masameet
Rawr!
Your neighborhood looks safe during the daytime, Ernie. 
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Congratulations Oakland- 100 homicides and it's only mid September!
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afm199
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Your neighborhood looks safe during the daytime, Ernie.
The guy got shot 100 feet away in the daytime, a couple months ago. But we like it. I walk the streets day or night.
Termagant
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I've lived in West Oakland (AKA "da Lower Bottom") for 12 years, alone for 7 of 'em. I feel pretty safe in my neighborhood, and most of my neighbors like me and look out for me. (For years I was the token white person in the neighborhood, so everybody knows me. And besides, they decided my ex-wife and I were entertainingly/scarily crazy when we had a bullwhip "fight" in the middle of the street the first summer we lived here.)
I do have bars on my windows, a big dog, and, of course, a small, personal-sized arsenal, but geez, I'm a woman who lives alone-- I'd want that in any city! Wouldn't anyone? Oakland's not too bad.
I do have bars on my windows, a big dog, and, of course, a small, personal-sized arsenal, but geez, I'm a woman who lives alone-- I'd want that in any city! Wouldn't anyone? Oakland's not too bad.
Termagant
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racercosmo
Hooligan with a Halligan
Oakland.
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maybe he is more east/south than i'm thinking, cuz sounded like to me i was picturing somewhere off of park steet, on the good side of 580.
guess not.
it does get hairy a few blocks south and east of park
guess not.
it does get hairy a few blocks south and east of park
do you have a link to this murder?...two blocks from the 35th ave murder a few months ago, and 100 feet from the dakota st murder. Ten years ago the phone lines on my block were shot out by an AK 47. We have had four murders in my area in a year...
Four blocks from my house you can buy hookers and blow on 35th and school
just wondering as I live in the same area. right by 38th & redding.
afm199
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It was probably at the quikstop on the east side of 580 but the body was moved. Check the OPD website, they show all the murders.
38th and Redding! Easy Lucky shopping!
afm199
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Bad form. :|
Oakland might not be the greatest place on earth but there's a lot of people who call it home and lots of people who work their butts off to make it a safer place, day in and day out.
Seems really disrespectful to these folks to be calling it a 'shithole'...just my $.02
NorCalBusa
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Hooli
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NorCal, you never answered my question.
Where do you live?
Where do you live?
NorCalBusa
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Correction, every major city ANYWHERE has problem areas.
San Jose, SF, LA, every major CA city has major problem areas. I like living in Oakland. I don't walk the streets in fear. Unless I see Hooli coming.
About as useful as waving a daisy in the air as far as home defense goes.
I am going to guess, Detroit
I live in a bad part of San Diego. My wife and I are the only two white (~50/50 Mexican and black) people on my block (probably farther if I paid attention). I told a former black coworker where I lived and he said "Skyline? What are you doing there, I wouldn't want to live there." Funny since I feel much safer here then I ever did living in military housing. You leave a bicycle out at night in Coast Guard housing and it would be stolen, I leave my garage door open all night/day and find all my tools, my bike on a trailer, etc all right where I left them. Only danger is the idiots who pass through thinking it is a race track. Oh, and watch how the neighbors come to life when those idiots do pass through, you don't want to see my neighbor Dennis on his bad side
afm199
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True, but real Oaklanders think people from other cities are pussies, wimps, wusses and all wear panties.
As far as Pit Bulls and home defense... Burglars don't enter homes with working Pit Bulls. They go somewhere they aren't. Too much trouble.
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Nah, that is what my mutt little brat (from the Alameda shelter) is for. The one that is currently curled up with the kitten
She is far scarier. Corinne (from the Oakland shelter) would just hide behind Mai're, or hide under the desk in my spare room 
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afm199
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Nah, that is what my mutt little brat (from the Alameda shelter) is for. The one that is currently curled up with the kitten
My last Pit used to go up to the chain link gate and try to tear a hole in it when people walked by, while growling and snarling. He got out once and kept the neighbor from getting out of his car for ten minutes.