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$2800/Mth To Live In Oakland - Where Cops Say Don't Bother Calling If Your Car Is Stolen

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Over the last 5 years, rent costs in the city of Oakland have doubled. At $2,807 per month it more expensive to live in Oakland now than it was in SanFrancisco in 2012, so one would expect the city to have 'cleaned up', and 'be safer'? However, as SFGate reports, the city laid off 80 officers today to help eliminate a $30.5 million budget deficit, prompting the department to announce that officers would no longer be dispatched to take reports for most nonviolent crimes. "With current levels of staffing, we are unable to respond to many lower-priority calls," said Officer Jeff Thomason, a police spokesman.

Instead, Oakland residents now have to file certain crime reports online or visit a police station. Those without a computer can ask that a blank form be mailed to them or pick one up at a library.

 

Over the past two years, residents have been able to go to oaklandpolice.com and report lost property, theft, vandalism, vehicle burglary and vehicle tampering. In the past, however, people could ask for an officer to come take a report. That will no longer be the case.

 

By Aug. 2, Oakland police intend to expand the online system - called Coplogic - so residents can report seven other types of crimes, including residential burglaries in which the suspects aren't known.

 

"There will be no follow-up investigation and the primary purpose for filing the report is for insurance purposes," according to the department.

So don't bother calling the cops for the following crimes...Oakland police now ask residents to report online:

  • Lost property
  • Theft
  • Vandalism
  • Vehicle burglary
  • Vehicle tampering

Other crimes that will be reported online starting Aug. 2:

  • Residential burglary
  • Identity theft
  • Annoying or harassing phone calls
  • Barking dogs
  • Restraining order violations
  • Court order violations
  • Runaways

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For $2,800 per month (double what it was 5 years ago) perhaps one should expect just a little more law and a lot more order...

 

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Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:04 | 6337902 symtex411
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guns?

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:05 | 6337909 HonkyShogun
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LOL. Ookland.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:09 | 6337927 pods
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How do I fill out a form online if my computer was stolen?

pods

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:40 | 6338117 Paveway IV
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You just have to have really, really skinny arms - but it can be done.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 15:04 | 6338214 Billy the Poet
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the online system - called Coplogic

 

This is coplogic:

 

Police Constable Pan Am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVV7hfbYOsg

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 15:48 | 6338425 Theosebes Goodfellow
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It's important to point out that the city that became Oakland was first a squatters camp on the Peralta Family land, (Californios). And it appears not much has changed.

Bear in mind that you cannot get a CCW permit from the Chief of Police of the City of Oakland. They just don't hand them out. So Oaklandites can now enjoy the good life without the protection of 80 or so cops on the beat whilst paying the highest rents anywhere in the USA. Way to go, Oakland!!!

(By the way, congratulations East Bay liberals, you've earned this!)

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:52 | 6338178 Sokhmate
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smoke signals

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:12 | 6337931 Creepy A. Cracker
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Do you know how much crack an Obama-son has to sell to pay rent in Oakland?!?!?!  Even the crack dealers are strugg'n to make ends meet.  EBT gots to be jacked up to $5K per month there.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:24 | 6338034 kaiserhoff
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What difference does the "rent" make, when everyone is on welfare?

Calipornia is doomed.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:28 | 6338054 EBT excepted
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5k, we comed a long ways babee, dat serasly nigrow rich...

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:24 | 6338036 PartysOver
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Zero sympathy or concern for anyone living in California.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 15:22 | 6338294 junction
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Coplogic is the right name for this program.  Tell the sheeple the truth, unless there is money to be made, say from parking tickets or redlight fines, the police are MIA.

Wed, 07/22/2015 - 01:59 | 6340432 A Nanny Moose
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Police are little more than overpaid janitors, who mop up grease stains, while playing with chalk and yellow tape. That's if your lucky.

They are the blunt instruments of all totalitarian political systems.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:04 | 6337904 Hippocratic Oaf
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Who the fuck would live in SF or Oakland?

Last time I was there, you literally couldn't walk the streets for the homeless.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:51 | 6338175 Kaiser Sousa
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if u were here ud know the homeless is the last of ur worries....

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 15:41 | 6338400 fishwharf
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I lived and worked in SF & Oakland for many years.  I got used to the homeless.  They were a constant reminder of how lucky I am.  What I couldn't get used to was the terrible traffic and extreme difficulty finding a parking spot without getting an expensive ticket.

