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Re:Crime in New York City Plunges to a Level Not Seen Since ... by jacobolus on Thursday December 28, 2017 @11:12PM (#16027461)
I've never felt unsafe walking around in the Tenderloin, e.g. carrying an infant. The main 'problem' people have is that there are poor people living there in SROs, and a good number of homeless people loitering all the time. But they mostly keep to themselves. Some folks certainly have substance abuse or mental health problems and will be talking to themselves, and if you walk through you might get shouted at, and sometimes there is a shouting match out in public, and statistically there is some amount of crime between residents, but it's generally not a physical threat to people walking through. It is by no means a 'no-go area'.
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Re:Crime in New York City Plunges to a Level Not Seen Since ... by fragsworth on Thursday December 28, 2017 @11:27PM (#16027522)
> I've never felt unsafe walking around in the Tenderloin, e.g. carrying an infant.

Are you joking? Or just insane?

I'm a 160 lbs male and would not walk through the tenderloin at night. It's really fucking scary. Almost everyone there is homeless and on drugs. The bad kind of drugs.

I would go so far as to say that someone carrying an infant through that area might be endangering the child.

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Re:Crime in New York City Plunges to a Level Not Seen Since ... by losteric on Friday December 29, 2017 @12:44AM (#16027840)
Kid or no kid, the Tenderloin is fine as long as you "fit in"... but if it looks like you can be scared out of some cash, you will get the predatory stare.
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Re:Crime in New York City Plunges to a Level Not Seen Since ... by notyourday on Friday December 29, 2017 @08:50AM (#16029448)
My wife got attacked in San Francisco in Tenderloin around 11am, a few blocks away from Clift Hotel on the second day of the trip. I guess her carrying a Starbucks cup made her a target.

The fact that SF tolerates shit like this under the banner of "acceptance", "it is mental health" or whatever the hell it may be is mind blowing.

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Re:Crime in New York City Plunges to a Level Not Seen Since ... by madengr on Friday December 29, 2017 @09:39AM (#16029643)
CCW would help, though that’s not available in CA.
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Re:Crime in New York City Plunges to a Level Not Seen Since ... by notyourday on Friday December 29, 2017 @09:45AM (#16029668)
Between hot coffee into his face and her doing a little bit of a small joint manipulation, she was fine. Just shocked.
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Re:Crime in New York City Plunges to a Level Not Seen Since ... by jacobolus on Thursday December 28, 2017 @11:37PM (#16027556)
People living in a snooty wealthy bubble get 'really fucking scared' pretty easily. It's not like drug addicts sitting on the sidewalk go out of their way to attack strangers walking by in the middle of a busy public street. I'm not recommending you find a big angry looking person and insult his mother.

There are lots of people with kids who live in the Tenderloin and presumably pass through their own neighborhood at all hours.

Walking around near poor homeless people now counts as 'child endangerment' I guess...

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Re:Crime in New York City Plunges to a Level Not Seen Since ... by almost_usual on Friday December 29, 2017 @02:56PM (#16031578)
Not to be mean but 160 lbs isn't heavy at all. If you're pushing 200 lbs and go to the gym regularly you'll have a lot less people bothering you on the street. I still wouldn't recommend walking through the Tenderloin alone though.
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Re:Crime in New York City Plunges to a Level Not Seen Since ... by mnm1 on Friday December 29, 2017 @12:55AM (#16027880)
> I would go so far as to say that someone carrying an infant through that area might be endangering the child.

This is nonsense. You must be extremely easily scared. For normal people, it's perfectly fine.

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Re:Crime in New York City Plunges to a Level Not Seen Since ... by sergiotapia on Thursday December 28, 2017 @11:39PM (#16027563)
Looks like a proper shithole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zzhVQRO9jY

I mean I've lived in Bolivia and never seen _anything_ as bad as this at it's worst, in Bolivia's worst areas.

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Re:Crime in New York City Plunges to a Level Not Seen Since ... by pfarnsworth on Friday December 29, 2017 @12:19AM (#16027741)
Do people in Bolivia shit on the side of the street or in other public areas? Because that's what they do in SF. So many homeless people shit on the BART escalator that it once took a station's escalations out of service.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Human-waste-shuts-down...

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Re:Crime in New York City Plunges to a Level Not Seen Since ... by tzahola on Friday December 29, 2017 @01:00AM (#16027901)
Shitting onto the escalator? How exactly? Is it moving during the process?
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Re:Crime in New York City Plunges to a Level Not Seen Since ... by smelendez on Friday December 29, 2017 @01:17AM (#16027970)
Yes, off hours it's one of the few places people can defecate in almost private (thanks to its side walls).
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Re:Crime in New York City Plunges to a Level Not Seen Since ... by pfarnsworth on Friday December 29, 2017 @01:33PM (#16031004)
Privacy isn't necessary. Homeless people shit right on Market street in broad daylight.
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