I’m posting this link to an article I hope you’ll read. It’s one of the most cogent analyses of the situation in Oakland I’ve ever seen. The author, Leighton Woodhouse (whom I do not know), lives in Oakland. He’s spot-on when he describes our city’s lawlessness, our failed, feckless politicians, and the impunity with which criminals commit their foul acts. He also elaborates on OPD’s understandable tendency to “underpolice,” by which he means that cops are afraid to do their jobs because retributive anti-police attitudes in Oakland threaten them with awful consequences, from lawsuits to shame to firing.
Please read “The Fall of Oakland” by Leighton Woodhouse.
I’ll be back in force tomorrow.
Steve Heimoff