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California Insider, hosted by Siyamak Khorrami, showcases leaders and professionals across the state with inside information about trending topics and critical issues. Our mission is to inform California residents through the experiences and knowledge of our guests.
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Residents Share What’s Happening in Oakland | Brenda Grisham | Ken Houston
"Crime is really out of control in Oakland. ... We've always had crime in Oakland, but crime was just a little bit different. ... You don't kill kids and you don't kill women. Now they're killing everybody," says Brenda Grisham, a homicide victim advocate.
Siyamak sits down with Grisham, an Oakland resident, and Leighton Woodhouse, an independent journalist and documentary filmmaker who has been covering the situation in the city. We also spoke with Ken Houston, founder of Oakland's Beautification Council and a third-generation Oakland resident, who has been affected by the city's high crime and vandalism.
"This is my home. So whoever's doing this out here, they're interfering with my neighborhood. This is not their neighborhood. We've got to take back our streets. The criminals don't run our city. ... This is our city," Houston says.
Join us as we delve into the crime situation in Oakland and discuss possible solutions.
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Siyamak sits down with Grisham, an Oakland resident, and Leighton Woodhouse, an independent journalist and documentary filmmaker who has been covering the situation in the city. We also spoke with Ken Houston, founder of Oakland's Beautification Council and a third-generation Oakland resident, who has been affected by the city's high crime and vandalism.
"This is my home. So whoever's doing this out here, they're interfering with my neighborhood. This is not their neighborhood. We've got to take back our streets. The criminals don't run our city. ... This is our city," Houston says.
Join us as we delve into the crime situation in Oakland and discuss possible solutions.
#oakland #publicsafety #bayarea #sonofoakland #beautificationcouncil #californianews #californiainsider #california
*Views expressed in this video/article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of California Insider.
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What’s Happening to Santa Monica? Mayor Explains | Phil Brock
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Siyamak sits down with Phil Brock, Mayor of Santa Monica, to discuss the city's approach to crime and homelessness and how he believes his city is still a thriving beach town for residents and tourists. Contrary to what you may hear, Santa Monica is not only open for business, but there is a tremendous amount of investment coming in. There's new housing on the way. We are a city that has gone t...
Why California Fires Are Getting Bigger | Jim Steele | Ian Faloona
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"What makes these fires bigger has a lot to do with how we've mismanaged the landscapes for the last 100 years. Fire suppression, changes in grazing patterns, loss of wetlands. We allow shrub lands and grasses to build up underneath it, add more fuel to the fire, and you have more urban development, just the more asphalt, the more cement you're raising temperatures," says professor Jim Steele, ...
California Man Figured out How to Deal With Squatters | Flash Shelton
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"Tenants have rights. The lines between tenants and squatters are blurred. Right now, squatters are taking advantage of the fact that California is a very tenant-friendly state," says @FlashShelton an anti-squatting activist who's an expert on the issue of squatting in California. Siyamak sits down with Shelton, who will share the loopholes in the law that allow squatters in California to take ...
What Is Behind the Retail Theft Surge and Can California Stop It? | Travis Gillmore | Rudy Blalock
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What Is Behind the Retail Theft Surge and Can California Stop It? | Travis Gillmore | Rudy Blalock
Should California Raise Minimum Wage to $18? Voters to Decide in November
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Should California Raise Minimum Wage to $18? Voters to Decide in November
California’s 2024 Ballot Initiatives Explained | Will Swaim
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California’s 2024 Ballot Initiatives Explained | Will Swaim
How Will the ADU Boom Impact Californians?
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How Will the ADU Boom Impact Californians?
How Californians Will Be Impacted by Budget Cuts | Travis Gillmore
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How Californians Will Be Impacted by Budget Cuts | Travis Gillmore
California New Way of Grading Sparks Controversy Among Parents, Teachers and School
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California New Way of Grading Sparks Controversy Among Parents, Teachers and School
California’s Zero Emission Mandate: Will it get postponed? | Heath Flora
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California’s Zero Emission Mandate: Will it get postponed? | Heath Flora
Where’s Los Angeles's Affordable Housing? | Amir Jawaherian
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Where’s Los Angeles's Affordable Housing? | Amir Jawaherian
California Teacher Explains How Difficult It is to Teach Critical Thinking in Schools| Sean Redmond
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California Teacher Explains How Difficult It is to Teach Critical Thinking in Schools| Sean Redmond
San Diegans' Initiative to Address Homelessness | George Mullen | Jon Lutack
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San Diegans' Initiative to Address Homelessness | George Mullen | Jon Lutack
A Former Insider's Perspective on San Francisco's Budget | John Farrell
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A Former Insider's Perspective on San Francisco's Budget | John Farrell
California Just Passed PAGA Reform. Here Is the Impact | Brian Maas | William Gould | Tom Manzo
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California Just Passed PAGA Reform. Here Is the Impact | Brian Maas | William Gould | Tom Manzo
