Posted on 08/06/2023 10:00:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Oakland has created an 'unlivable' situation for residents as homeless population explodes, activist says
Open-air drug markets, narcotic tourism, rampant theft and lax camping regulation have made Oakland "unlivable," a neighborhood advocate told Fox News.
"Oakland and San Francisco have become the promised land of milk and fentanyl, and people are coming here," Seneca Scott, founder of Neighbors Together Oakland, told Fox News. "People who are homeless in Oakland now typically are not from here. They're drug tourists."
Recently, people have been flocking to "Fentanyl Island" a patch of land between 7th St. and Brush St. in West Oakland which Scott describes as an open-air drug market that is home to dozens of burned-out vehicles. "They're coming here for the safe and easy access to their drug of choice and the ability to also steal to support those habits, because there's no rule of law."
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I guess California was just practice for Newsom.
Sounds like “Hamsterdam,” in “The Wire.”
The truth is that Oakland downtown has been unvisitable for decades.
Those areas are up in the hills. All it will take is another fire like the one in 1991 to devastate them. They won't have the services to respond like they did in 1991.
The homeless are good at starting fires...
-PJ
CA went to all mail-in for a reason.
I used to live (and work) just outside Modesto and Oakland was always considered a dump. Locals called it the Oakland Gun and Knife Club.
That’s what you get when you enable crime and drug use.
But brain dead liberals claim they are trying to help people.
They are only helping people destroy themselves. Then they can virtue signal that they are innocent and take no blame for what they caused.
Well, it sounds like they were testing torture methods on the rats and mice, sleep deprivation, etc., no viruses. I don’t know if I believe that though, unless the sleep deprived rats were intended to be the threat, once they were released.
I keep reading all these articles about all the Fent that has be caught. Enough to kill a city, state the entire country. I have yet to be offered to by any. Granted I’m old. In the early 90s went to neworleans and was offered MJ, coke and heroin in the first 45 minutes. Now I get offers for AARP. OLD SUCKS. I don’t believe the Fent fear that’s being generated.
Even wearing a kevlar vest and metal helmet?
Bad place to be.
Fentanyl is doing a good job of removing undesirables from our midst.
So you applaud the Chinese govrnment?
My dear Dad lived on Osean Avenue and commuted to Cal-Berkeley as a young man before he was eligilbe for the war. I don’t know what to say about this article, other than it’s amazing that this is still called America. In the words of David Bowie, “This is not America”.
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