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Re:San Francisco is getting cold feet about self-driving car... by tanseydavid on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @11:14AM (#34612622)
>> I don't think that reduction is the reason for an increase in crime

I don't have anything empirical but in my experience the frequency and brazenness of the shoplifting (in SF) increased in a very noticeable way soon after the passage of Prop 47.

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Re:San Francisco is getting cold feet about self-driving car... by nickv on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:27PM (#34614054)
I know, I feel the same way, but the data doesn't indicate this. Be careful with "ancedata".

http://www.cjcj.org/uploads/cjcj/images/screen_shot_2021-06-...

The one place you do see a dramatic impact is car break ins. But even that is a result of a broken relationship between the DA's office and the SFPD. The fact is, the SFPD is shitty at it's job (close rates are comically low, its understaffed, heaving demoralized) and the DA doesn't have people to prosecute.

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