i do uber part time and i never deny oakland rides. what you fail to realize is that the criminals want you to be AFRAID… if your worried about crime then leave the bay area because tbh nowadays no where in the bay is safe… stop being so scared of oakland…
@@OdellHarden😂😂😂 Not in Pelosi’s, Newsome’s, Brown’s or Feinstein’s daughter’s neighborhood of course!! How’d they make everything so pristine for themselves again??? 😂😂😂
Burglaries, Home invasions, Assaults, Robberies, shootings, Murders (& attempted murders), Carjackings, rampant shoplifting … doing business here is rather challenging.
There needs to be a statewide moratorium on prosecuting citizens who defend themselves, it should be open season on criminals, before civil society collapses.
Literally met the district attorney last week as she endorsed her successor. She was so unbothered by all the crime. Thank you for letting me know who NOT to vote for!
@@captaincapitalism264 Started to deteriorate late 70's middle class jobs long gone.Inner cities lost thousands of manufacturing jobs.Sad the society is rotting to the core.
They dont know o.o they just graduated with theoretical but not knowing the practical effect of their policy and they live in a gated community so they will not experience it right away.
It's incredible how the DA and the City won't do more to mitigate crime and stop businesses from shutting down and fleeing. Don't they know that businesses and jobs are what fills the City of Oakland's coffers and hence give the City employees their paychecks? Crime fighting should be the number one responsibility.
Ultimately, it is the people, but why don't you come down here and have a little talk with them about self-accountability? Let's see how far you get?! At this point, it is up to the government, DA, ect, to hold them accountable
Well a cheaper solution would be to just make Oakland a State penal institution. Build a 40 ft wall around it no one and no one out!!!! Everyone that lives there is a criminal!!!!
_Vote Democrat, get Democrat policies, get Democrat policies' consequences..._ At some point, won't it be obvious to even the die-hard D people? This ain't workin', folks!
What could go wrong with massive income inequality, shit wages, unaffordable housing, etc? This is the chickens coming home to roost. But will people like you wake up to what caused all this in the first place? Of course you won't. You'll blame it on the political party that has worked to fight for working families and the poor and continue to vote for the party that gives tax cuts to the rich to increase the income disparity. Wake TF up.
@@cherylb2008 I just hope he doesn't "go" to Washington and do for all of America what he (and his party's policies) have done to San Fran, then California, next, the whole nation.
We are from just outside the bay area and we never go to oakland or san francisco anymore. they are losing a lot of regional visitors as well. Stay liberal bay area!
someone recently sayed on Oakland Reddit they “hoped a law and order” candidate would get elected but they couldn’t vote for that person 😂 Nothing will change as long as they people are fools in their identity politics
And you wrong Oakland has more Latinos and black and these restaurants are not shutting doors because of crime the police department is less then two blocks from these places and if you notice there are folks waiting outside to sit and eat if crime was really a problem why would they come there now. As for the real there are closing because the quality of their food went down, high prices and bad food never works
@@danielr3661 and many other bay area cities and even suburbs too! Vallejo, Antioch etc. But no, definitely not the whole bay area. Most of the region is now wealthy and the wealthy hypocrites who "lead" the region don't typically tolerate this sort of thing in their own back yards.
@@jKLa I mean they used to enjoy going to SF, and some of the people living in pacific heights, russian hill and SoMa are being affected too, i hope they change their voting habits
How can people not wake up! Something much bigger is going on here when your local government doesn’t care if stores and restaurants close who also pay state taxes. Where is that money going to come from if no one rents all the shops and stores in your communities? My guess is more housing but who knows. Stores won’t sit empty forever without a plan of some kind. These are families trying to provide for their own and criminals are being more protected. That’s the question everyone should be asking!!!!
If I could I'd fire Mayor yesterday. Weak , confused, inept and just plain embarrassing leadership. She needs to go! We need to MARCH ON CITY HALL and force her resignation. Think this is too much ? You're probably not a resident. ❤️🔥
Maybe they don't live in Oakland. Back during those flyod riots, groups were coordinating mass lootings originating from out of state. They just come here because there's no consequence if they get caught.
@@U23721 No.. they are from Oakland. Maybe if you said SF.. cuz lots of Oakland criminals come to boost from high end stores & drug dealers come to sf to sell dope.. but nobody's coming into Oakland... Oakland criminals wouldn't tolerate that.
