[taylorbuley]

This does not address the safety of SF relative to other areas, adjusted for population and other pertinent factors. SF is wildly safer than the zeitgeist seems to suggest. San Francisco's overall crime rate has been decreasing, not increasing. Sure, we can have a discussion about reporting rates and adjust for those. As far as I've read, homelessness, a separate but interdependent issue, does not necessarily correlate with crime with any r^2 worth mentioning.

[stouset]

> San Francisco's overall crime rate has been decreasing, not increasing.

How much of this is due to reduced reporting? I'm 100% willing to believe that overall crime is decreasing in reality and not just on paper, but there's a pretty convincing narrative that the decline on paper is a result of people just not filing police reports for crimes they know won't be investigated.

[taylorhughes]

Anecdotal, but my neighborhood police chief (Ingleside) recently shared that thefts are down across the board in her reporting area. Seems backed up by aggregate reports: https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/san-francisco-crim... (She attributed it to the plainclothes retail ops they've been doing leading to significant arrests, and the DA prosecuting a bunch of theft over the past year)