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Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco

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Re: Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco

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Post by atdrummond »

quantified wrote: post #160
atdrummond wrote: post #158

Nothing will change. I was attacked in Christmas ‘21 in the Tenderloin, right after walking out of the KFC/Taco Bell on Eddy. Two cop cars drove by me and did nothing. It was only due to an ambulance finishing a run at Sutter and spotting me that I didn’t bleed out on the suitcase. I have video, proof of damages physical and financial, eyewitnesses and the info of the men who attacked me. SFPD will not arrest them be…

Boudin specifically declared in your case he would not prosecute? Did he leave a record of his reason? Or did the SFPD just say he would? SFPD went on holiday to make him look bad, so the difference is important.

I should be clear it was his office (I’ve never talked to the man), not him, where I encountered the most trouble. SFPD at least feigned caring about my situation but repeatedly pleaded their hands were tied, that they could arrest but the men would end up back on the street in days.

The new DA’s office has made a lot of promises but there’s been no substantial progress. Their continued increasing rates of prosecutions on violent crimes gives me a bit more hope that they’re truly battling through an immense backlog - but I’ve simply run out of patience and energy to fight the system in order to compel them to simply do their jobs.

Re: Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco

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Post by mlcrypto »

martin_a wrote: post #103

Can someone very briefly wrap this whole "SF is broken"-situation up for somebody from Europe? I only ever read that it's "because of the policies" and there are lots of rather disturbing videos about SF making its rounds on YouTube. But what exactly happened? Did they just remove all the police? Did they gave out free drugs to everybody? I'm not interested in blaming political parties, I just want to get a quick gra…

I thought Europe is the same way. In France you get stabbed too and burned in the street by the riots

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Post by zhdc1 »

tomandrews88 wrote: post #100

Funny how people try so hard to show/prove/argue that SF is safe. If it was, these discussions wouldn’t exist. You won’t see these threads about Zurich, just saying.

> You won’t see these threads about Zurich, just saying.

Nope. Taking a train from Zürich HB to Bellinzona for the holiday. The train is full. My suitcase is in the next car.

It will be there, untouched, when I get off in an hour or so.

Re: Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco

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Post by rvz »

kortilla wrote: post #76

Already flagged. This topic is radioactive because it gets close to blaming murder on political decisions.

It is related to tech. This topic couldn't be more relevant.

SF has always been a known shit hole anyway and it has never been safe for techies.

Re: Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco

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Post by ronanyeah »

Hoyadonis wrote: post #156
ronanyeah wrote: post #126

Americans clearly have very low expectations for their standard of living. As demonstrated by the amount of insane 'actually the murder rate isn't that bad' comments in this thread.

America is a land of extremes. We actually have relatively high standard of living thanks to extremely high wages, which allow us to live lives of relative luxury. We also have high wealth inequality and tolerate many horrors - some unfathomable to other developed countries (e.g. gun deaths).

It is possible to tolerate wealth inequality, while not tolerating mentally ill drug addicts terrorising the public.

Re: Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco

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Post by ronanyeah »

astrange wrote: post #154
ronanyeah wrote: post #126

Americans clearly have very low expectations for their standard of living. As demonstrated by the amount of insane 'actually the murder rate isn't that bad' comments in this thread.

Every city in America is so much incredibly safer than it was in 1990 that nobody old enough to remember that is going to be bothered by much of anything. (That is, if you think now's bad, you should've seen it then.)

'actually the murder rate isn't that bad'

Re: Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco

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Post by theGnuMe »

subsistence234 wrote: post #169
ethicalsmacker wrote: post #23

Sounds like SF to me. It has never been "nice". I was commuting to and from work there for over a year back in ~2015 and it was hell then. I interviewed around 2017 in SF and it was so bad I didn't dare walk back to the station (caught an Uber instead). It's a terrible place.

AFAI remember (I was pretty young then) San Francisco was quite nice around 2000.

Ha! It was worse..

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Post by scoofy »

ddevault wrote: post #125
martin_a wrote: post #103

Can someone very briefly wrap this whole "SF is broken"-situation up for somebody from Europe? I only ever read that it's "because of the policies" and there are lots of rather disturbing videos about SF making its rounds on YouTube. But what exactly happened? Did they just remove all the police? Did they gave out free drugs to everybody? I'm not interested in blaming political parties, I just want to get a quick gra…

Many of the other comments are missing the point. It's ultimately because there are a lot of desperate people in SF. The bay area has the highest homelessness incidence in the country. Mental health services are poor to non-existent. The city is full of people with no options, no healthcare, and no support system. We could criminalize homelessness even more, and brutalize the desperate with more police interventions,…

This is honestly not true. There are in fact a shocking amount of resources in San Francisco for people living in poverty.

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Post by [deleted] »

martin_a wrote: post #103

Can someone very briefly wrap this whole "SF is broken"-situation up for somebody from Europe? I only ever read that it's "because of the policies" and there are lots of rather disturbing videos about SF making its rounds on YouTube. But what exactly happened? Did they just remove all the police? Did they gave out free drugs to everybody? I'm not interested in blaming political parties, I just want to get a quick gra…

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