Ever hear that slogan, “Never let a good crisis go to waste”? It was supposedly said by the radical leftwing activist, Saul Alinsky, giving advice to anti-government revolutionaries during the Vietnam era. Well, the City of Oakland is facing a crisis now, a budget crisis, and the crypto-Communists on the City Council have decided to use the crisis to do what they haven’t been able to do in the last few years: defund the police.

Meet Victoria Solomon, who has two homes: a city-subsidized single-room occupancy (SRO) in the Tenderloin, and a tent a few miles away on Castro Street. San Francisco provided her with the SRO because she was homeless, but Solomon returned to her old haunt, Castro Street, set up her tent, and resumed her lifestyle—while holding on to the SRO.

The Coalition for a Better Oakland congratulates the graduates of the 193rd Oakland Police Department Academy. These young women and men will join a force dedicated to protecting the peace and harmony of our beloved city.

Resentment oozes from every word in Ibram X. Kendi’s 2019 book, “How To Be An Antiracist.” He finds racism literally everywhere: Biological racism. Ethnic racism. Bodily racism. Cultural racism. Behavioral racism. Colorism. Class racism. Space racism. Gender racism. Queer racism. (These terms are all Kendi’s, not mine.) There is not a space, interstice, corner or nook of American life where Kendi does not see the ugly face of racism leering.

Next time Sheng Thao boasts about being personally responsible for decreasing crime in Oakland during the first quarter of 2024, ask her if she also takes credit for lower crime in San Francisco.