The really scary thing is that the government says everything is great.

@thetr00per30

21 күн бұрын

they did this so of course they are gaslighting everyone.

@StevieD1x

18 күн бұрын

FJB

@jameshayden3952

18 күн бұрын

Politicians in Oakland don't shop at Walmart anyway, so no great loss.

@mikeg3439

17 күн бұрын

"Leading the nation" is another thing they often say. It's just opposites day with California liberals.

@walterwhite1

14 күн бұрын

They are so brain dead or just corrupt pick it?

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.

@messenoir804

20 күн бұрын

Same agenda in Chile

@annt.7785

16 күн бұрын

I heard that in NY they fault the innocent person for defending themselves against nutbags 😂. This country just doesn't make sense anymore 😒😒.

@user-xu1ol3pn1e

14 күн бұрын

The Democratic Party has gone full blown communist Socialist

@sepperD3

14 күн бұрын

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

@J_h_420

13 күн бұрын

​​@@annt.7785 you probably beilieve everything youre told and what they show on. Tv like a good mindless sheep. Keep it up...

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.

@donchoq

11 күн бұрын

I lived in Alameda and Lake Merit back in the 80's. Oakland was a working class town back then!

No city in America should ever look like this 😢

@electronicpizzaparlor

20 сағат бұрын

Excuse us while we give hundreds of billions of your tax dollars away to other countries like Israel and Ukraine.

Oakland is the perfect example of the “Broken Window Theory.” You allow the small crime to be tolerated and the big crime follows.

@Dimythios

Ай бұрын

SF. Chicago. Baltimore. NY. Oakland What do they have in Common? Progressive Mayors. Enough said.

@benda777nba

Ай бұрын

Wow and ppl are always conplaining about my small town but at least I can take my trash out at night😂

@glennbourque111

Ай бұрын

@@Dimythios Dude, don't blame it on the mayors. This is not a "one person" issue.

@frankbergmanII

Ай бұрын

@@glennbourque111 You absolutely can and should be critical of leadership, as well you should those voters who enabled them.

@frankbergmanII

Ай бұрын

The tough on crime response to this is going to be absolute and brutal, and not only accepted by the majority but demanded.

This is what “criminal justice reform” looks like.

You know it’s bad when a thriving business like In-N-Out picks up and leaves and cops are still in Crown Victorias.

@adrukova1407

Ай бұрын

Lol

@knucklestheechidna5718

27 күн бұрын

I love the crown Victorias. Obviously unrelated I'm just a car guy

@annabellesanchez8011

21 күн бұрын

It's not the cops fault. They can't do their job. You should know that by now

@jfreeman1689

19 күн бұрын

The Crown Victoria police car is a prop. It sits there from time to time.

Just because you have a degree don't mean you are educated.

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.

@paulazajac9155

Ай бұрын

Glad, happy you made it!

@aaronwilliams6989

Ай бұрын

I'm happy for you from another Black man.!

@monkeyking-self-proclaimed7050

Ай бұрын

Was your butt sore?

@julieann4616

Ай бұрын

@@monkeyking-self-proclaimed7050omg lol

@willowufgood261

Ай бұрын

Ok

Calif spend 17.5 BILLION annually on less than 200,000. Homeless. Someone is getting rich, and its NOT the homeless.

@marcodarko6941

Ай бұрын

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.

@user-ii3vn8tn3q

Ай бұрын

@@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/

@user-ii3vn8tn3q

Ай бұрын

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)

@davesbainrps6909

Ай бұрын

Lot of hotdogs

@mattroberts86

Ай бұрын

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%.

What gets me is the working girls were like “wtf? Cussing you out as if “you’re” the gross being. Hahaha. Gotta love it.

@westcoastg4life

13 күн бұрын

At least they are putting in work

@robkeysnj

4 күн бұрын

Wat ya'll doin filming us? I is in a a public place!! Oh. Wait. You are in a public place.

One problem with Oakland gov't is nepotism. They keep hiring all their incompetent relatives.

@jameshayden3952

18 күн бұрын

Not incompetent, straight up thieves.

@phylliselizahb1041

14 күн бұрын

Like Cleveland, OH

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.

@marcodarko6941

Ай бұрын

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.

@cindytrayer4279

Ай бұрын

@Feather-yk8suyou nailed it- anything “blue” is a sh**hole

@cindytrayer4279

27 күн бұрын

@Jamie-qg1iq left is left

@mr.lonewolf1754

22 күн бұрын

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.

