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San Francisco’s crime is mostly inconvenient for rich people, that’s why it’s in the news.
St. Louis is the 13th most dangerous city in the world but you won’t hear about it.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/243797/ranking-of-the-mo...
I found this naive optimism almost hilarious. SF is in no way about to magically get better once voters finally wake up to how terrible their choices have been over the previous decades. The city's disintegration was a long time in the making and is beyond fixable.
There are a lot of homeless and SF is indeed in shit hole in a lot of areas, but I don't understand people who say they wouldn't visit because it's not safe or whatever. Looking at crime rate rankings [0], SF is pretty low compared to other US cities both in terms or violant crimes and property crimes. What am I missing? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
> The police officer said he was glad to have the license plate number but that robbery is so low-profile in the courts right now that even if they did catch him, without video proof, the thieves would be let go within a day or so. Even with video proof, there's a good chance that Chesa would drop all charges anyway. Related topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27216343
https://recallchesaboudin.org/
Even if you are against it, you should still want that experiment to continue right? Otherwise you would get people claiming that x policy wasn't actually tried for real and that y opposition made it fail before it could bear fruits. NYC went bankrupt right before it came back and reached one of it's peaks. And maybe hitting the bottom of the barrel was what it needed.
Yes, that seems to be how it is in SF. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arss9V3A1VA Is it possible that, despite good intentions, the policies being implemented there actually have very harmful effects?
These harmful effects are intended. That is the strategy. Its important to understand why. Your life depends on it.
I do not think that the current crime situation in San Francisco appeared by some fluke or an accident. Specific policies were put in place by the progressive government officials and progressive people in San Francisco voted for these policies. I think is a cautionary tale for the rest of the country on what happens when progressive utopia gets voted in.
https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-francisco/crime
https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/crim...
https://www.crimemapping.com/map/ca/sanfrancisco
I should add that I am not a US citizen nor I live in the US. I live in a 10 million inhabitants south American capital, where Tv reports on crimes of all sorts committed every day. I, however, have not been robbed in the last twenty five years. Sometimes personal experiences do not reflect geography and statistics.
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I'm sure it's skewed because of the Internet, but between Twitter and Hacker News it sounds like San Francisco is basically Somalia now.
I’m not taking offense wt your statement, but do want to say: You are being unkind to Somalia. I’m serious. The perception of Somalia is skewed heavily by western news for the simple reason that the Somali people rebuffed the attempted invasion by US & UK proxy forces. (Guessing you most Americans don’t know that even happened.) Somaliland isn't somewhere I would want to live, but I would pick it over the Bay Area. W…
I do not think that the current crime situation in San Francisco appeared by some fluke or an accident. Specific policies were put in place by the progressive government officials and progressive people in San Francisco voted for these policies. I think is a cautionary tale for the rest of the country on what happens when progressive utopia gets voted in.
Which policies?