That is a sad state when criminals drive honest people out of business...its happening way too often and our state and city officials need to wake up and immediately start to correct this
Son Tran the owner of le cheval the nicest man everytime I went had great food always great service this is another great loss for Oakland and the mayor and police just won't do anything and even the Alameda DA just won't do nothing We need too stop paying state taxes until Oakland changes
As a rider share driver I scare accept trips to Oakland. This is sad and shame to Oakland leaders and DA . Don’t come to Oakland unless you asking for trouble
Oakland is just one symptom of a dying Country. We have a small window of opportunity left to turn it around. We need to get rid of politicians like Biden and Pelosi, Gavin can't be President either.
Dying State, not country, go to Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, Miami, Tampa, Vegas, San Antonio, etc and those cities are thriving, i wonder what makes them better huh 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴
For any city bordering San Francisco, not really. Fresno. Sacramento. Richmond. Vallejo. Those for sure. People think Oakland in every part is just some slum when there are numerous upperclass areas from Piedmont to the Oakland Hills. If there wasn’t money here, there’d be nothing for criminals to steal.
Just sitting back watching Oakland, San Francisco, NYC and Chicago self destructing and collapsing. This is what the people of these cities voted for and sadly, will continue to vote for. They don't learn.
How about all the Red states who depend on large amounts of money from California to not collapse? Let’s take away the Democrat money and see what happens, I’m all for investing it in our own state instead!
What happens in these cities eventually happens in all 50 states. It's called job migration and a worldwide pandemic. After the Spanish flu 100 years ago, it took 3 to 5 years for the world to balance out again.
Activists told us if we removed the oppressive authority of the police and prison system, everyone would do the right thing. Turns out they were wrong- We all fell for it.
@@oceania2385 only some extremists and loons said that. Too many were intimidated by them but many politicians and others found them usefull idiots. But it's also true that Oakland police used to be horrifically brutal and corrupt in the not too distant past. Many still are when they can be I'm sure but the department has been tamed, but they have now gone increasingly in the opposite direction which is in many ways a predictable turn of events. Yet most of this isn't about policing. It's higher up as well as lower down. Oakland, having lost much of it's middle in the mid to late 20'th century, even at it's best has long been an increasingly polarized and unsustainable city.
Oakland and SF are experiencing the consequences of failed policies regarding public safety. Its absolutely disgraceful that the respective DAs, mayors, and supervisors have allowed their cities to slowly deteriorate. They should all be held accountable.
Forget about "fine dining" restaurant closures, crime in Oakland is shutting down businesses across the board. Sandwich shops, dry cleaners, theatres, convenience stores - you name it. But maybe the fact that upscale restaurants are closing will get rich/influential people to start making a stink about the truly crappy way the city of Oakland is being run. The mayor is in way over her head and is changing police chiefs as often as most people change their socks. The chief she just fired was honest about what it would take to restore law & order but she didn't wanna hear it or make the tough decisions she would have to make so she canned him despite his having the rank and file officer's support, bad move. She owns this now.
Could you imagine there’s someone in line making a call or text giving the criminals a heads up on how busy that restaurant is?! So they can break in cars and rob them soon as they walk out?! 🤷🏾♀️
I think that we have to understand realties, to not continue to throw good money after bad - as these restaurant owners came to realize. Cities such as Oakland have embedded problems - like stage 5 cancer. It is what is it. The shift to preserving what is left provides us with opportunities. You can still eat at a nice restaurant, but you should choose a location in outlying areas that are safe. Support businesses in your region. There are many places where you can enjoy good food, good people, and a clean pleasant atmosphere - even live music. As to shopping for goods, try to purchase at least 80 percent of what you buy at local or regional small businesses. Limit your online purchases. You'll be helping your neighbors and your community.
It's awful. It's a horrible setback for restauranteurs and the people who work at the restaurants. Successful restaurants, like Le Cheval, will find another location. There are places, like convenience stores and the few corner groceries left in the city, that feed locals, though, that will leave a significant vacuum. The same people who throw around the term food "deserts" are the same idiots who ushered in this era of crime and small business exodus in Oakland. Go to Alameda. Plenty of restaurants on Park Street and a police department that will nab the criminals before they head back to the bridge or tunnel.
@@silentmajority8365 unlike Oakland, most diverse cities and towns in California aren't crime ridden nor similerly going downhill. There is a special sort if extreme disfunctional politics and social structure within the broader disfunctional system within these urban localities.
