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Not sure you are aware, but criminals avoid doing crimes in Daly City and opt for SF because SF will prosecute less than San Mateo. If you are not aware, not a
by mc32 5y ago
Not sure you are aware, but criminals avoid doing crimes in Daly City and opt for SF because SF will prosecute less than San Mateo. If you are not aware, not all crime is done by people who live in SF --many come to SF because there is less prosecution.
I knew kids in HS who would shoplift not because the needed to but because they could. These guys would totally take advantage of the situation in SF if they were that age again. It's not normal to have people casing houses at night with flashlights but it happens in SF and people on NextDoor are like, "yeah, it's the city, that's how cities are" trying to gaslight newcomers. My ass. That's not how it is in cities. It's like that in _some_ cities (SFO SEA NYC) because the law is soft.
There were homeless before in SF and it was never like it's been the last few years. It's definitely not like that in San Jose. And outside NYC (which also adopted SF-style enforcement) many other cities do not suffer the same wonton disregard for civilized behavior.
Even in third world countries with poorer homeless people, this does not happen.
- swearwolf 5y agoIf it wasn’t for the ceaseless gaslighting on my local subreddit, I would have never learned that I was a compassionless NIMBY who belongs in the suburbs! Who knew that it was perfectly normal for cities to be overrun with crime, trash, drugs and graffiti!