As a Oakland resident of 35+ years I appreciate this video It wasn't sensationalized for clicks It was just a honest view of someone observing it unbiasely. Niiiiiiice.
As someone who has lived and worked in Oakland, it is truly a garbage dump now. Don't blame the police when clearly the laws favor the scumbbag criminals.
I wonder how long and how far it will go before people wise up and realize they are keeping these idiots in office,you can't look at these cities all over America ,our economy, and everything else is going good
How many mansions does governor gruesome have now.. There was an awful lot of money spent in San Franshthole just this past year to clean it all up for the democrats c c p owners to visit there and not have to see all that blight.
@@marcodarko6941 There is a $1.2 billion budget for a three year effort to clean up California. The first hundred million or so was spent and 8700 people employed to clean up San Francisco in advance of the APEC summit/
hundred million or so was spent and 8700 people employed to clean up San Francisco in advance of the APEC summit/ ( visiting Chinese dignitaries...temporary, good impression)
Why isn’t the crime reported there ? This looks worst then Detroit in the early 2000s. Yet Oakland isn’t in the most dangerous city list for 2024 how ??
Who would go to Oakland to watch them anyway? The Oakland Coliseum is falling apart. It's a like a tribute to the falling city. Quite fitting, actually!
The Warriors was the perfect name for an Oakland professional sports team, considering a movie of the same name that was about one gang pursued overnight through New York City by other gangs was made in 1977 and released in 1979. I actually got to see it in the cinema!
Are you saying that Gavin Newsom threw All that trash all over town , then went around with cans of spray paint and painted all the graffiti ? WOW he is a very busy person. Plus it’s impossible. Basically people SHOULD be more Proud of Their neighborhood and keep it presentable.
You nailed this headline. Over 14,000 ABANDONED cars in 78 square miles; the third world city….City of Oakland. And companies in downtown telling employees “do not leave your building for lunch.”
They need a governor and mayor with huge balls like the guy who made no apologies for cleaning the MS13 gang! This is all so disgusting and traumatizing for the public both criminals and ordinary people.
One of the (the last?) last body on frame car available (as in it had a actual welded frame like a truck has with panels bolted on). It's a lot cheaper when smashing a quarter panel if it's not also structural to the vehicle.
I moved out of Oakland and never ever looked back. It was the worst place I'd ever lived in my life. Absolutely terrible and the people were equally as bad. The place is horrific.
I totally agree with you on that. I had left Oakland myself almost ten years ago because of the high crime and being robbed at gun point twice was the last straw for me that broke the camel's back. I never look back either and feel it was the best decision I made.
Do not victim blame the person who left and reports on that. And definitely do not gaslight us into asking for this by 'voting' for it. If you still haven't realized the voting system is a total scam, and the shadow government is ushering in the New world order, than maybe do your homework first.
I live in Oakland. Been seeing the same homeless under the 580 fwy on 14th St and MacArthur since I moved here over ten years ago. Rep. Gallo couldn't get rid of him so supplied him with a porta potty. Why??? Why do homeless and thugs get a pass and taxpayers live in FEAR?
Homelessness is a big money maker so it is always encouraged by city officials. Just follow up money and it always ends with taxpayers dollars in the pockets of politicians 😢
My granddaughters husband is a young police officer in this town, Oakland, Ca. He said it's the city government, and especially the mayor that is the problem. Police officers in the San Francisco bay area, where Oakland is, are understaffed. Not too many men and women want to be a police officer in these cities where crime is not punished by the court systems. The criminals are brought in, they go to court and are back out on the streets within days. I live 20 minutes from Oakland, these criminals are making their way into the more affluent cities near Oakland. I've lived here for 72 years, this is has become our worst nightmare ever.
When I lived in Fremont, I noticed a lot of burglary suspects arrested there were from Oakland. They would hit neighborhoods, businesses, and parking lots with easy access off of 880 and 680
Its all by design, the liberals are taking down the country they hate freedom they rule of law, the constitution, they want to be in total control and they are not going to stop until they do!
I’m a white guy who was homeless and ended up in Oakland for a night. Found a black guy who took in me and we ate some homemade muffins and got high together. I was blessed to find such a nice man. He also stopped others from messing with me. I’m sober and homed now.
Me and a buddy in 1987 accidently drove through a bad part of Oakland heading for the Navy base, no one believed me that there was a school in a dirt parking lot with the flyover as a roof for the school. Then adding to that, drunks in the gutter across the road. I can only imagine how bad it is today.
