Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao's 1st five months in office 

My first task would be to get everyone to agree to increase the sentences for all crimes.

Why Californian keep complaining but reelecting Newsom to run the state,Lol

That Wood St "success" was due to the neighborhood pushing the city to do its job. She is definitely a no show if there's no photo op. No, Oaklanders know she is doing a bad job.

She has 2 full time police officers protecting her.

Her response to people feeling unsafe to even drive through Oakland is wild. “It happens everywhere,” “We have ambassadors walking the streets” ?????? This person is literally not doing anything about the crime wave. She won’t even take questions about the long wait times when people call 911 in Oakland. What a disgrace and a sorry excuse for a public servant. Is this what California Democrats have become?

she's doing nothing......Oakland streets are full of pot holes, crime is at its highest, I don't see more police presence...she seems clueless and soft and scared...WE NEED A MAYOR WITH COURAGE STRENGTH AND DETERMINATION SOMEONE WITH A STRONG HAND ON CRIMINALS...NOT THIS LADY!!!!

It will never matter. The city is too far gone. You can sit on BART smoking the hardest stuff imaginable openly, punch a PhD student in his mouth and steal his bike and be out on a $500 bond in 24 hours. No one wants to serve on the pd, certain portions of the community are entitled and the rest are apathetic and have enough money to hide in the hills. Mostly feel bad for the community in Little Saigon (albeit some of those folks aren’t the squeakiest with all the fencing ops driven by theft), the kids and the elderly

Those nonprofits are a joke. Just look and see how much the CEOs make. Wasting taxpayers money

We have high crime, then we get tough, then we let up (decarcelization, defund, etc), and then the high crime returns. We’ll be stuck on this cycle until something fundamental changes. What leaders have to tipetoe around is that it’s not really an issue of poverty or being “underserved”. It’s culture. It’s a culture that glamorizes crime, gangs, guns, violence, promiscuity (I’m not puritanical, I’m talking about sticking around to raise kids), and drugs. Poverty doesn’t mean you have to treat the people 10 blocks over as mortal enemies because they wear a different color. It doesn’t mean instead of finding a working class job you point a gun at people to take their things. Or take over the Bay Bridge. Or shoot toddlers on the freeway. That’s culture. Unfortunately cultures take decades to turn around.

Another ghost mayor that will make a tv appearance every now and then to show they are "working for the people"

She said "ambassadors" LMAO. That'll clean the city up.

Oakland has a mayor? I thought the position was vacant due to a lack of any kind of leadership. Same thoughts on the City Council.

No knock on her, but changing the mayor or the police chief in Oakland is like changing the Captain of the Titanic.

Oakland is such a wonderful community 😮

oh yeah, she is doing a great job, you can walk through Oakland and take an evening stroll only to end up in the morgue in the morning.

Nothing has changed it just keeps getting worse

Greg Lee has a very Americanized voice

Another failed politician!

Why the hell would anyone want that job! Instead of ducking around worrying about the A’s let’s recruit/ hire more police and build a prison or two!😡

we need a new mayor ASAP. She is clueless and is wasting time while the city continues to implode.

Late post,but less than 5 months and she was already asking for a raise.

There has been very little progress made in 2023 - potholes, graffiti, illegal dumping, crimes, homeless shanty towns have only proliferated under Mayor Sheng's leadership (the exact issues she guaranteed would be immediately addressed/fixed once she became mayor). It is all very disappointing- Oakland City Council has all of the power, not the Mayor.

Henry should’ve asked her what is gonna do about all these 👉🏻 👨🏿 N🥷🏿GGA’S & potholes in Oakland? 😡

Happening everywhere? What a dismissive answer. I accidenty left my car unlocked at pacific beach in San Diego for hours and nothing was taken. You can’t leave your car alone in Oakland for 30 seconds without some punk smashing your window.

When you have armed security and aren’t vilified for exercising your second amendment then for sure the fear won’t set in as much but for us civilians it’s hell different

If they talk like a politician, they're going to perform like a politician.

Easy to tackle this matter by having stronger law in Oakland.

It's Libby schaff 2.0

From long observation, it doesn't seem to make any difference what ineffectual liberal occupies the mayor's chair. The city government - and the city - just continues its long slow downward spiral.

That's just it though...it's not happening everywhere else as rampant as it is in Oakland and SF.

JUST PUT ALL YOUR FUNDS to increase the police and station every policeman 24/7 on every corners of businesses. PEOPLE WILL FEEL SAFE AND GO OUT AND SPEND MONEY. Crimes happens to certain community and neighborhood(too bad that's their culture. Can't fix and will never...) When people feel safe they will value their city more. Have more community get together each month fairs and activity where people meet up and connect.

Me, myself and my team? Oh boy…..

Front and back plates should be MANDATORY. Why is it not enforced? Including Teslas!!

his socks are cool

It's the Black culture. You fix that you fix everything.

A total failure

She could rehire the police chief who was wrongly fired for whistleblowing observed corruption prior to Armstrong.

