We're talking about quality of living issues for people in the tech industry, not social justice. The issue of crime was raised in the context of why someone would want to move away from Chicago, not as an invitation to reckon with the moral horror of it. This will be an entirely different (and less useful) thread if we embark on the tangent of American crime and its causes and responses.

It is more or less simply the case that people who work in the tech industry, the kinds of people who are choosing whether to live in Chicago or Austin or Portland or San Francisco, are not living in the neighborhoods where it's unsafe to walk to school or to set foot in the park after sundown. Lawndale and Lakeview might as well be different cities.

There is bleed --- increasingly --- from rough neighborhoods to the wealthier ones, especially with respect to property crime, but also with robberies. But there are robberies all over San Francisco, too. If you're choosing between those two cities, violent crime is probably not a meaningful metric for you.