Take a cue from El Salvador and jail the gang members... it's not rocket surgery. How about starting a program of arresting dirt bags and keeping them in jail so this doesn't happen in the first place?
@@SCabanlitProductions It’s not just Oakland that’s like this many parts of CA are witnessing society’s decay. Skid Row, Downtown San Diego and many encampments in SF and Sac.
I refused to pick up a person with uber somewhere there because it looked so unsafe in the middle of the night with all those burned cars. It seemed to me like a scene from a scary movie. Oakland is sad
@@middleguy1776 actually no. This is all a protest against poverty, segregation, and white supremacy. The 3 issues that are the most relevant in Oakland. Committing crime is simply a protest
these are the times we're in. nothing makes sense. men are women, women are men, neither are men or women... we have an animated corpse for a president...
@@thomasgentry6201 I didn't hear him say the auto thefts are the railroad's fault. What I did hear him say is they are responsible for keeping their grounds free of those cars that are sitting there.
seems like an entrepreneur with a flatbed could come make a dime salvaging the cars, but then the city probably has some kind of laws or policies preventing this... because that would make total sense in our upside down world 😂 "let the process work"... meanwhile nothing happens. 👌
Dear KPIX. I've been critical of you for ignoring crime and drugs in the Bay Area. It seems you are starting to listen. This was a good story, and hope you do more like this. And good luck to the community activist he has my support.
The whole culture of the state is to enable criminals, by believing that a kind and gentle approach will persuade them to change their ways, the only thing it accomplishes is to enable them and embolden them, but I guess it keeps the "woke liberals" from rioting and burning the entire state.
That poor FJ Cruiser and it’s owner! Those things are $50k+, and the owners are often very fond of them! Very loyal enthusiast fanbase! Someone misses their FJ.
Which party actually actually gets things correct? People are picking between bad and worse. At this point one can point the finger but it’s not like would be so much better if the opposite were in power.
cops are held to higher standards and they need to act like spiritual leaders. criminals have total impunity to do whatever they want. protecting the community is the last thing anyone wants to do in this countyr now.
Laws protect criminals' rights and make it nearly impossible for law enforcement to enforce the law. The ones that are brave enough to enforce the law are often vilified, and the criminals are portrayed as their victims. They need to start voting for a government that will protect the working class, not enable criminals, drug addicts to take over their cities!
Completely unaddressed -- "we can't do anything if someone moves into it" then "what about the owner?" -- So someone's car get stolen and stripped and someone moves into it, but there is nothing the owner can do because... what?? Squatter rights? That's fucked up!
Blessed I left Oaktown in 2017. Back in 2015 it really seemed like it was turning. That mix of art, style, and grit was bringing in young professionals. Those days are gone. Now it’s trash. Never thought I’d say that. I was there for a visit recently and I saw it first hand. Awful…
I lived in Oakland from 2004 to 2014, which was a great time to be there. It did start to turn around 2015. A neighbor friend got mugged a block from his house shortly after we moved to El Cerrito. Left CA altogether in 2021.
That one lady said when she bought her house there was trash all over the front yard. Why would you buy there? Just why. If you paid me, i would not live there
If it can be cleared, I figure the home itself was her main focus. If the home is in fairly good to great condition, the garbage is the least of her worries. In my neighborhood in NYC, some people will have homes that get little attention paid to the front yard. You sometimes get ignorant people that will dump their unwanted things in that yard or on the sidewalk. Eventually someone may track down the owner, then offer to buy the house after checking out the interior of that home.
People in the Bay Area compromise because housing is expensive. There was a trend of gentrification up until about 2015 so you could buy a house in a less savory area and newcomers who cared (and had money or time) would help to clean it up. That has clearly changed, now going the other way.
Cars full of fingerprints could help the police close cases, start new cases, make connections between cases. Being stolen you'd think law enforcement would want to have a look at them.
The scary reality is that there is a revolution taking place. USA is not exempt. The bigger you are the harder you fall. There is so much crime and lawlessness that the police cannot keep up. The people will eventually overthrow the government. In fact, they already have. It's called Homelessness. We are witnessing first hand the decline and imminent death of America. Be careful out there. It's every man for himself.