@yosra3551

21 күн бұрын

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.

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.

@user-ii3vn8tn3q

Ай бұрын

The city could pay for the garbage to be cleaned up. Every where.

@denniswaterman3982

Ай бұрын

​@@user-ii3vn8tn3qCorrect. Newsom did it to clean up the Bay area when China was coming to town.

@danieltracy7136

Ай бұрын

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

@healthyone100

Ай бұрын

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!

@Baebon6259

Ай бұрын

San Jose and Fremont are feeling the heat. I guess...voting does matter.

Just recently, four Walmarts closed down in Chicago because of shoplifting, and other crimes.

GAVIN NEWSOM DID IT

@leslielearnorth

19 күн бұрын

Oh it’s wayyyyyy deeper than that

@EastLakeWatch

18 күн бұрын

That's only one of the bad Demon RAT, a lot more than that!

@jameshayden3952

18 күн бұрын

That's his ticket to the Whitehouse.

@johnjohnson2855

16 күн бұрын

Voters did it to themselves!!

@ricardofierro7041

13 күн бұрын

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 SHOW be more Proud of Their neighborhood and keep it presentable.

You nailed this headline. Over 14,000 ABANDONED cars in 78 square miles; the third world city….City of Oakland. And companies in downtown telling employees “do not leave your building for lunch.”

@TOCC50

Ай бұрын

This is how the Chocolates like to live.

@jeromefym9548

Ай бұрын

@@TOCC50lmao theirs more white and Hispanics then blacks there but go off

@Dills1995

Ай бұрын

@@TOCC50 WOW! I mistakenly thought we were in the twenty first century.

@TOCC50

Ай бұрын

@@Dills1995 DNA doesn’t change

@jongallardo8006

Ай бұрын

We’re not. We live in a time where people don’t know what a women is.

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.

@markhall6306

Ай бұрын

Stop voting Democrat

@JulianShannon-xl4zc

Ай бұрын

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 ??

@louiscypher4186

Ай бұрын

@@JulianShannon-xl4zc Crime isn't reported because nobody cares.

@midcenturymodern9330

Ай бұрын

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!

@user-uo7fw5bo1o

Ай бұрын

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!

How does a city lose three sports teams and an In And Out Burger in five years? Run it like Oakland, that’s how.

@lefkytheshin

12 күн бұрын

The 13% came in and did their thing, that's how.

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.

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

@user-uj5kn6co5q

22 күн бұрын

Sometimes not as the DA will not prosecute arrested murders but sends them to counseling classes.

@user-no8ol4rl4w

6 күн бұрын

Mr. President we need you back 🙏

Another place not to get a flat tire. You're a brave man.

Homelessness is a big money maker so it is always encouraged by city officials. Just follow up money and it always ends with taxpayers dollars in the pockets of politicians 😢

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.

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.

@hadlee189

Ай бұрын

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.

@user-fh6gt2gz1i

Ай бұрын

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.

@user-fh6gt2gz1i

Ай бұрын

@jerroldjm etc.

@lanpartyanimal5215

Ай бұрын

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...

@georgeburns7251

Ай бұрын

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.

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.

@jameshayden3952

18 күн бұрын

Black Mad Max world.

@redwood_shores

2 күн бұрын

Exactly my thoughts. But unlike movies, there are no heroes.

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?

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.

@LEBUMCHOKEDIN6FINALS

Ай бұрын

What’s your company bruh?

@gnericnuser

Ай бұрын

@@LEBUMCHOKEDIN6FINALS applewood landscaping ask for Tig 😂

@mrseaweed5587

Ай бұрын

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.

@LEBUMCHOKEDIN6FINALS

Ай бұрын

@@gnericnuser lol

@SandorVitez

Ай бұрын

BTM

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.😢

@sheryljeanne

26 күн бұрын

In a crap hole like that. Home values are are about 90 percent more then they are worth. The city is worth nothing

@annt.7785

16 күн бұрын

$913,000 for a shoebox 😂😂😂, hilarious but true.

