I Drove Into Oakland's Most Dangerous Hoods. It Was Nuts.

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  @stommx · 3 years ago

  I live in SE Asia, where poverty levels are way worse than places like Oakland, and crime is basically  non-existent. It's not a poverty issue but a cultural one.

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  @chrisa6965 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Former Oakland PD here.  When he said 1 in 4 crimes are solved, I LOLed.  First of all, we don't even show up to most non-violent crimes.  We can't.  When we log in to our police car terminal at the beginning of the shift, there are between 100-300 calls waiting for just two districts (about 15 officers).  Secondly, of the calls that we do show up to, maybe 1 in 20 are solved.  So if you include the 9-1-1 crimes that we don't show up to, maybe 1 in 100 are solved.  BTW, there are shootings about every hour in the city.  Seriously about 20 shootings per day.  We don't even get called to more than half of them.  EDIT: When I say we don't show up, I mean we don't get dispatched to those crimes.  Officers don't simply choose not to go.  Officers don't have the option to refuse a call when dispatched.

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  @youngcoco510 · 4 years ago

  As someone who lives and moves through these areas night and day it’s hella funny watching outsiders talk about it like this. It’s really not that scary I promise mostly just regular people going about their day 😂

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• KE

  @keonterichard9132 · 2 years ago

  Imagine driving in Oakland and throw up the bunny ears to a OG

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  @Pr1me_Zer0 · 3 years ago

  My brother did tours in Iraq and Afghanistan with the Marines.  When you came back he became an OPD officer.  I asked him whats its like to be a cop in Oakland.  He told me he felt safer in the war zones.

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• DA

  @daledow1176 · 4 years ago

  I was talking with Compton resident about 15 years ago. He actually told me how you can tell the good side from the bad side? Me being curious said no how do you tell the difference. He said the bad area had bars on the upstairs windows also. He said with a straight face as he was serious. Now I get into a bad area I automatically look at upstairs windows to see how bad the area is.

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• P.

  @p.higgins4651 · 3 years ago

  Former Oakland CHP Officer here.  I did 5-ish years on the graveyard shift.  Gun pulled on me @ point blank range my second day on the job... shots fired in my direction about 6 months later on the East side.  Sideshows were always a good way to dust up a pursuit during a traffic stop.  Lots of guns and drama out there.  I'm grateful to have made it out alive.

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• DA

  @DAR-ui6gd · 2 years ago

  I got my car shot up in Oakland and I left that day never to return.

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• LA

  @latingroove7804 · 3 years ago

  My heart breaks for the lost of innocent lives and the kids who have to grow up in these environments.

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  @davidguerra9896 · 4 years ago (edited)

  I’m a truck driver I got lost in Oakland one day and I remember thinking to myself , am I still in America ? poverty sucks in every way crime, bad school zones, drugs , I pray for the good people that are stuck in neighborhoods like this.

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  @azspotfree · 4 years ago

  I remember living in the bay area in the 90's and taking the BART train up through Oakland. Often when the train would stop at the Oakland stations, "Oakland residents" would board the train and extort money from train riders who'd almost all pay to avoid being assaulted. Never seen anything like that anywhere else I've lived. Now they are defunding their own police. Well done, people of Oakland, quite a little paradise you've created

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  @LouDiamondPhilips199 · 2 years ago

  The man wishing a happy birthday was very sweet bless his heart!

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