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For those of you around the country this isn't anything unusual for Oakland,CA. Police will only respond quickly if there is a real emergency, say like a shooting or the like. Having a Laptop stolen isn't high on their list. Essentially it isn't considered serious enough to warrant attention from the police.

Or course there are reasons for this. Oakland is an extremely poor city with very few resources. It's essentially a ward of the state of California and Alameda County. Oakland could never make it on their own. Oakland has so many people on the dole and such high unemployment that their finances are a complete disaster. They have chased away any business brave enough to try to do business there. It has an excellent port for trade so their is some of that there. But overall the city is a wreck. As a consequence of this, their budgets are such that police simple don't or won't do anything about property crime. So much for the accomplishments of Jerry Brown when he was mayor. But Oakland was a wreck long before Brown was major. It's been a very long time since Oakland was any type of a decent place. And to be fair, it would take an act of God to make any improvement in Oakland.

Seems the poor-mouthing Oakland PD found some “resources” after being contacted by Good Morning America.
This was a great post.

Wonder if visiting the perp yourself to reclaim your laptop would constitute and emergency. You'd have to be armed of course in case your life is threatened.