How Oakland California Got Ruined

Did you know that in 2024 Oakland was ranked the 5th most dangerous city in America? Or that recently many Oakland businesses such as In n Out, Dennys, Subway, Raising Canes and more have all closed or partially closed recently due to high crime and other businesses such as Clorox have had to hire extra security to protect their employees? If you’ve been following the news lately about the progress of different cities in America, one city may have stood out: Oakland, California. And unfortunately, it probably didn’t stand out for a good reason. Oakland has been struggling a lot as of late, facing challenges including businesses shutting down, increased rates of crime, drug use, homelessness, and more. And although not everything in Oakland is bad, 63% of Oakland residents said that they were unhappy with what elected officials have been achieving. So today on Across the Globe we’re going to be looking at How Oakland Got Ruined.
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[TexasTimeLord]

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

[FallacyAsPraxis]

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

[victorl]

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

[xcqematic]

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.

[oldschoolhawking]

I was born and raised in Oakland in the 50s and 60s. The city was so unsafe that my parents had to keep moving us further and further away. By 1990, it got so bad, my parents, my wife's parents and my wife and I, had to pack up and move 150 miles north.🥴

[thegasstationofficial]

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

[MR.B.]

Every sports team is leaving Oakland the Raiders, Warriors and soon the A's!

[robertalbertson]

I lived in Oakland for several years, but in 2018 I couldn't take living there anymore! I'm a retired police officer from LAPD Los Angeles Police Department, and crime had rapidly increased dramatically in Oakland to the point I stopped going anywhere at night, I tried my best to have someone with me when I went places there even in daylight hours for extra safety. I was pretty much a prisoner in my own house not to mention I had also been a victim of a couple of property crimes in the last two years I lived there! I had my car broken into twice, someone broke into my garage and I had several pieces of mail stolen right from my mailbox which included a couple of retirement checks from the State of California! FINALLY I HAD ENOUGH! Within a 60 day period, I sold my house and moved to the Philippines where I've lived full time since I arrived in July 2018 and I've never been back to the US let alone to Oakland! In the nearly 6 years since moving to the Philippines, I've never ever felt uncomfortable or frightened, and I've not experienced any crime to myself or to my property! Best decision I've ever made in my life moving from Oakland to the Philippines 🇵🇭 ❤

Oakland used to be a nice place to live and for many years I never had any problems until 2014 came along and it just kept getting worse and worse! I was lucky and blessed that I was able to move from there, but unfortunately I know there are many people living there that don't necessarily have the option or ability to leave! 😢😢

[dannelson-ng]

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.

[DotyString]

In a city of + $600, 000 homes there should be plenty of property tax income. I call insane corruption where has the money gone?!?

[jw]

Blaming Oakland's homelessness issue solely on the lack of affordable housing is wild. I'm in California and can tell you exactly what happened.

The sharp increase in homelessness directly coincided with the implementation of prop 47 in 2014, which decriminalized drug use and theft in the state. It made a bad problem even worse in Oakland, in particular. Add to that the 9th circuit court preventing cities and governments from removing homeless camps from public spaces like sidewalks, parks, and other undesignated camping areas. With drug abuse and vagrancy essentially decriminalized, users had no incentive to get on rehab programs or seek out other housing solutions. Instead of getting treatment, people can now spiral out of control with no intervention.

This policy and attitude of enablement is chronic in the Bay area, especially, and is pervasive across most of California now. However, you see the worst of it concentrated in cities where these insane ideas originated, like SF, Oakland, Sacramento, and LA.

You can force cities and counties to zone all of the "affordable housing" you can squeeze in and it still won't solve the homeless issue. It will however spread urban blight to the suburbs and the rural counties and decrease quality of life across the board. If they truly cared about fixing homelessness, they'd tackle the problem at it's root. They won't.

[rickpicone]

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.

[Stinkinbadgez]

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

[hermanmunster]

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.

[Mark-pcbx]

I'm Australian and flew out of Oakland international over Christmas and I've never seen anything like Oakland. I thought San Fran was a shithole but Oakland takes the cake, it's end of days stuff, dystopian nightware on an industrial scale, homelessness like you wouldn't belive, graffiti, rubbish, how anyone would shit in one's nest the way the people of Oakland do they must hate themselves to want to live in a community like that.

[Kaesemesser]

How...? I mean, it should be obvious that not punishing criminals leads to more crime.

[Shaggydude]

I lived in Oakland for 15yrs, I sold my house in 07 after the riot that took place when the Raiders lost the super bowl. It was a powder keg then and is even worse today. I had a service route for the largest security company, I saw violence on daily basis. It was a lawless environment, and law enforcement were helpless to do anything about it. That was 17yrs ago, its only gotten worse if you can imagine that. Socialist democratic rule always destroys towns when its voted in, Oakland is just one example of destroyed cities across the nation.

[Reever]

Oakland problems started four decades ago

[Inkling]

I'm old enough to remember when California was considered the "golden state." That quit being true long ago. Worse still, the state seems to lack the will to make the necessary changes.

[kennethjohnson]

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