Oakland Business Collective’s Town Hall Series on Business Revitalization & Public Safety

About The Event

OAKLAND BUSINESS OWNERS JOIN FORCES TO ADDRESS AND TAKE A STAND AGAINST CAR BURGLARIES

• WHO: Oakland Business Collective And Concerned Stakeholders
• WHAT: Oakland Town Hall Meeting On Car Break-Ins
• WHEN: Wednesday, October 6^th, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
• WHERE: Geoffrey’s Inner Circle, 410 14th Street, Oakland, CA 94612
• WHY: To Address The Dramatic Rise In Car Burglaries

How to Get Involved

• CONTACT: Call Oakland Business Collective at (510) 839-4644
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The Rundown

A multi–cultural assembly of Oakland business owners, led by Oakland Business Collective, an African American group of entertainment professionals and community activists, will host a series of Town Hall meetings that address many of the issues that impact the health, safety and well-being of Oakland residents and small businesses.

Headlining the inaugural Town Hall will be THE EPIDEMIC OF CAR BREAK-INS and takes place on Monday, September 20^th, 2021 at 6:00pm at Geoffrey’s Inner Circle. The Town Hall will feature candid conversations between public officials, small business owners and community stakeholders determined to create quantifiable solutions, then activate and follow through on them to fruition.

Heightened Wave Of Crime Poses Threat To Town Business

Oakland Business Collective

“It’s not an Old Town problem or a Chinatown problem or Black Arts & Business District problem. What was once thought of as a ‘nuisance,’ essentially regulated to certain parts of downtown Oakland, has become a citywide crisis of commerce and public safety that’s not only hampering small business, it’s putting a damper on local tourism, while we’re all trying to find responsible ways to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic,” asserted Geoffrey Pete, Oakland Business Collective member and owner of Geoffrey’s Inner Circle, a longtime cultural and Entertainment complex on 14^th Street and Franklin.  “If assistance from law enforcement is going to continue to be insufficient, residents, business owners and community stakeholders are going to have to band together to combat this scourge to our beloved city,” Pete added.

Distinguished Panel Members

LeRonne Armstrong

Oakland Chief of Police

Terry Wiley, Esq.

Assistant II District Attorney

Carroll Fife

Council Member

Derreck Johnson

Owner Home Of Chicken & Waffles

Kyle Newport

Principal, Sunset Jazz Festivals, LLC

Additional Information

Car break-ins and the subsequent theft of vehicle owner’s property has long plagued Oakland’s downtown businesses. In recent months the occurrences have become much more frequent, widespread and increasingly more brazen. After a bevy of individual filings of police reports and several meetings on the pressing public safety issue, Oakland business owners are organizing to address the rampant plague that poses a daily threat to their safety and their livelihoods.

Car break-ins have become so prevalent in recent months and the perpetrators have reportedly become so emboldened that not only are the vehicle burglaries occurring in broad daylight, but they’re happening as passersby observe the crimes taking place. Two-person teams – one vandalizing and burglarizing the targeted vehicle and the other waiting in a nearby getaway car – are winning, while people doing business or dining at local eateries are taking the proverbial “L.” Oakland Police Department’s response to the crime epidemic has to date been ineffectual.

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