<div dir="ltr">Jacob, respectfully, you (and I) are white. I don't want to start a heated discussion of race politics, but it's critically important to recognize the context of your interactions with police. I feel like the last year has done a superb job demonstrating nationally why the police are polarizing and systematically biased. While no one wants to have their car broken into, inviting extra police into the neighborhood is bound to have an effect on the very diverse community at large, an effect that I'm sure many would find alienating.<div><br></div>Take a look at the <a href="https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Welcome">Omni's wiki</a>, and in particular the "What core values do groups share?" section. To me, values like "Standing in solidarity with all oppressed people" and "Striving for social, economic & environmental justice", shout NO POLICE.<div><br></div><div>As for solutions, I think this thread's title says it all: Don't leave valuable things in your car, especially not visibly. Thieves are a pain in the ass, but they're not fools and will probably not risk breaking into your car if there is no obvious boon.</div><div><br></div><div>Or you can always BART and/or bike :)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Jacob <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jacob.statnekov@gmail.com" target="_blank">jacob.statnekov@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>I've actually had two pleasant interactions with the cops recently. I get the idea that they only make things worse, but I don't think that's the majority of cases. If people don't feel like they can park around the omni then it's less available to people in our community who live further afield. I'm not opposed to asking the police to patrol our street a little more often, but if that's unacceptable to our some of our members I'd like to hear some alternative solutions.<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Jun 8, 2015, at 10:44 PM, joseph liesner <<a href="mailto:blue393@lmi.net" target="_blank">blue393@lmi.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Please NO OPD @ Omni.<div>This is not the new world we are creating.</div><div>joe<br><div><div>On Jun 8, 2015, at 9:25 AM, yar wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Patrik D'haeseleer <<a href="mailto:patrikd@gmail.com" target="_blank">patrikd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">From: ken osborn <<a href="mailto:misterkenosborn@gmail.com" target="_blank">misterkenosborn@gmail.com</a>><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The other possibility is to talk to the Oakland PD and see if they<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">would have a patrol car in the area on a regular basis.<br></blockquote><br>I'm not sure our universe contains big enough N's or O's to respond to<br>this appropriately.<br>_______________________________________________<br>discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:discuss@lists.omnicommons.org" target="_blank">discuss@lists.omnicommons.org</a><br><a href="https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/discuss" target="_blank">https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/discuss</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div>
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