No one focuses on the pain here : Inside Oakland s abandoned car epidemic
Ariana Bindman
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Just beneath the bustling Nimitz Freeway, there’s hundreds of them. Maybe even thousands.
They’re gutted and stripped, covered in graffiti, burned to pieces and exploding with trash. Oakland’s swaths of abandoned vehicles are an unsightly urban phenomenon, and just parallel to Wood Street, which is home to sprawling tent encampments, there’s an astonishing amount of them.
Just ahead, two people can be seen stripping a rusty truck that’s been reduced to a frame on wheels. The area, which feels like something out of a post-apocalyptic John Carpenter film, is cluttered with AC Transit buses, bombed-out BMWs and overturned Audis. But how did they get here? And more importantly, why is the city allowing them to accumulate?
Members of Oakland defund police task force push for more homicide investigators, dispatchers
By Lisa Fernandez
Henry Lee reports on what each side would like to see.
OAKLAND, Calif. - Five Black community members, some of whom have long been critical of police, and all of whom sit on a task force to reimagine public safety, are imploring Oakland leaders to not simply slash the police budget unless they also find solid ideas for better alternatives.
There are certain elements of policing that are important to keep the community safe, said community activist John Jones III who is formerly incarcerated, a father of three and the current director of community and political engagement at Just Cities.
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