Very sad My father was born in Oakland in 1929 his mother watched San Francisco burn from the roof of their Oakland home in 1906. A home they bought in 1930 is still in the family, but it's in the Rockridge district. Amazing how lack of police who make $300k. The mayor made a mistake firing the police Chief he was born and raised seemed like a good guy
Our company no longer acceps jobs in Oakland. After the loss of a service truck and an employee beaten up and in the hospital, none of our crews will work there. The last project was near the former Dennys you showed. We had to hire private security to protect the job site. Each evening, 100% of our equipment was hauled away. If we didn't, it would be gone/looted/burned by morning.
San Francisco isnt much better...My Door contractor had their work truck stolen on Franklin St. Daytime theft. took the truck to you know where????? OPD couldnt care less.. I spend quite a bit of money just painting over grafitti because its not a crime????? SF will fine me for not painting over it. Everything is backwards now......go figure.
California has this more than any other state. Despite having a job, you still sleep in your car at night. $913,000 for a shoebox to live in so good luck affording rent. Forget about a mortgage! Any NFL fans out there wondering why the Raiders bounced for Vegas 3 seasons ago.😢
Having grown up in the area I think I can provide some historical perspective. The West Oakland area is primarily non residential industrial area. It appears most of the businesses in the area have been abandoned, most likely due to sky high leases. Obviously this created an empty no man’s land where poor folks are taking advantage of the empty spaces and creating their own shelters. I think the poverty numbers cited are no accurate because a lot of the poor live off the grid and their lack of income is not reported. The main problem with the SF Bay Area is that during WW2 vast numbers of laborers from the south were brought in to work in the shipyards and munitions factories. Once those war jobs disappeared those folks were housed in essentially low cost military housing and were relegated to low wage jobs. But the cities were OK as long as you stayed away from those low cost housing areas that essentially became ghettos. In the 60s, 70s and 80s most of that housing was condemned and removed leaving large numbers of low wage families struggling to find housing. The dichotomy that you see in an area with most good jobs requiring high education and those educated folks making good money, driving up property values and the cost of living. And then an even larger population of uneducated families that are stuck in a place where there is little to no industrial jobs for the uneducated workforce. The end result is areas of squalor with high crime juxtaposed against areas of relative opulence and high living. It gets worse every year, It is easy to blame the politicians but any solutions to the problems will require drastic action like government subsidized industry and eminent domain actions to remove blighted areas. There is no political appetite for those kind of solutions so folks will just continue to wring their hands and call for more and more police.
As the years have gone by, you're right, a lot of those companies that were in West Oakland have closed down, like Mothers Cookies, & Nabisco. And the workplaces/companies were abandoned. The problem with SF/Oakland/San Jose, & San Jose to a lesser point. Is Drug Addiction, Mental Illness, & the working poor. The Drug Addicted, Homeless, Mental Illness, & the working Poor are a Major Problem in the Bay Area. Then we have people from other states, & cities from within California that come to the Bay Area, because of cheap drugs, & both Oakland, & SF, pay these people to live here?! They do not have to be a resident of SF/Oakland, or California for that matter. Although I see that coming to an end soon. Another problem is lack of Policemen, & the criminals know this.
Of the hundreds of comments I’ve ever read, on any topic, this is thee most accurate and dispassionate analysis I’ve ever encountered . Sadly, it will go overlooked and under read by the dopamine fiend’s prowling the splinter net.
Yes and no. Allowing the crime to have little or no consequence IS the Government of Oakland and Alameda County's fault and responsibility! They own it and until this changes nothing else anyone does will matter at all...
It has a lot to do with the culture of the predominant population that settled there since WW2. It is the same for all high crime rate cities all over the US. THE CULTURE BLAMES THEIR PLIGHT on white privileged people.
Smart safety move doing your tour of Oakland's finest attractions nice and early in the morning. Try that at night, and you're liable to get jacked or even worse.
@trentdawg2832 it stands for Not in My Back Yard and generally refers to people who block progress because it affects them negatively or so they seem to think. They have blocked mass transit in Bevey Hills and NYC, blocked multi use buildings from being built, hlising from being built in "nice neighborhoods ", etc..
Horrible! Very nasty, very dangerous, very expensive! Why would a sane, reasonable human want to be there? The neighborhoods you drove thru were absolutely beautiful. It's such a shame the city is mismanaged. Thanks.
