Oakland Department of Sanitation! Are your eyes glazed over? Are you paralyzed with stupidity? This area is a disgrace. This is supposed to be a memorial for the souls that DIED in the Cypress Freeway colllaps in the 1989 earthquake. This beautiful park area is ridden with crime drug activity homeless people living illegally in cars and motorhomes under tarps and in shopping carts. I live a block away from here and avoid the area when walking my dogs or out with my kids. Even more disgusting is that this is the backyard of fire station number 3 the complacency of the neighborhood is ridiculous. People are complaining that their homes and cars are getting broken into and it is this park & this area that is the ROOT in all of it. So to my neighbors that live around 14th and Peralta, If we stAND together and got permit parking most of this problem would go away. Stop complaining about crime in the neighborhood when the problem is right under your nose! complain about this problem in this park with these awful people. I think this is something for the news stations or Stanley Roberts people behaving badly. Last night there were people trying to light the piles of garbage in the street on fire. Flames and smoke rose into the air while the firestation slept!

Oakland is a disgrace. I'm so tired of hearing that we are criminalizing the homeless. They are criminals in many ways. Oakland city leaders are disrespecting the very people they are suppose to be working for. This is really getting out of hand. All news medias need to be called. I'm appalled that this memorial is not taken care of. Very disturbing.