I lived all over Oakland for well over 15 years and live up the road in Berkeley now. I also have a recording studio (that you rolled right by in your tour - but you wouldn't know it's there, very much on purpose!) Believe me when I say it's painful to see the massive inequity in the Town, because it really is a beautiful gem of a city in many ways. The dichotomy between a neighborhood like Temescal / N. Oakland where I lived for about 3 years and the neighborhood in E. Oakland / Fruitvale where my studio is heartbreaking. Every time I go, there are more and more unhoused folks essentially building an unsanctioned tent city all along 12th street and surrounding sidestreets. Lots of open air drug use and mental illness, as you'd expect. The thing that really sucks for me though is the underage prostitution. At any hour, there are dozens of girls, some - no kidding - that can't be more than 13-14 years old, stationed on corners wearing nothing but lingerie, even when it's freezing cold out. Sometimes I'll hand out a little money to them, just to try to help, but it's a horrible situation and the cops have totally given up. The OPD is both underfunded and mismanaged, and this is well known if you live here. I know this isn't the only city experiencing this. Our society is broken and it's a complex situation, but I believe it starts at the top. It shouldn't cost $2,500 a month to live in a modest 1-bedroom apartment, but here the landlords and the market rules. It's shameful that in a country with such immense wealth, we all basically accept that so many people will just fall through the cracks. Charity can't fix this, only better policies can. You can't force billionaires to help, but you can make them pay a fair share of the burdens in the society that made them embarrassingly rich. If there's another solution, I can't think of it. Any and all solutions start with economic decisions made at every level of government. Ignoring it will only lead to increasing dystopia and despair. I hope we can collectively choose a better way forward. Vote your conscience. Vote for real change and justice. Most of all, just vote, and help where you can.
And a adolescent approach to anthropology and culture will solve absolutely nothing. The worldview and policies you're advocating have created this dysfunction.
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.
@aliceswing7185 True, they shouldn’t have been thinly veiled at all. People need harsh truth to change, or else they’ll keep voting against their own interests.
I just wonder why after years and years of voting the same way, and things never improved (or got worse), they don't think "what have we got to lose?" and try voting a different way.
@@jeremyweems4916Business Owners don't want jobs. They want tax breaks. Jerry Brown was a horrible politician but he at least bought Businesses and was responsible for the Gentrification that created the Uptown district. Now Oakland is run by incompetent first generation Americans whose parents were immigrants. They don't care about the community. Their political jobs are opportunities for them and their immediate family through shady backroom deals. If your relative has a city job, you can be hired despite not being qualified. They also require that many positions are bilingual and they will disregard the fact that some don't even speak English because their family relative is a city employee.
The problem is that the thieves will wait for you when you get in your car and perform the smash and grab crime. This won't deter the thieves at all. They are just changing the point of attack and moving it from the stores to the cars whether or not the driver is in their car or not. No shame. Lawlessness at its finest.
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)
Homeless encampments and RV's are the worst to loiter around. Most of the people living there are harmless, but a small minority will pick fights with anybody who passes by. I had a man come out of a trailer on Washington St and quietly approach me with a baseball bat in hand while I was delivering some dude's calzone. Another man in an RV near Market St was swinging a huge steel pipe while trying to pick a fight with me. I've escaped every encounter I've had so far without injury, but I didn't have any need to stop either.
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!
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!
My friend also from Fresno (of all places) calls Oakland the armpit of CA. I'm FROM Oakland and it's never been clean or quaint, and I'm even shocked by how depressing some areas have become.
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?
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.”
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.
"Interview with ex-KGB Yuri Bezmenov: The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion (1984)". What the reprogrammed democrats are doing is all part of the plan to destroy USA from within by marxism tactics. "decriminalization of theft" = destroying entrepreneurship and free market.
commerce cannot exist with "law and order" = enforcement of contract. by letting everyone do whatever the hell they want, businesses will close. the people suffer, but no one seems to care.
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.
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.
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.
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.😢
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.
