How Oakland California Got Ruined

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Published 2024-03-02
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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All Comments (21)
  • @FallacyAsPraxis
    They are unhappy with elected officials, but keep voting for them. Fools!
  • @TexasTimeLord
    Weird how cities with so much homelessness, poverty and lack of jobs are also so expensive to live in
  • 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.
  • @victorl225
    How can home prices be that high in a place nobody wants to live in?
  • @xcqematic1
    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.
  • @ribaldi
    To be fair, stealing in SF is not counted as a crime if under $945 in value is stolen.
  • @Oajosh
    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.
  • @Doty6String
    In a city of + $600,000 homes there should be plenty of property tax income. I call insane corruption where has the money gone?!?
  • What happened to Oakland , the same thing that happened to San Francisco ! Nancy Pelosi , Diane F . and Gavin Newsome !
  • @BedWetter707
    Look at the people in Oakland, that is why it is a dumpster fire.
  • @user-lz8lw6gu8q
    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.
  • @JohnSmith-ux3tt
    63% said they were unhappy, and 100% will vote Democrat next time.
  • 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.🥴
  • How’s is it that the city is 54 million in debt but pay one basketball player that amount a year?
  • 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! 😢😢
  • @supersabrejet
    You get what you vote for, and the worst part, is that some individuals will keep voting the same way!
  • @pyrho1
    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.
  • @Robert-eg2oy
    I can’t imagine why anyone would want to live in this cesspool called Oakland.