Nearly Half of San Franciscans Have Been Victims of Theft, New Poll Says

Re:Nearly Half of San Franciscans Have Been Victims of Theft... by BoorishBears on Thursday October 20, 2022 @09:28PM (#33283130)

Boston has a higher murder rate and overall violent crime rate than San Francisco, as do most large cities.

San Francisco's problem is rampant property crime: Property crime is still real crime and harms people mentally... but it also means SF is physically safer than many cities that have less overall crime rates, because of their higher violent crime rates.

Since it's often beneficial to an agenda to conflate the two so you'll always see something like:

"San Franciscans face about a 1-in-16 chance each year of being a victim of property or violent crime"

(https://www.hoover.org/research/why-san-francisco-nearly-mos...)

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Re:Nearly Half of San Franciscans Have Been Victims of Theft... by srj on Thursday October 20, 2022 @09:38PM (#33283245)

Boston's data is probably skewed because unincorporated cities like Cambridge and Brookline aren't included but Mattapan and Roxbury are.

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Re:Nearly Half of San Franciscans Have Been Victims of Theft... by smelendez on Thursday October 20, 2022 @10:30PM (#33283752)

But some of the cities along the northern part of Orange Line might have more crime than West Roxbury, Roslindale, or Beacon Hill. It’s always going to be somewhat arbitrary

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