I'm an old timer born in Oakland in the 1930s. The town was beautiful, not crowded and very low crime rate. In fact, if a criminal committed 1st degree murder, they were executed at San Quentin. After the end of World War II, things started changing and slowly went downhill. People kept voting in the same city politicians that they were complaining about, and somehow, expecting positive changes. Today, with a very high crime rate, and of course including 1st degree murder, they can still receive the death penalty, but they know they won't get executed because we have a governor that refuses to sign the death warrant, even though it's the law! And yet . . . people still vote in a clown like "Gruesome Newsom", and expecting another positive change. Don't you folks want better people in office to try to get back some of our old time living standards? Get your heads out of your cell phones for some research before you vote in a few days. Good luck.
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
That stat concerning the NFL,NBA and Baseball teams is phenomenal,shocking actually,that's some grade A incompetence right there,I mean,that's a colossal amount of money the City bosses have flushed down the toilet,bravo.
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.
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...
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!!
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.
I remember when many people moved to Oakland from New Orleans after the hurricane and wondered how long they would last there. The are still a few nice areas of Oakland but they'll probably leave eventually. No one has a clue what to do about this city. Whatever is cleaned up or repaired by the city will not last. People and businesses in Oakland and the surrounding cities are leaving.
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? :)
@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..
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
I lived in Oakland for 18 years and watched the decline into shantytowns since the tech companies moved in and drove up all the rents, but the top level corruption is a big part of the decline. Living there the past 5 years was horrible, scary, and traumatizing. During the pandemic it got even worse. The city just gave up. Very sad. I moved 3 years ago and try to avoid it now if I can
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
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!.
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
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
8:05 ~ I was business owner of this two story building. I had reported to the city that a few encampments were established in the middle of the street behind my business and the city did nothing. In 2019, one of the encampment caugh fire and completely destory my business and the second floor was gone... Although the city of oakland collects the highest city business tax in the Bay Area and it didn't offer help at all. It only gave us citations for unsafe properties and fees for inspection and engineering. It made the victim suffer more. After the fire, "nearby resident" came stealing 7/24. We called cops many times and luckily they showed up once and ordered the thief "drop the merchandise and leave". No wonder crime rate went down, we learned calling cops is just wasted our time. We hired armed security but he quitted after one night because someone pointed a gun at his head and asked him to step away for 30 minutes. The fire report , for the sake of political correctness, did not even mention who started the fire even there were eyewitess and video footage. Thanks for the fire, I had moved all my businesses out of Oakland.
Thanks for showing some of the nicer areas of Oakland. The first half of your video was all the industrial side in the west. Much of the neighborhoods and downtown areas are quite nice. Haven’t been there in a few years but used to hang out at Jack London Square waiting for the train. It was a nice, high end shopping area.
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..
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
A very interesting video. I've seen a few of yours in the past, but having lived in Oakland through the 1980's and the first half of the 90's, this one touches 'home' a bit.
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 was born and raised here in Oakland 37 yrs now. The homeless problem have gotten worst since 2020 and yes the crime has gone up. It’s sad we lost our sports teams and some of my favorite restaurants closed down. The parts of Oakland in this video is the worst the hole city does not look like this. But we definitely have to do something about cleaning up the city. The buildings that look like Shanty Towns are called Tint City
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.
This is what the leadership of California want for all the big cities here. We Californians are being held captive to this, while paying top dollar for homes, property taxes, gas prices, food cost, etc, while getting nothing back. It’s nauseating, especially since the rhetoric of these leaders is they are sympathetic to the poor.
Like Joe said,who’s voting these people in? You lose 3 major sports teams and all their revenue. And Walmart moves out? They need a new sheriff in town and the National Guard.
It would appear that way, marksongbird, except no one I know vote for these people. That includes the many folks who would normally have, the voting system has many flaws. Just putting it out there.
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.
Wow. Looks like a 3rd world country. Unbelievable. Thanks for driving though this wasteland so you could show all of us the landscape from the safety of our homes.
Oakland has always been poorly run, and it's a shame. The have much better weather than San Francisco, being that they are on the sunny side of the bay.
Ranked-choice voting (RCV) for mayor and city council members (starting in 2010) have made Oakland even more poorly run. We have as many renters as home owners here, so the policies represent the "progressives" that do not prioritize public safety or economic development. Oakland is in terrible shape today and I do not see any relief in sight -- even if our mayor and DA are recalled successfully. All this in spite of the fact that the weather here is among the best in the nation (almost as good as San Diego!).
