Crime in San Francisco Is So Bad, There Are Now Pirates in the Bay

‘We have these organized crime units, which consist of anchor-out pirates and shoreside crime,’ says yacht club assistant commodore.

Illustration by The Epoch Times, Freepik

OAKLAND, Calif.—Brock de Lappe, a former harbormaster in Oakland, California, doesn’t like to use the word “piracy” to describe waterborne crime on the Oakland/Alameda Estuary.

“People have this romantic view of pirates—Johnny Depp; ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’—argh! Avast ye, matey!” said Mr. De Lappe, a marine consultant who was also Alameda’s harbormaster before his retirement.