The small city I live in now has no parking meters or meter maids.  For the most part I liked living in the Bay Area, but I could never go back.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:05 | 6337907 Occams_Chainsaw
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Who runs Bartertown?

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:13 | 6337959 drendebe10
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WTF...80 officers laid off for budget deficit..... WTF...  how about laying off 80% of the paper pushing, coffee drinking, meeting going bureaucrats???

Wife's daughter is a NICU RN and tells us all the time how the hospital system is laying RNs and others who provide direct care to patients but never hears of any layoffs for all the bureaucrats runnin around the hospital who just push papers...... 

 

 

 

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:33 | 6338086 NidStyles
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Who will lay off the peons if they reduce the managerial staff????

Wed, 07/22/2015 - 09:11 | 6338287 headhunt
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Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:07 | 6337915 maknyc
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It costs $2800 a month....why?  Because people are willing to pay it!  If the marginal resident threw in the towel and moved someplace where the cost/benefit was better, then rents/prices would eventually go down!  Simple.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:09 | 6337926 AlaricBalth
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But its KALIFORNIA!!!!

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 15:19 | 6338282 headhunt
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property taxes drive those ridiculous rents

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:08 | 6337921 redux2redux
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Pension costs?

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:13 | 6337954 madcows
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Socialism costs.

Somebody has got to pay for all those programs, and california is the home of the FSA.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:10 | 6337932 roisaber
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Look, Simba, everything the light touches is yours.

Wow! But what about that shadowy place?

That is Oakland. You must never go there, Simba.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:11 | 6337941 madcows
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where's the "Rents too damn high" guy?

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:11 | 6337943 BoPeople
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Let me guess, they have city water commissioners making 7 figures.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 16:29 | 6338576 MayIMommaDogFac...
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Golden Gate Bridge Transportation District <FTW>

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:12 | 6337947 pods
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Any "crime" for which the state will not receive some type of cash for will be removed from their list of crimes.
Betcha they fucking hand out tickets like candy though, and there is a $300 court fee too.

pods 

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:36 | 6338073 EscapingProgress
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"The salary of Oakland officers is another controversial issue. Police Officer Entry Level current annual salary is $69,912 to $98,088, the second highest in the country.  Additional pay increases are granted to higher-ranking officers. Average total compensation for an OPD employee is $162,000. In 2012, 179 Oakland police officers took home over $200,000 in total compensation. Three patrol officers, a sergeant, and a captain each took home over $300,000. In 2011 the Police Department's costs make up 44% of the city's $400 million general budget.

Unfunded police pension liabilities are a separate high cost to the city. In 2010, the Oakland Police and Fire Retirement system granted $70 million in benefits to 1,086 pensioners. In 2012 the city successfully sued the city's pension system to end an estimated $11.5 million in unlawful overpayment to retired police and fire fighters."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Police_Department#Salary


Tue, 07/21/2015 - 15:17 | 6338275 headhunt
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With $2800/month just to rent you need to make $162k; approximately $68,000 gross would go to rent alone never mind the psychotropic drugs needed to cope with being surrounded by far,far, leftists 24/7

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 16:22 | 6338551 Model T
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It gets worse; they're not only overpaid; they're useless. My Step-Father once shot a dude's hat off of his head who was opening the door on my dad's PU Truck; with a .38 spl. You'd be amazed how fast a pimp can run in two tone street shoes. No, no cops came to "vestigate" the .38 round. We lived on 98th. Avenue; the Cops knew better. If it wasn't heavy machine gun fire; they weren't interested.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 16:49 | 6338656 moneybots
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"Average total compensation for an OPD employee is $162,000"

 

That is why 80 officers lost their job.  That is why Franklin Roosevelt was opposed to public service unions.

 

 

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:16 | 6337966 10mm
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On are way to a nationalized Police Force.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:35 | 6338097 EscapingProgress
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"Since a 2003 incident involving alleged police misconduct, the Oakland Police Department has been under federal oversight. Ever since, the department has struggled with a potential federal takeover."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Police_Department

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:15 | 6337969 slaughterer
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$2,800/m to live in Oakland and watch the crack addicts twitch psychotically while running to the train stop?   Only in Obama/Yellen's AMERIKA. 

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:15 | 6337971 kchrisc
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"the city laid off 80 officers today to help eliminate a $30.5 million budget deficit"

City of Oakland just got safer.

Pertinent is that the investigation and prosecution of property crimes by the gun and badge thugs, police, is their essential duty within their mandate of providing justice. That they have openly abdicated those responsibilities, but of course will continue to terrorize the people with money, Liberty, and Life stealing treason and tyranny, only proves what they really are--tyrannical and treasonous thieves.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..

