Jan. 5, 2024 - Epoch Times
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| San Francisco is much more about organized crime, both cartel-backed organized drug dealing and then the organized retail theft industry, which is driven by the addicts who are supplied by those cartel-supplied drug dealers. | |
| Oakland is different. | |
| Oakland is much more opportunistic. | |
| I think it's mostly just kind of self-organized crews of thieves who just drive around doing crimes. | |
| Car break-ins, armed carjackings, home invasions. | |
| Leighton Woodhouse is an investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker, and native of Berkeley, California. | |
| He has been documenting the street addiction crisis engulfing the Bay Area and the political culture and policies fueling it. | |
| We don't arrest people and we certainly don't send them to mandatory treatment. | |
| What it means is that we're just allowing the addiction to continue to consume them because we haven't forced them into sort of that moment where they have to choose, am I going to fight this addiction or am I going to spend the next 10 years in prison? | |
| This is American Thought Leaders and I'm Jan Jekielek. |
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