Sorry, we can't improve school buses because Oakland is a shithole. Sorry, no space travel, Oakland is a shithole. No one is allowed to do anything good until Oakland looks like wakanda.
I think you mean "safer than East International Blvd."
I don't demand that you cite crime statistics by zip code, and compare the good ones to other cities. But that's what you'd need to do to be persuasive.
Most people understand that large cities have a variety of areas within them and the crime rate isn’t the same in the whole city. There are plenty of neighborhoods that have average to below average crime rates as compared to the rest of the US.
You're right - turns out as someone who's lived in Oakland for more than a decade I didn't know what it was like. Sometimes you need an outside perspective. Thanks.