@@exeuropean Jerry Brown was mayor a few years after Three Strikes totally collapsed the crime rate in California in the mid 1990's. Not that many years before, late 1980's / early 1990's Oakland was even worse than it is now. Far more dangerous. Even places like the low teens on Telegraph downtown were rolling stops only at red lights in daytime due to risk of getting carjacked and most 880/680 offramps were into dont stop zone. Most of the flats were no go zones. Even worse than South Central LA at the time. Props 47/57 dismantled Three Strikes. Ranked voting and a DA who works for the gangs made the city ungovernable. The video shows the results.
As a Canadian who never left their country, places like California are always something I've romanticized in my own head. But seeing Oakland is a harsh reminder about the reality of the world. I don't think I'd make it too long in a place like Oakland at all. We have some stuff like this here. But its usually very small and contained. I've never seen or heard of it being a whole city in canada. There may be some bad cities. But NOTHING like Oakland. Still a really gorgeous downtown area. I hope things get better!
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.
Thanks for posting this. I was just thinking a few days it is kinda weird that I've lived in the Bay Area for decades and have been to Oakland maybe 3 times my whole life. Now I know why.
complete juxtaposition to san jose. Im born and raised in san jose and work in commercial real estate in the the lower peninsula. What's funny is that Oakland has one of the highest if not the highest property taxes in the CSA. Part of the composite tax rate includes a "violent crimes prevention" tax... The crappyness spreads to neighboring cities and it reflects on real estate prices and rents. Year over year rents in the city dropped 10% and its continuing to drop.
I lived all over Oakland for well over 15 years and live up the road in Berkeley now. I also have a recording studio (that you rolled right by in your tour - but you wouldn't know it's there, very much on purpose!) Believe me when I say it's painful to see the massive inequity in the Town, because it really is a beautiful gem of a city in many ways. The dichotomy between a neighborhood like Temescal / N. Oakland where I lived for about 3 years and the neighborhood in E. Oakland / Fruitvale where my studio is heartbreaking. Every time I go, there are more and more unhoused folks essentially building an unsanctioned tent city all along 12th street and surrounding sidestreets. Lots of open air drug use and mental illness, as you'd expect. The thing that really sucks for me though is the underage prostitution. At any hour, there are dozens of girls, some - no kidding - that can't be more than 13-14 years old, stationed on corners wearing nothing but lingerie, even when it's freezing cold out. Sometimes I'll hand out a little money to them, just to try to help, but it's a horrible situation and the cops have totally given up. The OPD is both underfunded and mismanaged, and this is well known if you live here. I know this isn't the only city experiencing this. Our society is broken and it's a complex situation, but I believe it starts at the top. It shouldn't cost $2,500 a month to live in a modest 1-bedroom apartment, but here the landlords and the market rules. It's shameful that in a country with such immense wealth, we all basically accept that so many people will just fall through the cracks. Charity can't fix this, only better policies can. You can't force billionaires to help, but you can make them pay a fair share of the burdens in the society that made them embarrassingly rich. If there's another solution, I can't think of it. Any and all solutions start with economic decisions made at every level of government. Ignoring it will only lead to increasing dystopia and despair. I hope we can collectively choose a better way forward. Vote your conscience. Vote for real change and justice. Most of all, just vote, and help where you can.
Paragraphs man.
And a adolescent approach to anthropology and culture will solve absolutely nothing. The worldview and policies you're advocating have created this dysfunction.
Bad Government created this.
@@mchristr, as opposed to letting the market and business/corporate interests doing as they please?
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.
I lived in Alameda and Lake Merit back in the 80's. Oakland was a working class town back then!
Agreed, but the thinly veiled divisive political slights were not necessary.
@aliceswing7185 True, they shouldn’t have been thinly veiled at all. People need harsh truth to change, or else they’ll keep voting against their own interests.
I just wonder why after years and years of voting the same way, and things never improved (or got worse), they don't think "what have we got to lose?" and try voting a different way.
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One problem with Oakland gov't is nepotism. They keep hiring all their incompetent relatives.
Not incompetent, straight up thieves.
Like Cleveland, OH
They're not incompetent. They're business people disguised as politicians.
ASIANS'.
@@jeremyweems4916Business Owners don't want jobs. They want tax breaks. Jerry Brown was a horrible politician but he at least bought Businesses and was responsible for the Gentrification that created the Uptown district. Now Oakland is run by incompetent first generation Americans whose parents were immigrants. They don't care about the community. Their political jobs are opportunities for them and their immediate family through shady backroom deals. If your relative has a city job, you can be hired despite not being qualified. They also require that many positions are bilingual and they will disregard the fact that some don't even speak English because their family relative is a city employee.