We're still waiting for rogue PD personnel to be held absolutely accountable for defunding themselves. The truth is everyone can sit back and point the finger. The bottom line is everyone needs to be on the same page for things to change.
The police COULD finger print these unburned cars and stake out the area and catch thieves. But they won't do anything to solve a crime or improve their City.
@chillwill5080 None of the people interviewed were happy about this. Nor did they walk up on these car thieves and try to ID them because they will get killed. Cops make $100k in Oakland. They are supposed to solve the crimes. No one is happy that Oakland is a dumping ground.
Retaliation is real. I reported a bunch of dumping and homeless encampment...a bit later I got a notice of violation on my property (dumping and graffiti). They were going to charge me $1700 if i didn't clean it up.
It can take months, and up to $100,000 to evict a homeless person from their stolen car home. When the final paperwork is served, the tenant often moves into the stolen car parked behind the previous stolen car residence. When the tow truck shows up to tow the stolen car, they find a new tenant has moved in.
don't day know thousands of people already left oakland and the bayarea because of this and the homelessness and drug activity n the streets of the bayarea
Born in Oakland in the late fifties. Grew up in West Oakland and was proud to live there. Super liberal politicians are destroying Oakland, San Francisco, Bay Area and the California in general. Moved away in my thirties. Only retuned to go to Warriors, A's and Raiders games and to eat. Not anymore because all of the sports teams left or are getting ready to leave. Too dangerous to go for lunch and dinner there. Sanctuary city and state has turned out to be a horrible idea. Oakland and San Francisco look like 3rd world cities right now. Going to get worse. I told my wife we should have left 3 years ago. Not hating on anyone, just speaking the truth. The amount of trash and dumped cars and trucks is unreal. This cancer is spreading throughout the state. And the homeless problem is another issue.
WOW this is SO disturbing in SO MANY WAYS and ALARMING because aside from all the other issues that go along with this the method of recovering trashed and abandoned cars by city used towtrucks is just dragging them across the road and up onto the trucks that's GOTTA be scarring the road GREAT JOB SECURITY for ROAD REPAVERS if theyre even giving a shit about these streets and areas
So it’s LEGAL to live in a car!!!! Guess I better rethink rent. Rent a storage unit and get a gym membership for showers. The lack of enforcement is LAUGHABLE
yeah had my honda accord stolen and found it in oakland back in 96---they took my rims and sound system...insurance paid my car as totaled but it still drives like normal. i got 8k from it and a car that still runs..no dent and the engine was ok..i put back my stock sound system and stock rims...sheeeitt i drove it for another 4 years and got free $
gary indiana, Cleveland Ohio , Detroit Michigan , St Louis, OAKLAND ca , and non and on... Sadly there are a few common denominators and its so sad... The grift stinks and the poor seem to vote the "governing class" into these places and wonder what happens
Whatever you do, don't arrest the criminals. The law-abiding citizens should have to worry about the problem. Keep electing the same people and keep getting the same results.
Perhaps Union Pacific could get together a train entirely consisting of flatcars, take it to the area, load the derelict cars on the train, and take them all away; something needs to be done to clean up that area. . .
Is Oakland considered a city which belongs to POC.? In other words do all the POC live ,eat,raise kids,shop, clothe,etc for free together as 1 love unit ?
Oakland has got to be the most expensive piece of landfill in America.
Whole bay area is full of these pockets.
You forgot about the entire South
100%
Better to dump'em there, a Progressive wasteland, than out in the country near me.
@@mrmr-qx4jq - the South is less expensive.
Take a cue from El Salvador and jail the gang members... it's not rocket surgery.
How about starting a program of arresting dirt bags and keeping them in jail so this doesn't happen in the first place?
We only prosecute Republicans in California.
Rocket surgery? Lol
Oakland honors criminals with reparations.
Common sense politics has abandon much of Commifornia.
(not all of it tho, Bay Area is extremely Leftist and reaping what they voted)
@@deesnoots brah, i’ma start using rocket surgery. that sounds like some serious intelligence.
