Aggregate increases in petty crime, robbery, etc. always have a socioeconomic precedent. As a result of being ruled by capital and neoliberal policymaking, SF has rapidly become unfit for those who previously lived there. The neoliberals themselves will blame it on policies like rent control, suggesting that the free hand of the market would solve everything if given a chance. But the contemporary United States, and especially California, is itself the most radical experiment of free market solutions on Earth.