Some Oakland neighborhoods have become a dumping ground for stolen vehicles

Neighbors fed up with old vehicles being dumped in their neighborhood

[@csmlouis]

Oakland has got to be the most expensive piece of landfill in America.

[@legion2k988]

Whole bay area is full of these pockets.

[@mrmr-qx4jq]

You forgot about the entire South

[@AKAAAK]

100%

[@Mrbfgray]

Better to dump'em there, a Progressive wasteland, than out in the country near me.

[@AuroraBoarder1]

@@mrmr-qx4jq - the South is less expensive.

[@garygerard4290]

This goes on because it is tolerated. It's tolerated because some in a position of power wants it so.

[@mrsleep0000]

Take a cue from El Salvador and jail the gang members... it's not rocket surgery. How about starting a program of arresting dirt bags and keeping them in jail so this doesn't happen in the first place?

[@giftedgreen2152]

We only prosecute Republicans in California.

[@deesnoots]

Rocket surgery? Lol

[@bukboefidun9096]

Oakland honors criminals with reparations.

[@Mrbfgray]

Common sense politics has abandon much of Commifornia. (not all of it tho, Bay Area is extremely Leftist and reaping what they voted)

[@stephenkarmichael]

@@deesnoots brah, i’ma start using rocket surgery. that sounds like some serious intelligence.

[@drewbryant5171]

I'm surprised the city has not set up a dump site where the criminals can dispose of the cars that they have stolen.

[@jntj3007]

Well, they're probably working on that right now.

[@ThomassFan]

😂😂 someone tag pamela price. This sounds up her alley

[@bukboefidun9096]

What happened to Libby Schaaf?

[@alexblazquez2277]

They have its called East Oakland

[@deesnoots]

The whole thing is a dump site for criminals wym? Lol

[@brothertoughlove]

People in Oakland are like why are the Oakland As leaving? 😂😂😂😂

[@SCabanlitProductions]

People in Oakland are like why are people hating on Oakland?😂

[@cameronb3834]

That Z71 is like almost 20 years old

[@cameronb3834]

@@SCabanlitProductions It’s not just Oakland that’s like this many parts of CA are witnessing society’s decay. Skid Row, Downtown San Diego and many encampments in SF and Sac.

[@giftedgreen2152]

Who cares about the As? Oakland might get a WNBA expansion team.

[@brothertoughlove]

@@giftedgreen2152 lol

[@Sarah-sm5xf]

Oakland has gone downhill. Between the trash, homelessness, and crime, it’s terrible.

[@middleguy1776]

And it's because the people of Oakland have voted for this.

[@walt3rwhit387]

@@middleguy1776 actually no. This is all a protest against poverty, segregation, and white supremacy. The 3 issues that are the most relevant in Oakland. Committing crime is simply a protest

[@dominionofgod4715]

@@walt3rwhit387 Stealing from other black folks to commit crime against other black folks targets White Supremacy, lol.

[@middleguy1776]

@@walt3rwhit387 oh my bad

[@kanank13]

people of oakland deserve this and far worse because this is all the result of the kind of politicians they elected.

[@saraceno1979]

I refused to pick up a person with uber somewhere there because it looked so unsafe in the middle of the night with all those burned cars. It seemed to me like a scene from a scary movie. Oakland is sad

[@blkcoupequattro]

There’s a large auto body shop presence in Oakland, and the chop shop culture is alive and well open air in some instances….

[@edwardnelson3413]

How can someone live in a stolen car, then the city can't tow or remove the car. That is insane.

[@Janzer_]

these are the times we're in. nothing makes sense. men are women, women are men, neither are men or women... we have an animated corpse for a president...

[@philobetto5106]

Democrat policies... Conservative States don't have this lawlessness

[@anthonyjones9868]

Been around the world, and still not in Oakland still traveling

[@deesnoots]

Good. Stay far away

[@beatpirate8]

Omg it’s starting over where I live in fruitvale . It’s terrible. Yes I’m embarrassed and I don’t invite people over I also don’t feel it’s safe.

[@deesnoots]

Summer time is coming! U know what that means! Chaos soon!

[@Fox_Zero]

Vote for politicians willing to hold criminals accountable, not for the ones enabling them to take over your cities!

[@beatpirate8]

We just had some teens take a car and abandon it by our house. Luckily they didn’t set it on fire and the owner saw our picture and retrieved her car

[@Ap_twsh]

That’s pathetic of those kids and shows what worthless parents they have

[@Naze727]

i always park it close (:

[@billmorrison9068]

"Teens" Uh huh.

[@Naze727]

@@billmorrison9068 teens as in you think they older or younger?