Oakland has always had a lot of wealth in it's hills and still does but that is a distinct minority of the city and having lost much of it's middle class/well of working class during the "white flight" era of late 20th century, Oakland tried to "succeed" and did partly revitalize by catoring to a "elite" (and now increasingly "woke") but always hypocritical class of affluent college degreed professionals and then to hypsters, but the hypsters/former hipsters mostly left (most are broadly middle class but not elite enough) and partial gentrification just led to an increasingly polarized unsustainable city. Now the formerly recovering patient has been pushed out of rehab and, still sick and only partially recovered from an earlier and very different era, is now dying in the street as it faces attack (literally, in the form of robbery, vandalism etc.) San Francisco lost much of it's chericter in recent years to wealthy tech workers but significant poverty and homelessness always remained as they middle got pushed away. San Jose has always been mostly nice and still is but the city is very sprawling and it's downtown was always a bit sketchy and patchy yet also vibrant. Only in recent years has S.J.'s core begun to see so much decay... Certian cities have played a certain role within the region and it is now more and more a tragic one.
@@jKLa BS diversity robs us of a common code of conduct If that were not true Chicago would not have Mexicans waving Mexican flags as they speed down streets or block traffic every Sept 15 Chicago also has a High school named after a Mexican President They obviously don't view themselves as Americans The Attacks on Asians have not been by W people which is why the media never shows the attackers Crime stats prove we have two groups doing the most crime. They have gang culture They are protected by the race card so instead of directing resources at them government just restricts our rights EXAMPLE I never hijacked a plane but am treated like I did every time TSA searches me having committed no crime
@@jKLa and why would Whites stay? You just proved my point by saying taxpayers/ middle class left AKA White flight But you keep toasting problematic groups Maybe the rest of us can pay more taxes for midnight Basketball courts This country will soon look like all the failure countries they come from
My favorite part of this news story: police admit people have stopped reporting break-ins. And did you see how the mayor and Governor were asked questions about this?
Give those things a chance. It'll work one of these decades. We just have to double down on those things and add some more. So please people, let's keep voting the same way. Trust us. We know best.
It's a shame about Galeto. Been there once and it was great. Funny that I was thinking lately that I wouldn't go there now as I might end up being the steak getting carved up !
Dont blame Pamela Price. Blame yourselves for electing her, AFTER, SF recalled Chesa Boudin for the same criminal friendly policies. Why did you think the outcome would be different?
if the population in Oakland and Bay Area would do something about the thugs.. but they have had closed eyes for years trying to talk with the thugs instead of just book them for years...who cares if the thugs never see the dakight again? their moms maybe but their moms are failures themselves.
Yo man thats raycisms n sheeit. You have to talk to them because they might be scholarz, docktorz or kangz. Because they built all ancient civilizationz and they cud do it again.
Crime is not the problem...... city leaders are the problem. After these businesses and their patrons have given the city millions in tax dollars they they have failed to deliver on a safe city to operate in.
I can confirm that, I’ve not been going out anymore in Oakland. Not worth getting robbed or my car windows broken. DA Pamela Price openly admits that she is not locking up any of “her babies”. OPD does good work but is constantly blindsided by the DA.
Oakland is nothing like Africa (which is incredibly diverse and not uniform across the contenant) nor even like almost anywhere within Africa for that matter. Plenty of Sub-Saharan Africa is low in crime btw, -only some parts are dangerous. Claiming otherwise only shows your extreme ignorance. Oakland is however a very badly run and now once again declining and indeed crime ridden city with leadership and a voting public in denial.
lived in the Bay area 20+ years... I've been to both to Restaurants' sad to see good human beings forced to get out.... It's time for the CA. legislators to make a crime bill that goes the level of Terrorism by those doing the crimes... Store Break-in, Carjacking, Home invasions, Muggings, Armed Robberies, causing mayhems in the neighborhoods...... Make it a Life sentencing for each crime...
best choice ever to close your business, nothing is more important than your health and safety. You can always leave and start again, Oakland is too dangerous don't risk everything for some long gone nostalgia or habits
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I do Uber part time and I refuse every single ride to or from Oakland… it is just too dangerous.
Bet the criminals will call you racist for not contributing to their reparations.
i do uber part time and i never deny oakland rides. what you fail to realize is that the criminals want you to be AFRAID… if your worried about crime then leave the bay area because tbh nowadays no where in the bay is safe… stop being so scared of oakland…
Not the first time I hear this.
Sounds diverse.
Diversity doesn't keep you alive, but quite the opposite does. Never Relax Around Blax @@joriankell1983
Thanks California and bay area cities for not prosecuting criminals, and making bail basically free its turning out great.
That's the plan of the Marxists and they're happier than hell that it's happening
Democrats,.,keep voting your own ruin...its about time
You voted for this.
It is all part of the plan to destroy California.. The Governor is doing a great job.
If you think it’s all of California, then you know nothing. It’s just Oakland and SF turning into shitholes.
Watching a city die with a terminal disease. Good job to all those running Oakland.
I'm guessing they have a plan for all of us. And it not good. At least for us not so much for them and there friends.
Poor blacks is a terminal illness for a city??
