First, this survey seems to be about the last 5 years, which is noteworthy.
Also,
> a quarter have been threatened or physically attacked
That's a much scarier thing. 1/4 people were threatened or attacked in a 5 year period? That's pretty rough
Also,
> a quarter have been threatened or physically attacked
That's a much scarier thing. 1/4 people were threatened or attacked in a 5 year period? That's pretty rough
During that time, I was asked if I wanted to buy drugs 5 times, I shook a suspicious-looking tail (someone/multiple people following you) twice, and I had a bottle full of blood thrown at my head because I refused to acknowledge a screaming crackhead when I walked past them on the street.
I'm surprised it's only 1/4.
I live in San Diego now.
I live in Cambridge, MA now, and it's a million times better. Only thing remotely close that I've seen was one time biking past the Woods-Mullen Shelter in Boston (saw two other comments here call it "Mass and Cass"), except it's just one block and extremely tame compared to what you find all over the Mission, SOMA, and Tenderloin.
Also called the cops twice on people shooting up in front of the middle school near my house in the morning while I was walking my dog. That wasn't even in the TL - that was Nob Hill.