As part of a flight crew we used to stay at the Hilton by the Oakland International airport…..and shop at the “new” shopping center where the In-n-Out was located……it was only built about 10 years ago….it was nice but was turning into a very dangerous place even before the Covid-19 debacle….I used to go to the Oakland Harley Davidson located near there…but I won’t go there anymore…it’s too dangerous…I wouldn’t let my crew go anywhere near that shopping center anymore. The same with the Shell gas station where we used to fill up our rental cars….dangerous…. or any restaurants in that area..and there were some well established historic good restaurants near the airport …….but the Marxist democrats have ruined Oakland and the whole state of California.
Right at that corner with the working girls are the best Vietnamese sandwiches, aka Banh Mi in town. It’s the very outskirts of Little Saigon and used to have some amazing southeast Asian restaurants that went out of business due to crime. The government is just pathetic. Pre-pandemic, Oakland was thriving. Chinatown was thriving. Lots of new restaurants. I really hope things pick up. The weather is amazing year round.
I had a chat with an Aussie who visited last year. Very fair minded guy - he said he couldn’t believe the changes for the worse compared to his prior visit.
im from london uk, ive been out to the us alot past 25ish years... been to cali 3 times each time it got worse and worse... Ive seen what the left has done everywhere...
I'm in total support of Oakland and what they've voted for. It warms my soul to see blue cities and states get what they deserve. Also, good move In-N-Out.
Loved the program. Ex pate from Alameda 44 years now in Texas loving it here but I try to keep tabs on Bay Area current events and you filled that check box nice. Peace
yeah,, check out independent news reporter,, The Berkeley Scanner online, for an eye-opening experience of crime in Berkeley, not being reported by local news???
Just saw this...I was born and raised in Oakland, late 60's - 70's. It was a great place to grow up, yes there was crime, but not like today. The down turn was when factory jobs started to leave, then crack hit Oakland. Then all the military bases closed and on top it of that incompetent city leadership. Most people I've grown up with have left the city and /or state like I have. It's very sad what's become of Oakland.
When I was a young girl (in the 70s), we were driving though Oakland on our way home from a camping trip. The axle broke on the trailer. My Dad (who was deputy Sherriff) was super concerned, because it was bad way back then! It looks unimaginably bad now!
It did get better for a while and pre-pandemic late 2010's it wasn't that bad. Post covid has been grim though, so it's probably back to where it was 30 years ago. Even Downtown is super sketchy now.
It's terrible, awful, and a disaster. I went outside to walk down'the Whole Foods the other day and was beset upon by actual ZOMBIES! That's right, effing ZOMBIES! Luckily, they were the slow kind, like in the Walking Dead, not the fast ones that workout and can run fast, like in Zombieland and World War Z. Even so, holy cow, I was pretty scared. I ran back inside and locked the door before the undead could eat my brain. Or worse! Don't move to Oakland; and if you already live here, get out, quick! Don't worry, I'll take care of your place for you -- no charge. Just keep the utilities on so I can scare off the ZOMBIES!!
From 1967 to 1976 Oakland had a NHL team (California Golden Seals). So at a point in history, Oakland had all four pro sports teams, and now they have none
Well, I guess we should be congratulating the residents of Oakland. They are getting exactly what they wanted. After all they voted for this every chance they got.
I grew up in Oakland. Lived there until around 1970. As a kids we road our bicycles all over the city without any thought of trouble. There was a creek running through our yard that terminated at Lake Merit. Can't even guess how many times we followed that creek down to the lake. And the other end of that creek originated in Mountainview Cemetery. We used to walk to the Fox theater downtown, about 6 miles from our childhood home. LOL. Preaching to the Oakland citizens is useless. One of my sisters still lives in CA, and she doesn't see how this happened. We live in Arizona now. And get lots of CA people moving here, I just pray they stop voting for the things that got CA in trouble. But so far, it seems the reason they left hasn't changed their voting habits. Thanks for the tour. You have confirmed the picture I had in my mind's eye. Now I wonder how or why anyone would go there without an armed security detail. We left the state and haven't looked back.
@@ScottyBennitone Unfortunately Haiti is far, far worse. A totally corrupt government, no police to speak of and now, under control, of the gangs. Oakland hasn't reached that level.
Yeah and if you follow the tracks you’ll see the authors of Haiti- effin Clinton’s. The slime exuding from Hillary I’d you loook reaaal close is so obvious. The info is out there folks. We are responsible to investigate
Yeah.. I look at scenes like this. Graffiti everywhere, Drugs, Litters and the type of people who do it, and I’m thinking that could never be me in a gazillion years, literally, I’d rather just find a place to hide and stay there til I die.
