A friend of mine just got a job in Oakland, he's a tail gunner on a school bus.

@thenaughtyamericanexpat

2 жыл бұрын

No sheet? Does he receive flight pay?

@drunkbuzzard3237

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for his service. never forget.

@jjojo2004

2 жыл бұрын

BEST COMMENT EVER!! 👍😂👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@yuiopoli9601

2 жыл бұрын

Hilarious!

@mizzjacksonxoxo

2 жыл бұрын

What is that?

This is what happens when you deindustrialize a City. Most of the abandoned buildings used to be well paying jobs.

@erico6247

2 жыл бұрын

Then again it's the pandemic that shut a lot of business! People got sent home to work and left their office space and that was the only thing that kept the hoods sane now it's every man for themselves!

@leandrawomack9029

2 жыл бұрын

Well said!

@bobbyus

2 жыл бұрын

How is a building a well paying job? 😅

@claudermiller

2 жыл бұрын

Yes and it's the 1% who are the ones who decided to move jobs overseas, not the working poor. Unfortunately the victims of globalization seem to keep getting blamed for the results.

@claudermiller

2 жыл бұрын

@@erico6247 this isn't the result of the pandemic. This is 40 years of economic policy.

As a military-bound youth, we had to ride through Camden New Jersey to get to my sea cadet station on the battleship New Jersey. Seeing the utter ruins of Camden had a real impact on me and really changed my perspective on the idea of fighting foreign wars and military service in general. Fighting overseas makes no sense when we as a nation have let our own country become a wasteland.

@rickyjames9452

Жыл бұрын

Had the same thought before. Better choice to join the military and go overseas to escape the ghetto shit in the states. States is still a cool place but better personally to join and go somewhere nice overseas. Been doing it for 3 years

@anthonylockhart6120

Жыл бұрын

Exactly

@Coda6766

11 ай бұрын

I used to live near Camden and it looks like a war zone. It keeps getting worse and worse.

@Domdeone1

11 ай бұрын

From England, l hear it is the Democrat's policies, maybe Republicans will change from the bottom up?

@max420thc

11 ай бұрын

Every democrat ran area is like that. I have no idea how anyone is voting for them. All you have to do is drive through any city or area they control. If you talk to a leftist democrat you should be able to detect the stupidity and insanity dripping off of them. Completely mental cases in a cult.

My daughter lived there for over a year. I feared for her everyday. She lived on Jefferson Street. There were murders within a block of where she lived, and she lived in one of the “better” areas. Thank god she moved. She now lives in Berkeley and honestly, its still dangerous and filled with mentally ill and homeless people.

@jjay350

8 ай бұрын

You have to move up to the hills or beyond to be safe in the east bay.

@YuuungKeL

4 ай бұрын

I was born and raised in Oakland. I’m still scared of Berkeley. Never been scared of Oakland. Lol

@Averagenga

3 ай бұрын

i lived near Jefferson i remember seeing the caution tape one time when a guy got shot my be the same dude

It’s sad. I’m born and raised in Oakland and the city is being run to the ground with horrible policies, lawlessness, and homelessness. They need to fire these politicians but unfortunately Oakland keeps them in office for reason I don’t understand.

@ultramaga4123

Жыл бұрын

It's the machines and the mail ins keeping them horrible SOB's in power

@imfunniguy3744

Жыл бұрын

They keep the politicians in because they pay people to keep themselves in.

@guilhermeotelles

Жыл бұрын

Status Quo i say

@JonnyBeoulve

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Democrats

@adr77510

Жыл бұрын

@@JonnyBeoulve It's not like the Republicans that run the poorest states in the country like Mississippi or Alabama are doing any better. Both sides suck

Now why don't you drive to and around the mayors, senators and Pelosi's house and show that neighborhood, this way you can show the difference between the two

@rcastle8993

2 жыл бұрын

Yessssss plzzzzzz do!

@landajimmy

2 жыл бұрын

Shes moving to Florida lol

@bradleysmith9431

2 жыл бұрын

May not even be able to get into the neighborhood if it's a gated community

@gabrielle3223

2 жыл бұрын

😆🙏

@Grantthetruthteller

2 жыл бұрын

Gotta love those BLUE states. The politicians are determined to turn their states into third world shitholes. RED states beware, like locusts these people will spread to your neighborhood.

I was born in Oakland in 1966 raised in the East Bay Area and it sickens me to see such blight, homelessness, poverty, and social collapse. It’s not just Oakland as it is happening all over the US. God so help us all.

@buravan1512

10 ай бұрын

-Just wait until the WORLD start to dedollarize 😂.

@hmtnhk

5 ай бұрын

God is not going to help us, WE need to take actions because the political casta also will do NOTHING.

@michellej4289

4 ай бұрын

last days. end times

@cardboardboxification

Ай бұрын

It's a Democrat Utopia ,

This is what happens when you're afraid to hurt people's feeling's because you don't want to implement laws.

@leelaural

11 ай бұрын

we must make it a crime to steal, anything...we must make it a crime to poop on the street...we must make living in your car or rv for more than 24hrs a crime...we must make using illegal drugs a crime and enforce it....we must make it illegal to sleep on public streets, parks, greenways....if you want to camp, go to the camping parks.....

@brennendehexe7934

11 ай бұрын

do you think the democrats with their left wing politics are to blame for this sh*thole? greetings from germany

@GabbaGandalf420

11 ай бұрын

What are u talking about ?

@manoz6194

11 ай бұрын

Lack of religion. Even in third world countries the poor do not get this bad, because of religion

@christophealexander3262

10 ай бұрын

​@@GabbaGandalf420nibbers

I worked in Germany with a girl from China. She thought all Americans lived like in Beverly Hills 90210 because that is the standards shown on the average US TV show. Glad you are giving people a reality check.

@azaleagregory3929

Жыл бұрын

That is true.

@sharadjain2463

Жыл бұрын

In Hollywood they show that USA is glittering, wealthy country and show india as poor filthy country. Now we know the reality what USA hides from the rest of the world.

@ShowCat1

Жыл бұрын

democrats

@ImportedFromSerbia

Жыл бұрын

It is true.

@Mrmannycalvera

Жыл бұрын

90210

I was born in Oakland and watched this beautiful city become what it is today, lost. It’s really a crying shame. I finished 30 years on their police department watched 10 of my co-workers die on the streets. I left and never returned.

@GEVINCHYGAMEZ

2 жыл бұрын

Geeeeez

@darkkiss7247

2 жыл бұрын

OPD is the worst. They don't give a flying f**k. Some of the biggest assholes in law enforcement.

@denverdubois5835

2 жыл бұрын

@@BasedBurrr It's WAY worse than the 90s tbh. I lived in Oakland 1988-2001 and it was pretty nice as long as you stayed out of east and west Oakland (the flat areas.) I lived in the Grand Lake neighborhood by the Piedmont border and I still miss that. It was a pleasant place to live and crime was manageable, typical levels for a city really, nothing out of the ordinary. TONS of really kind, fun people and nice small businesses, restaurants etc. Went into downtown regularly (lived by the Chinatown BART station for a year) and it was okay then too. Shabby and run-down, kind of a faded grandeur thing--and abandoned for quite a bit after the earthquake due to many damaged buildings--but it wasn't actively dangerous, for the most part.

@amyhernandez4023

2 жыл бұрын

You still live in California? Or you moved from state?

@jlee739

2 жыл бұрын

Democrats and BLM of course

This really is so sad. I lived in the US about 10 years ago, and have always loved America. I’m currently living in Brazil now, and there are so many problems here such as poverty, drugs, crimes and homelessness, but I must confess now, those places you’re showing look just as bad or even worse than the scenario we have in some places down here. Apparently the United States isn’t what it used to be anymore. But still, I’m sure changes can be made. God bless America!

@yiannishadjiloizou5501

11 ай бұрын

❤

@nastypiglosi1788

11 ай бұрын

It will only get worse

@joederocco9321

10 ай бұрын

33 million italians live in brazil. moved to one of those spots. alot better

@BonVoyage861

17 күн бұрын

​@@joederocco9321Old comment but you are thinking of Argentina? The Caucasians in Brazil are more Portuguese and German..

@baymaster20

10 күн бұрын

It’s crazy out here

Oakland has the honor of having the only In-N-Out Burger to ever have closed. Not because they weren’t busy…they couldn’t keep people safe. Stay classy, Oakland.

Perfect example of what happens when you break the backbone of the economy, the middle class.

