Posted on 09/17/2023 3:52:07 AM PDT by Libloather
They have been asleep at the wheel this long, why would they wake up now?
-PJ
That’s the problem for hiring on D.I.E. principles rather than merit. There is no one who can, or will, do the actual work required.
Most big cities hire white consultants to fill out their grant paperwork—usually with a token black person as the “leader” of the organization to meet the affirmative action contracting policies.
Oakland couldn’t even fake it properly.
They don’t need money - they need to make a few absolutely free policy changes.
Inept voters = Inept leaders
Maybe gangs pay more than the grants - cartels moving into new opportunities.
Ooga Booga.
For that kind of money they could just buy the stuff and then give it away to their downtrodden masses.
Typical messed-up DM headline. Seems this is a state-wide program, so Oakland would have "only" gotten a fraction of that amount:
The office of California Governor Gavin Newsom announced plans to distribute $267million in grants to cities to help deal with the rising organized retail theft issue.
This is the leftist mindset - public funding = progress and solutions. Oakland is a cesspool, like much of Africa. No amount of funding is going to solve deep, structural, and cultural rot that afflicts this city.
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