People in Oakland are like why are the Oakland As leaving? 😂😂😂😂
People in Oakland are like why are people hating on Oakland?😂
That Z71 is like almost 20 years old
@@SCabanlitProductions It’s not just Oakland that’s like this many parts of CA are witnessing society’s decay. Skid Row, Downtown San Diego and many encampments in SF and Sac.
Who cares about the As? Oakland might get a WNBA expansion team.
@@giftedgreen2152 lol
This goes on because it is tolerated.
It's tolerated because some in a position of power wants it so.
I'm surprised the city has not set up a dump site where the criminals can dispose of the cars that they have stolen.
Well, they're probably working on that right now.
😂😂 someone tag pamela price. This sounds up her alley
What happened to Libby Schaaf?
They have its called East Oakland
The whole thing is a dump site for criminals wym? Lol
I refused to pick up a person with uber somewhere there because it looked so unsafe in the middle of the night with all those burned cars. It seemed to me like a scene from a scary movie.
Oakland is sad
Oakland has gone downhill. Between the trash, homelessness, and crime, it’s terrible.
And it's because the people of Oakland have voted for this.
@@middleguy1776 actually no. This is all a protest against poverty, segregation, and white supremacy. The 3 issues that are the most relevant in Oakland. Committing crime is simply a protest
@@walt3rwhit387 Stealing from other black folks to commit crime against other black folks targets White Supremacy, lol.
@@walt3rwhit387 oh my bad
people of oakland deserve this and far worse because this is all the result of the kind of politicians they elected.
We just had some teens take a car and abandon it by our house. Luckily they didn’t set it on fire and the owner saw our picture and retrieved her car
That’s pathetic of those kids and shows what worthless parents they have
i always park it close (:
"Teens" Uh huh.
@@billmorrison9068 teens as in you think they older or younger?
teens will start burning em once they wise-en up
How can someone live in a stolen car, then the city can't tow or remove the car. That is insane.
these are the times we're in. nothing makes sense. men are women, women are men, neither are men or women... we have an animated corpse for a president...
Democrat policies... Conservative States don't have this lawlessness
There’s a large auto body shop presence in Oakland, and the chop shop culture is alive and well open air in some instances….
Omg it’s starting over where I live in fruitvale . It’s terrible. Yes I’m embarrassed and I don’t invite people over I also don’t feel it’s safe.
Summer time is coming! U know what that means! Chaos soon!
Vote for politicians willing to hold criminals accountable, not for the ones enabling them to take over your cities!
Excuses, excuses, excuses ..... nothing will ever be done in this inept system. It's really not difficult to catch these bastards.
True. Prosecuting them is a whole other story.
Now its the railroads fault new one.
@@thomasgentry6201 I didn't hear him say the auto thefts are the railroad's fault. What I did hear him say is they are responsible for keeping their grounds free of those cars that are sitting there.
seems like an entrepreneur with a flatbed could come make a dime salvaging the cars, but then the city probably has some kind of laws or policies preventing this... because that would make total sense in our upside down world 😂
"let the process work"... meanwhile nothing happens. 👌
Soft on crime, you get a junk yard of stolen cars!!!!!!!!!
Let them reap what they sow.
Been around the world, and still not in Oakland still traveling
Good. Stay far away
Dear KPIX.
I've been critical of you for ignoring crime and drugs in the Bay Area. It seems you are starting to listen. This was a good story, and hope you do more like this.
And good luck to the community activist he has my support.
Good reporting
It would be better reporting if they would get to the heart of why this is happening.
@@sunayakong8537 agreed. that would make it super stellar
Don't vote for liberal Democrat politicians Trump 2024
This is what happens when city council acts like east and West Oakland dont exist and essentially make them lawless xones that are unmaintained
The whole culture of the state is to enable criminals, by believing that a kind and gentle approach will persuade them to change their ways, the only thing it accomplishes is to enable them and embolden them, but I guess it keeps the "woke liberals" from rioting and burning the entire state.