@thatgui88

2 жыл бұрын

Every symptom of these bad neighborhoods is that manufacturing jobs left the city. The working class(middle class) have no jobs to turn to. Sad

@halfdohm

2 жыл бұрын

I agree and it is becoming a nationwide occurrence.

@bkreed27

2 жыл бұрын

Additionally Oakland had a massive fire that destroyed or damaged over 4 thousand buildings and was ground zero for the government's crack distribution initiative of the 80's and 90's.

@DragoMusivini

2 жыл бұрын

@@bkreed27 interesting. Did not know that I'll look it up.

@tamaraledo2999

2 жыл бұрын

That says it all

This makes living in Eastern Europe a luxury. We are not doing that well financially as the USA does, but it's safe here, you can walk at night and the chances of something happening to you is very low

@orod3102

2 жыл бұрын

the financially well-being is only for the wealthy in the USA.

@richardcranium3417

2 жыл бұрын

People ask why we carry.

@MSK.L

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly! I've lived in Moscow's poorest neighborhood for all my life, never ever was affraid to walk at night, never heard a signle story of anything bad happening to anyone I ever knew, worst case scenario - it's friday night and a drunk weirdo says something rude to you. So one day my American internet friend told me (he lives in Cali) "I couldn't sleep all night tonight cause of gunshots outside in the street" And my first thought was "wh.... where do you even live?... Saigon 1975?..."

@buckshot6481

2 жыл бұрын

America is entrenched in (N-word)worship. Making heros, martyrs out of dope fiend and thugs. If we don't deal with it once and for all it will destroy the nation.

@jesuscarrillo3705

2 жыл бұрын

There's money to fix this... But is all going to help Taiwanese and Ukrainian politicians 👍👍👍👍👍

This is beyond scary, I couldn't imagine living in a city like this

@ellapresley8634

Жыл бұрын

It was NOT always like this, I "honest to God" don't know what or why this is happening or allowed to happen!!

@ninjapirate123

Жыл бұрын

@@ellapresley8634 because of homelessness

@billmeeker774

11 ай бұрын

Remember the root of all of California's problems is they are a one party state controlled by liberal democrats without any balance at all. This has been repeated before in Detroit, Chicago and in every city the liberal democrats control is one of depravity and hopelessness when democrats always find another victim behind every fence post with zero accountability for anyone.

@Juju-jo1pl

11 ай бұрын

​@@ellapresley8634lol.. capitalism. As simple as that

@Beachgirl1

11 ай бұрын

@@Juju-jo1pl LOL, woke communism. As simple as that.

I left Oakland 3 years ago. I love Oakland, I love the Architecture the Diversity and the City Vibe. I lived there by myself (a woman) during 2011 until 2020. It was a wonderful time during the first 6 years, then homelessness really came out of hiding. It was horrible, I lived off the Lake. I saw homelessness go from a couple of people in the middle of the night to Large Gangs. I was chased on my bicycle by a homeless man on a bike who did not like my light.

@jeanettecoleman-mz7ie

Жыл бұрын

When the govt all live in their $$$ homes, they have everything they need, why would they want to provide structure for the homeless, who are the homeless, THIS would be the way many , or all would be thinking, outrageously disgusting, they have power that needs to be taken away, not a decent human amongst them, video of old man Pelosi with his ? Boyfriend in a violent situation, like I said, not a decent human amongst them!

@ramseybones2635

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, the politicians in oakland just don’t care about the people

@ShenState

Жыл бұрын

Let me guess, you moved to a red area and voted blue?

@mikemiller659

Жыл бұрын

diversity//what a lie

@Josh-cz9lp

11 ай бұрын

I can handle graffiti if the public are safe. Seems like society goes through waves of violence when something political happens, then everybody becomes prone to violence like they were the victim. Goes through waves.

“You will own nothing and you will like it…” should be Californias motto. The cost of living and the increase in housing costs are so bad that families are moving together to be able to make it. It’s ridiculous.

@uglytruth8817

Жыл бұрын

The entire world is going down the drain untill Americans wake up

@acunae9094

Жыл бұрын

@user-by5qo8nh7w They want to charge you an arm and a leg to live then pay you pennies. The people running these states are crooks plain and simple.

@chriskelly509

Жыл бұрын

I moved out of California as soon as I turned 18. I knew it was to expensive

@martinsalazar1142

Жыл бұрын

I like California and I own two beautiful homes, wouldn't change California for any other state.

@malvolio01

Жыл бұрын

@@martinsalazar1142 Another zombie

Here in Texas, I've met many California refugees who have fled their homes due to the numerous unbearable problems that have arisen within the last several years. I'm always amazed at how proud and arrogant they are and how completely delusional they seem when it comes to their former home. The first thing they want you to know is that they are definitely not native to Texas and that they've had to move to my state like it was a forced choice against their will. As a native Texan, I love my state just as much, if not more, than they love California and THEY chose to come to us in search of a better life. We're welcoming to new people but for crying out loud, don't lecture us on your politics or look down on your new neighbors for driving trucks, attending rodeos, having barbecues or owning guns.

@victorsuarez3546

2 жыл бұрын

Eventually the more Californians who move to Texas, the more Texas will be like California.

@toffeenut1336

2 жыл бұрын

@@victorsuarez3546 true, cuz Christians just can’t help but embrace their demise with open-arms.

@toffeenut1336

2 жыл бұрын

Very true, all Californians are like that. Have yet to meet one that isn’t.

@shorttime1351

2 жыл бұрын

Well do you expect a traitor to have morals?

@AsianAmerican2007

2 жыл бұрын

Californian here. I dont get to meet much texans here in California, but when I do (via military) theyre pretty cool and down to earth folks. If I were to move id move to Tennessee. I used to live there a a child and have had many fond memories. If outside the U.S., definitely New Zealand.

Excellent content! Appreciate the effort.

I worked in Oakland for 5 years about 10 years ago. Yes, East and West Oakland are exactly how you described them. Hard to imagine it has gotten worse since I left. Not all Oakland areas are bad. Crocker Highlands, Adams Point and the Hills have houses in the millions. It's a total different world out there. Hard to believe they're in the same city.

“It’s okay folks, we’ve had several committee meetings and have determined that, from now on, we all will call them The Unhoused. Problem solved!”

@user-or6yn8pm3c

2 жыл бұрын

Thats Wokism in a nutshell. Trying to distance yourself from a problem that you caused by offering a token of empathy to your victim. Its like a murderer saying sorry to a victims family. You are still guilty.

@heldig5617

2 жыл бұрын

"WE'RE GONNA USE THOSE SENTENCES FOR FUTURE ANTIFA PROTEST!!!"

@anthonygallegos4708

2 жыл бұрын

lol

@johannaottervanger9576

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@MissPerpul

Ай бұрын

Yep paint over rotten wood.

The issues plaguing Oakland have been going on for well over 80 years. When Oakland was founded in 1850 it was lawless. Even Oakland’s first mayor was a crook.

@rosemaryaldana6700

2 жыл бұрын

Mexico owned California is was called Alta California till 1848. And Russia owned Alaska. Till 1867. And the Dutch owned New York. Then the Dutch give up New York to the Irish. 1820. And so on. But no one really realize how America really looked before the explorers came remember the land of beauty by our ancestors the Natives. And was cut down . The home of the buffalo deer bear. And rabbit. The wolf the fox.the wood land Forest of our ancestors . Now look what they have done. America exactly deserves what it gets. everything made with cement and concrete. Crazy how the government doesn't think about what about the food shortage. Is there not any farmland to grow vegetables and fruits. City council members wake up. Everything is coming over sea especially food that can cause contamination from the sea air. Just as people get sick too by crossing the on sea waters. Citizen of American need to get involved it the land of this country.or it will get invaded again by another foreign country. Russia wants Alaska back.

@jpaschl

2 жыл бұрын

Seems to me they kept the trend going this is unbelievable

@rcbrothers1000

2 жыл бұрын

Dosnt matter. I rather have a currupt mayor that cleans up the city vs a currpt mayor that pushes for trendy woke crap.

@rosemaryaldana6700

2 жыл бұрын

@@rcbrothers1000Your ancestors are not from America that's why you don't care about America. But if you were In Thailand then that's a different story. You would care. But you live in America do you not. And what about the future of our children. What kind of government do you want your children to follow. A government which is corrupted or a government who helps the citizens of the land like a good king will do for his kingdom.

@walterwhite1

2 жыл бұрын

DUDE IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN ONE BIG SHITHOLE

My ex and I drove in Oakland Ca at night to a party. The place is very sketchy. When we are in the traffic light, I saw a person with a black hoodie near my rear window and I couldn’t see the persons face at all which makes it even more haunting.

