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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

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Post by leetcrew »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #188
taeric wrote: post #125

Without comparing to other high density cities for basic theft, I don't really find this that useful. :( To wit, in Seattle we had our car broken into once. We also had a habit of forgetting the car keys /on top of the car/, such that we would have said we live in a very very safe place. Despite the time the car was broken into. When I lived in Atlanta, the general practice was not to lock your car, so that they woul…

> Without comparing to other high density cities for basic theft, I don't really find this that useful. :( Why not? High crime rates are bad in any city. It doesn't become okay if multiple big cities have high crime rates. It's weird to see how so many people are trying to normalize crime rates this high.

people consider a lot of different factors when choosing a place to live. crime rate is an important factor, but it's not the only one.

reading that some other city has X armed robberies per capita doesn't give a great sense of how that would actually impact my day-to-day life. obviously I'd like X to be as low as possible, but if it's already lower than where I currently live and the place has other positive qualities, I would consider moving there.

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Post by robotburrito »

omot wrote: post #16
grubbs wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never totally understood the attraction to it. Come live here in Baltimore. Plenty of tech jobs and a nice home in the city will cost 300k.

For me there's no city in the US as walkable as NYC or SF. NYC is super busy, but I just like how I could bike / walk / transit virtually anywhere within the city.

Philadelphia is surprisingly close to these two IMO.

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Post by systemvoltage »

lambdasquirrel wrote: post #288
rrdharan wrote: post #248

Since 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 1…

Wow that's something. And I thought I had the best story for getting my roof rack stolen from off my car. It wasn't particularly bitter – just, wtf. Bitter was when I was bedridden because of a flu, and when I finally had energy to go out to get some food, my bike got stolen in the 10 minutes I was in the grocery store. It was a miserable trip back home.

License plate got stolen from my car. Didn't touch the car otherwise. It didn't fall off because the front one was also missing. Immediately went to the police dept which took almost half a day to file a report. Utterly dysfunctional. Then a week's worth of crap from DMV to get a new license plate.

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Post by LAC-Tech »

chaboud wrote: post #351

I had a car broken into this last weekend. They broke into every rental car in the lot (by the ferry building). A police officer was rolling through, telling people not to leave anything visible in their cars (nothing was visible in mine). I asked him if I could file a report, and he told me I would have to go to the station. He told me he wasn't sticking around and refused to take a report. I had a similar experienc…

In New Zealand they keep police numbers low deliberately. It keeps "crime rates" low because people stop reporting crimes.

I'd be inclined to blame low numbers of police rather than police apathy. But I haven't actually seen a policeman on the street in my country - outside protests - for at least a decade. The fact that you actually found one outside in the wild is remarkable to me.

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Post by eyelidlessness »

chaboud wrote: post #351

I had a car broken into this last weekend. They broke into every rental car in the lot (by the ferry building). A police officer was rolling through, telling people not to leave anything visible in their cars (nothing was visible in mine). I asked him if I could file a report, and he told me I would have to go to the station. He told me he wasn't sticking around and refused to take a report. I had a similar experienc…

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Post by thatguy0900 »

x86x87 wrote: post #274
icelancer wrote: post #265

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Prosecutor's office has a large role here. No reason for cops to investigate crimes that won't be tried.

That's true. But cops also do not get to decide what they investigate based on their own beliefs and biases.

Cops are people. How well would you try to do your job after a few months of seeing your boss purposefully undo whatever work you did at the end of every day. How long would you keep actually coding if your boss just deleted all of your code every shift with no acknowledgment.

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Post by jshzglr »

carom wrote: post #386
jshzglr wrote: post #378

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You can replace the police force, nothing will change. When cops feel unwanted and disrespected they act accordingly. There's a reason we have a history of unwarranted respect for cops and military members. It's not because they always deserve it, but because you want them to feel like they do.

Cops have been useless for a long time. It is why everyone currently hates them. They don't work for us. They don't protect us. They extract money from us to justify their existence. Truly useless.

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