Too much talking but no body does anything.We need some real action towards those lazy criminals.
Designed
That FJ can still be used. Put some tires on it. Put a 49-state catalytic converter on it. Take it to another state.
That poor FJ Cruiser and it’s owner!
Those things are $50k+, and the owners are often very fond of them! Very loyal enthusiast fanbase!
Someone misses their FJ.
Yep
What could go wrong when you vote for the people, the policies and the party that enables criminals?
How's Moscow... still losing?
@@SteveinSanFrancisco What can go wrong when you get everything confused including which restroom to use?
Which party actually actually gets things correct?
People are picking between bad and worse. At this point one can point the finger but it’s not like would be so much better if the opposite were in power.
@@SteveinSanFranciscocomical how anyone who comments about lib failures is labeled a bot or Russian asset. 🤡🤡
Dumbocrats
If it happens every day, why don’t cops just stake it out?
They don't have the man power. They barely have enough officers to respond to calls. Defunding the police wasn't going to end well.
Because they're busy playing games on their phone.
cops are held to higher standards and they need to act like spiritual leaders. criminals have total impunity to do whatever they want. protecting the community is the last thing anyone wants to do in this countyr now.
Then come back next day to arrest same ppl again, what's the point when crims face no consequences.
Laws protect criminals' rights and make it nearly impossible for law enforcement to enforce the law. The ones that are brave enough to enforce the law are often vilified, and the criminals are portrayed as their victims. They need to start voting for a government that will protect the working class, not enable criminals, drug addicts to take over their cities!
He is totally right. Please do something!
Completely unaddressed -- "we can't do anything if someone moves into it" then "what about the owner?" -- So someone's car get stolen and stripped and someone moves into it, but there is nothing the owner can do because... what?? Squatter rights? That's fucked up!
What’s worst is they’ll have to pay the tow lot to even get it back
Blessed I left Oaktown in 2017. Back in 2015 it really seemed like it was turning. That mix of art, style, and grit was bringing in young professionals. Those days are gone. Now it’s trash. Never thought I’d say that. I was there for a visit recently and I saw it first hand. Awful…
I lived in Oakland from 2004 to 2014, which was a great time to be there. It did start to turn around 2015. A neighbor friend got mugged a block from his house shortly after we moved to El Cerrito. Left CA altogether in 2021.
A's definitely need to leave before they start dumping inside the ballpark haha
las vegas gunna look like this in ten years 😂
That one lady said when she bought her house there was trash all over the front yard. Why would you buy there? Just why. If you paid me, i would not live there
If it can be cleared, I figure the home itself was her main focus. If the home is in fairly good to great condition, the garbage is the least of her worries. In my neighborhood in NYC, some people will have homes that get little attention paid to the front yard. You sometimes get ignorant people that will dump their unwanted things in that yard or on the sidewalk. Eventually someone may track down the owner, then offer to buy the house after checking out the interior of that home.
People in the Bay Area compromise because housing is expensive. There was a trend of gentrification up until about 2015 so you could buy a house in a less savory area and newcomers who cared (and had money or time) would help to clean it up. That has clearly changed, now going the other way.
NO to plastic straws. YES to dumping everywhere!
Situation normal for Oakland.
Cars full of fingerprints could help the police close cases, start new cases, make connections between cases. Being stolen you'd think law enforcement would want to have a look at them.
Why bother wasting resources?
The scary reality is that there is a revolution taking place.
USA is not exempt. The bigger you are the harder you fall.
There is so much crime and lawlessness that the police cannot keep up.
The people will eventually overthrow the government.
In fact, they already have.
It's called
Homelessness.
We are witnessing first hand the decline and imminent death of America.
Be careful out there. It's every man for himself.
@@db-rc5fr It's not a waste of resources since that's what the police are supposed to be doing anyway.
I agree.
@@jntj3007 Then it becomes catch and release.
What’s sad is a dog that’s always behind a gate.
He'd get stolen otherwise and used as bait for pit bull training. Welcome to Oakland!!