Shocking and sad! I really feel for the people in those beautiful homes that have to deal with being associated with all the trash in other parts of their city...
3rd generation Oaklander and I work there when I'm not working from home. My grandparents moved to Oakland in the 1920's. My company has several office buildings downtown within a few blocks of each other and we are told not to walk between the buildings because it is so dangerous. We have to have a security guard drive us between the buildings. We are also discouraged from parking on the street or going to a restaurant to eat. In the late 80's crime in Oakland got really bad due to the crack cocaine epidemic. I was determined to get away from Oakland back then. I think Oakland improved in the 1990's with tougher crime laws, but then the police got defunded after the Riders scandal in 2001. I got an offer I couldn't refuse to come back to work in Oakland in 2008. There were regular protests shutting down downtown starting with Occupy Wall Street and the Oscar Grant shooting. It really went downhill after COVID because so many employees are now working from home.
Nice to read your post. I too was a sailor who hung out at the same Black Saddle from '63 - 65. There was a decent restaurant within walking distance called The Golden Bull if I remember right. Ate there a lot. Oakland always was a bit wild, liberty in Alameda was quieter if you could survive that mile long walk through that fume infested tunnel. This is "Sam" AO 3 from G division USS Midway presently age 81. Whoever you are thanks for the memories and I hope you're doing well.
@@theswabbie30 Just one word Ron, and I bet you'll be laughing out loud . . . "Olongapo." see, I'll bet you're smiling already. Leaving me thinking of those ice cold San Miguel's at the Acacia club, and pretty Bernandita who loved only me.
We saw this 35 years ago. It was a movie called Escape from LA with Curt Russell as Snake Plisken . Nothing but a breakdown of morals , drugs alcohol and lawlessness. Next is SanFrancisco and New York.
How can you blame the city for trach. It is the people. Families destroyed. No one being brought up correctly. That's not the city government it is the people living in the city.
Absolutely shocking. The idea one could be attacked buying fuel is incredible. I've been to California a few times and never saw anything like this. I guess the economy is to blame.
There's homelessness all over the world. For you to think this is how all 50 states are, in one country is very puzzling. For you to think that all of us are living among this, is very odd 😮💨😮💨.
Where in Europe do you live? Because, a lot of places in Europe are pretty bad, A lot of homeless and druggies living in the street, like, Brighton seaside London,Birmingham , Jaywick E. London , West Bromwich, Greta Green, South Wales etc. etc. Moscow Germany pretty bad over there. So please don’t judge if you don’t know your own country, don’t forget drugs are all over the world. I am from the USA and I’m very proud to be an American, BTW my town is Beautiful and clean.
@@annt.7785To be fair Beverly Hills ain’t looking much better from the videos I’ve seen on here… everything is closing down. America looks to be failing.
This is so depressing. I don't know WHAT is happening to this country. I can only speculate it is due to political corruption. Greed and power. I was in Oakland in the early 80s and it was a decent city. So sad. I hope you enjoy Sacramento. Thanks again for your posts. Stay safe always!
🤦🏽♀️ please stop? I'm not from the usa, so I don't fully get your voting system, but I'm pretty sure that whatever party is in charge has the final say, right? If so, the leaders have changed (between Republican and democrat) quite evenly since Regan. And I'm reading that the area grew rough since the 90s, which was either Bush snr or Clinton. So stop it. This lifestyle isn't good to see even on your enemy. And oakland isn't the only city in the usa with this kind of problem, all over it has a similar problem. I've said this before, the usa is a façade! In all these movies showing big cities like NYC, LA, L.V, S.F, Miami, Chicago, etc they all edit out or don't go to where the homeless is. So in Oceans 11 (just a movie in L.V that I can talk about, because ive been to L.V) although they show the ritz, the MGM, limos, lights, etc the real L.V away from the strip, is ghetto! What about L.A? Anyone that saw Clueless (another movie because ive been to L.A) would think wow, is that how it is? When they go however, they're so disappointed. Doesn't Nevada vote red? I know a state that definitely votes red, Florida, yet Miami is terrible. It has nothing to do with who the rest voted for, and everything to do with the whole country. E.g. China's a big place, in both population and land area, but when the corona virus hit, it was simply China. When there's a school shooting, it's not "Oh in San Diego blah blah high school got shot up" it's the usa had another school shooting. That's how the rest of the world think, and believe it or not the usa only make up about 4% of the world in population and in landmass. Your democrat or Republican party are insignificant to the rest of the world! So instead of saying "folks getting what they voted for" you should understand there's nothing stopping it spreading to you, in whichever state your in.
