[ksml]

In bernal heights, someone smashed my window and stole my camera out of the back seat of my car while I was in the car. It was quite traumatizing, and I don't really like going to San Francisco anymore. (They knew we were in the car, but went for it anyways. Pretty brazen, and they got away with it.)

[fortran77]

And this won't be prosecuted as an armed robbery, if they even bothered to catch the perpetrator, even though it was.

[tayo42]

Sure the point is, people who experience these things are going to talk about and make it seem like it happens all the time. Everyone who has nothing to say is quiet so it can seem like nothing good happens

[theamk]

You are making it sound like it’s normal to have your car broken in, and the only difference is rate.

This is not the case. In many places, you can leave car unlocked for years, and no one is going to steal stuff from it.

Under those circumstances, even one case is a reasonable evidence that the crime situation is bad. And here we have an evidence of much more than one case.

[tayo42]

I mean stuff gets broken into all the time. Unless your talking small town suburbs and rural areas. That doesn't seem fair to compare to a city. Your all making it sound like if you park in sf it's guaranteed your windows will be broken. It might feel like that if you only look at all the negative things people say.