@@OdellHarden😂😂😂 Not in Pelosi’s, Newsome’s, Brown’s or Feinstein’s daughter’s neighborhood of course!! How’d they make everything so pristine for themselves again??? 😂😂😂
@@user-zq4fv8sj6v They drink a different cool aid than what they want us to drink.
It is the direct consequence of woke policies, woke politicians, and woke judges.
Oakland mocked Trump for calling this out in 2016..
No they didn’t.
@@ALT-vz3jnoh yes they did. BLM Oakland was all about Defund the police.
Trash liberal Democrats.
Burglaries, Home invasions, Assaults, Robberies, shootings, Murders (& attempted murders), Carjackings, rampant shoplifting … doing business here is rather challenging.
sounds like democrat utopia
But your saying there's still a chance. 😂😂😂
paulbegley1464,
Shut up!
Basically you're saying don't do business in BIPOC dominated cities.
@@jonnieinbangkok Sorry Jonnie, it's 2023. Nobody is falling for your manipulations anymore...
There needs to be a statewide moratorium on prosecuting citizens who defend themselves, it should be open season on criminals, before civil society collapses.
I think your solution IS evidence of a societal collapse already in motion
Too late! It's collapsed.
That would be called Racist. better to be robbed and killed, than to be called Racist!!
The goal is to undermine society.
Never going to happen as long as Liberals are in charge.
Literally met the district attorney last week as she endorsed her successor. She was so unbothered by all the crime. Thank you for letting me know who NOT to vote for!
just vote for the Downfall of OAKLAND
Yeah. But you voted for her the first time.
Mistakes can get fixed
Activists and politicians will tell you everything is fine
And it is all the fault of the businesses
Yep. Shifting the blame to "those greedy businesses!", instead of where it almost always belongs: government (local, state, federal, any & all).
The voters give the fuel and the politicians burn it down. Now they will come after your town.
No they don't, stop being dumb
@@captaincapitalism264 Started to deteriorate late 70's middle class jobs long gone.Inner cities lost thousands of manufacturing jobs.Sad the society is rotting to the core.
@@rickhammond2473 Started when California got darker
in 1970 CA was 77% W CRICKETS
This is the direct consequence of woke policies, woke politicians, and woke judges.
What does woke mean?
@@ALT-vz3jn: Highly intelligent and highly "civilized"-----so they say
Don't forget the voters.
immigrants need to stop blaming black people for their crimes
It's part of the Marxist trojan horse.
Do pay attention.
Crime, insane city fees and taxes. Thanks California...
Fined dining?
We had our chance during the recall election. But noooo. They wanted more of the looney toons.
This is the direct consequence of woke policies, woke politicians, and woke judges.
@@sarbantz and diversity
Blamed on crime. That's right, but... who's to blame for the crime? That's right, the incompetent people that run the city. They are the source.
Democrats
Crime can be blamed on the criminals
The current criminals are extremely emboldened.
Don't forget the state government. It always starts at the top. Newsom and Bonta suck. Oh heck. All liberal Democrats suck.
@@psfca They don't lock there butts up
Don't the city officials realize that once businesses close and lay off workers, there is NO TAX REVENUE coming in? Then WHAT!
That requires _thinking ahead._
The D people are not deep thinkers.
They dont care, they'll find one way or another to get that tax money and give themselves a pay increase.
They are just paving the way for China to buy up property
A true defunding commences
They dont know o.o they just graduated with theoretical but not knowing the practical effect of their policy and they live in a gated community so they will not experience it right away.
It's incredible how the DA and the City won't do more to mitigate crime and stop businesses from shutting down and fleeing. Don't they know that businesses and jobs are what fills the City of Oakland's coffers and hence give the City employees their paychecks? Crime fighting should be the number one responsibility.
It's not on the mayor and police. It's on the people. You need to stand up and say no. Not look to others to solve the problems.
@@bayareaartist999 What do you recommend people do?
They are heartless democrats..This is what they want
Ultimately, it is the people, but why don't you come down here and have a little talk with them about self-accountability? Let's see how far you get?! At this point, it is up to the government, DA, ect, to hold them accountable
LOL!
You voted for this, Oakland.
Congratulations!
On the bright side with $20/hr min. wage you'll soon be able to spend like fine dining at Mcdonald's
It's time to round up the crooks and hide them away for many decades.
As long as Democrats are in charge that will NEVER happen.
Completely impossible .
Well a cheaper solution would be to just make Oakland a State penal institution. Build a 40 ft wall around it no one and no one out!!!! Everyone that lives there is a criminal!!!!
Vote Democrat, get Democrat policies, get Democrat policies' consequences...
