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Union Square smash-&-grabs, auto break-ins, open air drug markets, street defecation… there’s evidence aplenty of lawlessness in San Francisco beyond the narrow
by rm_-rf_slash 4y ago
Union Square smash-&-grabs, auto break-ins, open air drug markets, street defecation… there’s evidence aplenty of lawlessness in San Francisco beyond the narrow confines of homicide.
- Entinel 4y agoI think the point they are making is that the Bay has been descending into anarchy for a long time but it is only when a famous rich person dies that we are making an uproar about it.
- bombcar 4y agoPeople have been making an uproar about it (go back years on any story on HN involving "housing (costs) in San Francisco" and you'll see it) - the uproar is louder because the people inclined to dismiss/ignore the problem can now be confronted with an example of 'someone like them'. > The report said at least 50 gig drivers for companies like Uber, Lyft and DoorDash had been killed while on the job in the United States since 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/business/uber-lyft-driver-deaths.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/business/uber-lyft-driver... Nobody cares about gig workers getting killed, for example, it's just noise, because it doesn't affect those who are not gig workers.