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Oakland decides to clean up graffiti -- by fining the victims
American Thinker ^ | April 12, 2025 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 04/13/2025 3:54:27 AM PDT by lowbridge

Of all the one-party blue city disasters, Oakland is probably the biggest, a once-storied city full of beautiful old houses and a really great Chinatown, and is now farthest down the road to becoming Detroit.

After all, when you're the only city to lose In-N-Out Burger and your airport hotels based on unenforced crime, the only city whose major league baseball team insists on playing in some other city, and the only big city whose mayor is under indictment for corruption up the wazoo, you know the city's got problems. Gangs, illegals (Oakland is a sanctuary city), drug dealers, and smash-and-grab gangs all flourish in Oakland, along with a lot of murderers and muggers. The cops, considered bad guys by the recently recalled Soros district attorney, don't enforce much.

Someone wants to clean up the city, though, and has come up with the perfect tone-deaf leftist solution: Fining the victims.

According to ABC 7 News:

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- In Oakland, Chinatown merchants are raising the alarm after many are being hit with thousands of dollars in fines for graffiti on their properties.

Shirley Lou knows how this story goes. On any given day, the supermarket she manages is tagged. They paint over it and then it happens again.

"We cannot control. We clean up and they come again. So many times, but the city -- I don't know why they are charging me money," said Luo, manager at Won Kee Supermarket.

On Tuesday, she tried to pay the latest fine of $500. The city told Luo she owes $3,000, which includes late fees.

"It's not my fault. Not our fault. It's somebody go to the roof and mark so many graffiti," Luo said.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; oakland
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1 posted on 04/13/2025 3:54:27 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

lmao... man ya cant make this sh*t up...


2 posted on 04/13/2025 3:56:56 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: lowbridge
"We cannot control. We clean up and they come again. So many times, but the city -- I don't know why they are charging me money," said Luo, manager at Won Kee Supermarket.

Girl get out of there. Move to Texas, or come to the Midwest.

3 posted on 04/13/2025 4:05:46 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: lowbridge

I didn’t vote for that. But somebody did.


4 posted on 04/13/2025 4:05:46 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: lowbridge
It isn't just California. Italy and Greece have a terrible graffiti problem.

Why do Mediterranean climates have the most graffiti?

5 posted on 04/13/2025 4:06:36 AM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: lowbridge
And you can get killed "dissin'" someone's tagging.

What's next? Fining Tesla owners for letting their cars get keyed or set on fire?

6 posted on 04/13/2025 4:08:58 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (May Rachel Zegler and Disney never know profits.)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

Paint works better?


7 posted on 04/13/2025 4:09:15 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: lowbridge

“We cannot control. We clean up and they come again. So many times, but the city — I don’t know why they are charging me money,” said Luo,

Dear Ms Luo, you ain’t black honey, therefore, you must pay for their sins.

It’s the American Urban Person of Dusky Heritage way, assisted by Communists of all colors. They do the crime, you get the fine.

One might see the need for street gang protection rackets since the cops can’t or won’t do anything. At least with a gang if you pay them they’ll take care of you.


8 posted on 04/13/2025 4:10:49 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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** Why do Mediterranean climates have the most graffiti? **

Give you an answer if the graffiti is in arabic,


9 posted on 04/13/2025 4:10:55 AM PDT by Surrounded_too (LE)
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To: lowbridge

wondering if the billing for a graffiti fine can be forwarded to the local P.D. since its it’s ultimately their responsibility to prevent defacement of property.


10 posted on 04/13/2025 4:18:15 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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And that somebody has to reap the consequences of their actions.


11 posted on 04/13/2025 4:21:42 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: sit-rep

At all.


12 posted on 04/13/2025 4:21:50 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: lowbridge

I had a connecting flight there in 2000 and the Airport literally stank. And the bathrooms were filthy with toilets overrunning. I don’t know how it is now but I’m never going back to find out.


13 posted on 04/13/2025 4:24:32 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: lowbridge
The fines for the property owners is more than the fines the perps face if caught.

Sounds like the politicians of Oakland created an extortion racket, and do not intend to "solve a graffiti problem".

14 posted on 04/13/2025 4:26:17 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: lowbridge

California is a sick-a$$ place....not fit for flies.


15 posted on 04/13/2025 4:26:30 AM PDT by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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To: lowbridge
Someone wants to clean up the city, though, and has come up with the perfect tone-deaf leftist solution: Fining the victims.

It is unjust but I very much doubt that is unique to Oakland or even unusual.

What is probably unusual is the lack of effort to stop the tagging and other property crimes.

16 posted on 04/13/2025 4:40:17 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: lowbridge

If the criminal taggers are shot and killed on site, in the act, the problem will end.


17 posted on 04/13/2025 4:48:03 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: lowbridge

When it comes to libs, the jokes just write themselves.....LOL
Libs couldn’t properly manage their way out of a wet paper bag.


18 posted on 04/13/2025 4:48:44 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: lgjhn23

Correct.


19 posted on 04/13/2025 5:08:49 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

“ Why do Mediterranean climates have the most graffiti?”

Because it is very easy for “homeless” bums to live on the streets year-round.


20 posted on 04/13/2025 5:10:32 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (All we want is the same deportation policy that Martha's Vineyard has. That's it.)
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