Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed to Death in SF

Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by dmode on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:19AM (#35450505)

This is sad news, but as much as I am a critic of SF’s policies around homelessness and drugs, it is not a dangerous city that someone will get murdered. SF has one of the lowest homicide rates of big cities. For some perspective, Oakland has half the population of SF and almost 3x the murder rate

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/pictures/murder-map-deadliest-u-...

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by corbulo on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:40AM (#35450658)

How is this a comment on...this...article...what even

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by dmode on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:51AM (#35450760)

I am responding to most other comments on this post where people seems to spew their personal agenda about a city

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by corbulo on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:54AM (#35450788)

If your first reaction to someone being literally stabbed to death is to write a comment about such a thing being literally impossible as political cover for your 'side'...you might be the problem

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by dmode on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:11PM (#35457331)

That’s not my first reaction, but seems like it was for a lot of other people

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by farmaway on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:43AM (#35450679)

>as much as I am a critic of SF’s policies around homelessness and drugs, it is not a dangerous city that someone will get murdered.

If you read the article, you'll find that SF is a dangerous city in which someone was just senselessly murdered.

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by dmode on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:51AM (#35450751)

A random act of violence can happen anywhere. Objectively, SF is not a dangerous city when it comes to violent crimes. In 2000s, SF was indeed a violent city with triple digit murders.

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by jossclimb on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:54AM (#35450785)

it has a homicide rate 10x of the average European city.

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by sgammon on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @04:37AM (#35451107)

Yes, and California is much larger and more complex politically than some European countries. What is your point

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by tomandrews88 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @04:02AM (#35450844)

Get out of here with your logical arguments! You’re ruining the fun for all the people that don’t think crime is a big deal.

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by dmode on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:10PM (#35457323)

And Europe has 10x the rate of Asian cities. What’s your point ? Every country has their own nuances and a city within a country is not devoid of context

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by TMWNN on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:55AM (#35450794)

That Oakland is a really, really, really dangerous city does not preclude the reality of San Francisco's increasing lawlessness.

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by tomandrews88 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @04:01AM (#35450835)

The “It’s not hot today because hell is hotter” argument.

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