Oakland is the perfect example of the “Broken Window Theory.”
You allow the small crime to be tolerated and the big crime follows.
SF. Chicago. Baltimore. NY. Oakland What do they have in Common? Progressive Mayors. Enough said.
Wow and ppl are always conplaining about my small town but at least I can take my trash out at night😂
@@Dimythios Dude, don't blame it on the mayors. This is not a "one person" issue.
@@glennbourque111 You absolutely can and should be critical of leadership, as well you should those voters who enabled them.
The tough on crime response to this is going to be absolute and brutal, and not only accepted by the majority but demanded.
No city in America should ever look like this 😢
Excuse us while we give hundreds of billions of your tax dollars away to other countries like Israel and Ukraine.
Not in Tanzania either.
San Francisco makes his place look like a Country Club.
Nowhere in the world, but they do.
3rd world country
Home Depot in Oakland hires two official Oakland PD to stand out the door to stop robberies they are like the only people that can stop a shoplifter
Sometimes not as the DA will not prosecute arrested murders but sends them to counseling classes.
Mr. President we need you back 🙏
The problem is that the thieves will wait for you when you get in your car and perform the smash and grab crime. This won't deter the thieves at all. They are just changing the point of attack and moving it from the stores to the cars whether or not the driver is in their car or not. No shame. Lawlessness at its finest.
Home Depot use to be Kmart and that didn’t last in East Oakland either it closed in the early 2000s.
@@rosa3418 I haven't been inside a Kmart since the early 2000's, and I just moved to Oakland lol.
Calif spend 17.5 BILLION annually on less than 200,000. Homeless.
Someone is getting rich, and its NOT the homeless.
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)
Lot of hotdogs
You are a liar. About $20 billion in the last 5 years. Increase in homeless in California is less than half that of the national average. 5.8% vs 12%.
Another place not to get a flat tire. You're a brave man.
Homeless encampments and RV's are the worst to loiter around. Most of the people living there are harmless, but a small minority will pick fights with anybody who passes by. I had a man come out of a trailer on Washington St and quietly approach me with a baseball bat in hand while I was delivering some dude's calzone. Another man in an RV near Market St was swinging a huge steel pipe while trying to pick a fight with me. I've escaped every encounter I've had so far without injury, but I didn't have any need to stop either.
I lived in Oakland for over 20 years and never seen it this bad. One of the reasons I left. Oakland City Council should be ashamed.
Shame is for people with morals and ethics...
Well, look at WHAT kind of people they are.
500 cameras, for what? For video of people they won’t lock up.
What is the point of 500 cameras? I agree. No law enforcement will stop the crime in time if they ever do come out to the crime scene.
@@ConcernedNinerFan It's mostly the fault of the politicians. They have catch & release here in NY as well. A democrat run hellhole!
Gavin's thought 💭 I will put up 500 cameras in a company he is well invested! 🤦🏼
The Warriors left there a few years ago. The Raiders followed suit and now the A’s are the last to go. No professional sports teams left here.
Stop voting Democrat
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 ??
@@JulianShannon-xl4zc Crime isn't reported because nobody cares.
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!
Glad you got the footage and made it out safe man!! Safe travels!
Love the pauses and the style of narration. This is what a commentary should be like.
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.
The city could pay for the garbage to be cleaned up. Every where.
@@user-ii3vn8tn3qCorrect. Newsom did it to clean up the Bay area when China was coming to town.
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!
San Jose and Fremont are feeling the heat. I guess...voting does matter.
Man the shots from the streets as the above-ground train passing over are straight out of an 80s Arnie or Sly dystopian sci-fi flick.
Black Mad Max world.
Exactly my thoughts. But unlike movies, there are no heroes.
I’m from Fresno and I drove through Oakland a year ago after taking a wrong exit. It was shocking even for someone used to Fresno.
My friend also from Fresno (of all places) calls Oakland the armpit of CA. I'm FROM Oakland and it's never been clean or quaint, and I'm even shocked by how depressing some areas have become.
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?
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.”
This is how the Chocolates like to live.
