[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)