Most Dangerous Cities In California.. (San Francisco, Oakland: high crime, neighborhoods, buy)

[french paris]

Oakland Tops The List


According to statistics released earlier this month by Federal Bureau of Investigation, cities in Northern California run the gamut from the most dangerous in the state to zones that are virtually crime-free.
The San Francisco Business Times complied all those stats into a single list ranking all the cities in California based on their rates of violent crime per capita in 2010.
Check out the full list here.
How does your hometown stack up?


Most Dangerous Cities In California: Oakland Tops The List (PHOTOS)

[Think About It!]

Other than the few small cities at the top of the list it seems pretty status quo.

[18Montclair]

Originally Posted by french paris

Oakland Tops The List

My solution: The vast majority of us who live life uninterrupted by this madness, need to take up a collection and buy them bullets so these hoodlums can continue killing each other-good riddance.

Its not very popular with my neighbors.

Our city has been on a huge upswing over the past oh, 15 years and we have seen a huge influx of educated and wealthy folks, artists, restauranteurs, intellectuals, yuppies, hipsters etc, but this crime problem persists.

Ultimately I dont think families are taking account for their wayward sons, brothers, nephews, cousins etc.

The police is viewed antagonistically by too many folks, much of that is not totally unfounded btw, but at the end of the day, these are OUR streets and WE should be at the forefront of making sure they are safe.

Until Oaklanders themselves take the initiative to stop this, crime in the flatlands will continue, ironically, even as many of these crime ridden neighborhoods somewhat gentrify, become more family oriented and quite frankly more livable.

That said, its a shame that so many people only know our city by its crime ranking...there is so much more.

[BodegaHead]

Your just trollin' BS, Oakland is the nicest place you could ever live,bwahahahaha, just kidding

[18Montclair]

Originally Posted by BodegaHead

Your just trollin' BS, Oakland is the nicest place you could ever live,bwahahahaha, just kidding

Actually if you have money to afford the hills, Oakland is one of the nicest places you could ever live in.



LOL

[jade408]

Something like 70-75% of the crime in Oakland is concentrated in a few neighborhoods. If you don't live in one of those places, you don't have much to worry about. That's what these stats don't tell you.

[Vascodagama]

My city did well ... near the bottom of the list

[eureka1]

All I know is that as an occasional visitor, I find downtown Oakland is MUCH more pleasant than downtown San Francisco.

[Bulldogdad]

Originally Posted by jade408

Something like 70-75% of the crime in Oakland is concentrated in a few neighborhoods. If you don't live in one of those places, you don't have much to worry about. That's what these stats don't tell you.

That's usually the case for most cities on these lists.

[jade408]

Originally Posted by Bulldogdad

That's usually the case for most cities on these lists.

It would be an interesting thing to review. For example, SF has high crime and lower crime areas. But equivalent nicer neighborhoods in Oakland have lower crime than the similar ones in SF. So most neighborhoods have higher than average crime than similar ones in other places.

So generally in most cities crime is concentrated. I think in Oakland it is ridiculously concentrated.