@@TOCC50lmao theirs more white and Hispanics then blacks there but go off
@@TOCC50 WOW! I mistakenly thought we were in the twenty first century.
@@Dills1995 DNA doesn’t change
We’re not. We live in a time where people don’t know what a women is.
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.
Hopefully you didn't take any bad voting habits with you that would turn your new location into the shthole you got had to get away from.
@Feather-yk8suyou nailed it- anything “blue” is a sh**hole
@Jamie-qg1iq left is left
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.
Just recently, four Walmarts closed down in Chicago because of shoplifting, and other crimes.
"Interview with ex-KGB Yuri Bezmenov: The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion (1984)". What the reprogrammed democrats are doing is all part of the plan to destroy USA from within by marxism tactics. "decriminalization of theft" = destroying entrepreneurship and free market.
The California model of dystopia is expanding to everywhere in the United States ...
commerce cannot exist with "law and order" = enforcement of contract. by letting everyone do whatever the hell they want, businesses will close. the people suffer, but no one seems to care.
You have to really try hard as a city to force 3 major sports teams to leave. I don't think that's ever happened before. Great job!
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.
Glad, happy you made it!
I'm happy for you from another Black man.!
Was your butt sore?
@@monkeyking-self-proclaimed7050omg lol
Ok
The thing you notice about any city in California are the junky RV’s lined up on every curb.
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.
@jerroldjm etc.
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.
This is why I love the internet. I can sit in my living room and watch the series finale of the United States.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Just watching it now and it's frightening
You know it’s bad when a thriving business like In-N-Out picks up and leaves and cops are still in Crown Victorias.
Lol
I love the crown Victorias. Obviously unrelated I'm just a car guy
It's not the cops fault. They can't do their job. You should know that by now
The Crown Victoria police car is a prop. It sits there from time to time.
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.
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.😢
In a crap hole like that. Home values are are about 90 percent more then they are worth. The city is worth nothing
$913,000 for a shoebox 😂😂😂, hilarious but true.
Then move to an affordable city! Nothing says you have to live there. Move to Bunghole, Kentucky.
@@ms.annthrope415 many people are doing just that and Cali residents are leaving in droves. 😢
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.
What’s your company bruh?
@@LEBUMCHOKEDIN6FINALS applewood landscaping ask for Tig 😂
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.
@@gnericnuser lol
BTM
I'm an old timer born in Oakland in the 1930s. The town was beautiful, not crowded and very low crime rate. In fact, if a criminal committed 1st degree murder, they were executed at San Quentin. After the end of World War II, things started changing and slowly went downhill. People kept voting in the same city politicians that they were complaining about, and somehow, expecting positive changes. Today, with a very high crime rate, and of course including 1st degree murder, they can still receive the death penalty, but they know they won't get executed because we have a governor that refuses to sign the death warrant, even though it's the law! And yet . . . people still vote in a clown like "Gruesome Newsom", and expecting another positive change. Don't you folks want better people in office to try to get back some of our old time living standards? Get your heads out of your cell phones for some research before you vote in a few days. Good luck.
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.
These Demacrates ruin things all the time. They will do nothing to stop any kind of crime.It's who they are.
When exactly were the industrial areas next to the freeway beautiful?
@@mattroberts86 - He means the neighborhoods with houses and some of the downtown buildings ...
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...
@@Jigsjigz Oakland Mayor a demorat..just saying. 🤫
& things are even worse now in Oakland compared to last year
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.
@@FourKingAwwSum, perhaps it's time for blue states to stop subsidizing red states and let them sink on their own.
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!
Capitalism and greed.
@@or2akToo much welfare, taxes, restraints on business, social programmes, 'Big govt.' dragging on and stifling the economy.
Tax theft and robbing the us citizens..its SO VERY BLATANT 😂
I love your channel and the informative work you’re doing with it. Thanks so much.
Thanks for watching!
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
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.
Great job Joe and Nic. The statistical inserts were well done in supporting the visuals.
That stat concerning the NFL,NBA and Baseball teams is phenomenal,shocking actually,that's some grade A incompetence right there,I mean,that's a colossal amount of money the City bosses have flushed down the toilet,bravo.
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.
Too bad our governor has no balls, he just a slick car salesman who doesn’t make much sales and mostly screw up on the deals!
Living in Denver I see a lot of this 🌻
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...
