Just like what the old saying says, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions," SF is living it.
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Nearly Half of San Franciscans Have Been Victims of Theft, New Poll Says
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Re: Nearly Half of San Franciscans Have Been Victims of Theft, New Poll Says
#242Reading this headline I thought to myself, this can't be possible. But then I remembered I got two packages stolen in two different neighborhood of the city, and during NYE someone broke the door of the backyard to probably see what they could steal there.
I also thought this. But then I remembered I had a $700 bike stolen from my hotel when I stayed in SF for 2 days. Checks out.
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#243Just like what the old saying says, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions," SF is living it.
> the road to hell
San Francisco's population could use some good spirituality right now.
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#244Got a $1500 bike stolen from the inside of my locked apartment in Potrero Hill back in 2015 or 16. Was very bitter about that -- it was one of the few things I brought with me to SF. Police ignored it. For weeks after I was walking through all the homeless chop shops looking for it. About a month after the theft, I received a call from someone who bought a frame (just the frame) with my serial number at a San Jose fl…
Law enforcement is useless if they pick and choose which laws to enforce. Laws themselves are pointless if they are not enforced (or even worse: selectively enforced)
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#245I live in northern Virginia, and I have never been a victim of theft. If this poll is correct, that amount of theft is insane. Regardless of the causes, this seems like a pretty serious problem.
Half the people in SF can say the same. Anecdotal data doesn't mean much.
Do the 50% who do claim they are victims of theft say it only happened to them a single time? In my experience, the people who admit they are the victims of theft have countless stories of it happening to them.
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#246I live in northern Virginia, and I have never been a victim of theft. If this poll is correct, that amount of theft is insane. Regardless of the causes, this seems like a pretty serious problem.
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#247If anything would put an end to pro-crime policies, it is more than 50% of the electorate being a victim of crime.
This explains the Chesa Boudin recall, and will explain the results of elections in the months and years ahead.
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#248Since folks are sharing stories.. I lived in the Mission for about 10 years (2003-2012).
My apartment was broken into, my car was broken into multiple times, my roommate was mugged at knifepoint and stabbed (she was fine), my bike was stripped for parts (they stole the handlebars / shifters and seat while it was locked up), and my car was stolen, driven around the neighborhood in broad daylight when I spotted it at 19th and South Van Ness and tried to steal it back and was almost run over, and then it was disposed of in Hunter’s Point completely stripped and wrecked (no passenger seat, interior panels, stick shift, battery or wheels).
Amusingly though I moved to NYC because of boredom, a bad breakup and the abysmal dating prospects, not the constant crime.
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#249The weirdest thing I noticed moving to the bay area wasn't SF (have been there a couple times and only saw a little bit of the craziness), it was how different South Bay/Peninsula are from the city
I expected the same SF problems you hear about to be issues in that area, and they really aren't (at least where I live)
Idk if I would ever move into the city tbh, it just seems like a shithole. I'm sure it's less boring, but I like not having to deal with theft or BS politics
I remember asking someone from the area at my job orientation if I should live in SF, and they pretty much said "no it's a literal shithole it isn't worth it" and it was such candid advice I took it
Also another weird thing is I expected all the locals around here to be super progressive, but a lot of the people I've talked to were pissed off about what's happened to SF
Also a question for people who know the bay area: where do you guys recommend to live for both commute and safety?
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
At this point it's basically the monty python "its just a flesh wound" scene. Anyone who has visited SF knows exactly whats going on. Anyone who lives in SF also knows exactly whats going on. They'll just desperately point to some statistic from a tiny town they've never been to that actually measures and enforces the law. Anything to justify continuing to vote for whatever the media tells them to vote for next.
It's not the media or the this or the that -- it's the lack of competition. In ideas and options. Groupthink of any ilk leads to death.
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