And dont let them flee to OUR states to start over...they RUIN things.
Exactly.
And blame White people.
_Vote Democrat, get Democrat policies, get Democrat policies' consequences..._
At some point, won't it be obvious to even the die-hard D people?
This ain't workin', folks!
The policies are there to stop crime, it is democratic refusals to implement them into action
What could go wrong when you vote for the people, the policies and the party that enables criminals in the name of social justice?
It wasn’t just voting, but actively rioting and looting, or as they call it “mostly peaceful protests”.
What could go wrong with hiding criminals because they are not W folk
The worse part is all the Californians moving to Texas voting for the same policies that’s destroying their home state. I don’t get it.
These people are sheep and they don’t even realize it
What could go wrong with massive income inequality, shit wages, unaffordable housing, etc? This is the chickens coming home to roost. But will people like you wake up to what caused all this in the first place? Of course you won't. You'll blame it on the political party that has worked to fight for working families and the poor and continue to vote for the party that gives tax cuts to the rich to increase the income disparity. Wake TF up.
Instead of blaming on rampant crime, just blame it on the fact that there are too many joggers in that city.
Definitely a jogger problem
Gavin is enjoying a grand lifestyle on our dollar..he isnt exposed to any of this...and we pay for it! Look at our gas prizes now too..
He’s keeping up the lifestyle he has been accustomed to, ALL his life
He needs to go as well
@@cherylb2008 I just hope he doesn't "go" to Washington and do for all of America what he (and his party's policies) have done to San Fran, then California, next, the whole nation.
We are from just outside the bay area and we never go to oakland or san francisco anymore. they are losing a lot of regional visitors as well. Stay liberal bay area!
someone recently sayed on Oakland Reddit they “hoped a law and order” candidate would get elected but they couldn’t vote for that person 😂
Nothing will change as long as they people are fools in their identity politics
@@Joshn645imagine you know the answer but can't because feels. It must be hell being a Godless redditor
Go RED Bay Area!
Oakland has a high black population.
And you wrong Oakland has more Latinos and black and these restaurants are not shutting doors because of crime the police department is less then two blocks from these places and if you notice there are folks waiting outside to sit and eat if crime was really a problem why would they come there now. As for the real there are closing because the quality of their food went down, high prices and bad food never works
the entire bay area is becoming trash, not just oakland.
Not silicon valley, marin county or the east bay, it's just SF & Oakland
@@danielr3661 and many other bay area cities and even suburbs too! Vallejo, Antioch etc. But no, definitely not the whole bay area. Most of the region is now wealthy and the wealthy hypocrites who "lead" the region don't typically tolerate this sort of thing in their own back yards.
@@jKLa I mean they used to enjoy going to SF, and some of the people living in pacific heights, russian hill and SoMa are being affected too, i hope they change their voting habits
It will just get worse.
We stopped going downtown (from montclair) years ago because of the fear of getting our car broken into.
I was just in Oakland for a week on business. It's like a purgatory there right now. Everyone is on edge and it feels incredibly unsafe.
Oakland is a third-world City, why would anybody expect fine-dining there anyway?
pamela price making eastbay great again. blue wave strong. build back better with lesser target/homedepot/walmart 😅
Don't forget the Mexican street vendors. They are target's also. The criminals are at least equal opportunity.
I thought there was no crime, that it was a right-wing lie.
Literally no one said that, Trumpanzee.
It's only going to accelerate..dramatically.
Oakland is like a horrible movie; coming to your neighborhood soon! Newsom and democrats won’t rest until the whole country is like Oakland 🤡🤷♂️!
How can people not wake up! Something much bigger is going on here when your local government doesn’t care if stores and restaurants close who also pay state taxes. Where is that money going to come from if no one rents all the shops and stores in your communities? My guess is more housing but who knows. Stores won’t sit empty forever without a plan of some kind.
These are families trying to provide for their own and criminals are being more protected. That’s the question everyone should be asking!!!!
California taxes hard at work
how else will they feed the criminals ? thank your governor idiot newsom
If I could I'd fire Mayor yesterday. Weak , confused, inept and just plain embarrassing leadership. She needs to go! We need to MARCH ON CITY HALL and force her resignation. Think this is too much ? You're probably not a resident. ❤️🔥
The people got who they wanted for mayor. Let them reap what they sow.
These criminals are just hurting the city they live in, very sad
Maybe they don't live in Oakland. Back during those flyod riots, groups were coordinating mass lootings originating from out of state. They just come here because there's no consequence if they get caught.
They don't care. That is why they are criminals.