They should demand their mayor clean this up. IM sure they pay big taxes
I left Oakland for the military for 6 years. When I came back... it was heartbreaking to see my city again.
My aunt, uncle and cousin left Oakland 30 years ago because it was getting bad. I can't imagine what it is like now.
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!!
feels demonic
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.
Sacramentooo.... I was just telling my husband while watching, I bet hes heading here & boom you announced it.
I remember when many people moved to Oakland from New Orleans after the hurricane and wondered how long they would last there. The are still a few nice areas of Oakland but they'll probably leave eventually. No one has a clue what to do about this city. Whatever is cleaned up or repaired by the city will not last. People and businesses in Oakland and the surrounding cities are leaving.
Very interesting and eye-opening, although there are some beautiful buildings downtown. The theatre is gorgeous ! Thanks for showing us around, Joe, much appreciated.❤
Thank you CL!
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Are you thinking of stopping through towns like Sausalito or Monterrey?
@@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? :)
Somebody making $35 an hour working 40 hours a week can't afford an apartment.
And you well know the Nimby's in Oakland are partly to blame. There's NImby's all over the entire Bay area.
This is true I live in the Bay Area
@@michaelellringer5600 what is a nimby’??
@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..
@@michaelellringer5600💯💯💯
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.
Same agenda in Chile
I heard that in NY they fault the innocent person for defending themselves against nutbags 😂. This country just doesn't make sense anymore 😒😒.
The Democratic Party has gone full blown communist Socialist
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
@@annt.7785 you probably beilieve everything youre told and what they show on. Tv like a good mindless sheep. Keep it up...
I lived in Oakland for 18 years and watched the decline into shantytowns since the tech companies moved in and drove up all the rents, but the top level corruption is a big part of the decline. Living there the past 5 years was horrible, scary, and traumatizing. During the pandemic it got even worse. The city just gave up. Very sad. I moved 3 years ago and try to avoid it now if I can
not safe until Trump returns or Gavin Gruesome ends
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
Murder is not a crime. Parking at an expired meter is.
Football returns to Oakland! The Oakland Looters vs the Washington Carjackers!
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!.
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
I agree ! All caused by the evil corrupt government!!!
The potential for out of control crime is a constant. Good leadership just keeps it in check.
It was worse in the 90s
Did you vote for it.. if so then you have no one to blame but yourself.
U must not have been around that long. Crime was way worse in the 80s/90s. Google the stats
When I was a young 21-year-old sailor I used to hang out at the Black Saddle bar in Oakland. The place is so different now then then in 1963.
Indeed! Cant even smoke indoor anymore!
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.
"Ron" RM3 From OR Division USS Ranger CVA-61. Went on to spend 29yrs 9 months and 18 days before retirement from the USN @@SailorSam41
@@SailorSam41"Ron" also 81. RM3 in OR Division USS Ranger CVA-61.
@@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.
Irresponsible government management.
That and irresponsible voters!
Yes, it would help to silence the anti-development Nimby's in Oakland!
Cali is done 😩🤮🤷🏿♂️
@@rickreese5794 yeah because one bad city represents the whole state, do you know how large California is?
Votes produce outcomes.
That Fox theater is beautiful inside. It has been 20 years since i was there
20 years ago I spent some time in Dominican Republic. Literally nowhere I saw anything comparable to this.
I mean Haiti is on the other side and just about the same.
@@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.
@@ScubaSteveCanada Pretty sure some dude was caught in CA last week eating someones leg like a zombie. So no , not that far off.
And literally everything you said about Haiti can be said about Oakland.
@@ScottyBennitone Yikes, I had to google it!
@11:08 They started SNAPPIN on you 😂...HILARIOUS she said why you recording us-he said its 9 am
Sad to see Oakland's downfall. Happy to see you got out unscathed. Take care
You act like riding around in Oakland in a car is an act of bravery. I have ridden my bicycle on similar routes and was not scared.
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.
Ooooooh never going back again
Oakland's downfall is America's downfall.
There is definitely greed alright 👃
This reminds me a whole lot of Seattle in pretty much the same condition now and seems to be getting worse everyday.
The really scary thing is that the government says everything is great.
they did this so of course they are gaslighting everyone.
FJB
Politicians in Oakland don't shop at Walmart anyway, so no great loss.
