Posted on 09/29/2020 10:11:39 PM PDT by thecodont
President Donald Trump has made disparaging remarks about Oakland many times, and he did it again in the Tuesday night debate with former Vice President Joe Biden.
Fox News' Chris Wallace, who moderated the debate, asked the president about his frequent assertion that cities with Democratic leadership are more violent than Republican-run ones. When Wallace said Republican-controlled cities show similar trends of violent crime, Trump launched into a stream-of-consciousness response that, at one point, included an assertion that Oakland was "more violent" under President Barack Obama and asked where law and order was under the Obama-Biden watch.
"Look at Oakland, look what happened in Baltimore, look what happened, frankly it was more violent than what I am even seeing now," the president said.
"Oh, my god," Biden said.
"The reason is the Democrats in the cities," Trump went on.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Get out the stats and we will talk
So what are you going to do, vote for Biden? Who cares what Oakland has to say?
No one vacations in Oakland because there's no there there.
Gertrude Stein ping
CityData.com said:
“The 2018 crime rate in Oakland, CA is 687 (City-Data.com crime index), which is 2.5 times greater than the U.S. average. It was higher than in 98.5% U.S. cities. “
NeighborhoodScout.com said:
Safer than 1% of all US cities.
Violent Crimes 5,572
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