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by baremetal 1147 days ago
>It's a concerning level of paranoia to suggest that multiple and separate data collection sources, including the city government, local police, state police, the FBI, justice advocates and local journalists, are ALL manipulating statistics to create a narrative that SF is safer than your perception.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair

>Please go read the threads about the Bob Lee suspect arrest, so you can see all of the people who were making the same mass-hysterical argument you're making, but admitting how they now regret getting caught up in that "SF is the Thunderdome" hysteria.

Yes, you really disproved SF as a violent and lawless place with that argument.