Police Tell Citizens to Blow Air Horns if They're a Victim of Crime Sometimes you read a story and start laughing. Then the laughter becomes uncontrollable. The insanity of the past three years – where de-policing and the idea of entrenched white supremacy, systemic racism, implicit bias, and white privilege – meets the reality of race. [Air horns and moving trucks: How Oakland, California, residents are facing a surge in crime, CNN, August 8, 2023]:
After 60-year-old retiree David Schneider was shot and killed here while trimming a tree in his yard, his neighbor, Toni Bird, said she retreated indoors.
“People aren’t feeling safe out of their house,” she said. “It makes sense that you would want to protect your house then, right? You would barricade it.”
Amid a surge in crime in Oakland, California, police have advised residents to use air horns to alert neighbors to intruders and add security bars to their doors and windows.
Poster Comment:
The Mayor is an Asian. Previous mayor was Jewish. Been 12 years since they had a Black mayor. Blacks have been targeted for racially motivated killings by Mexicans. Blacks are being pushed out by Mexicans and Asians. Both SF and Oakland had White Republican mayors in 1963.
The racial makeup of Oakland was 156,429 (35.5%) White, 104,873 (23.8%) Black or African American, 68,300 (15.5%) Asian, 2,643 (0.6%) Pacific Islander, 3,965 (0.9%) Native American, and 30,404 (6.9%) multiracial (two or more races). There were 118,974 (27.0%) of Hispanic or Latino ancestry, of any race.