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What percentage are entrepreneurs and what percentage are people with mental health problems and or drug addiction?
Funny how questions like this were completely ignored in the previous conversation where people were shitting on the homeless, but suddenly are important now that the homeless aren't the target anymore.
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Not surprising. You're on a forum full of techies and tech execs. It's like the people in Hollywood incredulous that #metoo movement was a thing because "they didn't know anyone like that!" until their coworkers and friends were outed. Same here - techies shocked, _shocked_ that one of "their own" could commit a crime like this. Easier for them to talk about crime in general than lay blame at the feet on one of "thei…
Are you suggesting that committing murder and violent crime is pervasive among tech executives?
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What percentage are entrepreneurs and what percentage are people with mental health problems and or drug addiction?
If you want to get all numerical. Let's say an extremely generous 1% of SF population are tech entrepreneurs. 1 out of every 12 murders in SF this year was committed by a tech entrepreneur. This would imply that Tech entrepreneurs were 12 times more likely to kill you than any other SF local, an astonishing 1100% higher murder likelihood than average! Given that this is a forum frequented by a lot of SF Tech entrepre…
Edit: Added "violent," to preempt diversions about non-violent crimes.
This is shocking and saddening, and should also be a lesson to this community: previous threads on this tragedy immediately jumped to blaming the homeless, when the overwhelming majority of violent crimes are committed by individuals known to the victim. Edit: Added "violent," to preempt diversions about non-violent crimes.
This is shocking and saddening, and should also be a lesson to this community: previous threads on this tragedy immediately jumped to blaming the homeless, when the overwhelming majority of violent crimes are committed by individuals known to the victim. Edit: Added "violent," to preempt diversions about non-violent crimes.
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Absolutely none of this justifies blaming every violent crime on homeless people, as HN is quick to do. SF is not an outlier, nationally, in terms of the proportion of violent crimes perpetrated by people known to their victims.
The factoid you're trying to cite is specifically about murder. Most homicides are indeed committed by someone the victim knew.
SF's homicide rate isn't out of proportion with other big cities. It's crime rate is, however, and the overwhelming majority of crime being committed there right now happens to be from homeless transients. The types that break into your car to sell whatever they can get a hold of for more drugs.
Crime is severely under-reported in SF. The police are powerless to do anything to a transient - they will not pay a fine or appear in court anyway after all. So the system negatively feeds into itself - false crime statistics, which gives the politicians cover to claim crime is down. Just go there yourself... you can see it so very readily.
The cleanliness is another related issue.
SF needs to get itself back in order. It's driving people away.
Is it common for police to release so much personal information on a suspect? The linked article contains the full name, age, and city of residency.
Name, age, city is pretty common; especially name and age of someone arrested. I'd imagine it public records.
Some quick googling for recent examples. I just looked for news articles, not sure what if the police release has more residency info on the ones that aren't listed in the articles.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-17/suspect-... - name and age
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/2-chicago-men-charged-in-d... - names, ages, city
https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-shootings-arr... - name and age
Even in SF, murders by strangers are really, really rare.