Police arrest suspected 'East Bay Pirates' who allegedly raided boats on Oakland waterfront



The Oakland Police Department announced that it recently arrested three suspected "East Bay Pirates" who allegedly raided houseboats and yachts along Oakland's waterfront, KRON reported.

On Thursday, authorities detained three individuals believed to be connected to a March 13 robbery that targeted a maritime business on the 1300 block of Embarcadero, a San Francisco waterfront. The break-in prompted a joint investigation between the Oakland Police Department Marine Unit and the Criminal Investigation Division Burglary Unit.

Police officers used security footage provided by the business to identify the suspects, who they recognized as individuals residing on boats in the Oakland Estuary, KPIX-TV reported. Law enforcement officials recovered items stolen from the business on two ships associated with the detained individuals.

Authorities will present the case to Alameda District Attorney Pamela Price's office for charging. George Soros-backed Price is currently facing a recall effort over her soft-on-crime policies, which critics argue have led to a significant uptick in crime in Oakland.

Residents living in houseboats and yachts along the waterfront have reported an increase in theft and physical confrontations with the "East Bay Pirates," according to Fox News Digital. The thieves use small stolen or abandoned boats to reach and break into larger ships docked in the area.

During an October San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission's enforcement meeting, former harbormaster Brock de Lappe stated, "The open shoreline of the (Oakland-Alameda) estuary is littered with sunken wrecks and derelict, end-of-life vessels, and crime has risen to truly intolerable levels."

"Multiple vessels have been stolen and ransacked. Victims have had to resort to personally confronting the criminals to recover their property without the benefit of police support. Is this an appropriate activity for a 79-year-old senior?" de Lappe questioned.

Alameda Police Chief Nishant Joshi told Fox News Digital, "In the waterways, it's very difficult to draw a line."

"There are no roadways or fence lines, so we all have a shared interest, much like crime as a whole, to deal with this as a regional approach," Joshi noted.

A Coast Guard spokesperson called the waterfront burglaries "a federal and state problem," Fox News Digital reported.

"We're all working to protect the best interests of everyone in the estuary," the representative told the news outlet.

Oakland police are still investigating the thefts.

Residents across Oakland have sounded the alarm about the area's out-of-control crime problem. Several San Francisco Bay Area businesses, including Denny's, In-N-Out, Black Bear Diner, Subway, and Starbucks, announced that they would close amid the crime wave. Last month, Taco Bell stated that several of its Oakland locations will close their dining rooms following several recent robberies.

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White guilt? Liberal friends of murdered girl lobby for the RELEASE of her murderer in the name of 'restorative justice'



It’s a natural feeling to want justice when you’ve been wronged.

Unless you’re the liberal friends of Jen Angel, a 48-year-old baker who was brutally murdered back in February by a 19-year-old named Ishmael Burch during an attempted robbery.

Instead of good, old-fashioned justice, they would prefer Burch be released from prison in the name of “restorative justice.”

For those who don’t know, restorative justice is the woke way to handle crime. Instead of putting criminals behind bars, advocates of restorative justice propose intervention that involves helping criminals form positive self-identities and understand the harm they’ve caused, giving them a second chance.

That all sounds well and good, except for the part where they don’t have to serve their sentences.

But that’s exactly what Angel’s friends are hoping to accomplish.

They want Ishmael Burch to be released from prison. And they swear this is what Angel herself would have wanted.

“Angel strongly disagreed with the criminal justice system and would not want her alleged killer to go to prison,” says one friend of Angel, who is leading the charge of “[pursuing] an alternative to traditional prosecution.”

“They have a dead friend,” Rubin says, “and their concern is that the perpetrator of this murder somehow not be treated poorly.”

This is “further proof that progressivism is a mental disorder,” says Peter Lloyd, a British journalist joining Rubin on the show.

It’s also “pathological altruism,” which is when “you have so much good intention that it goes beyond the realm of what’s beneficial and becomes negative,” he continues.

Douglas Murray, author of "The War on the West," says that Angel’s friend clearly “cares about her own narcissistic self-presentation more than she does about her friend's murder.”

“The criminal justice system is not in place in order to heal,” Murray says in response to another friend’s comment that “restorative justice is really about healing.”

“The primary purpose of imprisonment ... is punishment for crime,” he concludes.

Watch the full clip here.


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Former Sen. Barbara Boxer Assaulted And Robbed In Oakland After Police Vow To Crack Down On Surging Crime

Amid an uptick in crime rates and a decision to defund the city's police, former senator Barbara Boxer was assaulted and robbed in Oakland, California.

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'Irony defined': Only days after Oakland slashed its police budget, armed robbers ran up on the city's woke 'violence prevention' chief while he discussed rising crime with local news reporters



Critics of the defund the police movement in Oakland, California, are highlighting a recent attempted robbery as the perfect example of what inevitably happens when a local government decides to slash its police budget.

What happened?

On Monday, a local Bay Area news crew, KNTV-TV, was interviewing Oakland's violence prevention director on the steps of City Hall when a pair of armed robbers approached the group with guns and attempted to steal the camera equipment.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, a scuffle ensued during the attempted robbery before a security officer brandished a firearm and drove the would-be burglars away.

Only days earlier, Oakland's City Council voted to reallocate $18 million of police funding to community violence prevention programs. The bulk of that money will now go to the Department of Violence Prevention, a group that reportedly aims to counter violence in the city by sending out "civilian violence interrupters and life coaches."

A spokesperson for KNTV-TV later confirmed the incident to the Chronicle.

"Our colleagues were conducting an interview at Oakland City Hall when they were approached by two armed individuals," said Liza Catalan, a spokeswoman for the station. "Thankfully our colleagues are safe and unharmed."

The suspects fled without any equipment and no injuries were reported, but given the irony of the situation, news of the incident quickly spread online.

What are people saying?

After the Oakland Police Officers' Association shared the story on Facebook, several followers derided the city's defund the police campaign by posting snarky remarks in the comments section. Such comments included:

  • "Irony defined......"
  • "Ironic"
  • "Karma"
  • Liberal stupidity at its finest."
  • "This kind of liberal stupidity has failed miserably every place implemented. They should be adding 18 million to the police budget."
  • "Would have been a great opportunity for Mr. Cespedes to jump in and demonstrate how to handle a situation like this rather than relying on an armed security guard."
  • "Officers eligible for retirement nows the time. Current officers go work for an agency where the government supports its police!"

Anything else?

Adding insult to injury, only hours earlier, Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong passionately rebuked the city's police defunding, arguing that fewer officers would only lead to more crime and more lost lives.

The chief noted that crime has been surging in Oakland, yet even so, the city council decided that giving fewer resources to police would be an effective solution.

"We see clearly that crime is out of control in the city of Oakland and our response was for less police resources," Armstrong lamented.

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Rather than help police officers confront Oakland’s growing crisis, the city plans to fund the employment of 'violence interrupters' and 'community ambassadors.'