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Re:San Francisco bans facial recognition technology by munic... by justchilly on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @09:13PM (#19915486)
Crime is historically high in SF. Obvious to anyone that has lived in Sf for a while.

Source 1) https://hoodline.com/2019/04/crime-is-on-the-rise-in-san-fra...

Source 1b) https://www.ppic.org/publication/crime-trends-in-california/

Source 2) home burgled twice so far in 2019

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Re:San Francisco bans facial recognition technology by munic... by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @10:48PM (#19915990)
I bet if you included the 70s and 80s it wouldn’t be the historic high.

Property crimes are obviously way up even if violent crimes aren’t so much.

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