LOL where do you live?

SFPD in the Mission is useless: they came to a property theft and told use to watch youtube videos about how thieves are opening garage doors, issued a perfunctory report for insurance, and left.

SFPD's office is a a mere 3 blocks from 16th street open-air drug market, there is very rarely a police officer on site. Another 3 blocks away, Capp street, just got closed to auto traffic by SF politicians because the police were so incompetent that it was becoming a fire risk (for SFFD on 19th).

SFPD mostly are known for shooting at the unhoused, after arriving in caravans of police SUV cars with lights blazing, which mission residents walk by every day unarmed.

Completely useless.

Of course that sentiment sailed over the relevant parties (said chief, SFPOA) and landed on....Chesa Boudin of all people.

I may be old fashioned, but I believe that when someone intentionally creates a situation with predictable bad outcomes, they should be fired--even if they didn't intend to produce the bad outcome. Chesa Boudin was one of many people in SF who did that - the saying "the fish rots from the head" is not wrong. His recall was a good start.

Right... but none of the things you are describing are violent crime.

Yes, it is obvious that SFPD doesn't give a shit about the sex work on Shotwell st, etc. in the Mission - but that is different from saying they would not follow up on a violent assault or murder.

Just google "sfpd refuses to arrest"

https://www.ksbw.com/article/sfpd-refused-to-help-stop-san-f...

https://www.davisvanguard.org/2022/03/columnist-sf-police-ta...

etc etc

Again, both non-violent crimes.

Not going to keep replying, my point is merely that i think the SFPD will respond to violent crime reports.

My neighbor’s car was stolen, he knew where it was to within meters from the tracker, in Oakland. SF police and Oakland police bounced him back and forth until they eventually found the car on their own, totaled, after being used in a crime.

Really? I sent this video to SFPD, they called me, told me that they knew the suspect, asked if I was willing to testify and never called me back. https://youtu.be/xRjuii_jtgM

That has not been my experience at all. For one of my break ins, I had a license plate and footage, they never bothered to even come out to get it. The next few times, they responded in a way that basically meant “stop calling us for smashed car windows, just call your insurance and get it fixed”. I stopped reporting after that unless it’s something major.

When I had a break-in, they came within an hour or so and apologized for taking so long. It was a weird experience after hearing complaints like yours for so long.

There was no suspect or anything, I didn't have good evidence, I did not expect them to solve anything because that would be an unreasonable expectation. They gave me a report number to give to insurance.

I'd like to Echo the importance of reporting. Is an important part of holding police Kansas City Hall accountable and creating change.

I had a half dozen car and home break-ins in San Francisco that I did not report. I now regret this as I should have done my part to at least make the statistics accurate, even if it wouldn't help me recover my goods. I see it as being part of the solution opposed to part of the problem

I also recommend getting renters insurance, which can help with the financial burden