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by anonygler 758 days ago
Classic crime reporting pet peeve: Market & Powell is right in front of the Westfield. Obviously there's more property crime there.

When Police would over rely on heatmaps for their patrol routes, they always ended up spending too much time in front of Walmarts and not enough in neighborhoods.

Anecdotally, crime in SF is far worse than what's reported. Police won't even show up for your smashed windows.

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>Anecdotally, crime in SF is far worse than what's reported. Police won't even show up for your smashed windows.

"The thing I have noticed is when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. There's something wrong with the way you are measuring it". —Jeff Bezos <https://sports.yahoo.com/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-explains-2123...>

Last I was there, a Burger King had smashed windows and was serving customers like nothing happened. Didn’t even clean the shards, just put some yellow tape in the area.