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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: OT: Oakland update
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2024 05:08:25 -0400
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On Sun, 07 Jul 2024 08:24:36 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
wrote:

>Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, 7 Jul 2024 00:03:09 -0400, Frank Krygowski
>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 7/6/2024 1:46 PM, Roger Merriman wrote:
>>>> Tom Kunich <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Sat Jul 6 07:29:19 2024 AMuzi  wrote:
>>>>>> Just call 911.
>>>>>> We'll be there at the end of the next shift, maybe.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://nypost.com/2024/07/06/us-news/oakland-looters-ransack-gas-station-as-store-owner-sam-mardaie-claims-cops-took-hours-to-respond/
>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>> Andrew Muzi
>>>>>> am@yellowjersey.org
>>>>>> Open every day since 1 April, 1971
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Oakland police do nothing but protect those businesses tht pay protection
>>>>> money. I ride by a place all of the time that used to be a Costco but is
>>>>> now some other type of box store. At the entrance top the lot is a police
>>>>> car with its lights flashing.. If theives loot the place I don't think
>>>>> that he would actually shoot anyone but jump in the car and leave. You
>>>>> wouldn't want to be a witness.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> You lot certainly need to move considering the problems with crime and what
>>>> not you have!
>>> 
>>> I keep telling him that.   :-/
>>  
>> Some people aren't so timid as to let the bad guys run them out. 
>> 
>Meh I or Frank aren’t the ones complaining of crime, london is far from
>crime free as you’d expect from a city that size and also is variable.
>
>Roger Merriman

What's wrong with complaining about crime? It seems to me that it's
one way to facilitate official efforts to reduce crime.