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Cash App founder Bob Lee had left San Francisco over crime
- alex_young 4y agoBut he actually moved from Mill Valley. Which has a violent crime rate of 0 per 1000 residents. https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/mill-valley/crime#:~:text=One's%20chance%20of%20becoming%20a,24%20per%20one%20thousand%20population https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/mill-valley/crime#:~:te....
- 1101010010 4y agoBecause when you live in Mill Valley, you never leave the perimeter of the city nor be affected by surrounding municipalities, right?
- ekianjo 4y agoYou data says 0.43 per 1000 residents, that's far from 0.
- alex_young 4y agoIt says that violent crimes were unreported in the most recent year. That seems a lot like 0.
- causality0 4y agoMoving from SF to Miami to get away from crime is an odd choice. The SF homicide rate is 6.9 per 100,000 people and the Miami rate is 10.7. I understand SF has a severe homeless problem but are actual crime rates that high compared to other big cities?
- zapdrive 4y agoDo people in Miami break your car window to steal your bag while you are driving it? https://youtu.be/j2efwceQ_0c https://youtu.be/j2efwceQ_0c
- unsupp0rted 4y agoDid that thief ever end up getting caught? Presumably their license plate number is right there in the video? Do they ditch the license plate and/or car?
- andromeduck 4y agoThe cars/plates are usually stolen.
- iancmceachern 4y agoYes, just go to YouTube and search "Miami carjacking", lots of similar videos to what you have here...
- 4dayworkweek4u 4y agoAny common patterns?
- piva00 4y agoIs that a real question or rhetorics?
- AaronFriel 4y agoWhat prior do you have to think a particular city is exceptional, such as in the types of crime? I often hear claims like this, such as about catalytic converter theft, and I think: that happens back home in Midwest, rural Iowa. Des Moines, Iowa has a similar crime rate to San Francisco! There aren't order of magnitude differences between my small home town, where I was born, or any other town I could find. Don't let news reports overwhelm your availability heuristic. If crime rates are roughly similar everywhere, but some cities are more dense yet share a common news or media environment, what does that suggest?
- trilbyglens 4y agoWhile the south has more crime, it also has less random crime. Probably California falls into the same bucket as the other northern states in having more random crime.
- add-sub-mul-div 4y agoThere's a lot of performative outrage over crime in cities but it's best to treat it like noise. It's hard to know who's selling the message of fear vs. who's buying it.
- fortissimohn 4y ago[flagged]
- qgin 4y agoAre SF’s problems really necessary for SF’s successes? There are lots of fabulously wealthy cities that seem to do a better job.
- fortissimohn 4y agoIt is a question of investment. You move to SF to make some cash and leave, never really investing in your neighborhood or in policies that work on a longer scale. And that each area/city functions as its own fiefdom where you can privatize gains and externalize losses (e.g. tech companies and property owners making fortunes but not putting the gains into building nearby housing or comprehensive, safe public transportation) without a need or an incentive to invest in ways that fabously wealthy cities tend to. There are cities where you feel the citizens are truly invested in. SF is not that.
- qgin 4y agoWhere would you consider NYC in this framework? It's a city of transplants and many people come to make their money and either leave (or move to the bedroom communities outside the city). But for the most part, laws are enforced, there are huge investments in providing shelter for people in homelessness and mental illness, violent crime isn't even in the top 50 cities per capita.
- fortissimohn 4y agoThe people "in power" have a vested interest in making the most-walked parts crime-free. That is not the case in SF where the wealthy don't have a Manhattan to interact with on a daily basis.
- andromeduck 4y agoRofl it's the incumbent progressives interests that are prevention bre hosing from being built and new transportation services open to the public.
- bagacrap 4y agoIf you are afraid of crime in a place then why are you out on foot there after midnight?
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