@@U23721
No.. they are from Oakland. Maybe if you said SF.. cuz lots of Oakland criminals come to boost from high end stores & drug dealers come to sf to sell dope.. but nobody's coming into Oakland... Oakland criminals wouldn't tolerate that.
This is the direct consequence of woke policies, woke politicians, and woke judges.
@@sarbantzwhat does woke mean?
Beyond empathetic for the people that choose to live and vote the way they do. Enjoy what you've helped to create.
Insanity is to continue to vote Blue and expect things to get better.
Insanity is to gaslight an issue by blaming a certain group of people
Thank you DA and the SF city. My friends are out of work now.
Gavin Nuisance must be so proud!
Crime Oakland no way. !!! Thank you Governor.
Need to put all these guys in Jail! Get rid of the politicians who defund the police.
Blame on those politicians who are turning blind to the crimes and not prosecuted those criminals that ransack majority of the businesses
Keep in mind the voters elected those politicians and voted for those policies.
Someone has to elect those politicians. People in Oakland need to look at themselves for what is coming to them
andPOCgangs
Its expensive when they break into your rental car. Its a hassle to to replace your passport for sure.
Everything and everywhere now is expensive.
That is a sad state when criminals drive honest people out of business...its happening way too often and our state and city officials need to wake up and immediately start to correct this
Congrats Mayor Thao! You did this.
I'm not seeing any real effort from her, but Oakland was circling the drain before her.
Son Tran the owner of le cheval the nicest man everytime I went had great food always great service this is another great loss for Oakland and the mayor and police just won't do anything and even the Alameda DA just won't do nothing
We need too stop paying state taxes until Oakland changes
As a rider share driver I scare accept trips to Oakland. This is sad and shame to Oakland leaders and DA . Don’t come to Oakland unless you asking for trouble
Soon the lazy baby daddies will have to rob each other.
And the criminal cowards live not far away, we all know who they are.
Oakland is just one symptom of a dying Country. We have a small window of opportunity left to turn it around. We need to get rid of politicians like Biden and Pelosi, Gavin can't be President either.
Dying State, not country, go to Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, Miami, Tampa, Vegas, San Antonio, etc and those cities are thriving, i wonder what makes them better huh 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴
Those cities are libwit sinkholes in a conservative state.
"Oakland" and "fine dining" in the same sentence was always a bit of an oxymoron 😂 😂 😂
For any city bordering San Francisco, not really. Fresno. Sacramento. Richmond. Vallejo. Those for sure. People think Oakland in every part is just some slum when there are numerous upperclass areas from Piedmont to the Oakland Hills. If there wasn’t money here, there’d be nothing for criminals to steal.
From someone who obviously doesn’t know Oakland. How about you keep your moronic comments to yourself.
Just sitting back watching Oakland, San Francisco, NYC and Chicago self destructing and collapsing. This is what the people of these cities voted for and sadly, will continue to vote for. They don't learn.
How about all the Red states who depend on large amounts of money from California to not collapse? Let’s take away the Democrat money and see what happens, I’m all for investing it in our own state instead!
What happens in these cities eventually happens in all 50 states. It's called job migration and a worldwide pandemic. After the Spanish flu 100 years ago, it took 3 to 5 years for the world to balance out again.
Yeah defund the police. How’s that working out? How dumb.
This story seems 12 months late. You had to be blind not to see this trend. Defund the police 🤣
No no, don’t do that. We tried that in Austin and crime went up.
Activists told us if we removed the oppressive authority of the police and prison system, everyone would do the right thing. Turns out they were wrong- We all fell for it.
Ahhhhh..no. You fell for it. Many others didn’t.
NO one fell for it
@@345mrse virtually everyone fell for it ....
@@oceania2385 no, they didn't.
@@oceania2385 only some extremists and loons said that. Too many were intimidated by them but many politicians and others found them usefull idiots. But it's also true that Oakland police used to be horrifically brutal and corrupt in the not too distant past. Many still are when they can be I'm sure but the department has been tamed, but they have now gone increasingly in the opposite direction which is in many ways a predictable turn of events. Yet most of this isn't about policing. It's higher up as well as lower down. Oakland, having lost much of it's middle in the mid to late 20'th century, even at it's best has long been an increasingly polarized and unsustainable city.
Prisons
Keep these thugs in the prison
What else CAN you do?
It’s time to take out and replace the politicians that have allowed our state to fall to such deplorable conditions.
Oakland and SF are experiencing the consequences of failed policies regarding public safety. Its absolutely disgraceful that the respective DAs, mayors, and supervisors have allowed their cities to slowly deteriorate. They should all be held accountable.