"Leading the nation" is another thing they often say. It's just opposites day with California liberals.
They are so brain dead or just corrupt pick it?
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.
What gets me is the working girls were like “wtf? Cussing you out as if “you’re” the gross being. Hahaha. Gotta love it.
At least they are putting in work
Wat ya'll doin filming us? I is in a a public place!! Oh. Wait. You are in a public place.
Coming from a guy who's username is "westcoastg4life", I am not surprised lmao@@westcoastg4life
@@westcoastg4lifeat least, eww, it's that kind of mentality the reason this place looks like hell.
"At least"... bare minimum effort and ability
I really enjoyed this video for its overall tone and for its frank and unbiased tour of the worst and the best parts of the city.
I was in Oakland, briefly, when I was in the Army five decades ago. Surprised at city street after street with no people out in broad daylight.
Watching your channel from South Vietnam, I like it a lot, very interesting to understand more about The USA. Thanks, good luck to you all!
Working girls at 9:30 in the morning? I guess the early bird really does get the worm! 😆
LOL
Lmao 🤣
Now I feel awful when I sleep in. Someone out there is always outworking you!
Literal worm 🐛
Early bird gets worms.
8:05 ~ I was business owner of this two story building. I had reported to the city that a few encampments were established in the middle of the street behind my business and the city did nothing. In 2019, one of the encampment caugh fire and completely destory my business and the second floor was gone...
Although the city of oakland collects the highest city business tax in the Bay Area and it didn't offer help at all. It only gave us citations for unsafe properties and fees for inspection and engineering. It made the victim suffer more. After the fire, "nearby resident" came stealing 7/24. We called cops many times and luckily they showed up once and ordered the thief "drop the merchandise and leave". No wonder crime rate went down, we learned calling cops is just wasted our time. We hired armed security but he quitted after one night because someone pointed a gun at his head and asked him to step away for 30 minutes. The fire report , for the sake of political correctness, did not even mention who started the fire even there were eyewitess and video footage. Thanks for the fire, I had moved all my businesses out of Oakland.
@ckinwong Unbelievable I believe you tho, crazy
We have a Fox Theater here in Spokane Washington. Built in 1926 and restored to its glory in 1998 . It has once again become a downtown jewel.
No, they probably steal the spray paint. 😅
😂
@@matthew1er Oh, I guess "stealing" was deemed offensive. Don't want to offend the thugs, now, do we?
Your a brave man running around Oakland
Or maybe Joe has just lost his mind. :)
😅@@RandyFelts2121
I said that at 11:11😅
You're
thats a day time and hes in a car... wheres the bravery?
Thanks for showing some of the nicer areas of Oakland. The first half of your video was all the industrial side in the west. Much of the neighborhoods and downtown areas are quite nice. Haven’t been there in a few years but used to hang out at Jack London Square waiting for the train. It was a nice, high end shopping area.
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.
So you was a Caucasian lady? What are you now?
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..
Blm is wonderful
Excellence tour of Oakland California
Looks like Haiti
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
As do the residents of Oakland.
Clinton Foundation on the way!
And many parts of France and Italy 😂😂.
It doesn’t look like Haiti Don’t exaggerate.
Gavin/Harris 🤦🏼🤦🏼🤦🏼🤦🏼 worthless pair of politicians🤦🏼🤦🏼🤦🏼
Thank you for another great video. We appreciate all the homework you do to educate us on these cities!
I was born there in 52 when it was safe and beautiful.
3 of my aunts thrived safely in East Oakland at one point.
Welcome to the democrat's vision for America !
Thanks for posting this. Having lived in Oakland many years ago, I wish you had given the names of the streets as you drove and walked through.
A very interesting video. I've seen a few of yours in the past, but having lived in Oakland through the 1980's and the first half of the 90's, this one touches 'home' a bit.
Thank you so much for just simply telling the truth. We as a nation must face hard truths.thanks again!
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.
So it turned like this during Bidens admin?
I was born and raised here in Oakland 37 yrs now. The homeless problem have gotten worst since 2020 and yes the crime has gone up. It’s sad we lost our sports teams and some of my favorite restaurants closed down. The parts of Oakland in this video is the worst the hole city does not look like this. But we definitely have to do something about cleaning up the city. The buildings that look like Shanty Towns are called Tint City
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.