@@daveclark8337Move the car's and Bring in the immigrants. Fill that shiii up they'll get used to it..😉
There was a mountain of trash next to the home when you bought it and now you're shocked there is garbage there?!??
I am Still waiting for an apology from our democratic leaders for the De-Fund the police trend of the week that got US into this mess .
😴💤
We're still waiting for rogue PD personnel to be held absolutely accountable for defunding themselves. The truth is everyone can sit back and point the finger. The bottom line is everyone needs to be on the same page for things to change.
The police never got defunded though. They still have all their vehicles, tools and pay check.
She is 4' tall, and 5' wide. The 'enforcement' agent.
She gives the whole weight of the law a new meaning! 🤭
@@Fox_Zero😂
Retaliation for trying to clean up your neighborhood??? Our country is literally a lost, third world country.
Quiero unos mamelucos de camote
The police COULD finger print these unburned cars and stake out the area and catch thieves. But they won't do anything to solve a crime or improve their City.
@chillwill5080 None of the people interviewed were happy about this. Nor did they walk up on these car thieves and try to ID them because they will get killed. Cops make $100k in Oakland. They are supposed to solve the crimes. No one is happy that Oakland is a dumping ground.
My great great grandfather lived and beautified the scrub brush hills of Oakland. He has to be turning over in his grave to see the destruction there.
Neighborhood Watch is vital in the community . But if you have a Neighborhood of criminals not sure how that helps??
You can surely bet the SideShow Crowd are involved with those stolen vehicles.
At some point, I've noticed I'll never find my love of my dream around in Oakland 😂
Unless you love lawlessness and violence.
Plenty of heroin and fentanyl kweens to pick from. Just cruise downtown.
Stupid Oakland laws pointing out other party for responsibility
"The neighbors"? It looks like an industrial area, not a neighborhood.
Oakland is just Gotham City with no Batman.
If somone left a whole junkyard next to my house Id be selling doors and parts for nothing. That poor FJ though
facts
I'd be setting up a stake-out with caltrops and an air rifle. :)
So homeless can claim abandoned vehicles as houses and the city then can't junk the vehicles? WHA?!
$500,000 doesn't buy what it used too
Society has lost control if a wreck cannot be towed if someone lives in it.
Retaliation is real. I reported a bunch of dumping and homeless encampment...a bit later I got a notice of violation on my property (dumping and graffiti). They were going to charge me $1700 if i didn't clean it up.
You don't seem very serious about doing anything.
@@tuckerbugeater you don't know what you're talking about
I moved to Carson city Nevada from the east bay.. and you see stolen and wrecked cars all along the capitol corridor train line .
At least the desert climate will rot the cars faster.
CALIFORNIA IS SO BEAUTIFUL
Criminals Justice Reform in action. It's over for Oakland.
It can take months, and up to $100,000 to evict a homeless person from their stolen car home. When the final paperwork is served, the tenant often moves into the stolen car parked behind the previous stolen car residence.
When the tow truck shows up to tow the stolen car, they find a new tenant has moved in.
Part of Oakland's ambiance.
"When we moved here it was just a mountain of trash"🤔
don't day know thousands of people already left oakland and the bayarea because of this and the homelessness and drug activity n the streets of the bayarea
Oakland/California/USA can do something about it. " They" just choose not to
People are being held hostage by criminals because there are no consequences to criminal activity. Good people lives are being destroyed.
Hey!!!!! That's my car.......
All those homes look like prison cells with gates and bars 😂
They ARE prison cells!
NOBODY "lives" in oakland but for those who spend time there, and don't own heaters are fools.
Born in Oakland in the late fifties. Grew up in West Oakland and was proud to live there. Super liberal politicians are destroying Oakland, San Francisco, Bay Area and the California in general. Moved away in my thirties. Only retuned to go to Warriors, A's and Raiders games and to eat. Not anymore because all of the sports teams left or are getting ready to leave. Too dangerous to go for lunch and dinner there. Sanctuary city and state has turned out to be a horrible idea. Oakland and San Francisco look like 3rd world cities right now. Going to get worse. I told my wife we should have left 3 years ago. Not hating on anyone, just speaking the truth. The amount of trash and dumped cars and trucks is unreal. This cancer is spreading throughout the state. And the homeless problem is another issue.
