Stop with the scare tactics. Crime will happen with large populations anywhere. I keep hearing "you can't walk down the street without being accosted" crap and it just isn't reality. People that buy into that haven't gone outside of their own state
Do you live in San Fran?
The homeless issue is real. The theft issues are real. However, some data has changed, so thank you for challenging me to look it up and correct my mistake. And you’re right, in any big city, you can certainly find crime if you want to. In my opinion, the theft and car break ins issue is related to homelessness and drug issues. Unchecked addiction leads to more crime-usually theft related to feed their habit. Lax prosecution emboldens criminals because their actions go unpunished, but it appears that San Francisco is changing some of that, which is showing results.
I just looked up car break ins, and before I could type “in San Francisco” it popped up as the second search. Apparently, car break ins are at a 22 year low, however, in 2022, there were 22,000 car break ins and an estimated 8,000 that weren’t reported to police because they weren’t being prosecuted or investigated.
The drop in car break ins is attributed to several things-police using plain clothes officers, bait cars, thousands of installed cameras, and drones. Also, the law has been changed regarding break ins. It used to be that the car had to be locked and the prosecution had to prove the vehicle was locked and now, they just have to prove the vehicle was entered and something was stolen. Imagine that the state law was that it wasn’t illegal unless the car was locked!!
Another change in San Fran was the ousting of DA chesa boudin after a recall because his progressive policies were leading to more crime. I used to follow all the progressive district attorneys to see if their polices worked or not. chesa was on my list of top five worst DAs along with phillys larry krasner, NYC alvin bragg, Chicago kim fox, LA george gascon.
