[darth_avocado]

What I’m suggesting is that the “data” is not accurate because a large amount of crime, property or violent, is not reported. Things like theft and property damage is not reported unless it’s thousands of dollars or if insurance requires it. Things like damage to your garage door because someone tried to break in, stolen catalytic converters, stolen Amazon packages etc rarely get reported. Retail theft also gets underreported. Violent crime like someone spitting on you, throwing things at you, pushing you to the ground and running away etc. doesn’t get reported unless there is a big injury or a weapon was involved.

[bryans]

Again, you're making things up because it "sounds correct" to you, but that doesn't make it reality. Your examples of violent crimes that go unreported seem to be based entirely on interactions you've had or heard about with homeless people. Yes, SF has a substantial homeless population, which increases the likelihood of those extremely minor "violent" offenses happening. But that isn't new, at all, and it's baseless and ridiculous to suggest that an increase in awkward incidents with the homeless means that there is a tsunami of attempted murders.

Seattle, NYC, Dallas, Chicago and a hundred others also have huge homeless populations and even higher rates of violent crime that are actually trending upward, but you don't see the populations of those cities going into a full panic or claiming that the violent sky is falling. SF residents are getting caught up in mass hysteria. It's really as simple as that.