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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SF is out of control and the people saying "then don't live there" are not recognizing that SF is the cradle of our tech industry. The number of people flowing in and out of SF for business make it a national problem, not a local one. Even a few years ago, things were rough but I would still take my kids. Now, absolutely not. It's a dystopian nightmare, and possibly a glimpse into our grim future if we adopt these policies nationally. I absolutely can't believe we let a city like SF fall in this manner. [/quote]

So much hysteria, so few facts.  The homeless/crime problem in SF is concentrated in around Market, SOMA, and the Tenderloin, which were never that great to start with.  There are dozens of other neighborhoods in SF that are perfectly safe.[/quote]

Either you don't spend any time in SF or you do and are willfully ignoring the way it's changed. The homeless are not taking up every piece of sidewalk like they do in the Tenderloin, but even places like Nob Hill have large amounts of homeless, open air drug injections, and feces on the ground. I don't need to cite facts for you, everyone who goes to SF regularly knows it is a hellhole right now.  As a woman I have to uber everywhere. I can't even walk a few blocks safely. Wake up, it's not left like Sweden, it's left like Venezuela.  [/quote]

You can’t walk a few blocks? I mean I wouldn’t walk through the tenderloin at night, alone, flashing a bunch of jewelry as I scroll through my new iPhone and juggle my LV shopping bags around, but I’ve not felt uncomfortable walking wherever I need to go. I mean there are homeless people, and it’s not clean, but it’s not generally scary/unsafe. Same with BART.

The coordinated thefts happening now are happening all over the Bay Area and police are making arrests. These aren’t small time thefts, it’s huge groups smashing into stores, overwhelming everyone, taking everything and leaving in getaway cars within minutes. I don’t know that professional is the best term but they’re planned, coordinated, and efficient. I honestly don’t see what’s to stop a group of people from doing this anywhere. Even if your security guard is armed, how do one or two guards stop dozens of people? We don’t know if the robbers are armed or not, but if they are, I’m sure that armed guards trying to stop them won’t end well. The local news reported they took 100k of merchandise from the union square LV store. They’re limiting traffic around union square to try to prevent easy getaways, and they’ve arrested some people already. I’m sure they’ll be arresting more people soon, and hopefully this can all come to an end.

Honestly, the idea of getting caught in the crossfire of a “good guy with a gun” trying to stop these a**holes and them shooting back is far scarier than walking a few blocks in the city or even being in the general area when one of these thefts goes down. I haven’t changed my shopping habits or areas where I walk in the city due to crime or fear of crime. I know things happen but things happen everywhere. [/quote]

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