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how is SF still so valuable if so much is going wrong
You can't just look at a snapshot in time.
What is the rate for other big cities? Is this a lot higher than usual, or only a little higher? The thing is that people steal things everywhere. Bikes. Cigarette lighters. Money left out. Scam items off Amazon or eBay is a form of theft. Your beer at parties. Lawn gnomes. I don’t know many people anywhere who haven’t had something stolen from them at some point, so I’m not sure what this is saying
As a Boston resident I haven’t had any incidents of theft or violence in 10 years. I walk around with my toddler without issue.
San Francisco's problem is rampant property crime: Property crime is still real crime and harms people mentally... but it also means SF is physically safer than many cities that have less overall crime rates, because of their higher violent crime rates.
Since it's often beneficial to an agenda to conflate the two so you'll always see something like:
"San Franciscans face about a 1-in-16 chance each year of being a victim of property or violent crime"
(https://www.hoover.org/research/why-san-francisco-nearly-mos...)
It's just part and parcel of living in a big city.
$1.7m toilet. All San Franciscans that pay tax have been victims of theft!
What about $18.2 million for 260 tents? That's ~$5,000 a month per tent, which is more than I paid for my apartment in downtown SF. https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/S-F-officials-w... It's just plain corruption, and it won't stop until voters make it stop.
[0] https://www.vera.org/publications/price-of-prisons-2015-stat...
It's just part and parcel of living in a big city.
I’ve lived in NYC for 12 years. I’ve never even had a package stolen. Luck is involved only to a certain degree.
What is the rate for other big cities? Is this a lot higher than usual, or only a little higher? The thing is that people steal things everywhere. Bikes. Cigarette lighters. Money left out. Scam items off Amazon or eBay is a form of theft. Your beer at parties. Lawn gnomes. I don’t know many people anywhere who haven’t had something stolen from them at some point, so I’m not sure what this is saying
I don’t think I’ve had any theft incidents in many years in Seattle.
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San Francisco: We're Totally Surprised That Failure to Enforce Laws Leads to Lawlessness
What is the rate for other big cities? Is this a lot higher than usual, or only a little higher? The thing is that people steal things everywhere. Bikes. Cigarette lighters. Money left out. Scam items off Amazon or eBay is a form of theft. Your beer at parties. Lawn gnomes. I don’t know many people anywhere who haven’t had something stolen from them at some point, so I’m not sure what this is saying