Former California Inmate Explains How Hard It Is to Leave the Prison Gangs | Brian James
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Former California Inmate Explains How Hard It Is to Leave the Prison Gangs | Brian James
Can Oakland Come Back? | Ken Houston
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Can Oakland Come Back? | Ken Houston
Will Los Angeles Fix Homelessness After Settlement | Paul Webster
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Will Los Angeles Fix Homelessness After Settlement | Paul Webster
Court Strikes Down California Lot-Splitting Law SB9 | Jim Righeimer | Mark Miller | Dennis Robinson
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Court Strikes Down California Lot-Splitting Law SB9 | Jim Righeimer | Mark Miller | Dennis Robinson
How Much Impacts Latinos Have in California : New Study Reveals | Soledad Ursua | Gloria Romero
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How Much Impacts Latinos Have in California : New Study Reveals | Soledad Ursua | Gloria Romero
Los Angeles Store Owner Stopped Shoplifters Despite 81% Increase in Shoplifting | Fraser Ross
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Los Angeles Store Owner Stopped Shoplifters Despite 81% Increase in Shoplifting | Fraser Ross
Los Angeles Jail Turns Into the World's Largest Homeless Shelter | Nathan Hochman
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Los Angeles Jail Turns Into the World's Largest Homeless Shelter | Nathan Hochman
How California Makes It Illegal to Fight Crime: Sheriff Chad Bianco
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How California Makes It Illegal to Fight Crime: Sheriff Chad Bianco
California Cities Facing Cartel Style Illegal Growers in Neighborhoods | David Welch | Jake Fisher
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California Cities Facing Cartel Style Illegal Growers in Neighborhoods | David Welch | Jake Fisher
Why is California's Affordable Housing Mandate Becoming Controversial? | James Ardaiz
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Why is California's Affordable Housing Mandate Becoming Controversial? | James Ardaiz
Santa Monica Vice Mayor Explains How Cancel Culture Is Impacting the City | Lana Negrete
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Santa Monica Vice Mayor Explains How Cancel Culture Is Impacting the City | Lana Negrete
San Francisco Doom Loop: Is There a Way Out? | Tony Hall
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San Francisco Doom Loop: Is There a Way Out? | Tony Hall
California Owes $55 Billion on Unemployment Benefits | Will Swaim
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California Owes $55 Billion on Unemployment Benefits | Will Swaim
Why Californians Are Losing Their Home Insurance | Rex Frazier
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Why Californians Are Losing Their Home Insurance | Rex Frazier
What is happening to our country? 😭
Didn’t they want to defund the police at some point?
You buy a house, you lose the right to live in it. The squatter has the right, you do not. Squatters MADE the law and you agreed to it. They have the rights to live, you have the right to provide them with living.
Oakland is just a place you don't go to. There are already parts of the US you should not go to, Detroit, parts of Baltimore, areas around D.C. you just don't go there. The police can't protect you, so don't go in there.
What are assault rifles 🙄
I would get a second job and use housing in Fremont Milpitas for low income. I live in Fremont and mom's would move there to protect their child. OAKLAND dies not have the infrastructure to deal with crime, so leave.
Shut fair
Construction workers even quit working there on the roads because even they’re being robbed.
Who is committing these crimes?
Americans learning about small houses for the first time.
So in other words you a racist. If you think the colour if his make him a racist...then that is projection. And you did it again in the interview saying 'the stereotypical picture of what YOU would think a racist cop would look like'. Its YOU that thinks that, not the cop, not the interviewer, but you
They need more social workers
I was born in Oakland but I'll probably never go back. I left in the 1990's. I remember walking around on 96th Ave. East Oakland near 96th when I was a child. It was a nice place then, but last time I looked, it seemed like a slum. Very sad. All the nice old businesses I remembered from my childhood were gone.
That cop should be training everyone in the US
I don't understand. In every developed western nation, as part of proof that you live somewhere is the prove of pay. A lease isn't enough in the rest of the world. First, you have to show it, second it becomes void if you don't pay. So there is like a grace period for tenants depending on country between 1 and three months, but even people with real contracts and historical pay get thrown out if they miss too many payments. The police has to throw them out. The problem then becomes an enforcement issue. The legal stuff is figured out. Your laws don't make sense.
That community justice type of law enforcement is no joke.Look at what's going on in South America and Africa. it's the worst thing that could happen and yet they're pushing hard for that barbarian nightmare to take place here.....
I was flying out of SEATAC to visit family in the Bay Area. My seatmate was born & raised in east Oakland & left there with his children & moved to a place he had never been because he didn't want his kids growing up there. He was only going back to see his mother because she was dying & his sister begged him to, paid for his ticket. This was his home, with deep roots, but for his kids he said, no more.
Absolute madness. Thank you for bringing this craziness to our attention.
Excellent interviews. The only thing i dont agree with is calling people who serve the community "Politicians" leaders. They are public Servants. PLEASE, PLEASE from now on call them Servants. THEY ARE SERVANTS. NEWSOM IS A SERVANT, BONTA IS A SERVANT AND THE REST OF THE PUBLIC SERVANTS. They are the reason for all this chaos. Thier progressive ideology.
Oakland isn't even that bad. I've lived here my whole life and only been shot at twice!!
