by Bob Walsh
Alameda, CA. is a nice bedroom community surrounded on one side by S.F. Bay and on the other side by an open cesspool known as Oakland.
Way back in the day the 911 system was first tried out there as there was ONE fire department, ONE police department and ONE phone exchange. It was very practical and it worked.
I remember when I was a rugrat on Sunday we would walked across the bridge from the projects where we lived into Alameda. Dad would buy a Sunday paper from the Encinal market and read the paper while the three rugrats played in the very nice play area of the very nice park there. But that is neither here nor there.
Alameda is getting tired of being contaminated by the criminal spillover from Oakland. There are only a very few ways to get into Alameda unless you come by boat. Therefore the city fathers are seriously thinking of putting in license plate scanners at every road entrance to the city to prevent and hopefully catch some of the low-lifes coming into the city to rob and pillage.
I seem to recall the city of Benitez was going to do that a while back. There is only one road entrance into the entire small city and they were getting ready to make the move in response to a rash of home burglaries. The city of Piedmont, which is a very high-end residential community nestled in the Oakland hills, did it in 2014 and property crime dropped over 1/3.
It would cost the city about $500,000 to install 13 readers at the six entrances to and exits from the city. The scanning for stolen or otherwise wanted vehicles is automatic and would be saved for six months.
The City Council is adamant that the contractor can not share the information gathered directly with ICE. I guess it is OK for illegal aliens to commit crimes in Alameda, just not native-born criminals.
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