Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t...
by CTmystery on Thursday April 06, 2023 @10:40AM
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There's really no good stats on SF car jackings, unfortunately. The SFPD crime data is too coarse to discriminate carjackings from other car theft. I think the best you could do, unfortunately, is comb news stories and try to get a sense of the frequency. A quick google search turns these up:
Dec 22: https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/crime/man-shot-during-attemp...
Feb 6th: https://www.mtdemocrat.com/news/assault-carjacking-suspect-a...
Feb 21st (and mentions a second Nov 7th): https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/armed-carjackings-near-s...
Mar 1st: https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/teens-carjack-couple...
You could perhaps automate something to give you a proxy statistic. Hell, it may end up a better statistic than what the SFPD has.
Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t...
by miles on Saturday April 08, 2023 @03:44PM
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I did the math. SF is 2.6x more dangerous per sq mi than any other US city
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35496700
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/105IDODri5Qbi3Mj-SGHF...
Cool. If your town has one carjacking, and the next it has two, thats a big increase. So again, I'll repeat, does San Francisco have a lot of carjackings?
>Nearly Half of San Franciscans Have Been Victims of Theft, New Poll Says
Yes, petty theft is rampant there.
>If we are shifting the conversation from "dangerous" to "violent",
Just to clarify, we were always talking about violent crimes. Carjacking and break-ins are violent crimes. Petty theft is not. The conversation is not "shifting", you are just applying the word dangerous to situations where it doesn't apply.
>My concern is similar to that expressed by huevosabio[5] based on his experience in Mexico: "Every crime that goes unprosecuted is an invitation for a repeat crime. This is as true in Juarez as it is in San Francisco."
That's irrelevant to our conversation.