How Oakland California Got Ruined

They are unhappy with elected officials, but keep voting for them. Fools!

Weird how cities with so much homelessness, poverty and lack of jobs are also so expensive to live in

The area near Coliseum and Arena have been bad for many decades. Remember years ago on the freeway instead of welcome to Oakland sign, said “Entering Oakland” like it’s a war zone or something.

To be fair, stealing in SF is not counted as a crime if under $945 in value is stolen.

63% said they were unhappy, and 100% will vote Democrat next time.

It's getting to a point in Oakland, CA where a junkie can no longer afford a cardboard box and a blue tarp. The good news, however, is they can still crap on the streets for free.

How can home prices be that high in a place nobody wants to live in?

Oakland always was GANG RAN.

Who would have thought endlessly giving to the homeless and refusing to charge criminals would promote more crime and homelessness? Oakland's only solution is to continually increase tax and throw more money at the problem. No one to blame but the voters themselves.

honestly in the late 80's early 90's there were blocks and blocks of streets you couldnt drive down without an armored car and assault weapons....it got cleaned up for a while but now it's back but still nothing like it was back then. recently i accidentally took the wrong exit and found intersections destroyed by "sideshows" (done with cars) rubble and detritus everywhere, entire buildings covered up to the 3rd floor with graffitti, and entire areas filled with homeless campers all just ONE block from upscale condos and highspeed freeways...i cant imagine living in that hell zone. i was literally terrified.

How’s is it that the city is 54 million in debt but pay one basketball player that amount a year?

What happened to Oakland , the same thing that happened to San Francisco ! Nancy Pelosi , Diane F . and Gavin Newsome !

Come on. This city has been a death trap for decades. Have avoided this city since the 60s

Has a lot to do with Oakland demographics

On a trip to the USA, we took BART from SF to Oakland to collect or camper van to travel USA by road. Oakland was total dump if i've ever seen one. Not as bad as say Kensington but up there. The station we left BART on had gunshots trough the info screens. While riding on BART you could see the trash, burned out vehicules, burnt out homes and entire neighborhoods where people seem to collect trash both in their backyards and on their front door. There was entire streets with tent camps and people living out of their cars. Something you'll never see here.

I work in Downton Oakland, near the Clorox building. You can definitely see the impact of the pandemic in the nearby Civic Center area where all the office workers eat lunch, but it's not a ghost town. There's always plenty of white collar types hanging around, especially at lunch time. I walk around the area all the time and have never been accosted.

The only reason for the drop in crime is because they don't report it any more or prosecute crime like they should be. So things only get worse.

I know a friend who said he got a job as a tailgunner on a oakland public school bus

Look at the people in Oakland, that is why it is a dumpster fire.

Ton of work in this video. Great Job!