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Seven! Seven Robberies In One Week In Adams Point! - That's People Held Up At Gun-Point

I saw this on the Yahoo Message Board for my neighborhood. That's just plain shocking. We need more than one cop walking the neighborhood at night. Five would be better and between the hours of 7 PM and 1 AM.

Where's De La Fuente and Nadel (who's the District 3 Council representative)? A recent poll by CBS Channel Five says she's mostly unknown -- if she jumped into this problem in her district that would change.

As to the solution, Adams Pointers need to get out and walk the neighborhood and introduce themselves to each other. We need to form a large, connected ring of people who really know each other.

We're targeted by people who don't have jobs, because we do. The economic situation has become that bad.

Meanwhile, the City of Oakland needs to get back to helping small businesses in the poorer areas grow, and forget the "big think" development for a while. The only Councilmember who seems to "get it" is District 6's Larry Reid.

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Zennie said…
Actually, the unemployment problem in West Oakland's really not good and for Latinos and African Americans the rate is over 20 percent. So, the problem rests there.

The idea of going to get a job at OPD or over in Emeryville doesn't work for mathmatical reasons. There are more people who will take the jobs than jobs and the probability that each job calls for a basic set of requirements that people who don't live in West Oakland are more likely to surpass is over 60 percent. I know this from seven years of representing the City of Oakland as Economic Advisor.

So what we have is a terrible underemployment problem and since that statistic is not calculated -- though can be -- we have no numerically clear idea of how big the problem is.

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