I Drove Into Oakland's Most Dangerous Hoods. It Was Nuts.

How does a city get to this point??

Oakland California. It’s been dangerous here since the 1960s when crime began to increase. By the end of the 70s, Oakland’s murder rate was twice of nearby San Francisco and even New York City. Crime here peaked in the early 1990s, when gangs made parts of this city a warzone. Today, it appears those numbers are getting close to where they were at their peak in 1993.

This is international drive, which bisects east oakland. According to crime stats, two thirds of all violent Oakland crime happens here in east oakland, despite the fact that this part of town only has about a third of this city’s population. This is also by far the poorest part of Oakland.

Now we’re going to head into two really bad and dangerous neighborhoods in east oakland where crime is the worst. Both are on the western side of international blvd. The first one is here, in an area which is called the Coliseum neighborhood. Now if you know anything about Oakland, you know that anything near the Coliseum is bad news. Here’s the map of the route I would take.

The day was fairly nice - the skies were party cloudy and it was about 65’. It was late in the day on a Thursday in late October, 2021. Let’s enter the hood

Now the first thing you’ll notice is all the bars on the windows and the bars on the street line and the fences and the barbed wire. It was hard to find a house in this entire neighborhood that wasn’t walled or fenced in or where there weren’t any areas to escape.

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