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Tom Van Demark's avatar

Excellent reporting. Thank you.

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J on the block's avatar

Excellent job. Sad, but predictable. With the status of "leadership" in Oakland, I honestly can't tell if this is statistical ignorance or willful misrepresentation. Moreover, there isn't a level of city-sanctioned propaganda that can edit away what people experience every day - the crime, businesses closing, vagrancy, etc. And the ever-present violence. Burts of gunfire during a family dinner last week here - just 100 feet from my house - 2 groups of women beefing and instead of having the capacity to work things out just spraying gunfire all over the neighborhood.

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