“The Marina District is very nice and expensive and used to be very safe. Very sad decline.”
As someone who spends a fair amount of time in that neighborhood, I’d estimate that on any given day there are approximately 200 homeless people living on the streets of the Marina (e.g., sleeping in business doorways along Lombard & Chestnut Streets or in or around the Moscone playground — the zone of this latest crime). Most of those street people are mentally ill and/or addicted to drugs. Most aren’t violent, but clearly some are. There’s a certain poetic justice in the wacko street people taking over Moscone playground in the sense that George Moscone’s mayorship represented a turning point line away from “old San Francisco” (a politically moderate blue-collar town) and a new, hard-left city.
I haven’t been in a few years but used to spend a lot of time there. I had noticed that there were a few people as you describe but it it must have gotten much worse. Idiots paying millions to own homes there.