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Not "all time low" but a 40 year low. Its easy to fuzz numbers when you start extremely high.
by joemazerino 4y ago
Not "all time low" but a 40 year low. Its easy to fuzz numbers when you start extremely high.
- mikeryan 4y agoSan Francisco has had a relatively low, and consistent violent crime rate for about 20 years. Conversely it’s also had a consistently higher property crime rate.
- mlyle 4y agoPossibly an all-time low. It's hard to compare numbers >40 years old, because they very possibly are not measuring the same things. As to ease when you "start extremely high" -- SF is now safer, when it comes to violent crime, than most major cities in the US. What it does have is an extremely high rate of quality of life crime.
- bink 4y agoAs an example: domestic violence was absolutely not treated the same >40 years ago and the odds of it being reported at all were quite a bit lower.
- mcguire 4y agoAccording to the chart, the current homicide rate is about 7/100,000. I found a spreadsheet showing homicides going back to 1849. The rate between 1968 (happy birthday to me) and 1996 is significantly higher than now, bouncing around between 10 and 20. Between 1920 and 1967, it bounces around between a low of 2 (1938) and 9. The 1870s were another relatively high period. Interestingly, San Francisco's population declined from 775,000 in 1950 to 679,000 in 1980. Sources: Homicide in San Francisco, 1849-2003 (https://cjrc.osu.edu/research/interdisciplinary/hvd/united-states/san-francisco https://cjrc.osu.edu/research/interdisciplinary/hvd/united-s...) Historical population of San Francisco (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_San_Francisco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_San_Francisco) plus some linear interpolation