I really do think Covid had a massive impact in making this place worse. Actually relo’d to work for Clorox back in 21-22. We weren’t even allowed to go in the office, and when we finally did in April 22, all the equipment and office was literally untouched for 2 years, and completely unsuitable for virtual meetings or really any productive work. No one went to the office. I’ve headed back east but from what I heard the management just gave up on having a normal in person experience and just have been mostly remote ever since. So without it’s largest employer in person, and many other employers doing the same (or completely shuttering their offices for remote work), why would anyone: A) live in Oakland B) buy any of the food or grub near downtown? It’s just going to be an East Bay hangout spot on weekends, where some of the hipsters escape for ‘cheaper’ rent, and ultimately fare even worse than SF will in the coming decades….and SF is going to fare poorly too.

@mikefrancis8223

9 ай бұрын

BOLSHIVICS

Been to Oakland one time, by accident while trying to leave San Francisco. You know it's bad when a Subway restaurant has more protective glass plates on their counters than the banks of your town.

@rockydowns830

Жыл бұрын

It’s literally only downtown

@troublestitten69

Жыл бұрын

razor wire around the neighborhood Safeway store, security gates and bars on widows (look on zillow ) Cokeland we called it in the mid 80's SO, International blvd you cant tell what country your in.

@Userhandleidk

Жыл бұрын

@@rockydowns830 I mean it clearly isn’t

@HellaShotsMedia

Жыл бұрын

Frisco ain't no playground neither

@ShowCat1

Жыл бұрын

democrats

This can't be fixed, it will just be left to remain this way, we could fix it but it would require the overhaul of the entire system and the powers that be will never allow that to happen

@lescobrandon4586

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly this

@Marcelg13

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, true, it's pretty much like communism. The Powerful are enriching each other and let the state rot. They drink wine but preach water.

@loridriskell8121

2 жыл бұрын

All i have to say is you all 💯voted for the ppl in control of change🤔 hmmmm

@okamijubei

2 жыл бұрын

That's the problem... You people just quit because it's difficult. You have to learn to have the guts and the will to do so.

@dawilliam59

2 жыл бұрын

@@okamijubei it requires everyone being on the same page , the two party system coupled with identity politics also prevents this being fixed . I would love to see a fair, just and equitable world but it just isn’t going to happen under the current system

We came to Oakland in 1979, and it was very, very nice!! I immediately got a job, and even worked in San Francisco about 2 years, I'm just appalled at how it looks now. It didn't look like this when we lived there!! I really would like to know "what happened to this city"?? This was a beautiful city when we came there in 1979. My kids went to school there and graduated, I'm just really, really SAD just looking at this!!

It's happening in most cities of Europe too... Everywhere the same disease, normal people are disapearing. But how could we act? We aren't even allowed to speak out about (we all know) what's happening!

@mikefrancis8223

9 ай бұрын

BOLSHEVIKS

@user-id1qw5fv1h

9 ай бұрын

@@mikefrancis8223 What?

@jjay350

8 ай бұрын

People need to take their societies back.

@juanwononeyuan

5 ай бұрын

@@user-id1qw5fv1h look up the doc "with open gates" its not on youtube. its only like 20 min.

@shyviking

3 ай бұрын

"t's happening in most cities of Europe too". Haven't seen anything in Europe like this, TBH. "We aren't even allowed to speak out about (we all know) what's happening". Well, you are literally speaking about it. And that was 7 months ago. What or who is stopping you?!

A friend and I were robbed while working there. When we called the Police they told us unless someone was hurt to email them. We had to question all the buildings security, looking for video and nobody wanted to help us. We finally got this really sweet Mexican Janitor oddly enough to find the video for us. We called the police again and told them we had the car and the person. They told us "unless someone was hurt to email them the evidence" You can only send very small files through email. They obviously know this so they know you won't be sending anything.

@El.Nigga.

Жыл бұрын

You didnt go to the station?

@timexkills65

Жыл бұрын

Biden’s rule …

@MatoMusic805

Жыл бұрын

Black privilege

@vipdemand5965

Жыл бұрын

"Unless someone was hurt email it"😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@lassataest5604

Жыл бұрын

@@El.Nigga. Really? and waste more of my time. Have you ever been to the Oakland PD?

I'm from East Oakland and have relocated to the mid Atlantic for the past 8 years. I lived in Oakland in the 1970's through the 2010's... I have a love hate relationship with my hometown. It's ALWAYS been a city full of drugs, homicide and human trafficking. So when I hear people say, Oakland's not like it used to be," I'm side eyeing them like " wait were you here in the 80's??" I am proud to be from Oakland because my experiences there required me to be resilient, street savvy and to live without fear. If you survive Oakland, you can survive anywhere. I said all of that to say this. I feel like your video is skewed to fit your narrative. Now, Oakland is what you've shown; but it's not ALL that you've shown. People watching that have never been are now under the impression that the whole city looks like that and it doesn't. You never went above MacArthur Blvd or anywhere near it. You didn't go by Lake Merritt, Rockridge, Piedmont, Redwood, Skyline, Montclair or even Maxwell Park (which is where I'm from) The places you've shown are deplorable and there's no argument there. It's just that you missed the parts of town that are decent and livable.

@Nowhereoh

2 жыл бұрын

@Melonae Ellison You're right. He only showed the bad. So many really beautiful parts of Oakland. The Redwood forests in the hills. The parks & all the over a million dollar homes. The great views of S.F. bay & views of the hills to the east. It doesn't fit his narrative. Maxwell Park? Over by Mills College? I lived in Rockridge & Piedmont in the 70's & 80's.

@browniehawthorne5065

2 жыл бұрын

Melonae, I agree. He primarily drove around the industrial areas. He completely avoided all of the decent areas. He definitely has an agenda.

@rica7564

2 жыл бұрын

I lived in CA for 38 years. 30'of those years in Oakland near Lake Merritt. I didn't want to live anywhere else. I fell in love with Lake Merritt. I enjoyed the shops, Grand Lake Theatre, restaurants, walking around the lake, farmers market on Saturdays, etc. I left CA years go. It's sad to hear and see Oakland in such disarray. I love CA, especially Oakland. I think Oakland will make a comeback someday. They need to help the homeless. They've been neglected for much too long. Also, their high rents aren't helping much. I will always love Oakland.

@nopenope1186

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nowhereoh He didn't go above foothill.

@analyticalhabitrails9857

2 жыл бұрын

I really wanna know how much of it is decent and liveable and how much of oakland is not??

My ex-wife just got back from a funeral in Oakland and she said if she sees another cardboard Shanty or RV trailer she's going to lose her mind, she said it was like the movie "escape from L.A." except this is "Escape from Oakland" it looks third world, Homeless destitute people everywhere panhandling. Everything's run-down and trashy even the palm trees look depressing, they were only there for three days and somebody tried to Insurance scam them by running his bike into their rental car, a cop just happened to be on his beat and saw it and tried to detain them, and they told him the bicyclist ran into them and sped away when he saw the cop,she told me she couldn't wait to get back to the Atlanta metro area which is paradise compared to Oakland.

I think a city’s trash disposal says a lot about it’s quality of life. I currently live in a city where trash is always strewn about outside and it bothers me to no end as my puppy always tries to eat it! Anyway, trash outside equals crappy place to live lol.

@M13x13M

11 ай бұрын

You are right. You can estimate the demographics of a city by the trash in the streets,

@Hammett175

11 ай бұрын

What city do you live in?

@m75driller

3 ай бұрын

What differentiates a third world county from a sustainable society: refuse pickup and responsible relocation, human waste (shit) treatment and freshwater (potable) plumbing in public and private places of gathering. Of course, this goes all out the window when citizens don’t give a shit.

Little Bagdad was what we called it back in 2010 ..I think real Bagdad looks better..smh

@NotALot-xm6gz

2 жыл бұрын

I think Aleppo looks better…

I was a kid in Oakland back in the mid 80's. My parents saw it and all of California falling and thankfully we escaped.

@softshell812

2 жыл бұрын

To what other crumbling metropolis in this crumbling nation?

@alistair8915

2 жыл бұрын

@@softshell812 never lived in a town of more than 8k since. Now I got 10 acres of my own in the free state of Iowa.

@jacobtennyson9213

2 жыл бұрын

Good for you California Dreaming became a California nightmare.

@groove4179

2 жыл бұрын

@@alistair8915 Someone in the comments above you just said that Iowa is headed downhill fast due to poverty and methamphetamine usage. I definitely understand the small town vibe but California has that as well. Shasta County, Mammoth Lake, Bridgeport and many more towns out of the way do not deal with any portion of that which is normal in Oakland. I think prices and taxes is still the main reason people leave Ca.

