#FRACRO
Blink and it's gone! 👀
If you haven't experienced a World Cup match on
#TangoLive
yet, what the heck have you been doing?! 😍
It all come down to this so get clicking.
#ItsComingHome
"It" was "unity" 🏴
"It" was "optimism" 🏴
"It" was "pride" 🏴
"It" was "belief" 🏴
"It" was "hope" 🏴
"It" was "joy" 🏴
"It" was "everything" 🏴
It came home.
@abc7newsbayarea
Looting is correct: “to rob especially on a large scale and usually by violence or corruption”
The scale is what makes it looting. Two people do the same thing and it’s retail theft. 80 people is looting.
(And this is a stupid distraction intended to downplay what occurred)
Just started looking at new 2022 FBI data.
For the 85 largest cities (> 250K), Oakland ranked
#3
in overall crime.
Oakland ranked 1st in robbery, 3rd in property crime, car theft, & larceny, 5th in violent crime, 12th in murder, 17th in burglary, and 18th in agg assault. 🧵
Just stumbled across
@GavinNewsom
's veto statement on Ranked Choice Voting. Pretty much on point.
California now needs to take the next step and ban RCV outright. Ranked Choice Voting has turned out to be a train wreck and fundamentally undemocratic.
Bay Area politics at the moment are like an entire community waking up after a raucous, drunken party to discover the place is a wreck and there's someone in their bed.
A million people saying WTF all at the same time.
From a recent conversation comparing Walnut Creek vs Oakland: Stolen Cars in a Month.
Walnut Creek averages about 20 stolen cars a month. Oakland averages about 20 stolen cars every 12 hours.
When comparing per capita, Oakland has about 10x the rate of car theft.
Take note Oakland. SF folks starting two years before the election (and are succeeding taking back their City Hall). Oakland had a candidate racing to get signatures 3 months ago.
Organize now for 2024.
@SaturdayOnCouch
Here here. The sport is not one game with one set of statistics but fundamentally different games played with different objectives depending on the goal differential at any given time. Stats reflect the score more than score reflects the stats.
Ex-Oakland Police Chief Kirkpatrick was just confirmed by the New Orleans City Council as their police chief. The well respected top cop was illegally fired in Oakland after reporting corruption on the Oakland Police Commission.
She subsequently won a wrongful termination suit.
Property crime in Oakland has now already beaten every year going back to 1994 with two full months left to go.
Predicted totals for the year are within a few hundred of beating every year for which the FBI has records going back to 1985.
Today seemed to be the day normal people discovered the DSA. Hopefully, tomorrow will be the day they learn which of their local politicos have been members.
Q: Why is Oakland throwing sacks of money at the usual non-profits for Town Nights: poorly attended (and obscenely expensive) non-events laughably described as "violence prevention" while First Fridays, in all its success, is denied funding and struggles?
A: We know the answer.
Why can’t Oakland have nice things
@MayorShengThao
???
This was a nice community event.
“It plays into the old trope that Oakland can’t have nice things," said Michael Pierce, who operated Forage Kitchen in Uptown Oakland. "Why can’t Oakland have nice things?"
For local connoisseurs of Oakland crime data, let me be the first to say that all hell is about to break loose over this report.
Three weeks ago, crime was up 14% YOY. That number just jumped to 26% without explanation.
@oaklandpoliceca
better start explaining why and fast.
Going back to 1985 (earliest date the FBI provides data for), the record for stolen cars in Oakland was set in 2006 with 10,549 vehicles stolen.
As of last week and with 3.5 months to go in 2023, 10,547 cars have been stolen. 2023 will likely be 41% worse than the worst ever.
I noticed the Hegenberger Shell had like 7 auto burglaries today, so I checked them out on Google. They have review after review like this. Everyone gets robbed. 🤦♂️
This can’t be good for tourism.
(And this happens all down Hegenberger.)
Great thread on Reddit regarding youth and crime in Oakland.
(But depressing that it took crime spreading above 580 for us to start having this convo.)
INSANE: Concord police said this group of hammer-wielding thieves entered Iceberg Diamonds at Sunvalley Mall and started smashing the jewelry display cases, nearly wiping the store clean.
Multiple sources confirm Alameda County District Attorney Pam Price’s laptop was stolen in an auto burglary at 28th and Telegraph this afternoon around 3pm.
(I’m told she was instructed to go online & file a report if she didn’t want to wait for an officer to arrive.)
