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There's really no good stats on SF car jackings, unfortunately. The SFPD crime data is too coarse to discriminate carjackings from other car theft. I think the
by CTmystery 4y ago
There's really no good stats on SF car jackings, unfortunately. The SFPD crime data is too coarse to discriminate carjackings from other car theft. I think the best you could do, unfortunately, is comb news stories and try to get a sense of the frequency. A quick google search turns these up:
Dec 22: https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/crime/man-shot-during-attempted-carjacking-suspects-sought/article_2ce80926-824a-11ed-80b9-378a063c6e16.html https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/crime/man-shot-during-attemp...
Feb 6th:
https://www.mtdemocrat.com/news/assault-carjacking-suspect-arrested-in-san-francisco/ 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-sf-hospital-cause-safety-concerns/ https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/armed-carjackings-near-s...
Mar 1st:
https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/teens-carjack-couple-on-posh-sf-street-lead-cops-on-chase-over-bay-bridge/ 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.