Tech Workers Take to the Mountains, Bringing Silicon Valley with Them

Re:Tech Workers Take to the Mountains, Bringing Silicon Vall... by throwaway0a5e on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @08:46AM (#24979582)

Not enforcing petty "crime with a victim" is a SoCal thing. You don't really have those issues in NYC, heck even in Baltimore, Newark or Trenton the cops won't pass up an opportunity for an easy arrest if they see someone prowling a bike rack with bolt cutters (and it won't be catch and release either, it'll be enough to make that kind of thing not worth the risk of doing flagrantly)

Regarding the public drug use and other publicly visible low class behavior shenanigans, there's a large portion of the public that just DGAF.

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Re:Tech Workers Take to the Mountains, Bringing Silicon Vall... by whimsicalism on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @10:36AM (#24980564)

> Baltimore, Newark or Trenton the cops won't pass up an opportunity for an easy arrest

Don't know about the others, but this is not true of Baltimore.

Honestly, the largest predictor of how often I hear about "rampant, unenforced crime" seems to be the proportion of people in the city who moved from the suburbs and are unused to cities.

> Regarding the public drug use and other publicly visible low class behavior shenanigans, there's a large portion of the public that just DGAF.

I'm one of them - visible poverty is sad, but it doesn't make me fear for my life or feel like more jailing is needed.

To me, as someone who grew up in a Baltimore-adjacent city, SF just seems like a city full of people who are city-inexperienced.

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