The Water Cooler – Vehicle Theft In Oakland – 1 Vehicle For Every 30 Residents Was Stolen Last Year

Theft rate is so high might as well just treat the streets like a little library. Leave a car, take a car.

When I looked up the Cities with the most car thefts in 2023, Pueblo Colorado was listed number 1 with 1086.44 auto thefts per 100, 000 residents. That works out to 1 theft for every 92 residents. Oakland had 14,700 auto thefts in 2023 and the population is 433,403. That works out to 1 theft for every 29.48 residents. Three times the rate of Pueblo. Why are they not listed as number 1. Looks like the Statisticians lumped Oakland, San Francisco and Berkeley together as one City. Why? Save Oakland more embarrassment? Bottom line- Stay out of Oakland- It sucks on every level.

I work in Oakland and it’s horrible! Our customers have had their cars stolen or csrjacked..and our customers have beat up bloody and robbed at gunpoint. I narrowly avoided being a victim wslking from Bart to my office. It is totally the fault of the liberal Oakland mayor who has restrained the police from doing their job. And add to that the new Alameda County District Attorney who says she will not prosecute property crimes because they are racist ( as they effect black criminals more)
In the mirror when being interviewed is like a squeaky teenage girl who has no clue of what’s going on. She can’t even get angry about it she just in a phony way says how upset. They need to recall that mirror and their district attorney. Things are going to get worse and worse! Let that be a petri dish lesson for the surrounding cities and counties of what not to do.
It makes people mad when they say that it’s all the liberal cities that have all the crime and issues but that’s actually very very true! You’re meeting a new conservative here in me! No more votes for Democrats!

My insurance company actually canceled my renewal when they found out I drove the car to work in Oakland. They were a great out of state company with really low rates for good drivers. They did give me two months warning though that they would not renew me. They confessed to me that my risk of having the car stolen or broken into in Oakland was astronomical and that they were losing a lot of money ensuring cars in this area . They actually said it was a big problem in California and that the state was doing nothing about it that the criminals were just getting more emboldened. I guess there’s also a lot of accidents scams going on in the state . So you see, when steal, whether your car or from a store, it does end up costing us all more money. We honestly got to start locking these people up and punishing them hard! I don’t give a damn about their race or what they’ve gone through , or their background or orher sob stories it’s wrong to steal and brutalize others! I’m actually so angry and fed up with this that I would not mind if they rounded them up and fed them to the sharks. They could probably sell tickets and make a bundle.

The Oakland Police Department employs 2 detectives to handle over 14,000 car thefts in 2023. The 911 system doesn’t work in Oakland where it routinely takes 15-20 minutes just to speak with someone. Car theft is considered low priority so an officer will not be immediately dispatched. The entire department is extremely understaffed for the level of crime and number of calls police officers get. Oakland does not have a police chief and hasn’t had one for almost a year so there is no one responsible for even forming a policy to address these issues. The crime situation in Oakland has been spiraling out of control for some time now and they don’t have an adult in the room in the mayors office, on the city council or in the DA office to adequately address what’s going on.