[@jamesnguyen_1]

teens will start burning em once they wise-en up

[@Lucy-zj3tq]

He is totally right. Please do something!

[@justmyopinion6486]

Soft on crime, you get a junk yard of stolen cars!!!!!!!!!

[@db-rc5fr]

Let them reap what they sow.

[@michaeltache3681]

Blessed I left Oaktown in 2017. Back in 2015 it really seemed like it was turning. That mix of art, style, and grit was bringing in young professionals. Those days are gone. Now it’s trash. Never thought I’d say that. I was there for a visit recently and I saw it first hand. Awful…

[@510mlc]

I lived in Oakland from 2004 to 2014, which was a great time to be there. It did start to turn around 2015. A neighbor friend got mugged a block from his house shortly after we moved to El Cerrito. Left CA altogether in 2021.

[@maxvaun]

Excuses, excuses, excuses ..... nothing will ever be done in this inept system. It's really not difficult to catch these bastards.

[@AuroraBoarder1]

True. Prosecuting them is a whole other story.

[@thomasgentry6201]

Now its the railroads fault new one.

[@rgw1380rw]

​@@thomasgentry6201 I didn't hear him say the auto thefts are the railroad's fault. What I did hear him say is they are responsible for keeping their grounds free of those cars that are sitting there.

[@Janzer_]

seems like an entrepreneur with a flatbed could come make a dime salvaging the cars, but then the city probably has some kind of laws or policies preventing this... because that would make total sense in our upside down world 😂 "let the process work"... meanwhile nothing happens. 👌

[@alansnyder8448]

Dear KPIX. I've been critical of you for ignoring crime and drugs in the Bay Area. It seems you are starting to listen. This was a good story, and hope you do more like this. And good luck to the community activist he has my support.

[@munkeescrotum]

Good reporting

[@sunayakong8537]

It would be better reporting if they would get to the heart of why this is happening.

[@munkeescrotum]

@@sunayakong8537 agreed. that would make it super stellar

[@philobetto5106]

Don't vote for liberal Democrat politicians Trump 2024

[@SURENITY]

That poor FJ Cruiser and it’s owner! Those things are $50k+, and the owners are often very fond of them! Very loyal enthusiast fanbase! Someone misses their FJ.

[@snakedog77]

Yep

[@crabkilla]

NO to plastic straws. YES to dumping everywhere!

[@PistolPete707]

A's definitely need to leave before they start dumping inside the ballpark haha

[@jamesnguyen_1]

las vegas gunna look like this in ten years 😂

[@bmcginnis6543]

There was a mountain of trash next to the home when you bought it and now you're shocked there is garbage there?!??

[@ErinArmstrongRocks]

Completely unaddressed -- "we can't do anything if someone moves into it" then "what about the owner?" -- So someone's car get stolen and stripped and someone moves into it, but there is nothing the owner can do because... what?? Squatter rights? That's fucked up!

[@shatexposure4467]

What’s worst is they’ll have to pay the tow lot to even get it back

[@damnjustassignmeone]

If it happens every day, why don’t cops just stake it out?

[@middleguy1776]

They don't have the man power. They barely have enough officers to respond to calls. Defunding the police wasn't going to end well.

[@giftedgreen2152]

Because they're busy playing games on their phone.

[@kanank13]

cops are held to higher standards and they need to act like spiritual leaders. criminals have total impunity to do whatever they want. protecting the community is the last thing anyone wants to do in this countyr now.

[@Mrbfgray]

Then come back next day to arrest same ppl again, what's the point when crims face no consequences.

[@Fox_Zero]

Laws protect criminals' rights and make it nearly impossible for law enforcement to enforce the law. The ones that are brave enough to enforce the law are often vilified, and the criminals are portrayed as their victims. They need to start voting for a government that will protect the working class, not enable criminals, drug addicts to take over their cities!

[@ocean12]

That one lady said when she bought her house there was trash all over the front yard. Why would you buy there? Just why. If you paid me, i would not live there

[@rgw1380rw]

If it can be cleared, I figure the home itself was her main focus. If the home is in fairly good to great condition, the garbage is the least of her worries. In my neighborhood in NYC, some people will have homes that get little attention paid to the front yard. You sometimes get ignorant people that will dump their unwanted things in that yard or on the sidewalk. Eventually someone may track down the owner, then offer to buy the house after checking out the interior of that home.

[@510mlc]

People in the Bay Area compromise because housing is expensive. There was a trend of gentrification up until about 2015 so you could buy a house in a less savory area and newcomers who cared (and had money or time) would help to clean it up. That has clearly changed, now going the other way.