You know this shit doesn't happen in places that take crime seriously?
Is Okland a legitimate municipal city?
Yes. It's the seat of Alameda County. It has its own city council and everything. That explains its lack of governance.
It's not crazy....its not evil....its Gavin Newsom.
Yeah, I can see where it’d be simply impossible to catch the offenders…. Ridiculous California
WOW this is SO disturbing in SO MANY WAYS and ALARMING because aside from all the other issues that go along with this the method of recovering trashed and abandoned cars by city used towtrucks is just dragging them across the road and up onto the trucks that's GOTTA be scarring the road GREAT JOB SECURITY for ROAD REPAVERS if theyre even giving a shit about these streets and areas
So it’s LEGAL to live in a car!!!! Guess I better rethink rent. Rent a storage unit and get a gym membership for showers.
The lack of enforcement is LAUGHABLE
Oakland = urban decay at its finest...
Juliet Goodrich Why don't you follow up by calling on Governor Newsom,b who is absent or busy ensuring ATM abortion clinics in Alabama.
makes South Central Los Angeles look like Tiburon
I’ve noticed we’ve been having A LOT Of Oakland natives in my city. Almost like they’re running away from the madness 😅
yeah had my honda accord stolen and found it in oakland back in 96---they took my rims and sound system...insurance paid my car as totaled but it still drives like normal. i got 8k from it and a car that still runs..no dent and the engine was ok..i put back my stock sound system and stock rims...sheeeitt i drove it for another 4 years and got free $
What kind of fool threatens a violent perp.
Mamas está !
gary indiana, Cleveland Ohio , Detroit Michigan , St Louis, OAKLAND ca , and non and on... Sadly there are a few common denominators and its so sad... The grift stinks and the poor seem to vote the "governing class" into these places and wonder what happens
Our country is becoming a junk yard and a firing range
Whatever you do, don't arrest the criminals. The law-abiding citizens should have to worry about the problem. Keep electing the same people and keep getting the same results.
"Who should you call about this?" "Oakland says: Nobody, we don't care."
Who you gonna call?
👻 busters!
Stupid policies....just because someone living in it you can't take the stolen vehicle off the street...time to vote for COMPETENT LEADERS!
Newsome for president! We need this shit countrywide!
Have the police investigate
Blacks call to defund police and this what ya get
These are actual stories that need more attention IMPORTANT INFORMATION
The culture that keeps on giving
It's Oakland so this is normal.
What a beautiful neighborhood in a gorgeous city
Perhaps Union Pacific could get together a train entirely consisting of flatcars, take it to the area, load the derelict cars on the train, and take them all away; something needs to be done to clean up that area. . .
Always a dark depressing ☁️ over Oakland 🙏stay safe and alert 🧐
Is Oakland considered a city which belongs to POC.? In other words do all the POC live ,eat,raise kids,shop, clothe,etc for free together as 1 love unit ?
The city needs to clean it up!
That poor FJ Cruiser...
I had enough of this also in my neighborhood too
They named a street after Tupac, don't worry about this nonsense.
Looks like a lot of scrap metal to me. Take it to a scrap yard and make some money.
Worth almost nothing as scrap.
BLAME DEMOS THAT IS AND MAYORS, GOVERNOR NUMBER ONE, THIS SHIT NEVER GOT THIS BAD BEFORE, IS HORRIBLE IN OAKLAND
In Florida has a very healthy economy come to California and see what’s happened to San Francisco and Los Angeles
BULLCRAP.
What about that area near Miami, where there were so many carjackings it ruined their tourism?
Hate to burst your bubble, Oakland IS a dump.
WHY ON EARTH does anyone still live there???
Give that taco bell bag to police as evidence for fingerprints and arrest them.
Railroad is not going to clean this up. Good luck with that. Make incarceration people start and clean up this mess
This crap is on the city .
let car enthusiasts come get them for FREE, everyone wants to turn a profit no matter what.
You deserve this Oakland.