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Rampant crime is
tearing Oakland apart

Re: “In-N-Out Burger closing Oakland location, citing crime, safety issues” (Jan. 21).

The closure of In-N-Out Burger in Oakland says it all about the situation in the city. A lot of businesses like this one came in during a wave of optimism that the city was finally reaching its potential as a place to live and do business.

Now businesses and people are moving out in a wave of crime and violence that is literally destroying communities before our eyes.

What say “criminal justice” advocates now about not policing, prosecuting and incarcerating criminals? How can we address the “root causes “ of crime with more investment when no business can survive in an environment of anarchy caused by a failure to enforce criminal laws?

Nick Yale
Oakland

Measure’s complexity
costs votes

I recently received my Voter Information Guide for the March primary election. I like to consider myself an informed voter, so I decided to read Proposition 1 to determine how to vote on it — especially because it would authorize very expensive bonds.

To my dismay, I was presented with 68 pages of text. Prop 1 greatly enlarges existing law. To be an informed voter, one must understand the existing law and the proposed changes to it. It doesn’t help that both the old law and the proposed modification are full of “Section this” and “Sub-paragraph that.” Even the legislative analysis is lengthy and complicated.

Dear Legislature: I can’t vote for something I can’t understand.

Bob Weissman
Alamo

Trump’s appeal
is unfathomable

Re: “Trump, Biden win primaries as rematch appears likely” (Page A4, Jan. 24).

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Why, oh why, do voters want an accused criminal, liar, wanna-be dictator, self-absorbed next president? I would like to know where they got their news, videos and information that makes them think Donald Trump is the ideal next president.

I saw many things where I get my information that scream he is not the one. He plainly planned the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. Some folks said it was a normal day of visiting the Capitol, as if breaking down barriers, attacking Capitol police, wanting to hang a vice president, and going into Speaker Nancty Pelosi’s office to steal are normal daily occurrences at the Capitol.

Seeing a president go to prison is certainly unprecedented, but Trump’s conduct is extremely unprecedented. All of those political cronies who have no will to stand up to him also need to be voted out. But, then, those voters are blind and deaf to the facts.

Gae Mora
Concord