@JO-uy6zs

2 жыл бұрын

@@alistair8915 hooray for kkk iowa. Who soaks up endless taxpayer welfare from the Blue coastal states

It’s a walking dead zombie town, I lived in Alameda since 2012 to 2019 right next door Oakland an I worked in both town San Francisco and Oakland at different time and the landscape is a complete dystopian mess. My wife an I moved to Hercules much better environment we do miss Alameda sometimes but now Oakland influence has slowly effected Alameda. The criminals run San Francisco and Oakland and it’s to bad because both towns could be great but the people are too selfish to do the right things to fix the place.

I remember when Oakland had it all it's so sad to see what it looks like today this is so sad it break's my heart💔☹️

I live in the South Bay Area and recently drove through Oakland. I follow our local news and I knew it wouldn't be a cruise through Beverly Hills, but I too was stunned at the "Haiti" style homeless camps, the filth, the overall depressed look of the city. Such a multi-level problem - mental illness, drug addiction, insane cost of housing, lack of political will at local and state level - I don't have a answer.

@soniag4516

2 жыл бұрын

I do! Throw all the Democrats out & RINOS and get some Conservatives in high govt offices and see what happens. I moved from San Jose to a Conservative run city and I go walking the trail at midnight, early morning, whenever my heart desires, without fear.

@brandons9536

2 жыл бұрын

The Politicians are lining their pockets with Federal Aid.

@eddiet204

2 жыл бұрын

Here's an answer-enforce the law and raze the city.

@Sutterjack

2 жыл бұрын

@@eddiet204 I like it! Operation "Fresh Start"!

@timsteinkamp2245

2 жыл бұрын

I would suggest putting that train underground which is no more than digging a ditch then covering it and putting a park on top. What is the purpose of a train over head but to degrade the neighborhood.

If I was blind folded and dropped off in that area, and not knowing where I was, I would seek sanctuary in the nearest embassy thinking I was in a foreign country.

@badbob6689

Жыл бұрын

So some things never change?

@daleviker5884

Жыл бұрын

And you would be right.

@dpz9872

Жыл бұрын

A foreign country known as Commie-Fornia.

@Eternal.Life.

Жыл бұрын

🔴🔴🔴 To vote for marxists (comunists, socialists) is a vote for satanists. Karl Marx was a Satanist! The inventor of communism was a Satanist!! The Satan theme is most explicitly set forth in Marx's "The Fiddler," dedicated to his father: **************** - See this sword? the Prince of darkness Sold it to me. ...And... - With Satan I have struck MY DEAL **************** ✸ Dear ones... in communism it was never about atheism but about worshiping Satan! Atheism (unbelief in God) is for the popular masses or working slaves (rats) as the Marxist elite calls them! ✸ Don't let the communists rise to power! Get communist cancer out of your country!

@harrycooper5231

Жыл бұрын

Nah, America is just a shithole nation.

Great video 💯 🔥

Used to live in Oakland for a brief while when I was a kid back in the early 2000s even then Oakland wasn't the safest city. I still drive by Oakland sometimes and it looks like a post apocalyptic city, it's quite frankly disgusting it's a shame and I believe it has absolutely to do with the people we're electing into office.

I left Oakland to joined the U.S. Army (1976-1996). Before then, I knew a few people that were murdered. I tried to joined the Oakland police, but I was too short. While in the service, I 've seen better communities and cultures than living in Oakland. Last time I was there was 1991, after the Gulf War to see relatives and friends. Since then, they moved out of Oakland. As teens, my friends and I joked around, how national TV will never show the ghetto near the Coliseum during a game.

@NickJohnson

Жыл бұрын

I've seen it

The only thing I can think to say is, “Who Did You Vote For?”

@chuckwicksimmons5813

2 жыл бұрын

Well I can tell you one thing it was definitely not let's go Brandon!!

@bobbyus

2 жыл бұрын

Vote for? Same trash just different garbage bag! Maybe it’s better to just boycott the elections …

@rust-0hspray156

2 жыл бұрын

If I voted for something different Oakland would be Disney land?

@chuckwicksimmons5813

2 жыл бұрын

@@bobbyus That would make sense once upon a time .but with all the illegals that have come up .and we have brought up in here they don't need our votes no more.👌🏽💯

@mikewallin6049

2 жыл бұрын

I lived in Oakland Chinatown and it was great and affordable . NOW it's a dangerous shithole.

Hi there! Awesome video! I encourage you to looking into the deindustrialization of Oakland, the multiple drug epidemics, and redlining. I’m third generation Bay Area, and can attest to the huge changes in the Bay Area in the last two decades. My aunt is a 50+ year west Oakland resident and internationally known for her work in environmental Justice! Thanks for the coverage! I just encourage you to enlist perspectives from both side of the coin.

@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath

6 ай бұрын

Redlining was outlawed in the US in 1968.. The city was much nicer and more prosperous for decades after redlining ended than it is today. That's kind of a lame excuse to use in this modern year.

I grew up in Oakland, boi! has it changed!! I could NOT live there and if I did I would move! who can live in this filth?

It's affecting the nice areas too. Walnut Creek and Santa Rosa recently got hit. Just keep voting in woke mayors, DAs and legislators and see if you ever get a different result.

@meganc722

2 жыл бұрын

This

@petunialuna4801

2 жыл бұрын

You comment is like it's the flu. These are human beings destitute in misery. My grandchildren in North Carolina went to the school cafeteria for lunch and the cafeteria NO LONGER HAS ANY FOOD! Yet Jeff Bezos who is the richest man on earth and pays no taxes just got gifted 10 BILLION dollars out of OUR tax funds for his space toys from the "infrastructure" bill! This is the corporate fascist state with the centralization of wealth stealing EVERYTHING from us while we follow like sheep and fight each other. The billionaires are laughing on their private jets all the way to one of their many mansions. Voting? It doesn't matter who is in office, they follow the orders of their billionaire overlords. The DOD budget bills are over a TRILLION dollars a year. That is well over half of our income taxes. An estimated million people homeless and they are no longer counting hungry children. The United States constitutional republic is now a myth.

@sarcasticsteve3882

2 жыл бұрын

Lol.... Vote don't mean anything.. the counters always pick the winners... Free phentynal for everyone ... Then we just clean up the mess and start over with people that have some pride in themselves.

@sarcasticsteve3882

2 жыл бұрын

@Jesus heard dat JC ... How bout a flood ... Maybe a quake ... Talk to your dad .. we can start fresh with real people that have some civic pride in where they reside .. " Not telling ya how to do your job .. but,. This ain't working.

@blokcomNativeFaces

2 жыл бұрын

​@Jesus You can thank our woke CA politicians and voters for reducing felonies to misdemeanors.

There is no reason for this. My partner and I lived in California for almost 5 years, and recently moved back to our home state of Texas. I know every city has it's problems and it's "bad" areas, but it seems like California has it much worse than most other states. California's leaders always say that Texas is a mismanaged, lawless and dangerous wasteland where people are pulling guns on each other oppressing the "have-nots", but I saw more of that kind of stuff in California than here at home. I'm not saying that my home state is perfect by any means; we definitely have our problems. It feels like the leaders of California are forcing a narrative that their state is "paradise" while simultaneously running it into the ground and lining their own pockets. A small apartment in Oakland costs $3000/month, and there's no reason for that other than corruption. We paid $900/month plus utilities in rural southern California for a 450 square foot one bedroom shack with terrible landlords that were constantly trying to evict us, even though we were never late on bills and rent. We moved home into a house that's twice the size for $800/month. Granted, I'm making a dollar less an hour working, but I'm also not paying $4 or $5/gallon for fuel. California is the true wasteland, a place of hope and promise that has fallen into a shameful cesspool of despair. The leaders of the cities and of the state have made it very clear that they care noting for their citizens, and actively engage in brainwashing propaganda to stay in power while allowing criminals to run free with few to no repercussions or consequences for their actions.

@HanSoloBolo

2 жыл бұрын

California? Not all of California. One dot on the map doesn’t represent the state. That’s like saying all of Texas is Dallas Fort Worth. There’s a reason California is a place many want to live but can’t afford. You also have paradises in Cali like San Diego. Oakland has nice areas as well. Every city has bad areas.