[@papersmoker3026]

What’s sad is a dog that’s always behind a gate.

[@daveclark8337]

He'd get stolen otherwise and used as bait for pit bull training. Welcome to Oakland!!

[@idontplaygames2215]

​@@daveclark8337Move the car's and Bring in the immigrants. Fill that shiii up they'll get used to it..😉

[@hj8090]

Too much talking but no body does anything.We need some real action towards those lazy criminals.

[@chillwill5080]

I'm from Detroit, we knew who did what and those people never got to stay in the hood very long and live.

[@phackqu]

Designed

[@rhuntington3]

Situation normal for Oakland.

[@iz.i.]

That FJ , can still be used. Put some ties on it. Put a 49 state catalytic converter on it. Take it to another state.

[@RitaMoore-um6dm]

My great great grandfather lived and beautified the scrub brush hills of Oakland. He has to be turning over in his grave to see the destruction there.

[@Wavyso]

This is what happens when city council acts like east and West Oakland dont exist and essentially make them lawless xones that are unmaintained

[@Fox_Zero]

The whole culture of the state is to enable criminals, by believing that a kind and gentle approach will persuade them to change their ways, the only thing it accomplishes is to enable them and embolden them, but I guess it keeps the "woke liberals" from rioting and burning the entire state.

[@chillwill5080]

This is what happens when you are too chickensh*t to defend your own neighborhood. Government ain't gonna do anything for you but maybe show up to take reports, if there might be some wealth in it for them that they can steal.

[@LoneWolf-dv7ul]

She is 4' tall, and 5' wide. The 'enforcement' agent.

[@Fox_Zero]

She gives the whole weight of the law a new meaning! 🤭

[@Aieshoo]

​@@Fox_Zero😂

[@bobjones1636]

Oakland is just Gotham City with no Batman.

[@anthonyjones9868]

At some point, I've noticed I'll never find my love of my dream around in Oakland 😂

[@AuroraBoarder1]

Unless you love lawlessness and violence.

[@ryshellso526]

Plenty of heroin and fentanyl kweens to pick from. Just cruise downtown.

[@mrbeaverstate]

Society has lost control if a wreck cannot be towed if someone lives in it.

[@chillwill5080]

But if you park in the wrong lot, your car is gone in minutes because they can rob you that way. So weird.

[@db-rc5fr]

What could go wrong when you vote for the people, the policies and the party that enables criminals?

[@SteveinSanFrancisco]

How's Moscow... still losing?

[@db-rc5fr]

@@SteveinSanFrancisco What can go wrong when you get everything confused including which restroom to use?

[@IceRockPolar]

Which party actually actually gets things correct? People are picking between bad and worse. At this point one can point the finger but it’s not like would be so much better if the opposite were in power.

[@ricardito69]

@@SteveinSanFranciscocomical how anyone who comments about lib failures is labeled a bot or Russian asset. 🤡🤡

[@steve-0kandido779]

Dumbocrats

[@masatosway4558]

Cars full of fingerprints could help the police close cases, start new cases, make connections between cases. Being stolen you'd think law enforcement would want to have a look at them.

[@db-rc5fr]

Why bother wasting resources?

[@ariloves10]

The scary reality is that there is a revolution taking place. USA is not exempt. The bigger you are the harder you fall. There is so much crime and lawlessness that the police cannot keep up. The people will eventually overthrow the government. In fact, they already have. It's called Homelessness. We are witnessing first hand the decline and imminent death of America. Be careful out there. It's every man for himself.

[@jntj3007]

@@db-rc5fr It's not a waste of resources since that's what the police are supposed to be doing anyway.

[@jntj3007]

I agree.

[@db-rc5fr]

@@jntj3007 Then it becomes catch and release.

[@evilfingers4302]

You can surely bet the SideShow Crowd are involved with those stolen vehicles.

[@007peeper1]

Neighborhood Watch is vital in the community . But if you have a Neighborhood of criminals not sure how that helps??

[@mikemiller659]

I am Still waiting for an apology from our democratic leaders for the De-Fund the police trend of the week that got US into this mess .

[@AuroraBoarder1]

😴💤

[@rgw1380rw]

We're still waiting for rogue PD personnel to be held absolutely accountable for defunding themselves. The truth is everyone can sit back and point the finger. The bottom line is everyone needs to be on the same page for things to change.

[@phackqu]

The police never got defunded though. They still have all their vehicles, tools and pay check.

[@Arid379]

Stupid Oakland laws pointing out other party for responsibility

[@BudhagRizzo]

So homeless can claim abandoned vehicles as houses and the city then can't junk the vehicles? WHA?!