The people voted for this
failed immigration policy
We did not vote for this
Forget about "fine dining" restaurant closures, crime in Oakland is shutting down businesses across the board. Sandwich shops, dry cleaners, theatres, convenience stores - you name it. But maybe the fact that upscale restaurants are closing will get rich/influential people to start making a stink about the truly crappy way the city of Oakland is being run. The mayor is in way over her head and is changing police chiefs as often as most people change their socks. The chief she just fired was honest about what it would take to restore law & order but she didn't wanna hear it or make the tough decisions she would have to make so she canned him despite his having the rank and file officer's support, bad move. She owns this now.
Stop blaming crime, Oakland food has always been gross, fast food is your best option in Oakland
Could you imagine there’s someone in line making a call or text giving the criminals a heads up on how busy that restaurant is?! So they can break in cars and rob them soon as they walk out?! 🤷🏾♀️
Voters don’t want a better Oakland, unfortunately.
I think that we have to understand realties, to not continue to throw good money after bad - as these restaurant owners came to realize. Cities such as Oakland have embedded problems - like stage 5 cancer. It is what is it. The shift to preserving what is left provides us with opportunities. You can still eat at a nice restaurant, but you should choose a location in outlying areas that are safe. Support businesses in your region. There are many places where you can enjoy good food, good people, and a clean pleasant atmosphere - even live music. As to shopping for goods, try to purchase at least 80 percent of what you buy at local or regional small businesses. Limit your online purchases. You'll be helping your neighbors and your community.
Yes. Like Arizona.
It's awful. It's a horrible setback for restauranteurs and the people who work at the restaurants. Successful restaurants, like Le Cheval, will find another location. There are places, like convenience stores and the few corner groceries left in the city, that feed locals, though, that will leave a significant vacuum. The same people who throw around the term food "deserts" are the same idiots who ushered in this era of crime and small business exodus in Oakland. Go to Alameda. Plenty of restaurants on Park Street and a police department that will nab the criminals before they head back to the bridge or tunnel.
They wanted diversity they got it
@@silentmajority8365 unlike Oakland, most diverse cities and towns in California aren't crime ridden nor similerly going downhill. There is a special sort if extreme disfunctional politics and social structure within the broader disfunctional system within these urban localities.
Oakland has always had a lot of wealth in it's hills and still does but that is a distinct minority of the city and having lost much of it's middle class/well of working class during the "white flight" era of late 20th century, Oakland tried to "succeed" and did partly revitalize by catoring to a "elite" (and now increasingly "woke") but always hypocritical class of affluent college degreed professionals and then to hypsters, but the hypsters/former hipsters mostly left (most are broadly middle class but not elite enough) and partial gentrification just led to an increasingly polarized unsustainable city.
Now the formerly recovering patient has been pushed out of rehab and, still sick and only partially recovered from an earlier and very different era, is now dying in the street as it faces attack (literally, in the form of robbery, vandalism etc.)
San Francisco lost much of it's chericter in recent years to wealthy tech workers but significant poverty and homelessness always remained as they middle got pushed away. San Jose has always been mostly nice and still is but the city is very sprawling and it's downtown was always a bit sketchy and patchy yet also vibrant. Only in recent years has S.J.'s core begun to see so much decay...
Certian cities have played a certain role within the region and it is now more and more a tragic one.
@@jKLa BS diversity robs us of a common code of conduct
If that were not true Chicago would not have Mexicans waving Mexican flags as they speed down streets or block traffic every Sept 15
Chicago also has a High school named after a Mexican President
They obviously don't view themselves as Americans
The Attacks on Asians have not been by W people which is why the media never shows the attackers
Crime stats prove we have two groups doing the most crime. They have gang culture
They are protected by the race card so instead of directing resources at them government just restricts our rights
EXAMPLE
I never hijacked a plane but am treated like I did every time TSA searches me having committed no crime
@@jKLa and why would Whites stay?
You just proved my point by saying taxpayers/ middle class left AKA White flight
But you keep toasting problematic groups
Maybe the rest of us can pay more taxes for midnight Basketball courts
This country will soon look like all the failure countries they come from
I see a pattern emerging and nobody is allowed to talk about it.
My favorite part of this news story: police admit people have stopped reporting break-ins. And did you see how the mayor and Governor were asked questions about this?
If the Mayor, city council, DA had any self-respect they would apologize to these business owners for their own incompetence and then resign.
I thought diversity, wokeness and defunding police was our strength?
Give those things a chance. It'll work one of these decades. We just have to double down on those things and add some more. So please people, let's keep voting the same way. Trust us. We know best.
It's a shame about Galeto. Been there once and it was great. Funny that I was thinking lately that I wouldn't go there now as I might end up being the steak getting carved up !
They're finally saying the quiet part out loud. CRIME.