@diodelvino3048

2 жыл бұрын

@@HanSoloBolo the issue is California is fcked up ALL OVER, affordability is almost non-existant, Every large city has a horrible homeless issue that will never be fixed because the politicians absolutely do not care and they even put in city planning to prevent homeless from having areas to rest. There are just about NO affordable beach towns there in anyway whats-so-ever-- in Florida (my home state) theres still plenty of affordable places in beachtowns all over. How does California have high state income taxes but does absoluteley nothing with it that helps areas in need?? it isnt just "ONE DOT" its the whole state

@txwebber4250

2 жыл бұрын

for real, California has enough issues and then mediocre Mexican food on top? Boo. Texas is way better even with all the issues.

@kennethmiller6626

2 жыл бұрын

@@txwebber4250 Mediocre Mexican food? No, I they have terrible Mexican food.

@thatgui88

2 жыл бұрын

@@txwebber4250 After watching all these videos, Texas does look nice for being a red state compared to all the other blue states he covered. Texas might be an underated state.

Left Oakland to go to UCLA and came back to a drastic rise in murder… just sad but I never felt safer in west Oakland than the East. Maybe because I grew up in the east and I never experienced anything too crazy but west Oakland was crazy to me.

We blame the governor. He has no backbone with a lack of moral character

Have lived in Oakland for 18 years and it’s been going downhill over the past 8 years or so. Outside developers have come in and built unaffordable matchbox-sized apartments, condos and dormitory styled units. There has literally been 20 or more mixed use high-rise buildings developed in the downtown area and bleeding into Chinatown. Average rents are around 3k/month ! This has forced so many people out on the street and to top it off the trash and dumping problems are off the chain as you’ve shown here. With a growing tax base you would think that basic services would get better…. Where are the elected officials that should be addressing these problems? You don’t see or hear from them until election time !

@sherriab1

2 жыл бұрын

It’s amazing how people don’t understand that the lack of affordable housing is creating homelessness and more crime.

@scottyflintstone

2 жыл бұрын

10:51 doesn't resonate with you?

@landajimmy

2 жыл бұрын

Vote Republican. Stop voting in these Democrat idiots.

@sherriab1

2 жыл бұрын

@@landajimmy what specific programs and interventions would a Republican do to stop the crime, homelessness and blight? Saying vote Republican is partisan none sense. What is the plan and how can it be implemented. Who will do the work and how much will it cost?

@spark300c

2 жыл бұрын

well developers can't really build enough because how restrictive California building laws are. other states seen growth because but 50 to 75 percent less than oakland rents.

The problem is there is no one left in the community who is willing or capable of making change. Oakland is a failed city. Oakland Police officers are resigning and going to other agencies. I was born and raised in Oakland. This is sad to see.

@GEVINCHYGAMEZ

2 жыл бұрын

U ain't lying....this is rough man...I mean rough

@orangecrush5512

2 жыл бұрын

"Oakland is a failed city" = Oakland is just another failed democrat run city.

@DIGITALMIND63

2 жыл бұрын

@@orangecrush5512 It doesn’t matter what political party is in charge. Oakland would be in the same predicament. You know why? Because all politicians don’t care about the ghettos. As long as they’re safe in their mansions, it’s all good.

@The_Conqueeftador

2 жыл бұрын

@@DIGITALMIND63 Wrong. That is a leftist talking point comeback. Never ever take responsibility is the left mantra. I saw those failed "art" drawings on the side of the road that was big in the early 2000's leftist cities as a way to "brighten" and clean up the city. Always in ghetto neighborhoods. Politicians use federal funds and local taxes to make swan songs to get the funding then pocket 90% then throw 10% at the problem. Portland Oregon for example just got 10million off of the tax payers to "study" homelessness..STUDY! Not solve anything. Just study.

@angelariley5403

2 жыл бұрын

Any honest person trying to bring change is destroyed by the many agencies working together against regullar people. The public are angry.

I was 7 in 2003 back then, Oakland wasn't anything like this or the SF BAY AREA in general. It was a paradise place, affordable, no racial discrimination, no ghetto and people were happier.

@oshe5k471

Ай бұрын

It’s been like this for 40 years 😂 you probably don’t remember it well or you weren’t in the city lmao

How funny I drove in today and I parked right in front of that custom body shop and it was BAD! I used to live there 25 years ago but it's pretty gnarly now.

Visited San Francisco for an analyzer school about 5 yrs ago. During our orientation we were told to "Never go to Oakland. If you do we are not responsible for what happens". Seriously.

@michaelsuzio4364

2 жыл бұрын

Lol san Francisco is super pretty with the golden gate bridge the Ocean sea Lions and that wharf area

@censored1738

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelsuzio4364 lol .. talk about *( LIVING IN A BUBBLE! )*

@josephaugello1527

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelsuzio4364 san francisco has its problems now

@californiamade5608

2 жыл бұрын

@@josephaugello1527 sure it does but it’s not as bad as Oakland. I know, I lived in SF, and traveled between the two.

@Delta9SFBay11

2 жыл бұрын

That's because they want to keep their crime in town for their criminals,,,,

California is a 5th world state especially the management teams : government, overpaid mayor. This is unbelievable. The salary of these civil servants should be used for affordable housing,

@f.garcia8729

2 жыл бұрын

Piedmont, temescal, rockridge to name a few neighborhoods in oakland, DONT BOTHER STEPPING HERE if you dont make at least 300k a year.

@rhondaesco1839

2 жыл бұрын

It's important to have good solid leaders that get things done, clearly from this video Oakland's leaders are lacking in every area. They have allowed this to happen..

@roberttorres8477

2 жыл бұрын

These people need to be sent to the Nevada desert

@Betis91

2 жыл бұрын

That's what happens when you fools vote for Demoncrats like Gayvin NUISANCE

@AlCatSplat

2 жыл бұрын

It's also the 5th largest economy in the world.

You should also visit upper Oakland which is better in order to have a more balanced picture of the city. My cousin is a bus driver in Oakland and has seen a lot also!!😉

@lloydranola

3 ай бұрын

This is a very one-sided video for sure.

Gentrification of West Oakland seemed to take off after the real estate crash of 2008-09. Within a few years the homeless camps appeared and increased in size. It boggles my mind that newer housing projects such as the Brooklyn Basin, The Skylyne at Temescal, Orion (to name a few) are within a few miles of the Hegenberger corridor where businesses are closing down due to "rampant crime."

I grew up in Deep East Oakland and I can't stand to even be in the city anymore, it really saddens me to see how my city has just neglected it's roots and heritage

@kristinm784

Жыл бұрын

In the 90’s Oakland became HIP Great restaurants, art I lived in emeryville at that time This is a shame So much history

@YoureRatharStewpidMate

Жыл бұрын

Just Go to Maine, It's Pretty Peaceful There.

@bakerfresh

Жыл бұрын

How was the divide back in the day in Oakland? I just new it was ruffer than some of the other cities. Like early Too Short and before East Coast vs West Coast.

@bakerfresh

Жыл бұрын

@@YoureRatharStewpidMate probably not long. I hear that's a massive immigrant dump. They'll change it. They have to to be in good graces with the 2030 Crew.

@YoureRatharStewpidMate

Жыл бұрын

@@bakerfresh It will revive from the massive immigration dump, in some years, I Think.

I was a paramedic in Oakland from 1990 to 2000. I grew up in that city and I went to school there. I now live 50 miles east. I have not been to Oakland in a long time and I refuse to go there. It was a violent and depressing place when I worked there. There is nothing good about it.

@aimsays

2 жыл бұрын

I grew up right across the bay in San Francisco all thru the 70s -90s we called Oakland “Cokeland” LoL besides the Oakland hills I never went to other parts of Oakland

@user-pv3rl2lv4p

2 жыл бұрын

What city you live in now?

@aimsays

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-pv3rl2lv4p I’m in San Mateo now. It’s not as bad... yet. Ppl come in from Antioch, Oakland and other places to shoplift bcoz they know nothing will happen if they get caught. Nada. California in general has become a toilet. I bought 20 acres in Montana :)

@darkpassenger65

2 жыл бұрын

I grew up there too and you're absolutely correct. Once I left I avoided ever going back. I lived across the street from Melrose Library, Foothill and 48th. I used to hang out at the library so my brain could escape, if not for a little while.

@Retroscoop

2 жыл бұрын

And I who thought you were living in Beverly Hills.... My oh my....

born and raised in Oakland been surrounded by this "neglect, disgusting scenery" my whole life and to be honest this video was really eye opening for me about how bad things really are here but I can't help but comment. How did it get so bad in the last few years? Short answer COVID. Because of the quarantine these buisnesses and nonprofits that were genueienly trying to help and build the community were left without funds. This businesses have been the backbone of Oakland it was estimated that in 2024 something like 25% of the small business are going to have to shut down. like that's crazy. its just frsutrating that all of this was because we as citizens were neglected its so sad that this is the city that shows it though. This is my home.