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 grew up in Oakland. Lived there until around 1970. As a kids we road our bicycles all over the city without any thought of trouble. There was a creek running through our yard that terminated at Lake Merit. Can't even guess how many times we followed that creek down to the lake. And the other end of that creek originated in Mountainview Cemetery. We used to walk to the Fox theater downtown, about 6 miles from our childhood home. LOL. Preaching to the Oakland citizens is useless. One of my sisters still lives in CA, and she doesn't see how this happened. We live in Arizona now. And get lots of CA people moving here, I just pray they stop voting for the things that got CA in trouble. But so far, it seems the reason they left hasn't changed their voting habits. Thanks for the tour. You have confirmed the picture I had in my mind's eye. Now I wonder how or why anyone would go there without an armed security detail. We left the state and haven't looked back.

Somebody making $35 an hour working 40 hours a week can't afford an apartment.

@michaelellringer5600

Ай бұрын

And you well know the Nimby's in Oakland are partly to blame. There's NImby's all over the entire Bay area.

@hansolo189-6

Ай бұрын

This is true I live in the Bay Area

@trentdawg2832

Ай бұрын

@@michaelellringer5600 what is a nimby’??

@jennifertarin4707

Ай бұрын

​@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..

@AuntieMamies

Ай бұрын

​@@michaelellringer5600💯💯💯

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.

Oakland needs its own Mayor Rudy - Pre Rudy in NYC...crack, filth, and crime.

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

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.

@Jigsjigz

Ай бұрын

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...

@zoidmo3388

Ай бұрын

@@Jigsjigz Oakland Mayor a demorat..just saying. 🤫

@FourKingAwwSum

Ай бұрын

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.

@davidbartlett8920

Ай бұрын

@@FourKingAwwSum, perhaps it's time for blue states to stop subsidizing red states and let them sink on their own.

@ArtificialFertilizer

Ай бұрын

@@FourKingAwwSum Of course, they deserve the worst because they didn't vote on your favourite party. Such an idiotic way of thinking, my god. Also - it's not like the places voting red aren't affected by increased crime (e.g. Jacksonville), just big cities mostly don't vote conservative.

Irresponsible government management.

@travisadams4470

Ай бұрын

That and irresponsible voters!

@michaelellringer5600

Ай бұрын

Yes, it would help to silence the anti-development Nimby's in Oakland!

@rickreese5794

Ай бұрын

Cali is done 😩🤮🤷🏿‍♂️

@LEBUMCHOKEDIN6FINALS

Ай бұрын

@@rickreese5794 yeah because one bad city represents the whole state, do you know how large California is?

@rinzler9775

Ай бұрын

Votes produce outcomes.

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.

Smart safety move doing your tour of Oakland's finest attractions nice and early in the morning. Try that at night, and you're liable to get jacked or even worse.

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.

@snorky4506

Ай бұрын

because it's unbelievably nice here

@auggie803

Ай бұрын

These Demacrates ruin things all the time. They will do nothing to stop any kind of crime.It's who they are.

@mattroberts86

Ай бұрын

When exactly were the industrial areas next to the freeway beautiful?

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

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.

Looks like Haiti

@leslielearnorth

19 күн бұрын

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

@markknowlton7128

19 күн бұрын

As do the residents of Oakland.

@jameshayden3952

18 күн бұрын

Clinton Foundation on the way!

@annt.7785

16 күн бұрын

And many parts of France and Italy 😂😂.

@sylviathompson100

16 күн бұрын

It doesn’t look like Haiti Don’t exaggerate.

Glad you got the footage and made it out safe man!! Safe travels!

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.

For an European it’s interesting to see this American way of life.

@annt.7785

16 күн бұрын

There's homelessness all over the world. For you to think this is how all 50 states are, in one country is very puzzling. For you to think that all of us are living among this, is very odd 😮‍💨😮‍💨.

@sylviathompson100

16 күн бұрын

Where in Europe do you live? Because, a lot of places in Europe are pretty bad, A lot of homeless and druggies living in the street, like, Brighton seaside London,Birmingham , Jaywick E. London , West Bromwich, Greta Green, South Wales etc. etc. Moscow Germany pretty bad over there. So please don’t judge if you don’t know your own country, don’t forget drugs are all over the world. I am from the USA and I’m very proud to be an American, BTW my town is Beautiful and clean.

@chicagomike

13 күн бұрын

This is not average American way of life.

@ernst91

8 күн бұрын

Exactly why we should stop giving Europe money.

@francescapowell1538

Күн бұрын

@@annt.7785To be fair Beverly Hills ain’t looking much better from the videos I’ve seen on here… everything is closing down. America looks to be failing.

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.

My aunt, uncle and cousin left Oakland 30 years ago because it was getting bad. I can't imagine what it is like now.

