Posted on 05/30/2006 11:40:19 AM PDT by walkerk
early half of San Francisco residents feel unsafe or somewhat unsafe from crime, especially while riding public transit, according to a new survey funded by The City.
The San Francisco Safety Network, a nonprofit conglomeration of neighborhood community groups, polled 2,400 residents representing all 10 police districts.
They found that city residents felt the least safe from crime on the street and on public transit, where 48 percent of residents felt at least somewhat unsafe; respondents felt most secure at home.
In the Bayview, where more than 70 percent of residents reported feeling unsafe on the streets, the Police Department’s Web site reported 32 assaults in the last 30 days within a one-mile radius of the police station. In the same time period, the department reported 13 assaults within a mile of the Richmond District police station, where residents reportedly felt the safest.
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They should ban guns...
:)
Authors of their own condition. What they really need badly is a Rudy Giuliani to clean that place up.
Don't wanna upset that voting block, or so it seems.
I'd feel unsafe there too, with every perv from around the nation having taken up residence.
"Unsafe"
From Aids?, they would be correct.
True. He's a tough dude.
Oh, it's already done.
Obviously the entire city needs to undergo sensitivity/diversity training. They need to learn that street criminals ("homeless", drug addicts, runaways, muggers, thieves, rapists, hookers, pimps, etc.) have feelings too, and the citizens aren't validating their human rights by fearing them. I'm sure some "-ism" is in play here, too--racism, homophobia, whatever.
I lived in the Bay Area for a little over a year, I only rode San Fran Public Transportation ONE time... other than the CalTrain to and from the city....
My wife and I and our 4 year old son decided to take a ride on a streetcar.... The experience had me moving my son to a window seat with me and my wife making a buffer between him and anyone else on the thing... Everywhwere on the car were junkies clearly jonesing for their next fix, or nearly passed out from their current one, people clearly near death either from drug abuse or disease..... etc etc etc... It was a surreal experience to say the least.
Needless to say, never rode a streetcar or bus in San Fran again.
Two social workers are walking down the street. They see a man laying on the ground. He's been beaten and had his wallet stolen. One turns to the other and says, "Someone needs to help the poor man who did that to him."
It's white liberal voters they don't want to upset, because of the extraordinarily high percentage of perpetrators that have accredited victim status among that demographic. It's the Feinstein types who live in Pacific Heights and never come near a violent crime who would recoil in horror (and give no more money) if those same perpetrators ended up on the wrong end of a police baton as often as they deserve to.
San Francisco's violent crime problems are actually much smaller than those in most major cities - problem is, the DA has no real desire to tackle them.
I think it is beyond Rudy's powers. Send in Sheriff Joe Arpaio, handcuff a bunch of the residents and make them wear pink underwear while in custody....no, wait, that's already their plans for Friday night.
Liberal Utopia unsafe? How can this be possible? Somehow, it must be Bush's fault.
Ah, gee, wonder why? (sarc)
Note to SF: You get what you vote for...
lol
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