Add to that, criminality is destined to be high with all worthwhile jobs getting shipped out of the state/country and all of the jobs that stay getting occupied by people coming from outside of the state/country.
Me and my husband lived in Oakland for six months in the mid 70s. Fast forward x amount of years, my boyfriend and I drove to Alameda and stayed in a hotel to attend an antique show. We drove around and saw a side of Oakland that looked, in my view, like Lagos, Nigeria. The area we stayed in was ok, but it is evident that Oakland is going to hell fast.
Embarrassing, and I don’t even live in California. I guess all normal people can do at this point is flee. Abandon what you can’t sell, and flee for your life.
@mikeprice4103 Requiring a CCW is unconstitutional. We the people don't need the governments permission, its our God given right. The constitution exists to tell the government what they cannot do, not what the people cannot do. This is coming from a current and native Californian. Thankfully, I live in a conservative area and not this crime-ridden liberal hellhole.
OMG. Felt like I was RIGHT THERE!! thank you so much.....because I'm so glad you did. Have never seen a video like this...I almost felt like I was going to fall into Lake Merrit!.
I’m from Sacramento, Ca. I live in North Carolina now. To see the decline and the influx of homeless is absolutely devastating. When you close a Walmart store, that speaks volume. The city used to be beautiful, Lake Merritt, downtown Oakland. If you’re going to Sacramento you should stop in Vallejo and Richmond.
This is like the great depression. It’s amazing that all the government has to do is change the definition of a word and it disappears. It’s all over America.
I worked at one of the large hospitals in Oakland for several years in the years between 2012-2019. I used to take bart and walk down MacArthur blvd to work. I was a Caucasian women and never felt afraid. I loved stoping at the restaurants to get food for lunch or to bring home. I now understand the employees are now requested not to Leave for lunch due to the many crimes against employees So sad.
Crime has completely spiraled out of control the last 3-4 years. People don't even bother calling Oakland PD for property crime, retail theft, car break ins b/c they don't bother responding to those crimes anymore after Gavin Newscum basically legalized any theft under $950.
That was a weird hipster/gentrification trend time thats over now. Before that it was more like it is now. Its been on the top 10 dangerous list for 70 years
this is my experience as well, i still have warehouse space on the alameda side but rarely go to other areas, it was a very different place even 5 years ago..
I grew up near there, my mom worked in Oakland and it wasnt perfect but it wasnt so terrible in the 80s and 90s and as the years have gone on its become dystopian. Shanty towns not just in Oakland but all over the Bay Area. Its surreal how fast the Bay Area fell into ruin
Thank you so much for showing this place I have lived in the Bay Area my whole life and it has never been this bad. It’s amazing what leadership has done to this city
$900k median house price to live amongst crime, filth and squalor. For the same price in my Gulf Coast town you can get 3000 sq ft waterfront property, totally tricked out w/ pool, boat dock, etc but for this price you can also include a nice fishing boat or pontoon boat, and a late model car. Low taxes and even lower crime rate.
lol it’s not like you die if you go there. If you mind your business and don’t flash you’re a tourist you’ll be fine. Oakland is a beautiful place underneath the superficial stuff. Met some of the coolest people in my life there and they were way cool. Just no money.. blame capitalism and the greed that comes with it. For every person that holds wealth and uses their wealth to get more and more.. thousands of not millions have to be poor. It is what it is. Greed is what did this.
Very interesting and eye-opening, although there are some beautiful buildings downtown. The theatre is gorgeous ! Thanks for showing us around, Joe, much appreciated.❤
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Reprehensible and worrying images. This is the tragic fall and collapse of the western (woke) world. We experience the economical and cultural suicide here in Europe and the f*cking globalist cancerous tumor aka the European Union also for some time now.. 😒 btw, like the chill and relax way you narrating and edit your video’s my man. 👊🏼 p.s. Nice track @17:35 bro 😏
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Reprehensible and worrying images. This is the tragic fall and collapse of the western (woke) world. We experience the economical and cultural suicide here in Europe and the f*cking globalist cancerous tumor aka the European Union also for some time now.. 😒 btw, like the chill and relax way you narrating and edit your video’s my man. 👊🏼 p.s. Nice track @17:35 bro 😏 Shazam says The Veil by Beyond Valley.. but it’s a remix or edit if I may ask? :)
I used to live on 2nd Ave in Oakland in the late 60s. Huey Newton and the Black Panthers had the penthouse along Lake Merrit just about where you were taking those photos.
