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I believe that behind the veneer of the official progressivism there's deep monetary corruption in San Francisco government. Here is my data (all within last 24

by cft 6y ago

I believe that behind the veneer of the official progressivism there's deep monetary corruption in San Francisco government. Here is my data (all within last 24 months): 1. SF Public works director arrested by the FBI: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-Public-Works-Director-Mohammed-Nuru-arrested-15010510.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-Public-Works-... 2. SF Building Inspector Commissioner arrested by the FBI: https://www.kqed.org/news/11817788/former-sf-building-inspection-commissioner-arrested-and-charged-with-bank-fraud https://www.kqed.org/news/11817788/former-sf-building-inspec... 3. SF health director Garcia forced to resign over conflict-of-interest https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/SF-health-director-Garcia-forced-to-resign-over-13178653.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/SF-h... 4. SF DPH official arrested by the FBI: https://sfdistrictattorney.org/press-release/former-sf-public-official-arrested-for-contract-that-netted-husband-65k/ https://sfdistrictattorney.org/press-release/former-sf-publi...

ed25519FUUU 6y ago
This is good data but hard to imagine financial corruption being the only reason the city is a toilet. Take for example the fact that open drug use and public defecation isn’t even a crime here.
thatguy0900 6y ago
Out of curiosity, I wanted to see how unusual this is. According to https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/ezaucr/asp/ucr_display.asp https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/ezaucr/asp/ucr_display.asp about 150000 people were arrested for fraud and embezzlement in 2014 out of 328m Americans, or .0004% of the population, with 31830 employees that should be 12 a year if there's a even distribution of fraudsters in the country. Granted it's 2 am here and I'm really tired, so this might not make much sense.
- cft 6y ago
  A better stat would be the % of arrests of other cities' officials. The majority of population does not have access to the FBI scale embezzlement, even if they wanted to do it.
  - thatguy0900 6y ago
    True, I cant find any stats like that though. Searching https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/public-corruption/news https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/public-corruption/news for San Francisco 2020 does seem to yeild substantially more results than any other city I tried, though.

by cft 6y ago

ed25519FUUU 6y ago

This is good data but hard to imagine financial corruption being the only reason the city is a toilet. Take for example the fact that open drug use and public defecation isn’t even a crime here.

thatguy0900 6y ago

Out of curiosity, I wanted to see how unusual this is. According to https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/ezaucr/asp/ucr_display.asp https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/ezaucr/asp/ucr_display.asp about 150000 people were arrested for fraud and embezzlement in 2014 out of 328m Americans, or .0004% of the population, with 31830 employees that should be 12 a year if there's a even distribution of fraudsters in the country. Granted it's 2 am here and I'm really tired, so this might not make much sense.

cft 6y ago
A better stat would be the % of arrests of other cities' officials. The majority of population does not have access to the FBI scale embezzlement, even if they wanted to do it.
- thatguy0900 6y ago
  True, I cant find any stats like that though. Searching https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/public-corruption/news https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/public-corruption/news for San Francisco 2020 does seem to yeild substantially more results than any other city I tried, though.