Because it is f’ing Oakland and our officials are incompetent, lazy, and/or corrupt (pick two). No one, before now, had a reason to go kick a hornet’s nest by raiding one of the thousand+ warehouse and industrial spaces in the city that might have humans spending the night there permanently instead of just working there.
In this instance, you’re wrong. Sorry. I know people that went there more than a few times. It wasn’t full of “several hundred thousand dollars” worth of stuff. It was mostly full of salvage and things people built.