Crime was different back then because the cops were allowed to police the way Oakland needed to be policed but that has all been taken away by the liberals and bleeding heart liberals. Oakland is the best example of what any city can become when there is no parental responsibility, single motherhood, fatherless homes, poorest educational system, and the victim card.
My heart goes out to Ms. Grisham for the loss of her son ~ what a bold, strong woman.
You need to be locked and loaded driving through oakland these days. Sad.
Criminals are in control of Oakland should be the headline…
She is delusional and like everyone else in Oakland... they live on denial...it's hilarious..!!
My mom is 87 years old and shes afraid to go to lunch with me in Oakland ,shes the one who first told me about Mr Siyamak. Oakland has taken away my Moms faith in Religion .That Politicians can let this happen to law abiding good people ,thank you Mr Siyanak for caring and letting the people of the world know, this is not right
Oaklands the only city that allows smoke shops to pop up and ruin neighborhoods selling prostitution clothes and meth pipes all night, every time one gets hit they find dope and guns but no arrests r made ever!!!
Look who’s running the show in these 💩hole cities.
Newsom sleeps peacefully in Marin while people of Oakland sleep with ptsd and the smell of despair
Seems to me that people turn to crime because there are no jobs or not enough jobs available. Not because they are somehow crime-prone. No job, no money and you need money for food and housing and the basic necessities of life, I think there are not enough jobs because housing costs are too high. For example if I were a factory owner, why should I locate say my light assembly plant in the highest housing cost locations in the Country?. I'd have to pay my workers more so that they can afford the area rents, but by doing so as the Plant owner I am not competitive and will be outbid by some competing Plant owner somewhere else who doesn't have to pay his workers so much. My solution for solving homelessness, crime, drug use, and mental illness and lack of education would be a moratorium on foreign and corporate ownership of single family homes in California, and a high tax on second homes, and overbuilding normal (not housing for the homeless) physical housing units until the prices fall to levels where a minimum wage worker can actually buy on a 30 year mortgage an actual normal home, and they have ten choices to pick from and they are perpetually on offer.. Until that happens it is going to be difficult for any hiring companies to make it here and thus the lack of jobs will continue, as well as the accompanying crime,.
This needs to be on the November ballet. This is BS.
Oakland has have a hard time! No one has asked where has Harris been all this time! Or the governor? Hope they pick up and get back there community! This lady is awesome she knew goal! From a place and help it out!
The reason we have this problem is the government and elected officials. They have fed this nonsense to people that they don’t have to pay their rent, their student loan, their bills and that they deserve to not have to work and have everything for free. Until this mentality is crushed, this problem will never go away.
"You come in there [to rob the place] you might not make it out." I don't have a problem with this.
Sigh… the criminal is protected. There is a fine line between protecting owner’s rights and protecting tenants. I think that the key is defining what a tenant is and what a squatter is. I think that notarizing a lease at certain places so that random signatures aren’t accepted as notary.
We can’t rely on the government in Oakland to protect us. It’s proven that it doesn’t work. We need to be able to protect ourselves, LEGALLY.
Why the hell can't ALL police officers be like that? ;-;
Once U don't have any FEELINGS left ur dead light and Ur Soul Spirit Sun Temple essence has been consumed by AI Miasma demonic software possession and now it's a psycho pathic Universe killer
I was a very good tenant for over 25 years, always paid on time and took care of the unit. Yet, I still got cheated out and had to move out due to my property manager scamming me. So, I totally moved out of the state. Best decision. I hope my landlord gets one of this squatter in his new higher priced units.
I don’t understand. What stops someone from taking over your house when you go out shopping for a couple of hours?
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DON'T LET YOUR GAURD DOWN! Newscum is only seemingly stepping up due to the election-don't fool yourself California!
Remove God insert chaos.
The Chicken is running around frantically looking for it's head......Oakland will suffer the way of "the Detroit Syndrome " systemic Rot, inevitable , too late, Newsome made sure.
You get what you vote for oakland and SF. No one cares
Newscum (misspelled intentionally) created this disaster with his “no accountability” policies. Police officers have their hands tied and are not allowed to police because of his policies. The laws are present but not followed due to the lax liberal policies. Oakland and SF have been under liberal governance for decades and the crime, death, homelessness, drugs have all escalated. Now that Newscum wants to be president he wants to appear to step up with his right hand and with his left hand he balanced his corrupt budget by cutting funding further for our prisons. You think he cares about the residents of CA? Think again. We don’t have police because these liberal mayors thought it was a good idea to defund the police and hire social workers really people? The mayors are more interested in how to embezzle tax payer monies than run these cities and protect the residents. This is tragic! Stop voting for the people causing these problems or prepare to be run out of the state!
If the people wanna make a difference then join thr Oakland police department and quit voting for the same people thats kept California let alone Oakland in a huge mess because of how you voted. If you truly care about societal problems then doing something about it and quit complaining about them
Are they cutting down the police to funnel the money to combat global warming?
Never mentioned that Newsome WAS THE PROBLEM by taking away money for funding the police But, allowing immigrants in and of course giving them medical and money monthly as well as he supported the defunding of the police.. Don't these people get it?
The elected officials are too busy enriching them self’s & reaching for higher office, While Rome burns.