#Oakland
OPD arrests 7 auto burglars on Sept 28th. The number of reported auto burglaries that day is cut in half.
Weird coincidence. Police don’t prevent crime. They only show up after the crime is committed.
Or so I’m told.
#DefundThePolice
Either a) it's their day off, b) OPD caught a prolific crew or c) the auto burglars found religion.
Recently, this has been running about 60 per day. Thursday was half that.
And in 2023, these rankings will likely look much, much worse. While crime is down nationwide, as of Oct 15, in Oakland:
Violent crime: ⬆ 21%❕
Property crime: ⬆ 26%❕
Homicide: ⬇ 1%
Agg assault: ⬆ 12%
Robbery: ⬆ 35%❗
Burglary: ⬆ 36%❗
Car theft: ⬆ 51%‼
Larceny: ⬇ 14%
Quite the juxtaposition: The Mayor and a City Councilmember doing a press conference announcing new "community safety ambassadors" downtown, and less than a mile away, a grossly understaffed police department is hauling a body in a suitcase out of Lake Merritt.
As of today, more property crimes have been committed in Oakland in 2023 than in every single full year since 1997...with 3 months left to go.
By the end of the year, that total will likely exceed every year except 1988 and 1989...which it will be within 1% of exceeding as well.
For overall crime, Memphis was
#1
, St. Louis was
#2
. San Francisco was
#6
.
For violent crime, Oakland finished behind
#1
Memphis, Detroit, Cleveland, and Baltimore. SF was way down at
#44
.
For property crime, Oakland finished behind
#1
St. Louis and
#2
Memphis. SF was
#6
.
@lwoodhouse
The folks living below 580 have every right to be pissed. They HAVE been pushing for more police for decades. And yet, the young white folks (and the “progressive” politicians, the anti-police activists, the non-profit grifters, the DSA, the DCCC, and the media) didn’t care. ⚰️
If you went to cocktail parties and talked enthusiastically with your tech friends about defunding the police and had a lawn sign reading “In this house, we believe”, please read Tanya Boyce’s comment…twice.
Thank you.
Lateefah Simon who presided over the Akonadi Foundation (bankrolling
#DefundThePolice
in Oakland) and the BART Board (bankrupt after losing two-thirds of their ridership) was just endorsed for Congress by Gavin Newsom.
I have had the privilege of working closely with the Governor to advance justice on behalf of the people of California — I am humbled by his endorsement and I’ll be proud to continue our partnership when elected.
Not sure who produced this report, but an interesting effort to assess the impact of Oakland PD’s traffic stop policy.
TLDR: Traffic stops are good. Oakland’s 2016 policy change was bad. Don’t take public safety advice from Stanford psychology profs.
The Federal Monitor has got to go. If you are providing oversight for the primary public safety organization in Oakland and public safety collapses this catastrophically, you’re fired.
It’s that simple.
Get rid of the problem.
The Oakland Police Commission is a circus. What, of value, has it accomplished other than creating an entertaining string of scandals and sky high crime? Amateurs with no public safety expertise should NOT be overseeing public safety.
Shut it down.
"Coming from a third world country, I feel like it’s badly managed. It almost feels like we’re in a third world country sometimes, when there is a crime and you call the police and they don’t come."
In the 2022 Oakland CA Mayoral election, 4658 ballots (3.5%) were overvoted. The variation by precinct was dramatic with some precincts having as few as 1 in 100 ballots (1.0%) overvoted and others having as many as 1 in 8 (13.1%) overvoted. Oakland uses Ranked Choice Voting...🧵
Alameda County Ranked Choice Voting error rates by precinct in the November 2022 Oakland Mayoral election. The percentage of voters who made at least one of the following errors is shown in parentheses: overvoting, voting for the same candidate twice, or skipping a ranking.
If you're a smart, young journalist in the Bay Area and want to be famous, write about government waste.
Just start investigating & writing on salaries, benefits, pensions, NPOs. Never have to leave your house, and in 2-3 years, you'll be a renowned investigative journalist. 💅
1) 🧵 I warned of this back in 2020 and since. The "MORE MONEY PLEASE" with heavy PR spin approach won't fly with bay area voters to save
@SFBART
. Riders and taxpayers want value for their💰💰.
This one is infuriating. “Let’s give out $10K grants to random crap (ideally friends of ours!) while allowing the most popular, beloved, frequent, and successful downtown event die.”
