Just how bad is that particular neighborhood in Oakland, or in Oakland overall? I’ve never been there but I’m thinking some fellow posters here may have or be from there. Im in Michigan and Detroit, Flint, Saginaw, Benton Harbor, Muskegon all have bad areas but this sounds a step worse than those.
It's bad, really bad. Over ten years ago one of my daughters lived in Oakland, commuting to her tech job a few miles away into Emeryville, just across the border between Oakland and Berkeley. She lived in the Oakland hills in a white enclave with nice stores and restaurants. But had to drive down to MLK Blvd to get to Emeryville. As parents, we begged her to leave. The intersection where she had to stop and turn onto MLK Blvd had repeated crimes. A gov't official got carjacked there, and daughter finally called it quits and moved back across the bay. Longer commute from SF but safer. She ended up moving to Kansas, and then Texas, at another job, before returning to South SF.
Oakland is much worse now, with the criminals coming from the flatlands in East Oakland and preying on the white neighborhoods in the hills. Us parents stay away from Oakland as much as possible. It's hell in the flatlands.