 

And as proven by the Eric Garner murder, the gun and badge thugs work and ply their tyranny on behalf of Zion's grifting banksters.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:22 | 6338012 NihilistZero
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Housing Bubble 2.0 at work.  This is going to end VERY badly...

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 16:49 | 6338660 Christophe2
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Meh.  It's just money and BS.

I rent and life is simple.  I just got some revoltingly stinky new neighbors, so I'll probably move next year: problem solved, for me at least.  I'll also be moving to a cheaper part of town, so my rent will go down by 30%.

But all those people who so desperately care about becoming rich in a system of lies and fraud will very likely 'end badly'.  Too bad for them!

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:22 | 6338015 WTFUD
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Just waiting for Grievous Bodily Harm (GBH) and Attempted Murder to be added to those Don't bother us Lists.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:27 | 6338023 franciscopendergrass
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When is Robocop gonna be invented?  It worked for Detroit in the movie maybe it will work for Oakland. 

As for present-day Detroit, fuck it.  They'll need the Terminator.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:26 | 6338043 10mm
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Restraining order violations. Get ready for body counts. Same with court order violations. Identity theft. Your fucked anyway for yrs. FBI steps in.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:28 | 6338055 large_wooden_badger
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Even the "Occupy" crowd threw in the towel long ago. Nothing left but a shitty NFL team for a few months of the year.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 15:30 | 6338345 fishwharf
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There is also a pretty fair baseball tem in Oakland, at least until Lew Wolff can find a better home for his team.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:30 | 6338069 large_wooden_badger
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If Obama had founded a city...

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:38 | 6338110 seek
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http://openbudgetoakland.org/2015-17-proposed-budget-tree.html#fy15-16.e...

Total buget is $1.2B. Cops take $212M of that. Combined pensions are about $150M, more than what they spend on fire protection.

A few more years, there will be zero city services, but higher property taxes, all funding union-negotiated retirement plans that veer well into "freeloader" territory.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 15:11 | 6338243 kchrisc
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Never forget that the other parties involved with pensions are Wall Street (buncos), and the banksters.

The pols and crats rob the people with the threat of using their thugs against them. They then turnover a portion of the loot to the buncos and banksters to supposedly fund future pension payments to themselves and their thugs.

The buncos and banksters steal the loot again, and use it to fund fiat-debt and/or support the looting of capital via manipulated markets. Much of the fiat-debt is loaned, with usury attached, to the very same jurisdictions who the banksters robbed in the first place. The banksters then demand tyranny in the service of usury on their fiat debts, and in meeting their demands of stealing more in the name of "pensions."

The "Tyranny Cycle?"

The irony is that the chief looters at the local level, the slithers, pols and crats, work in conjunction with the buncos and banksters to also rob their thugs of their, not so rightly earned, pensions. LOL

But then who cares?! Guillotine them all and let God, or other deity, sort them out.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:39 | 6338113 Mike Honcho
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Tyler wrote an article based on my post yesterday, an honor really.  Who (non-minority) in their right mind would stay there.  This is the dinner bell to criminals.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:50 | 6338171 Kaiser Sousa
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pose that question to all the tech fucks who have been priced outta SF.....

and they will soon be running for the hills...

i know cause im in the Bay Area....

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:41 | 6338123 rsnoble
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Actually, $2800 is a bargain:

https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-oakland-rent-trends/

Just wait till the dummies all run out of water and start moving inland and fking it up for the rest of us.  I have a place in a rural area i'm going to rent out in probably a year or so.  Maybe ill put an ad in Oakland "ready to retire? escape it all for only $2k per month". LOL.  Of course, I don't think any of them could ever handle living out here.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:42 | 6338127 rsnoble
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I forgot to ask, what exactly do people do out there to afford that???  They can't all be business owners.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:46 | 6338152 HEY YOU
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How many Oakland voters,vote Rightwing?

Rep/Con/Teas need to demand more tax cuts & enjoy living there.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:49 | 6338159 Panic Mode
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Awkland

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:55 | 6338187 Sokhmate
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Hide your kids, hide your wife
And hide your husband cuz they're rapin everybody out here

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 15:10 | 6338235 headhunt
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High rent due to high property taxes - dumb fuck leftists always get the exact opposite results of their PC mandates.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 15:24 | 6338308 starman
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Recovery! 