Oakland leadership is just abysmal. 🤬
The police are lying about the crime.
The merchants are lying about the crime.
The media is lying about the crime.
Your neighbors are lying about the crime.
Your eyes are lying about the crime.
The activists who want to abolish police are sadly the only honest folks left. 😇
@nikki4oakland
You were committed to cutting policing in Oakland by 50% just two years ago. Had you succeeded in your stated goal, Oakland would have lost half its police force in July 2021.
Should we assume that this is still your intention? Or have you reversed course?
After an incredibly bad week (6 homicides in 7 days), Oakland is now on track to exceed its murder count for every year but one since the crack era. 😥
Homicides are up 90% in the last 5 years. 🧵
Seems like this phenomenon might be a natural consequence of the death of local journalism plus Citizens United.
Before the election, the public is inundated with paid propaganda. We find out who candidates really are only after the votes are counted.
@abc7newsbayarea
So, the guy with the bat represents the SEIU and the
@SFBART
board? And the train being beaten to a pulp represents the riders and the taxpayer being gouged to support $200-$300K compensation packages? 🤔
Huge problem in the Bay Area. 501c3’s (who are not allowed to do political lobbying) receive tax money, use that $ to pack City meetings, then use that hijacking of the political process to receive more money completing the cycle.
We need to go after their tax exempt status.
This is not surprising!
@sfwalk
and
@sfbike
need to be audited yearly
@LondonBreed
@sfbos
. Why do we allow nonprofits to take taxpayers dollars and lobby our politicians to support their special interests? It is sneaky and not okay. Time to clean house.
@SFBART
"stringent cost controls"?!?!?!
@SFBART
refused to even consider minimal cuts to its budget. NOT ONE MORE DIME until
@SFBART
gets its house in order, reduces unbelievable salaries, pensions, and benefits, and starts making necessary cuts. 🫴💰💰💰💰
2/ At the board discussion of the proposed FY24/25 budget this week, a majority of board members refused to direct staff to look for ways to cut the proposed FY24 budget by 10%, even after I pointed out this budget’s op exp is 8% > FY23 projected actual.
Do you ever wonder if the anti-police activists and City Councilmembers who brought us this nightmare feel even the slightest bit guilty?
#DefundThePolice
Luciano Carmona-Garcia, 42, dies after stolen Kia Sorento crashes into Pontiac Vibe & 2 parked cars near High & International in East Oakland, pinning him between those cars & severing his leg, per
@oaklandpoliceca
. Driver of Kia ran off
A great case study for journalism students. Two stories, both covering the exact same public meeting, one from a writer who is strongly aligned with anti-police activism and the other from a writer who leans law and order.
Remember when we were told diverting money from police to "alternative responses" would free up officers to focus on violent crime.
According to OPD's calls for service log, these are the calls diverted to MACRO in the last 5 days.
Diverting money to MACRO hurt public safety.
The judge should look at Oakland’s crime stats and ask some serious questions about WTF the federal monitor overseeing OPD has been doing.
Public safety has been wrecked.
Federal judge extends sustainability, aka probationary period for
@oaklandpoliceca
through "at least January 2024," saying "significant work remains." Department still without top cop in wake of firing of
@chiefleronne
by
@oakland
@MayorShengThao
@MayorShengThao
@FIAEastBay
@OaklandCeasefi2
Put more officers on the street. Restore authorized staffing and OT funding. Invest in recruiting for 911 ops. Denounce anti-police activism. Put the elimination of the Police Commission on the ballot. Set a staffing target of at least 1K officers. Get serious about public safety
Happens every time. Activists undermine public safety. The public has to choose between complete lawlessness and taking matters into their own hands. Everyone suffers.
Three years ago, idiots said we should defund the police by 50%. Where are those idiots today?
#OaklandPolice
release statement about
#TowTruck
driver who tried to stop an attempted robbery: "This is an ongoing investigation....The tow truck driver is considered one of the victims in the case."
@YayAreaNews
There have been 214 *reported* crimes in and around that parking lot in the last 90 days.
Hegenberger to the airport is Auto Burglary Land. It’s like Disney Land but souvenirs go the other way.
So, they’ve found one algorithmic error and one incorrect certified election result. How many errors have they missed? How many certified winners didn’t actually win? How will we ever know? Ranked Choice Voting is a chaotic disaster.