I’ve been here. Some area in downtown and east Oakland are really awful and sad, but area such as Montclair are much, much nicer. Unrelated fun fact: Oakland has the largest rock climbing gym in the US, and third largest in the world.

The America that I was born in and grew up no longer exist.The time when homelessness, drugs and crime were just words and were hard to find.

@GEVINCHYGAMEZ

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I remember just hearing about it...now its like it's in youre face....I ven got family members begging for money......it's hortible

@Machelle3200

2 жыл бұрын

Well there was many factory jobs that paid well, people kept their legs closed more and didn't have all these kids all over the place, and people grew their own food and didn't eat all this fast food crap that caused people to develop all these mental and physical problems. And we weren't bombarded with all this technology that has destroyed real human relationships. Smfh.

@dickharder5093

2 жыл бұрын

mostly democrats, but Republicans didn't do a thing to really stop it either

@dickharder5093

2 жыл бұрын

@@GEVINCHYGAMEZ even these people doing this show don't have the courage to say what race mostly lives there and how they are willing to live!

@Tommy88-

2 жыл бұрын

Sort of but the 80s and 90s were pretty bad as well.

I moved out 12 years ago. I used to run community meetings focused on crime. It is worse now. Oakland is careening toward being a failed state. A lot of community meetings are emotional rants with no outcome. "We deserve this", "It should be this or that". Over obvious issues. Yet the woke politics ensures ineffectiveness. History: During WWII, many African Americans migrated from the South to Oakland/Richmond for well paying shipyard jobs. There was a lot of industry there too. All those jobs are gone, but the people remain. In the 1990s, the Clinton Administration shipped a lot of jobs offshore. This certainly did not help. In my opinion, a solid middle class job is better than endless social programs. Yet all you hear about are social programs.

@everythingisfine9988

2 жыл бұрын

Damn, you nailed it. That's exactly how things went down

@shovedhead

2 жыл бұрын

It's a shell game that a few people profit from.

@bobspizza7444

2 жыл бұрын

BRING OUR MIDDLE CLASS JOBS BACK!!! That is the main truth to America's problems today. We have no place for a kid to get a job and work alongside family and friends and build a decent middle class life. Thise days are gone and we are massively suffering for the greed we allow the companies to have

@realestate_doggie

2 жыл бұрын

Woke=Broke.

@ronaldmcdonald3965

2 жыл бұрын

@@everythingisfine9988 One key thing I learned: People cannot distinguish between emotion and a problem definition. I would have to ask a person *4 times* what is the problem that they wanted solved. They would not stop ranting. I think they want to hear themselves speak. The problem is it was alse useless emotion with zero value add. This one person, at the 4th try, I said : "So your problem is X". She looked at me in amazement. Because I managed to deciper her rant. The I opened for debate, gave it a Priority 1 Mission, and solved in about 30 days. And the OPD officers who solved it were heroes to the community. Take Away: The citizens themselves are in many cases responsible for the disaster than is now Oakland. I can give a lot more examples of useless, resources-wasting behavior. I got out. With that said, they need middle class jobs instead of social programs.

All those makeshift shanties with trash everywhere looks like a scene from India or Haiti. So sad.😢😢😢

Its funny and sad. I own and operate an auto glass replacement company and order parts from a major distributor that has branches all over California-Oakland included. Sometimes, a specific part that I need is not available in my city's warehouse, but they have one in the Oakland branch. I would rather lose a sale than to traverse to Oakland to get the part from their warehouse. I have been there on 2 occassions and I tell you, it's in the middle of a graffiti laden neighborhood, down the street from Myrtle street where all the prostitutes are at. The entire area looks exactly like the intro to this video Even other companies refuse to go and get parts their due to the grit and just how unsafe the area is with all the crime and transients.

I lived there 1986 through 1997. It was good old Oaktown back then, classic rough city, but you could get around without much worry unless at night. But now it’s unrecognizable. East Bay Hills have always been better, but the decay creeps. Good luck to those still there, and thank you Nick, for the great videos and accurate commentary.

@Jimsranch

2 жыл бұрын

You are right - decay creeps.

@sarcasticsteve3882

2 жыл бұрын

It's the white man's fault!

@GEVINCHYGAMEZ

2 жыл бұрын

WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG....

@sarcasticsteve3882

2 жыл бұрын

@@GEVINCHYGAMEZ ITS ALWAYS YHE WHITE MANS FAULT ... Just go along with me on this. Everybody's saying it ... you can be cool like us.

@stevenmartinez5531

2 жыл бұрын

What? I'm been going to Oakland for almost 60 years...and Never had any trouble in Oakland. I'm from Hayward and I've had one vehicle stolen, my vehicle broken into, several vehicle hit and run (6 times), constantly asked for money, had a drive by and killed a child in front of our house...all in Hayward. All cities have their crime and some worse than others. I know east Oakland and west Oakland.

Oakland is the unfortunate combination of San Francisco (homelessness problem) and Detroit (crime rate problem particularly in shootings and homicides).

@jjrdias

2 жыл бұрын

Now... What do those both have in common ... ??? I wonder ...

@dextersfinest175

2 жыл бұрын

@@jjrdias Since I live here in Detroit I'd love for you to tell me what it is we have in common...🤨

@we.americaningenuity8682

2 жыл бұрын

@@jjrdias Aren't Pelosi representing San Francisco?

@GH-oi2jf

2 жыл бұрын

@@we.americaningenuity8682 - Rep. Pelosi represents most of San Francisco.

@sm3675

2 жыл бұрын

Detroit doesn't have much crime. Detroit is ugly but safe.

The high cost of living in Oakland is really bad. Pretty much California is only for rich people.

Funny how they forgot to show all the nice things

Oakland sure looks crappy. But trust me, Portland and Seattle are both fighting very hard to self destruct as well.

@NickJohnson

2 жыл бұрын

Oh I know I saw them too

@somedreybloke

2 жыл бұрын

which is worse, Gary Indiana or Oakland?

@GEVINCHYGAMEZ

2 жыл бұрын

Portland is OUT OF CONTROL!!!!! LITTERALLY

@Survivor-ng4te

2 жыл бұрын

Oakland is far worse than Seattle. I’ve been to both.

@florinelenaradamilea

2 жыл бұрын

We elected a better mayor, a Republican DA, we're fighting to get rid of the woke in Seattle city council, we're fighting to change this course brought to us by blmantifa.

I lived in Oakland for 10 years ending in 2001. These images of the city are absolutely shocking. It was nothing like this.

@humid-rb7rt

2 жыл бұрын

But,but,but they have so much diversity and that fixes everything. Satire infused..

@jc8034

2 жыл бұрын

Cuz you lived in the hills

@sashafierce7495

2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Oakland and it was a nice place to bring up families. Hope they can fix it near back to how it looked. THIS IS AMERICA 😟🤨😐.

@theancientsancients1769

2 жыл бұрын

@@sashafierce7495 Oakland is just a symptom of the crumbling US empire. That's the sad reality, much of the world was aware of this coming just not many Americans .. but glad some are waking up to that now

@leehornet7509

2 жыл бұрын

I would disagree, I lived in Oakland during the 70s, nothing has changed. But, why did you interview a well-spoken white guy.

I can tell you someting about it. I lived there thirty years. A lot of people moved to Oakland in the post WWII period. There is the big shipping port, and there was an Alameda military base. There was lots of industrial and light industrial. IN the Nineties, people were buying up the old Victorians even in downtown areas, because rents were rising. But then came several things: loss of the industrial sector, retail was collapsing due to the Internet, and the military base in Alameda closed. Oakland has always had great weather. Best in the bay area. So, people affected by all these policies, NAFTA, internet, base closures, loss of factory jobs, came from all over the country to crash in Oakland. The local PTB, did very little to nothing to discourage the homeless from settling in, and also, were not very hard on crime. Being a port, it is also a drug hub. So, the problems you see elsewehre in the US are just magnified in Oakland due to it having a large population that used to be, middle class to lower middle class.

You ought to visit College Point, West End, Vine City and Downtown in Atlanta GA. These are eye openers in the negative.

i lived in Marin county for 32 years and my son still lives there, its one of the wealthiest counties in the nation and right across the Richmond- San Rafael bridge you have this!! this is where your V.P. Cameltoe Harris came from, she literally did nothing for this town!!

