Please don't come here crying about crime in the US. You do not know what you do not know. Crime rates have been going down across the US. Crime has ALWAYS been about money. The most dangerous places are the most poor. Parts of Oakland are the safest in the country.

Crime on most Caribbean islands are higher than Oakland. I've been to all of them and have property in the Bahamas. Show me poverty and I will show you crime. Show me mental illness and I'll show you crime. Show me a shit load of guns and I'll show you a shit load of people being shot by guns.
When a store in a crime ridden part of a city is closed, that's just common sense, good business. Why would I have a business where there's too much poverty and crime? Sure, blame the crime but it's the poverty that caused the problem. That's urban planning 101. This area of town is horrible, so people with money move out. Then everyone else follows and those rich people move back in decades later, buying those properties for pennies on the dollar, and builds it back up and that becomes the place everyone wants to live. Just follow the money.
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