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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f ... 844D48.DTL

Arg, 100+ murders in oakland every year and they have to pick up the guy who designed reiserfs. For all you Europeans, Oakland PD is about the most crooked and fucked up police department in the entire developed world. Thankfully this William Dubois defense attorney seems very experienced.

I hope it turns out he's innocent. Domestic violence is always horrible especially for the children of the people involved. Just sad.

I've been to Oakland and while I don't know much about their PD, I know that Oakland itself in the same league as Newark and Detroit as far as safety goes. I was on my way back from an A's game to my hotel in SF when I stopped at a Kmart at about 10:00 at night, on the first Monday of the month. I felt much more comfortable once I was back in my hotel.

Yup, Oakland is a complete sh|thole. I was there about 12 years ago. Agreed, it's on the same level of Newark, Detroit (sorry ShopRatt), etc.. . You don't want to get caught being outside after dark. It's that bad.

Oakland is weird - some areas you have multi-million dollar homes. Other areas you have crack whores and bums warming themselves over a barrel fire to the tune of bullets fired in the background. I worked in Oakland for a while, and In general it's ok if you know where you're going, but woe to he who takes a wrong turn and runs out of gas after dark.

Just an update: Hans Reiser is indeed being tried for murder of his wife. He didn't waive his right to a speedy trial and his trial begins May 7th. The interesting/eerie part is that technically there's no hard evidence Nina Reiser's been murdered at all; if Hans did murder her then he's apparently a lot more clever than Scott Peterson.... yea, not funny, sorry.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f ... QKMB38.DTL
http://www.ktvu.com/news/11214659/detail.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser