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> People generally are uncomfortable with crime being up 50% in 3 years, even if it's still down 30% from 1991.

Where did the 50% number come from?

Q1 2023 appears to be down nearly 10% on Q1 2022 and 25% compared with Q1 2017.

2022 as a whole was lower in most areas than 2017 with 9,000 fewer incidents.

[0] https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/crim...




Numbers are nationwide. My city's crime rates have doubled since March 2020. SF could be an outlier, but based on the melancholia in this thread, people may just not be reporting crime as much any more in SF.

Underreporting seems like a huge problem, even here with our blooming crime rate. I've had to call the police twice since covid, once because by house caught a stray bullet from a car chase/shootout, and the cops said that the only people who bothered to report were myself and the elementary school down the street. The folks in the other house that took rounds had no desire to interact with the police.




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