@giraffesinc.2193

Ай бұрын

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!

@Swampster70

Ай бұрын

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.

@daveb7577

Ай бұрын

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!!

@karlamckinney1374

Ай бұрын

feels demonic

20 years ago I spent some time in Dominican Republic. Literally nowhere I saw anything comparable to this.

@ScottyBennitone

Ай бұрын

I mean Haiti is on the other side and just about the same.

@StephenShawCanada

Ай бұрын

@@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.

@ScottyBennitone

Ай бұрын

@@StephenShawCanada Pretty sure some dude was caught in CA last week eating someones leg like a zombie. So no , not that far off.

@ScottyBennitone

Ай бұрын

And literally everything you said about Haiti can be said about Oakland.

@jessiejoseph1093

Ай бұрын

@@ScottyBennitone Yikes, I had to google it!

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.

It's good to see folks getting what they voted for!👏🤗

Working girls at 9:30 in the morning? I guess the early bird really does get the worm! 😆

@bayoumanbryan

Ай бұрын

LOL

@24LindseyTribett24

Ай бұрын

Lmao 🤣

@InJunoWeTrust

Ай бұрын

Now I feel awful when I sleep in. Someone out there is always outworking you!

@SaltySouthTexan

Ай бұрын

Literal worm 🐛

@Aieshoo

29 күн бұрын

Early bird gets worms.

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!

@or2ak

24 күн бұрын

Capitalism and greed.

@lightningstrikes7314

22 күн бұрын

​@@or2akToo much welfare, taxes, restraints on business, social programmes, 'Big govt.' dragging on and stifling the economy.

@BadChad52

20 күн бұрын

Tax theft and robbing the us citizens..its SO VERY BLATANT 😂

I worked in Oakland by The Claremont Hills for a few months before my company moved to San leandro. I would go for walks during my lunch and I never had anything happen. That area wasn't too bad but I know the rest of it isn't as nice. On my drive through Downtown Oakland from San Leandro I do see a shanty town on the side of the freeway My dad also works in Oakland for Waste Management and he sees things beyond belief LOL

Kamala Harris will fix it.

@danatchison8853

16 күн бұрын

She can't fix her self , or anything else for that, nothing, fix the laugh too.

No, they probably steal the spray paint. 😅

@xoxoxoxoxo7997

27 күн бұрын

😂

@matthew1er

25 күн бұрын

It's called racking . They rack the paint lol "aka stealing

@lefkytheshin

12 күн бұрын

@@matthew1er Oh, I guess "stealing" was deemed offensive. Don't want to offend the thugs, now, do we?

Right at that corner with the working girls are the best Vietnamese sandwiches, aka Banh Mi in town. It’s the very outskirts of Little Saigon and used to have some amazing southeast Asian restaurants that went out of business due to crime. The government is just pathetic. Pre-pandemic, Oakland was thriving. Chinatown was thriving. Lots of new restaurants. I really hope things pick up. The weather is amazing year round.

OMG you got to Oakland. Love your videos keep goin!

Living in Denver I see a lot of this 🌻

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.

@elbuggo

Ай бұрын

Indeed! Cant even smoke indoor anymore!

@SailorSam41

Ай бұрын

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

Ай бұрын

"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

@theswabbie30

Ай бұрын

@@SailorSam41"Ron" also 81. RM3 in OR Division USS Ranger CVA-61.

@SailorSam41

Ай бұрын

@@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.

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...

@user-kv1hy3vu1k

24 күн бұрын

They should demand their mayor clean this up. IM sure they pay big taxes

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.

I’m from Sacramento, Ca. I live in North Carolina now. To see the decline and the influx of homeless is absolutely devastating. When you close a Walmart store, that speaks volume. The city used to be beautiful, Lake Merritt, downtown Oakland. If you’re going to Sacramento you should stop in Vallejo and Richmond.

@Kunfucious577

Ай бұрын

This is like the great depression. It’s amazing that all the government has to do is change the definition of a word and it disappears. It’s all over America.

@23561210

24 күн бұрын

You VOTE for JOE BIDEN and GAVIN NEWSOM that is what HAPPENED TO YOU

So long as you don't actually punish criminals then you will continue to have this problem

@SeventhSonofASeventhSon77

Ай бұрын

Add to that, criminality is destined to be high with all worthwhile jobs getting shipped out of the state/country and all of the jobs that stay getting occupied by people coming from outside of the state/country.