@GH-oi2jf

2 жыл бұрын

VP Harris was born in Oakland. The only public service job she held in Oakland was as an Alameda County Deputy District Attorney. As an assistant DA, she was a successful prosecutor. She quickly moved up in her career to become DA of San Francisco and Attorney General of California. She was never in a position to clean up the blight in Oakland, except by convicting criminals. She is intelligent, hard working, and on the right side. If everyone born in Oakland were as capable as she, it would be a much better place.

@trevorthetherapist4200

2 жыл бұрын

She did do something. She tried to incarcerate lots of people with black and brown skin, which is not a bad thing. It’s Oakland. It is what it is, but the penalty should not be excessive and the police still need to respect the laws they enforce.

@CityLoch

2 жыл бұрын

Marin is not San Francisco. You’re in another world. And she dated Willie, for starters.

@Gstunfisk

2 жыл бұрын

@@GH-oi2jf only thing she did well was climbing the corporate ladder by you know what

I just drove through Oakland and Emeryville for the first time last week. I've spent time in 42 states and countless large cities. I've never seen anything like what I saw last week. I'm a truck driver and have had to sleep in my truck for years. Oakland was the first city to truly scare me and I'm from NYC.

@jinnij9721

2 жыл бұрын

Dam bro 😕 if nyc nikka got scared of Oakland then it has to be bad lol. 👎

@alexblazquez2277

2 жыл бұрын

Haha I lived here my whole life. My wife is from east LA, and she is tough... when her family came up to visit we toured oakland and they were SCARED lol. I always thought LA mexicans were real hard but they were like checkin to lock the car doors lol. They said they never seen a ghetto like this.

@nofurtherwest3474

2 жыл бұрын

C'mon man it can't be that bad. What was so bad about it compared to other cities?

@nofurtherwest3474

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexblazquez2277 How is it worse than what East LA was?

@lilbrother45

2 жыл бұрын

I’m from Sacramento, south sac to be exact. Pretty bad hang area. We go to Oakland all the time for A’s games. Use to go to raider games. You have no idea what bad is until you drive through Oakland. It is SCARY. The comments above are not exaggerating how bad Oakland is. Ive driven through south central. I was never scared like I was in the surrounding neighborhoods around the Oakland coliseum. The neighborhoods surrounding what use to be candlestick park in SF kind of have the same vibe.

10:41 My home, 4401 San Leandro Street! I have lived in San Bernardino and Flint Michigan, and this hood, by far, has more educated people than the later!

moved out of oaktown in 2012…after living there 11’years. When i moved there it seemed to be in a uptick. However the decline seemed inevitable by the time i moved.

I’m a former Oakland resident and current Bay Area resident for 30 years. I agree 100% with you. Oakland’s failure is a combo of greed and woke politics.

If I built a shed in my backyard without permits I would be in big trouble from the city.

@leeleemee

2 жыл бұрын

👏 Great comment.

My name is Tony Anderson and I lived in Oakland California 63 years, before I moved away to North Carolina to live, basically What's going on locally now? Is everything is too expensive to buy to rent to and people? That can afford to move is stuck so they end up living in their cars and on the street. And that's the main problem there and politics is all over United States. Then I wasn't for us. They're working for each other to get the power in an autvariety. But to fix Oakland it will take a lot of money. A lot of change right now politics is not gonna let that happen. If you want to know the real story about Oakland California, actually one who's been there for years and still there or just moved away recently, ask people like me, I've been gone For 5 years and just to see this just hurts my heart. I wanna come back but not to this and not to the sky high prices Of living there. There's more that needs to be said!!

Oakland has some very bad areas (the ones you included in the video). But there are some beautiful neighborhoods too. Take a drive around Rockridge, Jack London Square or Lake Merritt. The surge in housing prices was mentioned, but those weren't the neighborhoods shown. Still, Oakland's problems are deep.

My mom got us out of Oakland in 1975 when I was 9. We moved to Newark, CA. Oakland is forever lost.

I was born in Berkeley in 1959. and raised in hills of Oakland . I am an ex pat of nor cal. Oakland used to have industry and active downtown. Bart although wonderful closed downtown for years. People stopped going to downtown and when Bart was finished why go to Oakland when u can just jump on Bart and go shopping in SF. Public projects usually have unintended consequences and killing downtown was one of them. Politics in Oakland is left/liberal/progressive whatever. This is what you get. The road to hell is paved w good intentions. Oakland is a poster held for that saying. At the age of 12 I used to meet my cousin at the mcarthy-broadway center and that the bus to see the Austin. I wouldn't want to do that now. WW2 created a huge number of jobs that after the war disappeared. Industry and private business is somewhat looked down upon in Oakland. They make a profit and exploit workers etc bs. Those same people probably never started a business and risked their own $ in hope of not loosing $ and someday making a profit. Last time I was in downtown Oakland I noticed a high % of office buildings were state offices. An obvious attempt to get something in there albeit tax taking vs tax generating. So you have an area with less business tax revenue, artificially pumped up home prices, fewer regular jobs not a pretty picture. I have no desire to go back. Maybe the " big one" will flatten everything and they can start over.

@humid-rb7rt

2 жыл бұрын

But,but,but they have diversity and that fixes everything. Satire dripping.

@FixIt1975

2 жыл бұрын

@@humid-rb7rt I've had my fill of diversity. My home state is getting worse and worse. I'm gonna wind it down well north of here. No one here seems to know how to use a turn signal or a trash can

@weewillywanka5904

2 жыл бұрын

@@FixIt1975 That's so sad. All large cities run by "do-gooders" eventually turn into shitholes

i am from Denmark and some 20 years there was nowhere in this nation the average person could not go . now the populace have changed and many places are lawless and dangerous

To solve this mental hospitals would have to come back, and forced admittance would have to be instated with laws. Rehabs would have to be free in that area.

This is what happens when a community refuses to police itself, you keep turning a blind eye to everything and this is the result.

@orangefacedbuddah1776

Жыл бұрын

truth.

@m91473

Жыл бұрын

police itself? you want little non binary antifa anarchist kids policing a city?

@chillwill5080

Жыл бұрын

Nope, this is what happens when you refuse to allow people to protect themselves and their communities while you protect the criminals who prey on them. There was a time in this country not actually all that long ago when public hangings and posses were common. Believing those times can't return is very naive. :-/

@enriquemino9963

Жыл бұрын

This is what happens to a place when the people who run the city, let crime go out of control, attack the police and turn a blind eye to the causes and effect of violence. This is what happens when you have morons who live in this city vote for morons like them selfs and then decide i have to run to well run repbulican places to turn those areas into more oaklands.

@chillwill5080

Жыл бұрын

@trollolol The weather there really doesn't change, they don't have cold weather problems to damage the roads. Which makes the fact that their taxes are so high even more absurd.

Oakland was hopeless by the 70s. I remember talking to a young woman (during the 70s) whose father would let her stay in a home he owned there if she would give it some care. Prior renters had made a terrible mess. The father didn’t understand the reality of Oakland until she reported back to him she and her husband ducked bullets pretty much every day. When they were inside they stayed away from exterior walls because of shooting. They moved to San Jose to pay over $800 in rent just to live safely. Anymore, I believe, there are some Oakland like neighborhoods in San Jose, too.

@jimechols4347

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I heard recently from my cousin that San Jose has turned into gangland.

@ShowCat1

Жыл бұрын

democrats

@JackReacheround

Жыл бұрын

@@ShowCat1 Republican states everyday send their homeless population on one way bus trips to the west coast. it's easy to curb your homeless population when you just ship them away and then you can point out how many homeless people there are on the west coast and how they have it under such control. If you ask the majority of the homeless where they're from they will not say cali.

Grew up in Oakland and lived there from 1964-1984. Was an awesome place with so much. East Oakland and West Oakland had parts that could be rough but lots of decent neighborhoods and people. The hills are still nice but overpriced and the schools are crap. I'll never go back.

This is why I moved out of the Oakland bay area. I just couldn't take it anymore. I would ultimately be killed living in this environment. Once I realized this I moved to the mountains. I ran to the hills so to say.

@Hammett175

11 ай бұрын

Which hills?

@jjay350

8 ай бұрын

@@Hammett175 Oakland hills can be nice.

@Teddy510in

2 ай бұрын

@@jjay350 People get robbed there in broad daylight now...

@jjay350

2 ай бұрын

@@Teddy510in Says a lot about how awful urban California has become.

