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Forget Bond Vigilantes, Oakland Residents Now Policing Themselves
Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
“Wanted” Signs Emerge in Oakland as Residents Police Themselves
So this is what is happening in Oakland, one of the many forgotten about, left-behind corners of America. From CBS:
OAKLAND (KPIX 5) – Oakland’s crime problems have gotten so bad that some people aren’t even bothering to call the cops anymore; instead, they’re trying to solve and prevent crimes themselves.
In a neighborhood that has started to feel like the wild west, people have even started posting “wanted” signs.
Personally, I think this is the only “Wanted” sign that people should be putting up all over America.
You have to walk around in your house with a gun to feel safe here,” said Alaska Tarvins of the Arcadia Park Board of Directors.
Over the weekend, one home was burglarized twice in a 24 hour period, once while a resident’s nephew was inside.
Now, Arcadia park neighbors are taking the detective work into their own hands.
KPIX 5 found a woman who identified herself as L.E. patrolling her neighborhood by car. She said she recently chased down a couple of robbers herself.
While the macro problems that have led to this are deplorable, there is one silver lining. The crime crisis is forcing neighbors to get to know each other and come to solutions on their own within their community. Since we all know by now the bureaucracy will not be coming to the rescue, the sooner we figure out solutions on our own the better.
Welcome to the recovery!
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Shallow and frivilous, but entertaining. Typical of Californication.
Nice article. Gets people ready. When the Feds come we all need to be prepared.
That poster is a joke.
It says "by the FREE People of America" on it.
Too funy.
The man who pays the piper calls the tune. The largest taxpayers get the police presence. Oakland is just across the bridge from San Francisco where the same problems do not exist. In Europe there are many places where police only go as a large team and never routinely. Yes, i have my schadenfreude.
Don't ask why, ask "why not?".
The Police are too wrapped up in the legislative quagmire, just like the "Independent Living Center" that wouldn't allow the nurse that called 911 to do CPR on the lady who was having a heart attack.
Soylent Green and Idiocracy right around the corner; arm yourself or become a victim.
We live in a crappy condo complex in Silicon Valley. At this point we could buy a house in the surrounding (costly) neigborhood, if we were willing to use some funny loans from my husband's employer. However, no way are we moving. The burglaries - and they happen, not like in Oakland, but much more often than you'd think - are all directed at the HOUSES. Who the hell would want to break into a condo? There are people around my complex, all the time. Most of us know each other. Lots of yappy dogs, too, showing up at the windows to woof when anyone goes by whom they don't know well.
And the people in the condo complex who are least socially oriented, are the crabbiest about parking. If some burglar parked here without a car tag, he'd be in deep trouble, right away. His ear would be chewed entirely off by the righteous. Out in the neighborhoods where the houses are, you could park all day and no-one would notice.
The cops here are extremely good at showing up after a burglary, and making up a report. I don't think they've ever caught a burglar.
I know a couple of people who live in Oakland. They are constantly burglarized.
Great picture of the legendary Charles Bronson in his second-most famous role as Paul Kersey. Have to watch these films again after years.
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Arcadia Park (~98th Ave between San Leandro Blvd and International) is deep bundu.
This is one of these "island community" complexes - built during the housing boom for middle and upper middle class homeowners desperate to buy, but priced out of San Francisco and the Peninsula housing market (where a 2 bedroom fixer-upper would list at $800,000). It is a small cluster of new homes surrounded by working poor families.
This area of Oakland is a war zone (literally) - an area to avoid in daylight and go nowhere near after dark.
Just checked into the place. The first thing I found was postings in which people inquired re it, and realtors told them how lovely the place was.
Then street view, which showed me that every house in the area has a fence all the way around it.
Next thing I found was this grim little story from Dec. 12, 2012: "The slaying of 56-year-old man has put neighbors on alert at Arcadia Park, a development of more than 160 single-family homes in East Oakland. Qingjun Kwin-Jun Sun, a chiropractor and father of two grown children was gunned down near his home where he lived with his wife."
I feel bad for people who bought there. That is very sad. That's way worse than my aunt's neighborhood in Hayward, which is bad enough. During the bubble there, tiny bungalows went for 600k; now they're sitting unsold at 200k. If those people in Arcadia Park had waited, they could have bought in my aunt's neighborhood, instead. What a waste. Of course, my aunt's neighborhood may well be the next Arcadia Park.
"my 7.62x39 75 round drum makes me more bulletly efficient you commie prick"
Can you simply lift your weapon with a magazine this big, you naive prick?
Bad for Oakland, but from a 10,000ft level it is the first step of the people taking responsibility back from the gov. The community is trying to take care of itself. I like it. Might even be more effective as the divide between police and community was so big anyway (snitches get stitches). Definitely one to watch.
Taking the law into their own hands??
What does Doug Llewelyn think about this?
According to MSNBC, we the people can't do anything ourselves so we need the government to help us. By that logic, nothing can be done, because the government is we the people.
Fuck the Oakland PD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen%27s_arrest#United_States
Enemies Foreign and Domestic
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0972831010/ref=cm_sw_r_an_am_ap_am_us?ie=UTF8
This book scares the shit out of the elected trash.
Add a hand-squeeze triggered laser sight, to help aim at target.
Also, no license or tracking for a quality Taser. They are scarily good. And affordable. Having a real (mid-size) dog also helps, and motion-sensor activated flood lights. The total system is what works and raises the bar to "Let's go after an easier target".