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Jewish World Review
August 21, 2013/ 15 Elul, 5773
Send al Qeda to crime ridden cities?
By
Dave Ross
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I notice that on the CBS News website, the most popular security story isn't the latest development in the Edward Snowden case.
It's this: "Gunfire has become so common on the streets of Oakland, Calif., that even in neighborhoods that once seemed immune to the city's violence, residents are no longer shocked," reports CBS's John Blackstone.
Blackstone went to Oakland to talk with residents about all the murders lately.
"A car came down the street. Three guys came out with a gun. There was a gun battle, three blocks over, and I did hear, actually, that a bullet went in someone's house," says Jan Hetherington.
She says she loves her neighborhood --- she just wishes the gunfire would stop. "Our neighbor Judy, who lives in the next block from me, was shot and killed."
Shot and killed driving home from work.
Then there's Pastor Greg Brown who was threatened at gunpoint for power-washing the sidewalk outside his church.
"And a guy with a gun tells you (Brown,) you stop, or I'll shoot you?" asks Blackstone.
"Yes, that's how close the crime is," says Brown.
And yet the City of Oakland has to cut its police force by a third for lack of money. So the neighborhood is having to pay to hire its own security force.
"This is the most wonderful neighborhood I've ever lived in," says Hetherington.
"And yet you have to bring in private security to feel safe?" asks Blackstone.
"Yep."
Is it not strange that with all the billions spent tracking conversations and e-mails, Oakland can't afford cops?
If only Oakland's bad guys were al Qaeda. They'd be arrested the moment they picked up the phone.
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Comment by clicking here. Dave Ross hosts the Morning News on Seattle's KIRO Radio weekdays from 5-9 a.m. He spends his down time tinkering with electronic projects, writing novelty songs, shopping at thrift stores, and playing squash. As an avid hiker, he's earned the title Energizer Bunny from his friends; while they all stop to see stuff along the trail, Dave keeps going and going and going. He enjoys traveling internationally for work and pleasure with memorable stops in Baghdad, Qatar, Israel, Prague, Germany (to cover the Berlin Wall), China, Soviet Union, Niger, Senegal, and Iran.
You can listen to his daily column in audio format by clicking here.
Previously:
• 08/20/13 How honeybees are keeping men out of prison
• 08/19/13 Truth about Area 51 finally revealed
• 08/16/13 If you knew how much it cost to raise a child
• 08/15/13 The voice in the nursery
• 08/14/13 When license plates speak
• 08/13/13 The plant that wouldn't die
• 08/12/13 Class warfare at 35,000 feet is just fine
• 08/09/13 Want a good night's sleep? Become homeless
• 08/08/13 When eating too healthy becomes a problem
• 08/07/13 The Die Phone
• 08/06/13 Can't afford a doctor or medicine? There's always the Placebo App
• 08/05/13 Car prowlers taught lesson with call to mom
© 2013, Dave Ross
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