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by tablespoon 1156 days ago
> What you're experiencing is confirmation bias. You read about one crime, then started noticing all of the stories about crime, formed a theory based on this hyper focusing, and now you believe it's worse than ever despite the stats clearly showing otherwise.

Exactly. The whole "crime is terrible in SF" is just a Republican propaganda narrative that people who should know better are buying into.