There is this documentary called "Seattle is dying" by KOMO news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw
The situation in this documentary is similar to SF.
I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled
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#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which policies?
Same as in France: - Being lenient towards criminals because we need to have empathy towards all humans (real victims being forgotten here); - Encouraging “deconstruction”, deconstruction of family values, of masculinity, of marriage, of traditional rules, replacement by state-sponsored benefits, which break the social fabric (a human as a free-spinning electron without roots may be healthy and wealthy, but at extrem…
> Cult of female employment as their main role in society, which, in positions of power, happens to soften the stance towards criminals and deconstruct structures (hierarchies, things that worked to develop our nations, justice system). I don’t know the ratio for Cali but in France, 76 to 81% graduates of ENM (main school for judges) are female since 1977, and we basically free the criminals because they have compassion for them.
Hmm, my first reaction to this is that it's just poorly considered sexism. Do you have any evidence that the gender of the judges is contributing greatly to the leniency crisis you seem to be proposing? And plus, it's even possible that there are some problems showing the direction of causation; for example, it could be that electorates/leaders wanting lenient judges tend to perceive female judges as more lenient. I'm naturally very skeptical that the gender of judges could have such a large causal effect.
I looked into this briefly and the two articles that I found quickly were [1] and [2], one of which finds an effect obscenity and death penalty cases in State Supreme Courts and the other which finds an effect only in sex discrimination cases. Neither seems to imply such a sweeping and consequential effect as you do.
And the apparent suggestion that women in position of power in general is causing problems for society seems to be an argument out of the last century. Am I correct that that's what your suggesting, and if so what would be the cause of it? That whole line of reasoning strains credibility in my mind.
[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/42864001
[2] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1540-5907...
Re: I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled
#203SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin ran for office in November 2019 focusing his campaign on ending mass incarceration with restorative justice models, rather than punitive incarceral methods. Since then crime in SF has absolutely exploded, fuelled by proposition 47 which reduced stealing less than $900 day to a misdemeanor. Add in a massive opioid crisis and the result is a rapidly growing crisis of shoplifting, petty…
I've always thought that an honestly useful product would be some kind of theft deterrent device that you either attach to your car, or attach to your camera equipment, and it detects the car window getting smashed or the tripod getting moved out of range of a beacon in the owner's pocket. If triggered it should spray a combination of fart spray, glitter, pepper spray, honey, flour, feathers, ink, in all directions.…
This is rich person thinking. Somebody who's willing to smash your car window for a camera really doesn't care if you "embarrass" them for a few minutes.
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#204Is anybody else getting tired of the constant stream of inflammatory posts ragging on San Francisco or the Bay Area? I feel like I've been seeing one every one or two days that make it to the top of HN. These types of posts just seem to fit into this ongoing narrative that SF (and relatedly, silicon valley), are all falling apart due to poor governance. It's beginning to feel like a strong echo chamber in here. What…
Well, just hide or flag the story and read something happier and more substantive, like uh...Windows vs Mac, spaces vs tabs, Emacs vs Vim, China vs US, C vs Rust, bash vs python etc.
More seriously, I found the stories on this page pretty shocking and interesting, I didn't know it was anything like that in SF. Sydney here, pretty safe at night in most areas, ...and we have (free) public toilets.
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can someone who lives in SF chime in and tell us why you voted for Mr. Boudin? Knowing what I know about bay area politics, I bet half the people who voted for him will say that crime in San Francisco is not the district attorney's fault and blame Regan for closing down the mental hospitals in the 70s. I live just outside San Francisco city limits and everything is peaceful, because the criminals know that the laws a…
I think it's partially a positive feedback loop. I'm not sure how to solve the problem. But it probably goes: SF spends a lot of money on services for the homeless, so lots of homeless people keep going there to get those services. Other places don't spend any money on services for the homeless, so the homeless people leave. If every place spent a little bit on services for the homeless, there would be just a few hom…
What would all those city employees who work in the homeless industry do if there wasn't a 300 million dollar budget? They wouldn't be able to afford to live in the city.
I think a lot of San Francisco's problems come from too much tax money. They have a $12.3 billion dollar budget. That's more than some small European countries! The city collects an enormous amount of taxes from all the tech money and needs to do something with it so they get the big idea that they are going to try and fix all social problems with the universal and only solution to all problems: more money.
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#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
half US homeless are in California with migrants arriving daily crime in SF has absolutely exploded These don't seem to be reflected in easily googleable stats https://www.usich.gov/tools-for-action/map/#fn[]=1400&fn[]=2... https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/crim...
Devil’s advocate: a lot of crime in San Francisco isn’t reported. For example, the case mentioned in the article.
The case mentioned in the article was reported. Reported != solved. If you called the police and they wrote it down, that's really all it takes to get counted.
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
half US homeless are in California with migrants arriving daily crime in SF has absolutely exploded These don't seem to be reflected in easily googleable stats https://www.usich.gov/tools-for-action/map/#fn[]=1400&fn[]=2... https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/crim...
Devil’s advocate: a lot of crime in San Francisco isn’t reported. For example, the case mentioned in the article.
The crime in the article was reported. From the article:
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.
No, the officer didn't take action based upon what they saw, but it's reasonable to conclude that a police report was filled out for this incident.
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've always thought that an honestly useful product would be some kind of theft deterrent device that you either attach to your car, or attach to your camera equipment, and it detects the car window getting smashed or the tripod getting moved out of range of a beacon in the owner's pocket. If triggered it should spray a combination of fart spray, glitter, pepper spray, honey, flour, feathers, ink, in all directions.…
This is rich person thinking. Somebody who's willing to smash your car window for a camera really doesn't care if you "embarrass" them for a few minutes.
But surely it's better than standing like a sheep and letting your property get stolen?
Skunks don't hurt but people sure do fear them and the unpleasantness that may ensue if you mess with them.
I mean, I'm all for fixing poverty but I'm still going to want to protect my stuff in the mean time. In fact it's because I'm not rich and I can't afford to replace all my property. If I was a billionaire I couldn't care less about a $5K camera system but I'm not.
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#209There 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...
Compared to Medellín or Fallujah, it's probably even more safe. But I don't go to these places either. And compared to, say, just going to the beach, going there is much more dangerous, with pretty much zero benefits - even if I don't get mugged (which I most likely won't - I don't have anything valuable on me and I don't look like somebody inviting to be messed with) I will just end up being pissed off about how dis…
Have you actually been to Medellin?
It's a fairly safe city and even safer than most American cities.
This isn't the city of the 90's Pablo Escobar anymore.
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I've peed in a bush in SF. I didn't want to, but that's what happens when you have humans with bladders and zero public restrooms. I tried to not pee in the bush. I asked around, went to a few grab and go restaurants, a gas station, but none had a public bathroom. My only option was to wait in line and pay cover to get into a bar, wait in line at the high end restaurants in the area, drive across town to Denny's for…
The S.F bathroom problem is that heroin addicts go into bathrooms, they lock the door, they pass out, and die or have a psychotic break and break everything they can or smear shit all over the walls and then the store is liable for the wrongful death or they have to clean it up.
That's fine as long as everyone recognizes this as a conscious, intentional, decision to put the waste in the streets/foliage. Pooping isn't a choice, after all.