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> Public safety also isn’t really an issue for anyone that doesn’t identify as an unattended backpack in the backseat of a locked car with out of state plates

Don't travel to San Francisco, your car will be vandalized and robbed, got it.

I mean, why is that the standard? Nowhere I go do I ever have to worry about something like that.

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My car got broken into with absolutely nothing to steal, along with 5 others in Texas. The police wouldn’t even come out despite clear camera footage of the perpetrator. Why is that the standard? The AG and DAs could not be more polar opposites than in SF, yet the result is the same.

This hasn't been my experience in Texas at all, or any mid-west state. The police have always been timely and responsive, for both myself and my colleagues.

Wow that was not my experience. They were just as eager to call up their friends and hold a kick back while making my partner and I wait only to refuse to file a report for a break and entry of our rental in Houston.

The police exist as an institution to harass the poor and the homeless. They were founded as escaped slave hunters. Their primary purpose isn't to protect or serve the public at large, no matter what their latest marketing claims.

What you are seeing are the effects of ignoring widespread calls for reform and the doubling down on funding of a broken institution.

Police have existed since before the United States.

I lived there more than 10 years and developed something like PTSD because of all my encounters with the "unhoused". I feared for my life multiple times (actual physical threats), and the police consciously ignored it after filing a police report. This was just a fraction of the experience not even mentioning the how filthy most of the downtown area is, and how expensive the rent and food are.

My conclusion was that SF does not care about law abiding, rent paying citizens, while at the same time the people there have something like Stockholm syndrome and will never admit they have a huge problem.

Either way I don't care, I will never go near it again.

If you get caught in a riptide, swim parallel to the coast until you clear the current, not against it.

If you are driving in a snowy area, go slow. Bring warm clothes in case your car gets stuck.

Sometimes you have to modify your behavior based on your environment.

So in your opinion sf druggies are basically wildlife / natural phenomena?

No, but whether a problem is man made or not doesn’t impact whether or not it exists.

So you're comparing residents of SF to bears rummaging through your camping stuff. Not sure if it's disingenuous to the bears or to the residents of SF.

Thank you for the feedback, I didn’t think that would be a conclusion that somebody would come to in good faith, but I guess I can see it. I’ve removed that example.

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