Okland is striving to get qualified police officers, as people are not willing to work there. There is still an incentive program going on for  the officers that are hired there, in order to encourage, while there are very less such provisons in other parts of bay area.

People rally a lot in Okland to make it crime free and there are lots of homiside in that too. Police were asked to petrol during the Church hours as there were many shootings just outside the church, while the victim were coming  for praying. Anyone living in Bay area and following  the news definately knows Okland is on of the most crime area. Just follow http://www.ktvu.com/crimeandpunishment/index.html for few days or watch KTV channel 2 news at 10pm. It almost reports homoside everyday and almost always in bay area.

About, diversity, job, I guess all of the part of Bay Area or even say California is equally good, Okland is definately no exception.

Just wanted to make aware about the place to the girls, as they are coming from next state ( probably I guess as their writing suggests)

Check the link below, it tells something more about crime and Okland :

http://outside.in/Oakland_CA/tags/homicides and

http://www.city-data.com/forum/san-francisco/197124-oakland-richmond-named-among-most-dangerous.html

Huna ta, we say " Marnae din liyaera aayako hunchha vanchha ", but still why to take risk if we can.

Sampada