I was born and raised in East Oakland in the 90s. Our house got burglarized 3 times, my dad was at gunpoint in front of our house, my grandma and I would get called racial slurs on our walk to school, and a gang of 6 mofos beat me up, kicked me in the face, and stole my bike from me while I was riding in Dimond park. I was maybe 7 years old. But I love Oakland. There's a sense of pride coming from here. My neighbours were black, Mexican, Filipino, Asian, White folk. And we took care of one another. There was a strong sense of community. I learned to respect people, power, money, culture, and to lock your car door when you carry your groceries in for a second trip. I've met people who don't have an ounce of basic respect or street awareness and that's because they didn't grow up in a place like Oakland. But you missed all the beautiful places like Joaquin Miller Park, Skyline, the 13 going to Berkeley, Lake Chabot, Montclair, Lake Merritt, Jack London sq...Oakland hills has arguably the BEST views of the bay (I can see the SF homeless and druggies injecting themselves from there). Lake Merritt still has a lot of art/music culture, albeit it's a lot of the SF techies now, and it smells a hell of a lot better now than it did back then lol it's obvious you didn't explore all of Oakland, or maybe you did but only chose the biased narrative. The problem isn't that people don't care. It's because everyone in the rough areas is too busy fending for themselves to survive (read: Maslow's hierarchy). The OPD don't even go into Deep East Oakland. Who has time to care about city politics when you have to protect yourself and your home? And those who can muster the means will try to leave or live in the hills, leaving politicians in a laissez-faire state, as the guy mentioned. Oakland has ALWAYS had this problem. It's nothing new.

@thewardenofoz3324

Жыл бұрын

That's a cool story. But a state that harbors/encourages child murder has nowhere to go but down, down, down anyway.

@357SWAGNUM_MAGA_X

Жыл бұрын

Stockholm syndrome

@frederickjenson3557

Жыл бұрын

Sorry all of California is a cesspool if you ask me. Your woke candyass government and the self entitled bloated celebrities are enough too keep me away.

@benitolazio8193

Жыл бұрын

Racial slurs don't count against whites , get with the narrative citizen.

@ricardomendez4041

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a sh!thole

I love how they like “omg I feel so bad for people in other countries “ Got no idea that that’s how people feel about their country 😂

@shiningamaterasu2579

Жыл бұрын

I would love to see the US crash n burn. -A American

@bennyhill3505

Жыл бұрын

Definitely....👍🏿

@acevirginian2203

Жыл бұрын

Right they hate our own needy.

@mytruthslays1303

Жыл бұрын

This is nothing compared to many other countries. Our cities have crumbled thanks to those who were voted into office. It could have been avoided.

@WoodbabyCTB

Жыл бұрын

@@acevirginian2203 so true

Yeah, my brother lived at Jack London Square 25 years ago and everything to the right was a shit hole. The water was the other direction.

Those people who live there and destroy it don't deserve to breathe air

I've worked there for 27 years as an Oakland police officer. It wasn't bad in the mid 80's but with lame politicians and now defending the police it's gotten alot worse. No help from this current mayor. The department is down over 100 officer's with alot just leaving because of no backing and just the workload which is ridiculous.

@johncorke8549

2 жыл бұрын

Why do people in California elect these people to destroy your city's and you people just sit and let it happen? Than you try and force your politics on the rest of the country when you know it not working. You get made at other states because we don't allow our states to fall for your crappy politics and let our city's fall into shitholes like yours?

@jazztocountry1047

2 жыл бұрын

@@johncorke8549 The elections are fixed.

@sherriab1

2 жыл бұрын

If you really worked there, as I did, you should know this video is a distortion of the city. You should also be insulted as I am, because I grew up in Oakland. Why you took a pay check, yet, did not understand the city you worked for is part of the problem. People want to defund the police because of “the Riders” and the more recent sex scandal that took out two chiefs. That is just two scandals that have riddled the OPD and challenged their integrity in the community. You should be honest…

@robgoose

2 жыл бұрын

Oakland wasn't bad in the mid-80s? I took 2 minutes to google Oakland homicides and there were 129 in 1986 (compared to 75 in 2019, the last year before the pandemic). That doesn't tell the whole story but that's a much larger number.

@4CornersBooks

2 жыл бұрын

@@johncorke8549 These "people" are not elected, they are "selected" to do exactly what they've been asked to do: nothing. Do you really think elections are on the up and up in California? Missing ballot boxes (Harris' A.G. run and dead people voting (San Francisco Sillie Brown)? Oakland has a storied history of standing up and not "sitting and letting things happen" but after a 55-60 year movement most are systematically ostracized, frustrated, impoverished and played and the powers that be rotate the next batch of shitty politricians in. Oaklanders gather and attempt to use their own money to fix problems (i.e, potholes and parks) and the City government literally blocks them, attacks them, and creates laws to then police the people into inaction.

The entire State of Iowa is falling into poverty all due to illegal drug usage. The opioide epidemic is destroying the midwest.

@shirleyaprile4838

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. The drugs are at the root of the problem.

@scottyflintstone

2 жыл бұрын

What if drug use was legal?

@lolife1981

2 жыл бұрын

Good for them. These are just challenges. Keep your head up and focused and Iowa will pull it's self by it's bootstraps.

@gabrielsteele5435

2 жыл бұрын

@@shirleyaprile4838 No. Human behavior is at the root of the problem.

@gabrielsteele5435

2 жыл бұрын

It's a democrat crisis. We all have addictions. Let's stop with the blame shifting.

I was stationed at NAS Alameda from 90-93. One of my shipmates was mugged at an Oakland ATM in a public space. It was dangerous then...

its really sad, I hate that your having to see your beloved city in such bad shape, it just down right depressing, I was born in Austin TX ATX... all though the eighties it was a beautiful place and people got alone, black, white, hispanic and our large Asian community we respected each other. now in 2023 it looks close to your home.. I really hurt inside when I get on my motorcycle and see all thats going on.... I use to go out to the Bay Area because it's amazing, but not now. keep up the good work my friend and maybe just maybe things will get better...

Our family moved there in 1956 and we stayed until 1963. Went to Hamilton Jr. High, Jefferson, Lockwood, elementary schools. I can attest that it was not like this in those times. Shame on City Council and the local yokels for not paying attention to the blight. NEVER going back.... Too bad, good people are there in fear.... Last good Mayor was Lionel Wilson....

@ShowCat1

Жыл бұрын

democrats

@sasquatchrosefarts

Жыл бұрын

I got a degree from csu Hayward in 2006. It wasn't great, but it wasn't too bad if you stayed away from a few bad areas. But by 2010 it started a massive decline.

@uglytruth8817

Жыл бұрын

@@ShowCat1 Stop with that crap and wake up

@uglytruth8817

Жыл бұрын

@@ShowCat1 Both parties obey,type it in and look who runs your country

@uglytruth8817

Жыл бұрын

@@ShowCat1 Who runs the democrats?

As someone whose father used to be an Oakland police officer (RIP), I have to disagree with those who ignore CA's insane cost of living, - it's not just the obscene rent/housing costs, but also food, constant tax hikes, rising utilities & commute costs - all this is what's contributing to the exploding homeless problem. Most of the homeless people are Oakland residents who have nowhere else to go (& also feel they shouldn't _have_ to leave their hometown). Yes, drugs are a part of it, but blaming it _all_ on drugs is overly simplistic & is politically too often used as an excuse not to tackle the problem by dems & repubs alike.

@jlseagull2.060

2 жыл бұрын

Amen!

@rudybishop9089

2 жыл бұрын

“Shouldn’t have to leave their hometown?” that’s brilliant ? How about a new government agency called “if your born here we will buy you a home” a really nice one !

@heneedsomemilk4194

2 жыл бұрын

Facts I agree that drugs are part of the problem but I feel the bigger issue is rising cost as a long time Oakland resident ( born & raised ) you didn't see this many homeless ppl 10 yrs ago. Once the tech companies came ppl got even more greedy and cost started sky rocketing

@celestepalm6949

2 жыл бұрын

@@heneedsomemilk4194 Sadly, the S.F. Bay Area is becoming the next New York city: it's fast becoming a playground for the wealthy *only.* When that happens, everyone who's not super rich suffers.

@pgaven9396

2 жыл бұрын

Here's a novel solution. Bring the damn prices down and build more affordable housing. 30-40 percent of those "homeless" just can't afford to live where they rightfully should be able to stay...and get these damn parasitic tech companies out of town...it looks like they are moving out to Texas anyways...get them the hell out of here..

Back years ago, we noticed the Blythe starting.. now you could see this Blythe all over the desert communities... It's just as bad in Riverside, San Bernardino, South central California desert...it's everywhere..

This looks more like a film set from a zombie apocalypse film. This is third world under Joes watch. Shameful