BLM should pay all your bills
Is there anyone competent in Oakland and Alameda County government?
I feel Schadenfreude for Oaklanders. We in Portland are trying very hard to keep up but you win hands down. Are the mayor and DA the regular patrons?
To think the Le Cheval family is leaving their home of 38 years because the city has criminally-crumbled around them. So sad. 🙏🏼What is happening? 🇺🇸
Sad but in interviews he still sides with the blue. His new location he’ll support progressives I’m sure. Cognitive dissidence is strong
MOVED ALL YOUR RESTAURANTS TO VEGAS, leave Oakland forever
only person winning is Da Lin. still got a good set of hair and slick asf
Explains why all the professional sports team move the sh**t outta Oakland
Dont blame Pamela Price. Blame yourselves for electing her, AFTER, SF recalled Chesa Boudin for the same criminal friendly policies. Why did you think the outcome would be different?
But Colin Kaepernick said that police brutality was the biggest issue faced in our cities ????
if the population in Oakland and Bay Area would do something about the thugs.. but they have had closed eyes for years trying to talk with the thugs instead of just book them for years...who cares if the thugs never see the dakight again? their moms maybe but their moms are failures themselves.
Not me. I believe in constitutional carry. Blast away and leave the mess for the local garbage company.
Yo man thats raycisms n sheeit. You have to talk to them because they might be scholarz, docktorz or kangz. Because they built all ancient civilizationz and they cud do it again.
@@blokcomNativeFaces say WAAAAT
@@paulbegley1464 Are you questioning da power of melanated peeples do build civilization n sheeit?
@@blokcomNativeFaces Nooow waaaaay man
Crime is not the problem...... city leaders are the problem. After these businesses and their patrons have given the city millions in tax dollars they they have failed to deliver on a safe city to operate in.
I can confirm that, I’ve not been going out anymore in Oakland. Not worth getting robbed or my car windows broken. DA Pamela Price openly admits that she is not locking up any of “her babies”. OPD does good work but is constantly blindsided by the DA.
There should be no business there in Oakland... Why would you have one???
Crime yes, also low customer volume with high taxes and goods inflation...kinda of a big California whami on small business like dining.
That's for sure. The Democrats can never get enough of our money.
Oakland is like Africa. So much crime going on.
Oakland is nothing like Africa (which is incredibly diverse and not uniform across the contenant) nor even like almost anywhere within Africa for that matter. Plenty of Sub-Saharan Africa is low in crime btw, -only some parts are dangerous. Claiming otherwise only shows your extreme ignorance. Oakland is however a very badly run and now once again declining and indeed crime ridden city with leadership and a voting public in denial.
Remember the DA is at fault for prioritizing the criminals and not punishing. 👏
But California is DIverse..and A DEmocrat state? How can this be? CHeers
Didn't californians vote the officials who passed the policy ? People get what they voted for.
Let’s go Oakland 👏👏👏👏👏
“Fine Dining” venues in Oakland ??? Can you say Popeyes ??? Get me some mofo Popeyes up in me !
Oakland itself seems to be completely shutting down as a city.
Thanks Pamela Price 😅😅😢😢
This is the result of the actions of the usual suspects.
lived in the Bay area 20+ years... I've been to both to Restaurants' sad to see good human beings forced to get out.... It's time for the CA. legislators to make a crime bill that goes the level of Terrorism by those doing the crimes... Store Break-in, Carjacking, Home invasions, Muggings, Armed Robberies, causing mayhems in the neighborhoods...... Make it a Life sentencing for each crime...
You left out the physical assaults on innocent Asian Americans, drive-by shootings, "street festivals," and organized shoplifting
Where is Newsom? He won’t feel anything unless it happens to him.
“Oakland” + “Fine dining”. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thank you!
I needed that today,! 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Spoken by someone who clearly doesn’t know Oakland and likely has never set foot. How about you keep your stupid comments to yourself.
Congratulations to all the oakland democrats who made this dream city come true!! You must be so proud of yourselves
Most of em will never admit it and keep voting the same.
I lived a few blocks over on 10th st and my 2002 Honda was broken into a literal 4 times a week. I left the Bay Area in 2018 after 20 years.
You got what you voted for.
Blaming crime is RACIST!! How dare you 😂
I hope they all come to KC. We love to eat!
best choice ever to close your business, nothing is more important than your health and safety. You can always leave and start again, Oakland is too dangerous don't risk everything for some long gone nostalgia or habits
fine dining is a great way to get together a bunch of rich people to rob
Diabolical plans wrote on dinner napkin's
Businesses leaving is unfortunately one of the only things that can help oakland as money rules all even though everyone is too ashamed to admit it.