[@smujer1]

Retaliation for trying to clean up your neighborhood??? Our country is literally a lost, third world country.

[@SteveinSanFrancisco]

$500,000 doesn't buy what it used too

[@astonsmyrh1463]

CALIFORNIA IS SO BEAUTIFUL

[@Maybe1Someday]

If somone left a whole junkyard next to my house Id be selling doors and parts for nothing. That poor FJ though

[@jamesnguyen_1]

facts

[@ryshellso526]

I'd be setting up a stake-out with caltrops and an air rifle. :)

[@chillwill5080]

I would invest in a long gun with suppressor, a night scope, and some very well sanitized ammunition.

[@aptpupil]

Retaliation is real. I reported a bunch of dumping and homeless encampment...a bit later I got a notice of violation on my property (dumping and graffiti). They were going to charge me $1700 if i didn't clean it up.

[@tuckerbugeater]

You don't seem very serious about doing anything.

[@aptpupil]

@@tuckerbugeater you don't know what you're talking about

[@caesard.8711]

Criminals Justice Reform in action. It's over for Oakland.

[@e.tezani3877]

I moved to Carson city Nevada from the east bay.. and you see stolen and wrecked cars all along the capitol corridor train line .

[@AuroraBoarder1]

At least the desert climate will rot the cars faster.

[@myairspace3xx]

Part of Oakland's ambiance.

[@ierit3796]

The police COULD finger print these unburned cars and stake out the area and catch thieves. But they won't do anything to solve a crime or improve their City.

[@chillwill5080]

The people living in that city know who is doing it, but they won't do anything to stop crime or improve their city. If they don't care, why should anyone else care about them?

[@ierit3796]

@@chillwill5080 None of the people interviewed were happy about this. Nor did they walk up on these car thieves and try to ID them because they will get killed. Cops make $100k in Oakland. They are supposed to solve the crimes. No one is happy that Oakland is a dumping ground.

[@disf5178]

It can take months, and up to $100,000 to evict a homeless person from their stolen car home. When the final paperwork is served, the tenant often moves into the stolen car parked behind the previous stolen car residence. When the tow truck shows up to tow the stolen car, they find a new tenant has moved in.

[@unknownuserbutnotabuser]

WOW this is SO disturbing in SO MANY WAYS and ALARMING because aside from all the other issues that go along with this the method of recovering trashed and abandoned cars by city used towtrucks is just dragging them across the road and up onto the trucks that's GOTTA be scarring the road GREAT JOB SECURITY for ROAD REPAVERS if theyre even giving a shit about these streets and areas

[@Phah-Queue]

The culture that keeps on giving

[@AKAAAK]

Hey!!!!! That's my car....... All those homes look like prison cells with gates and bars 😂

[@AuroraBoarder1]

They ARE prison cells!

[@raff5263]

Always a dark depressing ☁️ over Oakland 🙏stay safe and alert 🧐

[@dancalestini5698]

What a beautiful neighborhood in a gorgeous city

[@Jdigger4130]

gary indiana, Cleveland Ohio , Detroit Michigan , St Louis, OAKLAND ca , and non and on... Sadly there are a few common denominators and its so sad... The grift stinks and the poor seem to vote the "governing class" into these places and wonder what happens

[@wrslss]

Whatever you do, don't arrest the criminals. The law-abiding citizens should have to worry about the problem. Keep electing the same people and keep getting the same results.

[@Jorr235]

People are being held hostage by criminals because there are no consequences to criminal activity. Good people lives are being destroyed.

[@blanco-sanchez450]

I’ve noticed we’ve been having A LOT Of Oakland natives in my city. Almost like they’re running away from the madness 😅

[@frankmacleod2565]

makes South Central Los Angeles look like Tiburon

[@user-yp9nz6bs9q]

"The neighbors"? It looks like an industrial area, not a neighborhood.

[@popsiclestick8405]

don't day know thousands of people already left oakland and the bayarea because of this and the homelessness and drug activity n the streets of the bayarea

[@chadakoin1]

"Who should you call about this?" "Oakland says: Nobody, we don't care."

[@AuroraBoarder1]

Who you gonna call? 👻 busters!

[@SeanOMatic]

You know this shit doesn't happen in places that take crime seriously?

[@jacktran7024]

yeah had my honda accord stolen and found it in oakland back in 96---they took my rims and sound system...insurance paid my car as totaled but it still drives like normal. i got 8k from it and a car that still runs..no dent and the engine was ok..i put back my stock sound system and stock rims...sheeeitt i drove it for another 4 years and got free $

[@chillwill5080]

Don't worry, you paid it back in increased insurance premiums and inflation on car repairs and parts.

