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Breaking News (at least, for me): according to aggregate crime tracker Neighborhood Scout, as of right now Oakland -- my home city, where I was born -- is essentially the most dangerous city in America, with a violent ctime rate almost FOUR TIMES higher than the national average the it makes safer than ZERO PERCENT of U.S. neighborhoods.
My friends are begging me to go party with them for a close friend's birthday. But I'm just paralyzed here. My local Kaiser Permanente is no longer safe; a person can go there to get health care and end up in the emergency room with grievous (or possibly fatal) injuries these days. Our DA refuses to charge juveniles convicted of seriously violent crimes (i.e., armed burglaries, armed carjackings... all at the ages of 13 to 14 years) as adults. Our Mayor keeps giving us promises she knows she can't keep. Several restaurants have permanently closed their doors after being in business ranging from 25 to 54 years.
And we only JUST NOW got our new police chief. How is that supposed to address the rise of criminals who're now so bold and eager to commit violent crimes due to TWO YEARS of crimes surges due to the lack of sufficient law enforcement?!
And we're still forced to go to our jobs to make money to pay taxes to this state, even if by doing so we might not come back home to our families safely -- or even at all.
I'm sick of this shit. I'm sick of public officials asking so much of us civilians while they feel no obligation to reciprocate with more safe neighborhoods. We've done enough. They need to get off their asses and DO THEIR JOBS, rather than put blatantly unrealistic expectations on us because they're not up to the task. That's how it's supposed to work.
My friends are begging me to go party with them for a close friend's birthday. But I'm just paralyzed here. My local Kaiser Permanente is no longer safe; a person can go there to get health care and end up in the emergency room with grievous (or possibly fatal) injuries these days. Our DA refuses to charge juveniles convicted of seriously violent crimes (i.e., armed burglaries, armed carjackings... all at the ages of 13 to 14 years) as adults. Our Mayor keeps giving us promises she knows she can't keep. Several restaurants have permanently closed their doors after being in business ranging from 25 to 54 years.
And we're still forced to go to our jobs to make money to pay taxes to this state, even if by doing so we might not come back home to our families safely -- or even at all.
I'm sick of this shit. I'm sick of public officials asking so much of us civilians while they feel no obligation to reciprocate with more safe neighborhoods. We've done enough. They need to get off their asses and DO THEIR JOBS, rather than put blatantly unrealistic expectations on us because they're not up to the task. That's how it's supposed to work.