@peterb6282

Ай бұрын

Please explain how'd you do that when California's prison population is 137.5% of designed capacity ?

@peterb6282

Ай бұрын

@@SeventhSonofASeventhSon77 The people doing these crimes have no interest in working!

@richfranks9161

Ай бұрын

The only criminal who needs to be severely punished is Gavin Newsom.

@fishychips08

Ай бұрын

​@@peterb6282Build more prisons.

Blame the community of people that live there. It doesn’t take much to throw your trash in a can and refrain from spray painting every structure. Blame the government for not holding them accountable for their crimes. Good people that live there are probably sick of it

This is completely insane. If all the stores are closing, where are these people going to go for groceries?

Me and my husband lived in Oakland for six months in the mid 70s. Fast forward x amount of years, my boyfriend and I drove to Alameda and stayed in a hotel to attend an antique show. We drove around and saw a side of Oakland that looked, in my view, like Lagos, Nigeria. The area we stayed in was ok, but it is evident that Oakland is going to hell fast.

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.

@marksongbird7534

Ай бұрын

They get what they vote for.

@PapaHank1

Ай бұрын

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.

@getsmart9987

Ай бұрын

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.

@vickyrumsey692

Ай бұрын

Why don't you leave Ca.? I did long before it got worse than it was way back in the 70's!!!

@kdevinturner8778

Ай бұрын

1st time shame on city, 2nd-1000th time shame on voting citizens.

Even lake Merritt has been destroyed by gangs and street takeovers. It's completely disgusting.

@11:08 They started SNAPPIN on you 😂...HILARIOUS she said why you recording us-he said its 9 am

Your a brave man running around Oakland

@RandyFelts2121

Ай бұрын

Or maybe Joe has just lost his mind. :)

@anthonyagudo208

Ай бұрын

😅​@@RandyFelts2121

@Tyr1e

Ай бұрын

I said that at 11:11😅

@235buz

Ай бұрын

You're

@grenzhochspannungshindernis

Ай бұрын

thats a day time and hes in a car... wheres the bravery?

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.

"Who runs this city?" The "mayor" is Sheng Thao, and there is a recall effort on her taking place currently. She has been a terrible mayor.

@carly8056

23 күн бұрын

Chinese mayor, turning a blind eye to all the fentanyl incoming from China, what a surprise says no one.

Another very good video. Your style is really great.

I was born there in 52 when it was safe and beautiful. 3 of my aunts thrived safely in East Oakland at one point.

Sad to see Oakland's downfall. Happy to see you got out unscathed. Take care

@nockee

Ай бұрын

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.

@Errcyco

Ай бұрын

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.

@SandorVitez

Ай бұрын

Ooooooh never going back again

@Thyalwaysseek

Ай бұрын

Oakland's downfall is America's downfall.

@KiddKoalaz

Ай бұрын

There is definitely greed alright 👃

Loved the program. Ex pate from Alameda 44 years now in Texas loving it here but I try to keep tabs on Bay Area current events and you filled that check box nice. Peace

@margaretwilliams9842

Ай бұрын

yeah,, check out independent news reporter,, The Berkeley Scanner online, for an eye-opening experience of crime in Berkeley, not being reported by local news???

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!.

Those numbers are not accurate trust me! Poverty level is way MORE then reported. It's not what it seems.

pretty bad when dennys closes after 50 years

@TOCC50

Ай бұрын

1,000 Shell stations are closing

@rickysampson8759

Ай бұрын

When Waffle House leaves you know it’s bad

@richardmorris7063

Ай бұрын

I guess Pawn Shops are the last to go.

@LEBUMCHOKEDIN6FINALS

Ай бұрын

@@rickysampson8759waffle house was never in Oakland or California in general

@adrukova1407

19 күн бұрын

​@@TOCC50 damn😲 California's going down

Great journey, thank you!

So glad I moved out of the east bay, Oakland crime spills out into the surrounding area and I was so tired of it

You know it sucks when you can't find a Walmart.

@timchen2550

Ай бұрын

Most big cities do not. There is one very close to Oakland, in San Leandro. Why is that odd?

@mrmr-qx4jq

Ай бұрын

It actually sucks that every city has one 😂

$900k median house price to live amongst crime, filth and squalor. For the same price in my Gulf Coast town you can get 3000 sq ft waterfront property, totally tricked out w/ pool, boat dock, etc but for this price you can also include a nice fishing boat or pontoon boat, and a late model car. Low taxes and even lower crime rate.