[@raidersfangamergamer3807]

I had enough of this also in my neighborhood too

[@bldsprt518]

Newsome for president! We need this shit countrywide!

[@versaceartdrian]

These are actual stories that need more attention IMPORTANT INFORMATION

[@bluelava4282]

Our country is becoming a junk yard and a firing range

[@markn8866]

Yeah, I can see where it’d be simply impossible to catch the offenders…. Ridiculous California

[@MR-sq8ez]

You said it all. We face retaliatio, agression and can even be sued or labeled if we try to defend ourselves, neighborhood, business or homes. WHAT IS THE MAYOR, DA AND THE MAYOR WAITING FOR?!...

[@phackqu]

Oakland/California/USA can do something about it. " They" just choose not to

[@dirtmcgirt7125]

That poor FJ Cruiser...

[@Seawitch907]

The city needs to clean it up!

[@ericemmons3040]

Perhaps Union Pacific could get together a train entirely consisting of flatcars, take it to the area, load the derelict cars on the train, and take them all away; something needs to be done to clean up that area. . .

[@hoapres]

It's Oakland so this is normal.

[@snakedog77]

Born in Oakland in the late fifties. Grew up in West Oakland and was proud to live there. Super liberal politicians are destroying Oakland, San Francisco, Bay Area and the California in general. Moved away in my thirties. Only retuned to go to Warriors, A's and Raiders games and to eat. Not anymore because all of the sports teams left or are getting ready to leave. Too dangerous to go for lunch and dinner there. Sanctuary city and state has turned out to be a horrible idea. Oakland and San Francisco look like 3rd world cities right now. Going to get worse. I told my wife we should have left 3 years ago. Not hating on anyone, just speaking the truth. The amount of trash and dumped cars and trucks is unreal. This cancer is spreading throughout the state. And the homeless problem is another issue.

[@SolarWarden613]

Have the police investigate

[@artforartsake888]

That area would make a great neighborhood garden and park with a little landscaping.

[@ryshellso526]

If only white people lived there...

[@chillwill5080]

Would make a great burial ground for criminals too.

[@user-yp9nz6bs9q]

"When we moved here it was just a mountain of trash"🤔

[@mamatrain100]

What kind of fool threatens a violent perp.

[@trofemtrofem5283]

BLAME DEMOS THAT IS AND MAYORS, GOVERNOR NUMBER ONE, THIS SHIT NEVER GOT THIS BAD BEFORE, IS HORRIBLE IN OAKLAND

[@jasonjones759]

Imagine continuing to pay any taxes. 🤣

[@Menzu1]

Looks like a lot of scrap metal to me. Take it to a scrap yard and make some money.

[@kirbywaite1586]

Worth almost nothing as scrap.

[@gavincurtis]

Look at how bad Argentina has become. 😞

[@sudilos1172]

its clearly a company is dumping the cars rather than dispose. I doubt all of them are stolen.

[@BigRingStumpy]

The people that live there pay their taxes and get no services from the city. I'm sure anyone who has the mental capacity to fix these issues has long moved out of Oakland and DNGAF.

[@seamac7564]

All I see is a Progressive Success Story.

[@richardcarroll9864]

You deserve this Oakland.

[@YoUnOkNoWoK]

Dam!!

[@KubotaManDan]

Union Pacific should have their property fenced & gated and they could bring a crane by rail and lift those remains onto cars for the scrap yard. This is unacceptable that one of the wealthiest RR's in the world won't clean this mess up.👿

[@jameswarfield6965]

This crap is on the city .

[@Belcanto401]

Is Okland a legitimate municipal city?

[@AuroraBoarder1]

Yes. It's the seat of Alameda County. It has its own city council and everything. That explains its lack of governance.

[@danasmith1899]

And you know what group of people is doing this, well duh. This is the history of Oakland, we left that area in 69

[@bayareaartist999]

I had an art studio for 10 years down 98th ave at pear main and it was always a dumping ground.

[@phyllysburr8986]

Sad!

[@chuckefunn8624]

In Florida has a very healthy economy come to California and see what’s happened to San Francisco and Los Angeles

[@valerieneal2747]

BULLCRAP.

[@AuroraBoarder1]

What about that area near Miami, where there were so many carjackings it ruined their tourism?

[@jamesof7seven]

Anyone in charge of something like that doesn't care. When an apartment complex becomes ghetto it's never with the same management as before. You'll be doing a follow up... right here on local news where the nation will never know about it.

[@leiag201]

As a kid in the eighties I didn't even go to Oakland. I can only imagine how bad it is now