is not a strategy at this point- Sam Andrews)
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To: karpov
I understand the reflex: nobody wants to return to the draconian politics of that earlier era, which fueled racism and mass incarceration.

I do.

12 posted on 12/10/2021 7:32:53 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Drew68; MinuteGal; M Kehoe

“Weiss is a liberal Jewish lesbian”

A liberal lesbian “family” raising children, what could possibly go wrong? Brainwashed, indoctrinated kids growing up surrounded by counter-culture ideology, ... great. Poor kids.


13 posted on 12/10/2021 8:21:01 AM PST by flaglady47 (Donald J.Trump, President in 2024 - DeSantis for VP (or Senior AIvisor))
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