Posted on 01/28/2024 7:16:57 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Oakland's largest employer has reportedly told workers that due to safety concerns in the city, taking breaks indoors is recommended.
Kaiser Permanente, which was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Oakland, has recommended employees "stay in their buildings for lunch and work, in response to street robberies of workers who went out to grab something to eat."
The memo also reportedly advised employees to avoid in-person meetings, if possible, and only recommended the Claremont Hotel in the Berkeley Hills for out-of-town guests.
Kaiser's news was met with consternation by local businesses, which are already struggling with lower foot traffic and crime. "I don't think you want to discourage people from walking around and kind of give in to the bad elements that are running around," one 19th and Franklin cafe owner told KTVU. "I think quite the opposite: I think that if there are more people on the streets, there will be less incidences."
According to the Oakland Police Department’s crime statistics, violent crime, which it defines as homicide, aggravated assault, rape or robbery, went up 23% from 2022 to 2023. Oakland police took 3,687 reports of robbery last year compared to 2,680 in 2022, and an astonishing 17,239 reports of burglary. That number has been steadily rising, from 10,584 in 2021 and 13,994 in 2022. Residential, vehicle and commercial burglaries are combined to find that number.
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That’s quite an amoral outlook.
Come on man,let the happy little commissar have some fun while he still can. Storing up wrath for the day of judgement for all the ungodly and their ungodly deeds.
No, more people on the streets won't make it safer for them. It will make a target rich environment for criminals who can now get lost in the crowd more easily. Not to mention, the police won't do anything about crime except arrest the victims who fight back.
I used to work for them, right there in Oakland. F** zoo. More than once getting in before dawn I was either accosted or practically run over by druggies/bums/hookers on the streets between the trains and the offices.
They offered a continuing job to me, I said no. That was back in 2009. By now you literally risk your life.
Mayoral / city council / coppers are all affirmative action hires. If you don’t check >two boxes, go away.
These things are sad to see. Rampant in-store grab & run, in many areas there’s no need to even run. As this article says, there’s brazen robberies of those out and about, even in broad daylight.
Pretty soon, urban properties will need to be surrounded by a high wall topped with glass fragments, just like in any s-hole country.
Oakland, CA to Reno, NV
$670-$1410
Reno, NV to Oakland, CA
$129-$199
What's with the outlandish disparity of rates? I know business taxes are a factor of the exodus and no one wants the job of driving the vehicles and storage tows back to California but wow!
supply and demand of available empty trucks ... the prices indicate a one-way movement ...
Perhaps.
No, you can’t use Kaiser Permanente.
Kaiser is socialized medicine all wrapped up in a single company. Doctors are employees of an insurance company, which dictates every aspect of care from top to bottom, end to end, cradle — to grave.
DO.
NOT.
WANT.
and the *itch is running for Senate too
INDEED!
Revelation 6:16-17
King James Version
16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
We had a new manager come to the university from Georgia Tech and he was amazed that the doors to the department were unlocked. Anyone could just walk in!
We will sometimes have homeless people but they don’t stay long. The international students pepper them with questions such as “Why don’t you get a job?”
In my neck of the woods, they arrant hirable if they missing toes, fingers and have a bunch of Tats...
You are also required to have an address
And a valid SS#? Back in the day we had a roofing company owner sentenced to big time jail time for smuggling workers from south of the boarder to do roofing jobs. How times have changed...
We found one (1) roofer who didn’t hire illegals and every guy on my roof was a felon.
I suspect the owner found people that weren't scared of heights or work...
Or working with sex offenders.
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