You're trying to use the amount of petty theft, which does suck, to pretend that San Francisco is a dangerous city, which its not.
If you look at just violent crimes, San Francisco isn't in the conversation.
Vehicle thefts and carjackings spike in major US cities[1]: "The number of carjackings - defined as auto theft or attempted theft by force or threat - rose by 24% in seven cities: Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Memphis, Norfolk and San Francisco."
Nearly Half of San Franciscans Have Been Victims of Theft, New Poll Says[2]
Perhaps most tellingly[3]:
"In September 2022, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that a poll of 1,653 city residents found that over the past five years, 45% of San Francisco residents had been the victim of theft and 24% had been either been threatened with violence or had been the victim of a violent crime.[4]"
> If you look at just violent crimes
If we are shifting the conversation from "dangerous" to "violent", I would certainly agree with you. 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."
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64414985
[2] https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/nearly-half-of-san-f...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_San_Francisco
[4] https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sfnext-poll-crime-sfp...
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.
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.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35496700
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/105IDODri5Qbi3Mj-SGHF...