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Yikes!  In order to help make up for a $32.5 million funding shortfall, the city has chosen to eliminate 80 police officers from the payroll.  An additional 122 may be canned by year end.  On top of that, there are 44 situations that the police will no longer respond to.  If you are a criminal, you now have a laundry list of crimes you can officially get away with.

I feel for those who live in or around Oakland, CA.  I used to live about 45 minutes from there and have driven through it many times.  At least the residents there can protect themselves and their possessions.  Oh wait, this is Oakland.  And California. Nevermind. 

Here's a partial list:

• burglary
• theft
• embezzlement
• grand theft
• grand theft:dog
• identity theft
• false information to peace officer
• required to register as sex or arson offender
• dump waste or offensive matter
• discard appliance with lock
• loud music
• possess forged notes
• pass fictitious check
• obtain money by false voucher
• fraudulent use of access cards
• stolen license plate
• embezzlement by an employee (over $ 400)
• extortion
• attempted extortion
• false personification of other
• injure telephone/ power line
• interfere with power line
• unauthorized cable tv connection
• vandalism
• administer/expose poison to another's

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