Oakland Residents Are Buying Guns As Police Become Less Effective | Leighton Woodhouse

“There are a lot of people in Oakland who are arming themselves. There’s one restaurant that has been losing money from people who are dining in his restaurant, then see their car getting broken into, and run out mid-meal to deal with their car, never getting around to paying the check,” Mr. Woodhouse said. “So, the constituents in the highest-crime areas were never on board with the defunding stuff. A lot of that came from what were traditionally the safer areas of town, which have now become much less safe.”