@giraffesinc.2193

Ай бұрын

You are blessed (and smart)!!

@Sean_Connery

Ай бұрын

Ya the same jobs don't pay the same in your town that's why.

@patrickt6540

Ай бұрын

Enjoy while you can.The water is coming soon.

@headleygrange6205

Ай бұрын

Which "Gulf Coast"?

@user-ci7vu7eo9w

Ай бұрын

California dreaming is long gone

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.

Thank you Joe & Nic's Road Trip for filming and driving. I wonder if there are still nice towns in California?

Excellence tour of Oakland California

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

@nancyparker9986

Ай бұрын

I agree ! All caused by the evil corrupt government!!!

@jimfesta8981

Ай бұрын

The potential for out of control crime is a constant. Good leadership just keeps it in check.

@jayo9750

Ай бұрын

It was worse in the 90s

@marcodarko6941

Ай бұрын

Did you vote for it.. if so then you have no one to blame but yourself.

@jayo9750

Ай бұрын

U must not have been around that long. Crime was way worse in the 80s/90s. Google the stats

Football returns to Oakland! The Oakland Looters vs the Washington Carjackers!

Wow, looking at its position on the map you wouldn’t think it was like this at all. 😮

Nic is literally riding shotgun with a shotgun.

@mikeprice4103

Ай бұрын

@@jerrybaird2059 Just need a CCW all good.

@elliottbrent1146

Ай бұрын

​@mikeprice4103 Requiring a CCW is unconstitutional. We the people don't need the governments permission, its our God given right. The constitution exists to tell the government what they cannot do, not what the people cannot do. This is coming from a current and native Californian. Thankfully, I live in a conservative area and not this crime-ridden liberal hellhole.

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.

@CarShopping101

Ай бұрын

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.

@dasker209w5

Ай бұрын

So you was a Caucasian lady? What are you now?

@jayo9750

Ай бұрын

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

@lycancatt4248

Ай бұрын

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..

@AnitaAnge

Ай бұрын

Blm is wonderful

I live in San Leandro which is just South of Oakland. I work for a local utility. So i see a LOT of Oakland almost every day. I drive through East Oakland every week. It IS definitely bad, a dystopia in many places. Leaders have failed. The constant hiring and firing of the police chiefs in Oakland is a joke. Each time they get fired they end up suing the city and often win large settlements. But I think we often give leaders more credit (or blame) than they really deserve. The main reason we have so much homelessness in the area and CA in general is because we have not built enough new housing. We have an incredibly high housing shortage not just in CA but the whole nation. And a lot of that has to do to resistance to development by the residents that are already there. Homeowners who are dug in often don't want more people moving in to 'their' town. And this isn't a fight between liberals and conservatives. Both sides do this. Some of these towns even invoke environmental laws to restrict any new building. They dont give a **** about the environment. They just don't want their property values to go down or to lose their parking. Then you have the 'environmental terrorists' that burn down new housing developments because that is somehow the 'radical' thing to do to solve homelessness. It's insanity. If you stop building new homes (or burning down the ones that are being built) the people will still keep coming. We need housing and citizens need to be more accepting of new development. It's the only we we'll get out of this crisis.

Even the sun don't wanna shine there.... how sad. Thanks for your videos yall 😊

Not gonna lie, I'm surprised you didn't get jacked. Thank goodness you are safe.

@steve-uq5tl

Ай бұрын

Then don’t !

And yet they can all seem to be able to afford spray paint.

@StephenShawCanada

Ай бұрын

What makes you think they bought the spray paint??

@essieessie5399

Ай бұрын

and cigarettes, drugs and alcohol. All bought with our Tax $$

@user-ii3vn8tn3q

Ай бұрын

Stolen

@lefkytheshin

12 күн бұрын

and $300 running shoes, and expensive cell phones. No one ever accused them of having their **** together.

Embarrassing, and I don’t even live in California. I guess all normal people can do at this point is flee. Abandon what you can’t sell, and flee for your life.

I grew up near there, my mom worked in Oakland and it wasnt perfect but it wasnt so terrible in the 80s and 90s and as the years have gone on its become dystopian. Shanty towns not just in Oakland but all over the Bay Area. Its surreal how fast the Bay Area fell into ruin

I live in a pretty decent neighborhood but there is an apartment nearby. Certain shade of people would throw trash out of their car instead of throwing it in the trash bin even if it was just one step away. Trash people will always be trash.