Some hard numbers from the FBI on historical crime #'s in SF: https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/ca/san-francisco/property-crime-rate-statistics https://www

Some hard numbers from the FBI on historical crime #'s in SF: https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/ca/san-francisco/property-crime-rate-statistics https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/ca/san-francisco/prope... TL;DR most categories show significant drop between 2000 and 2018, including violent crime, and, to the the point of the article, motor vehicle theft. (edit: looks like there has been a significant rise in motor vehicle thefts in particular since 2018, but that is not specific to SF (TikTok to blame??) https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/san-francisco-crime-rates-17487348.php#:~:text=But%20like%20other%20parts%20of,the%20third%20quarter%20of%202018 https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/san-francisco-crime-r.... )