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2010-07-14 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Oakland Police to quit enforcing law. Dumb enough to say so on TV.

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Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-07-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Scram Bernardo, we've got the rackets in this neighborhood now.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-07-14 01:53|| 2010-07-14 01:53|| Front Page Top

#2 There are some implications of this besides the obvious. I can see insurance rates for houses rising, and maybe you will not get homeowner's insurance in Oakland. Welcome to the future Somalia, folks, on the installment plan.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2010-07-14 02:31|| 2010-07-14 02:31|| Front Page Top

#3 There is a partial list at the link. Most of it is "after the fact" and nuisance kind of stuff.

Oh no! You'll have to get off your a$$ and complain to the neighbor or clean it up yourself!

Sex offender? Seems like they wouldn't care unless a citizen reported them anyway. Websites will be popping up where that same citizen can "register" for them privately just as there are websites that will tell you what that phone number was that just called you before you call them back, even if they are an "unlisted" number.

The police also say you'll just have to register your problem online. OK. So no operator to hold your hand. Sounds like they'll get to you between serious work.

I wonder if Oakland uses photo radar (or hides behind signs at the usual speedtraps and other such easy-money-makers). If they do, then I also wonder if those stations will remain in use. If so, in my opinion the police could absorb further cuts.

Posted by gorb 2010-07-14 02:52|| 2010-07-14 02:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Some are minor, others not so much. If you home was burglarized would you want to be told to fill out the online form and that no officer would be coming by? Who's going to go in first and check it out? What if they stole your computer? Damn, looks like it's going to be a long night!

I think we can expect more of our police force than this. Is this to be the new model for police work? We already have CHP to pick at the carcass of an already broke citizenry, they've become nothing more than meter maids with guns.
My father worked for Oakland Police for 25 years, he can't recall anything in the oath about raising revenues, but that's all they seem to be interested in now.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-07-14 03:48|| 2010-07-14 03:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Order will emerge from this chaos. You may not like what the Fruit of Islam provides, but the locals will like the order they establish. It will become interesting when the new order gains enough power to threaten the old and its ~~corruption~~ pensions.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-07-14 05:40|| 2010-07-14 05:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Fruit of Islam has already staked out Oakland in competition with the police.

A reminder is perhaps in order regarding this 2005 paper from the Army War College. Main point of the paper is that street gangs function like insurgencies in that they deliberately prevent the public authorities from exercising control and as a result undermine the rule of law in general.

The Fruit of Islam in Oakland, who've been linked to the murders of Oakland business people who don't support them. Second generation north Africans in the banlieus of Paris. Kurdish Islamicists in Malmo. We've seen what happens when the authorities cede control of an urban area. It doesn't end well.

Posted by lotp 2010-07-14 07:59|| 2010-07-14 07:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Tell it to Mayor Daley, Robin. "Insurgents" control parts of Chicago, but Da Mare doesn't want you to own a gun to defend yourself. It's almost as if they're working together! [/sarc]

Posted by Spot 2010-07-14 08:14|| 2010-07-14 08:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Actually, Spot, they're in competition. They just want to keep the sheep from becoming involved. It's really no different from northern Mexico where the corrupt drug lords are competing with the corrupt police and government officials. Its all about power. The 'public' are just the creatures to fleece.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-07-14 08:34|| 2010-07-14 08:34|| Front Page Top

#9 This is an old bureaucrat trick. When someone offers to cut your funding, you loudly announce that you are going to "cut the meat" (not the fat.)

The trick is to not be too outrageous. For example, they would get their rear end kicked if they said they were no longer going to arrest rapists. But not arresting taggers will annoy the business community just enough so that they will lean on the city council.

And yes, a big part of it is not pushing so hard that people start looking for alternatives.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-07-14 09:10|| 2010-07-14 09:10|| Front Page Top

#10 If they are not enforcing the law, then they are just an unnecessary expense to Oakland. Get rid of them and hire someone who will uphold the law. Is this another one of those publice union stories where the unions have a stranglehold on State and Federal politics?

Posted by JohnQC 2010-07-14 09:20|| 2010-07-14 09:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Seems like a good opportunity for Oakland and California to be the next target for gun rights--if the police can't provide protection, each citizen will have to provide his/her own protection. Seems like Oakland and California is ripe for a 2nd Amendment challenge. Presently, California is very restrictive about gun rights..

Posted by JohnQC 2010-07-14 09:25|| 2010-07-14 09:25|| Front Page Top

#12 But not arresting taggers will annoy the business community just enough so that they will lean on the city council.
Anonymoose

A friend and former Union negotiator refers to this as the pinch point strategy. The tactic is to affect key areas where labor most interfaces with the public and use their dissatisfaction as a force multiplier. Does Cloward-Piven sound familiar?

Posted by DepotGuy 2010-07-14 11:39|| 2010-07-14 11:39|| Front Page Top

#13 These are the clowns need to be removed from office and replaced with someone serious.

Posted by gorb 2010-07-14 11:43|| 2010-07-14 11:43|| Front Page Top

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