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 15:25 | 6338315 fowlerja
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Well let's look at the positive side...less reporting will show less crime in the city...politicians will take credit..they decreased the police force and less crime occured ..so lt's time to cut more cops to get less crime...budget problem solved...

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 15:34 | 6338368 Martian Moon
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Cutting the enforcer class?

Things must be getting really bad

They usually ditch the FSA first

But, the FSA is Federal, the police is municipal

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 15:44 | 6338411 Bay Area Guy
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One of the (many) former police chiefs in Oakland was Anthony Batts.  You may recognize the name as being the chief in Baltimore when all the rioting went down.

Yes, he was just a effective a chief during his tenure in Oakland.

Amazingly enough, Oakland seemed poised to make a comeback when none other than Jerry Brown was Mayor there.  The streets were actually cleaner and, while it wasn't exactly peaceful, it wasn't a wild west show with seemingly daily gun battles on the streets and side shows every Friday night.  It went to hell when Ron Dellums got elected.  Dellums was just looking for a paycheck and was about as ineffectual a mayor as he was a legislator.  However, just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, the electorate voted to put ranked choice voting in place and the subsequent election for mayor saw the person that finished in third place in the original tally get the seat after the ranked choice voting algos kicked in.  The winner was Jean Quan, who made a name for herself while on the Oakland School Board for promoting the teaching of ebonics in Oakland public schools.  As Mayor, she ran through a number of police chiefs, essntially neutering them all if they tried to address what had become rampant crime under Dellums.  Fortunately, Quan was defeated at the last election and replaced by Libby Schaff.  Not sure how she's working out, but I don't think anyone could possible be worse than Dellums and Quan.

sfgate.com is a stepchild of the San Francisco Chronicle.  About the only good reporting they've done in recent decades is in regard to the fiasco that is the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.  Check it out for a case study on how CalTrans, the state's highway department, completely mismanaged this project to the point where structural engineers are seriously concerned that a moderate earthquake will cause it to collapse.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 15:55 | 6338453 Ms No
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I am paying 1500 a month to live in an area in AZ where I am somewhat unlikely to be murdered, which is only about 5 miles away from where I am likely to be murdered.  Makes me sick paying it but the rental market was impossibly tight in the more rural area I wanted to be in and the purchase market is asinine, so here I am.  I am watching a POS 70's house on the market for just under half a million... what a joke. 

I get out to have some drinks and eat decent food at a restaurant bar a couple times a month and I will usually chat with whoever since I don't know anybody, I have met quite a few intelligent Californians who fled because they were tired of that place and very much aware of what was wrong with it.   

You have to realize that some of us are more prone to risk taking than the average joe.  Some people must just have a harder time leaving all they know behind, which is probably why we are all sitting in the US-AKA the sinking ship.  We are all Californians now.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 16:45 | 6338633 scubapro
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buy a yurt, move to Pinetop.  buy a .22, learn to skin a rabbit and forget the rest of it

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 15:58 | 6338454 Laddie
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California is the bellwether state. So one can reasonably assume that in the near future the USSA will be the HELL its architects had planned.

Thank Norbert Schlei if you could...

I always hear progressives say that the transformation of America is a GOOD thing, all those exotic cuisines, they usually also mention Asian cuisine, yum, yum, yes a BETTER America no doubt:

Eateries in Chinese town hold dog and cat meat festival

Thousands of dogs and cats slaughtered at China festival

"Sellers kept the dogs dozens to a cage before electrocuting and skinned them alive, before serving them with lychee."

Mexicans, who as Karl Rove and George W. Bush all assured us, are "natural conservatives" which is why in every poll Mexicans, in Mexico and US, and Asians for that matter, all say that guns for self-defense should be forbidden. They have created fake Catholic Saints which the new and modern RC Church says is just fine. Saints such as Santa Muerte, Saint Death, a wildly popular saint with Mexicans both in Mexico and the US and so many other saints such as one who was a murderer and a rapist of a little boy, yes all ready to vote GOP as soon as they can!!!

Safe Haven for Drug Kingpin El Chapo in Many Mexican Hearts

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 16:10 | 6338511 Laddie
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The shooters were black the victims White girls.
Two White teen girls slaughtered in Oakland

http://cbssanfran.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/sartain_gerstel_112812.jpg
Neighbors Grieve Over Deaths Of 2 Teen Girls In Oakland
November 28, 2012 11:38 PM Reporting Doug Sovern KCBS Channel 5

OAKLAND (KCBS) — Police have not named any suspects as they continued their investigation into the killing of two teenage girls in East Oakland early Sunday morning. Meanwhile, neighbors who knew the victims are consumed with grief.

