[olivia3boys]

Police don’t come to anyone’s aid when they are called for burglary in Oakland.

That said (I’ve lived near but not in Oakland for 30 years) I’d say these days Oakland is not as bad as Seattle or Portland and certainly not Chicago or Baltimore.

Trump is an East Coaster and is remembering a bit of Oakland from the past. It’s pricey to live there now. It’s gentrifying.

[fr_freak]

I’d say these days Oakland is not as bad as Seattle or Portland

Oakland may not be having the nightly riots Portland is having, but Portland is a far mellower and safer city overall than Oakland. By orders of magnitude. In fact, the reason that these silly riots have been tolerated in Portland so long is that they really are confined to a relatively small area near downtown, and since nobody is going downtown in the age of lockdowns anyway, there isn't a huge outcry.