She ISN'T doing anything.. Oakland looks like a land fill...

When soup dumpling gone wrong 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

She's clueless. Sits there talking about "plans" as anarchy erupts around her.

Democrat run cities. Real problems. No solutions. Republican run cities. Real solutions. No problems.

She's done a great job increasing homelessness, crime, and more problems. Keep it up !!!!!!

As long as thieves n criminals dont spend time in prison, nothing good will happen america.

What business is she seeking from her Vietnam tour??

She never directly answered his questions with ACTUAL solutions except "ambassadors". TF can ambassadors do? Are they taken seriously amongst the thugs?

You need to leave shame

i've noticed improvements to the roads and cleaned up areas - lots of work left to do but it's nice to ride my bike on a smooth road!

Thao will sell Oakland to the Chinese rebranding it as East San Francisco.

cyber security $10,000,000...lol

Good luck getting any good cops to sign up to work in oakland.

oakland is a lost cause, it's always and has been, she's trying her best, good for her 👍

Libby Schaaf has left her with a huge mess! She did nothing in the eight years she was mayor!

Yea we’ll see !! Another worthless Administrator… soft on crime taxes out of control!!

She’s so full of it hahaha

The Oakland got very bad for the last 30 years!! Good luck to clean up the mess!!

Lets see, past 5 mouths, Crime has gone up, Road condition have gotten worse, Drug activity gotten worse, Homeless camp are getting bigger. I know it's only been 5 mouths, but you have to be honest, by a grade stand point she at a F-

*Frogs In a Slow Simmering Pot = The United States*

shes in way over her head

Time to recall her

How about we stop electing officials who clearly arent American to run our states cities and police departments? Chinese jews indians hispanics ect why is this only happening in America

i completely sanction car side shows, at least the young folks have something to do besides destroying property....no pool halls, no arcades, no amusement parks, no water parks....the Raiders left, the A's are leaving...all big box stores are closing, no jobs, no profit motives, no big employers....

Laughable

After looking at Oakland this woman should hide her head in shame totally unacceptable as a mayor

Oakland need a mayor like Rudy Giuliani , he got rid of gangs and was very strict on crime in NY

She is doing something just watch

Lmaooo the way she stuttered when Tryna say OPD is very telli ng

I’m impressed. The metrics on helping homeless transition makes sense. The mayor has substance, not hype. Still crimes and homeless is a problem everywhere. Sad the A’s can’t be sold and stay in Oakland. Perhaps land and utility incentives to a new owner from the city?

Make oakland great again i remembrr as a child coming home from oukland 9 pm taking ac ytansit no one bothered me and my family everyone just kept to themselves.

Nothing has changed for the better. She’s maybe two years away from being able to gauge any positive change, IF she can even do any of the correct things that will help. She’s just babbling at this point.

She needs to hire Dirty Harry for police chief.

The mayor is not doing a good job! She needs to do better

Mayor Thao. Resign.

You did great with the Oakland As 😂😂😂😂😂 rip all your major league sport teams XDDDD

It's Oakland so it's a mess and that is expected.

Stealing American Indian Models School in Oakland Chinatown says it all

Un-housed is not a thing, so stop this BS.

Dear unpaid High School interns now apparently doing most of the work for the news : “..first 5 months …” is the more conventional/elegant way to write that.

JOAKLAND

Talk ... Talk....Talk .. blah ..blah ..blah..blah ... while good people outside are getting shot, stolen, burglarized, and vandalized .. decent people are putting the death bodies... mean while they keep.. talk .. talk ..talk ...

Enough with the ambasador talk all around California. We need to change the criminal laws and the police step up to enforce them. Only way to control this spiral out of control crime in the Democrat utopia.

No more pro.teams. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Thanks you For your Service ❤

the faces she's making is a telling me she's not mature yet.

And Oakland continues to burn… Democrat Utopia…

Maybe get a republican in office

Another person hired for her demographics and not her qualities.

Oakland needs a Mayer like Jerry Brown.

They done found the stroke Done found the Oakland stroke

She needs to reform the DA. Getting arrests from the police is prob not the problem. Keeping and getting those baddies in prison is the problem.

In a word: ABYSMAL 😂

Set this lady has arrived she's done absolutely nothing for the city of Oakland her in a district attorney needs to be recalled

She drank the black kool aid. O-Town deserves what they voted for.

Lol

Diversity hire. 😂

She has done alot it takes time

Managing a "chocolate city" is really tough. The Mayors of DC, Baltimore, Detroit. Philadelphia and Newark face similar obstacles.

Sheng will make changes trust shes done more than ive seen in years she will itll take time more cops pot holes are done and arrest are made more than ever ive seen just give her a chance

Looks like she’s at best qualified to run a dry cleaning store. At best.

As a resident of Oakland I'll tell you this mayor isn't doing jack shxt. Just another person preaching change only to sit back and watch the community suffer. Hope she gets recalled, we need REAL leaders with REAL policies SMH