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What happened to Bob Lee is tragic and unacceptable. But violent crime is not unique to San Francisco and if you look at the data the city is far safer than ma

What happened to Bob Lee is tragic and unacceptable. But violent crime is not unique to San Francisco and if you look at the data the city is far safer than many others. When it comes to issues like this you really need to look at the data as it is too easy to let passions and bias drive decision making. If you could solve crime by hiring more police and locking more people up every city would do that. But the data shows that it doesn't work like that.

rossdavidh 4y ago
I don't know the truth of it and there are varying levels of reporting in different cities, but: https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-francisco/crime https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-francisco/crime "Safer than 2% of U.S. Cities..."
- threeseed 4y ago
  I was referring to violent crime as outlined in the article. A lot of petty crime stems from inequality and drug use not from career criminals. And those issues can't be solved by more policing.
  - 0zemp1c 4y ago
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vxNsr 4y ago
Per sq ft, per capita, per any stat you care to look at this isn’t really true if you use the actual numbers and not whatever doctored nonsense people are blowing around to pretend their form of politics/propaganda is better.