Do Gang Injunctions work in Oakland? (Borders Rockridge) (Berkeley, Emeryville: crime rate, neighborhood)

[bmw335xi]

Originally Posted by jade408

So let's see, based on the stats behind the injunction, the Northside "Gang" accounted for around 50 incidents --- just incidents. Last I checked, there were easily 80 murders in DEO last year. Don't those families need solutions?

Not according the Oakland PR team.......

I'd rather see resources focused on solving the real problems. Not a handful of problems because they are close to trendier areas. And I live near the area in question.

Once again, you fail to see my point. Why not focus on all trouble areas? I know Oakland is a terribly mismanaged city, but they surely should be able to attack crime at two ends or are you saying the local officials are so stupid they can only do one thing at a time?

[04kL4nD]

Uh, when you have limited resources, it's usually best to tackle THE BIGGEST problem first, which would be DEO and the bad parts of West Oakland.

But those areas are residential and not places foodies/tourists/hipsters come over in droves on BART to visit.

Why is this hard to understand?

[bmw335xi]

Originally Posted by 04kL4nD

Uh, when you have limited resources, it's usually best to tackle THE BIGGEST problem first, which would be DEO and the bad parts of West Oakland.

But those areas are residential and not places foodies/tourists/hipsters come over in droves on BART to visit.

Why is this hard to understand?

If you have limited resources, then you'll want more revenue or at the very least you don't want to lose revenue. It's important to keep parts of town where foodies, tourists, hipsters frequent in "droves" safe because you don't want them to feel in danger. If they don't feel safe say good bye tax revenue, which means even less resources.

Why is this hard to understand?

[ssmaster]

Originally Posted by bmw335xi

If you have limited resources, then you'll want more revenue or at the very least you don't want to lose revenue. It's important to keep parts of town where foodies, tourists, hipsters frequent in "droves" safe because you want them to feel in danger. If they don't feel safe say good bye tax revenue, which means even less resources.

Why is this hard to understand?

I have to agree with this.
the wealthier neighborhoods/hipsters consumers pay more in taxes and buy more taxable goods.
they generally use less city/county recources. you need them to make up for the unemployed or the folks on government assistance in places like Deep east oakland.
the tourist spend money and don't use city recources
new orleans ,new york,las vegas the mantra is the same don't $%@* with the tourist and keep the wealthier areas safe.

it's a sad fact of life

[04kL4nD]

So you admit that you'd rather put a band-aid on the problem than to actually tackle and fix the CORE of Oakland's socioeconomic problems?

[rbehs]

I believe Fruitvale and North Oakland were targeted for gang injunctions because community groups there supported the idea, while in West Oakland and farther out in East Oakland, most of the community groups were actively opposed.

[Nineties Flava]

Originally Posted by rbehs

I believe Fruitvale and North Oakland were targeted for gang injunctions because community groups there supported the idea, while in West Oakland and farther out in East Oakland, most of the community groups were actively opposed.

If true that's interesting given that the brunt of the opposition to the North Oakland gang injunction comes from people that are from North Oakland. I'm guessing said community groups that helped get these injunctions through in the first place are mainly comprised of recent arrivals.

[DocGoldstein]

Originally Posted by bmw335xi

If you have limited resources, then you'll want more revenue or at the very least you don't want to lose revenue. It's important to keep parts of town where foodies, tourists, hipsters frequent in "droves" safe because you don't want them to feel in danger. If they don't feel safe say good bye tax revenue, which means even less resources.

Why is this hard to understand?

Agree with this.

This is how you preserve economic vitality in a city. Make sure the places where people do actual spend money are protected. S.F has done a good job of this in Union Square for the most part. I've seen drug dealers escorted out of the mall food court by staff as soon as they try to setup shop.

[jade408]

Originally Posted by DocGoldstein

Agree with this.

This is how you preserve economic vitality in a city. Make sure the places where people do actual spend money are protected. S.F has done a good job of this in Union Square for the most part. I've seen drug dealers escorted out of the mall food court by staff as soon as they try to setup shop.

This makes sense in theroy, the reality is, for the area where the gang injunctions are, aren't really impacted by the "gangs" in the commercial areas where people are spending money. Except perhaps in the Golden Gate commercial district along San Pablo, which is clearly an area in transition. And not one of the media touted hotspots.

In fact, if they were really concerned, they'd put in a little more effort around reducing property crime in Temescal, and the blocks west of Telegraph. That would be more impactful than this injunction. This is a very half hearted resolution.

[DocGoldstein]

Originally Posted by jade408

This makes sense in theroy, the reality is, for the area where the gang injunctions are, aren't really impacted by the "gangs" in the commercial areas where people are spending money. Except perhaps in the Golden Gate commercial district along San Pablo, which is clearly an area in transition. And not one of the media touted hotspots.

In fact, if they were really concerned, they'd put in a little more effort around reducing property crime in Temescal, and the blocks west of Telegraph. That would be more impactful than this injunction. This is a very half hearted resolution.

Yeah I'm not saying the injunction solution works at all, but the concept bmw335 is describing is how S.F has managed to keep their money generating areas, well, continuing to generate massive amounts of city tax revenue.