Around 5:30 a.m. Sunday, 16-year-old Bobbie Sartain and her best friend, 15-year-old Raquel Gerstel, were gunned down near the corner of Minna and Brookdale avenues. Authorities said at least 36 bullets were fired.

Jed Hamilton, who lives across the street, was woken up by his mother during the gunfire. Hamilton and several other neighbors tried to help Sartain and Gerstel, but the pair died.

Three days after Sartain and Gerstel were killed, bullet holes from the shooting were seen on a parked car and the side of a house.

Police have not identified any suspects and are asking the public for help. Neighbors said they saw a white four-door Nissan Altima drive away around the time of the shooting.

When in beautiful Oakland stop by YOUR MUSLIM BAKERY where some of the workers shot dead a White fellow who was walking down the street in broad daylight, the bruthas had been chatting about snuffing Whitey and then one said, "There's one" BANG BANG! NOT a hate crime!

NO doubt both of these stories were well covered by national news, correct?

Just in case Katy Couric isn't chatting about the latest murders and rapes of White men, women, and children perhaps you need to keep up to date:
http://newnation.org/

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 17:01 | 6338713 not a yahoo
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Condolences to mom's boyfriend and dad's girlfriend as well. It did not say there was a black shooter, are you leaning on demographics?

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 16:24 | 6338553 Dark Space
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I refer you to their arrest record from yesterday: http://www.sfgate.com/arrestrecords/oakland/

 

They clearly have way too many policeman. They're plenty busy busting people still for jaywalking, prostitution amongst consenting adults, public intox, ignoring a turn sign?, etc. Once those non-violent, victimless arrests are 0, then we can talk about how they're appropriate funded/staffed.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 16:36 | 6338594 chosen
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The technies don't want to live in a garbage dump like San Jose, so they move to Frisco, and drive up the rents, and drive out the tenants, who move to Oakland and drive up rents there.   Meanwhile the Chinamen are laundering their money by buying real estate in the Bay Area and So Cal, driving home prices way up, which also jacks up rents.   Nobody wants to move because they are in either a rent-controlled apartment or are afraid to sell their house because they won't be able to afford to buy another one.   The city has to lay off cops because Prop 13 limits property tax.  Prop 13 only goes away when a house is sold.  It is a perfect storm of shit driven by socialist-progressive-liberal laws like rent control and Prop 13.  Eventually, when everything pops, the street criminals will be the only winners.  Basically Oakland has a sign out, "If you want to steal a car, come to Oakland".  Even the Chinks will get tired of that.  Oakland will become the new Detroit. 

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 19:20 | 6339297 Ms No
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It probably didn't help that AZ put up billboards telling traveling illegals to head west because we had no benefits for them and California did, the one I saw actually gave directions.  Sorry about that.  If it makes you feel any better we have problems too.  My most recent favorite was a illegal hitting a family while high, he had already been deported 6 times.  For the record I like Mexicans just fine, this is out of control. 

http://www.kpho.com/story/29492361/pcso-illegal-immigrant-deported-6-times-smoke-pot-before-crash 

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 16:39 | 6338608 Chippewa Partners
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The way shrinking city budgets are impacting law enforcement agencies these days it won't be long before officers are only dispatched to "crimes in progress"  where injury or loss of life is involved.    

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 16:40 | 6338613 scubapro
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if Californians were allowed to exercise thier 2nd Amendment Rights, they could self police.   Imagine it, citizens doing for themselves what theyused to rely upon a govt entity to do.  tears to the eyes...

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 20:52 | 6339648 Bazza McKenzie
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But you still get to pay for the government not doing it.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 17:03 | 6338662 not a yahoo
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I just remembered that long ago every time I had to go through Oakland I got lost because they couldn't build straight roads there. That was before GPS.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 17:07 | 6338745 R19
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Another aspect of the most fucked up state in the country. I can't believe I reside and do business here.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 17:15 | 6338776 csmith
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My child ran away...I'll report it to the police over the internet.

Response will be equivalent to when I send my resume in response to a help wanted ad.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 17:24 | 6338796 discopimp
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"With current levels of staffing, we are unable to respond to many lower-priority calls," said Officer Jeff Thomason, a police spokesman.- Even at budget highs this has always been the case in California, so sad to report this is nothing new....

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 17:58 | 6338915 worbsid
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OT: Old joke (not PC). Did you know the longest bridge in the world is the Oakland bay bridge?  It goes from Black Africa to Fairyland.

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