This is what the leadership of California want for all the big cities here. We Californians are being held captive to this, while paying top dollar for homes, property taxes, gas prices, food cost, etc, while getting nothing back. It’s nauseating, especially since the rhetoric of these leaders is they are sympathetic to the poor.
They get what they vote for.
Like Joe said,who’s voting these people in? You lose 3 major sports teams and all their revenue. And Walmart moves out? They need a new sheriff in town and the National Guard.
It would appear that way, marksongbird, except no one I know vote for these people. That includes the many folks who would normally have, the voting system has many flaws. Just putting it out there.
Why don't you leave Ca.? I did long before it got worse than it was way back in the 70's!!!
1st time shame on city, 2nd-1000th time shame on voting citizens.
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.
Actually New York was the first movie in 1981.
@@michael931 Seriously I can't believe they didn't know that Escape From New York was first... especially since it was the better movie.
Check out the high-end RV, is that the neighborhood dealer?
Wow. Looks like a 3rd world country. Unbelievable. Thanks for driving though this wasteland so you could show all of us the landscape from the safety of our homes.
Oakland has always been poorly run, and it's a shame. The have much better weather than San Francisco, being that they are on the sunny side of the bay.
Back inthe day when Brown was mayor it was pretty good. After that yes it went to hell.
Ranked-choice voting (RCV) for mayor and city council members (starting in 2010) have made Oakland even more poorly run. We have as many renters as home owners here, so the policies represent the "progressives" that do not prioritize public safety or economic development. Oakland is in terrible shape today and I do not see any relief in sight -- even if our mayor and DA are recalled successfully. All this in spite of the fact that the weather here is among the best in the nation (almost as good as San Diego!).
It would help to silence the Nimby's. That Lake in Oakland, Merrit, just try and propose a new high rise around that lake! See how far that goes!
Yeah that's a heck of a nice piece of real estate that they are letting go to hell.
@@exeuropean Jerry Brown was mayor a few years after Three Strikes totally collapsed the crime rate in California in the mid 1990's. Not that many years before, late 1980's / early 1990's Oakland was even worse than it is now. Far more dangerous. Even places like the low teens on Telegraph downtown were rolling stops only at red lights in daytime due to risk of getting carjacked and most 880/680 offramps were into dont stop zone. Most of the flats were no go zones. Even worse than South Central LA at the time. Props 47/57 dismantled Three Strikes. Ranked voting and a DA who works for the gangs made the city ungovernable. The video shows the results.
How does a city lose three sports teams and an In And Out Burger in five years? Run it like Oakland, that’s how.
The 13% came in and did their thing, that's how.
As a Canadian who never left their country, places like California are always something I've romanticized in my own head. But seeing Oakland is a harsh reminder about the reality of the world. I don't think I'd make it too long in a place like Oakland at all. We have some stuff like this here. But its usually very small and contained. I've never seen or heard of it being a whole city in canada. There may be some bad cities. But NOTHING like Oakland. Still a really gorgeous downtown area. I hope things get better!
You are a brave dude for doing a you tube video there. Nice video for informing us how bad and unsafe it is there.
pretty bad when dennys closes after 50 years
1,000 Shell stations are closing
When Waffle House leaves you know it’s bad
I guess Pawn Shops are the last to go.
@@rickysampson8759waffle house was never in Oakland or California in general
@@TOCC50 damn😲 California's going down
This is what “criminal justice reform” looks like.
No it's unfettered capitalism
I live about 40 miles from there. Now I know where to chuck my old couches and mattresses for free. The dump near my house charges $30 each for those.
GAVIN NEWSOM DID IT
Oh it’s wayyyyyy deeper than that
That's only one of the bad Demon RAT, a lot more than that!
That's his ticket to the Whitehouse.
Voters did it to themselves!!
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.
Thanks for posting this. I was just thinking a few days it is kinda weird that I've lived in the Bay Area for decades and have been to Oakland maybe 3 times my whole life. Now I know why.
complete juxtaposition to san jose. Im born and raised in san jose and work in commercial real estate in the the lower peninsula. What's funny is that Oakland has one of the highest if not the highest property taxes in the CSA. Part of the composite tax rate includes a "violent crimes prevention" tax... The crappyness spreads to neighboring cities and it reflects on real estate prices and rents. Year over year rents in the city dropped 10% and its continuing to drop.