Tri-City I-80 Crime Prevention Collab. Restarted

Daily Cal reports that

In response to increased crime rates in Oakland, Berkeley and Richmond, the Richmond City Council pledged $50,000 last week to reactivate a tri-city crime prevention program that disbanded about three years ago.

Great! And now... (deep voice)

"History of the Richmond-San Leandro strip, and how we got concentrated black poverty."

During WWII, blacks migerated from the Deep South, to get paid good wages in the war effort's shipbuilding jobs. Kaiser Shipbuilding, for example.

After the war ended, jobs dried up.
Don't forget about last hired, first fired.
No jobs = angry young men, loss of family authority.

Then the 1960s, a generation later. Civil rights enabled by fossil fuel freedom. But more crime because of the still-chronic lack of jobs.

1970s. CIA trafficks cocaine into LA, Detroit, SF Bay, other major cities for "Iran-Contra" scandal. Drug sales from Central American coca funded "our bitches" in Latin Am vs "Communists" and also funded Iranian weapons vs Iraq. ("let them kill each other" Kissinger)



1980s. crack epidemic reaches throughout US. most money laundered into big, private banks or offshore. Back into Wall Street as low interest capital. (Just like the old brit limey empire with opium and heroin sales--how do you think the Royals got so rich??) Unemployed poor people, largely black, get into drug sales to simply survive. few other options.

1990s-present. Accelerated Globalization offshored many of our remaining factory jobs -- the last remaining good paying jobs for less educated people -- to China, India, middle east, korea, etc.
Now we all have McJobs or highly professional "services" jobs. A "service economy" producing not much of value, unless you count hedge funds and real estate mortgage brokers-- WHOOPS!

So. Poor blacks from Richmond to South Oakland.
1) WWII jobs magnet
2) jobs disappear
3) drugs come in
4) where poor blacks are today

There's more to it, but this is the main gist.

Good thing Nancy Nadel is opening a choco factory, it'll employ all of west oakland soon in high paying jobs!

Seriously, we need more local factories. And farms.