Wikipedia has the FBI's crime statistics from 2019, broken out into categories including "larceny - theft": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States

Wikipedia has the FBI's crime statistics from 2019, broken out into categories including "larceny - theft": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b... Their highest rate is Spokane, WA at 5,408/100k, which would mean at most 5.4% of people report a theft. SF is a close second at about 5%. Curious, let's look at the poll sourced by the article. It was a questionnaire of about 1500 people conducted online or by telephone. But there's no link to a paper, and they don't clarify how the online poll was conducted. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sfnext-poll-methodology-17435936.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sfnext-poll-meth... Not every victim will file a police report, but it's usually required for insurance payouts, and an order of magnitude difference is hard to swallow. They might have some sampling bias in favor of people who wanted to be interviewed about the state of the city.