Posted on 04/24/2016 6:44:57 PM PDT by reaganaut1
SAN FRANCISCO — From her apartment at the foot of the celebrated zigzags of Lombard Street, Judith Calson has twice peered out her window as thieves smashed their way into cars and snatched whatever they could. She has seen foreign tourists cry after cash and passports were stolen. She shudders when she recounts the story of the Thai tourist who was shot because he resisted thieves taking his camera.
And that is her tally from the last year alone.
“I never thought of this area as a high-crime neighborhood,” Ms. Calson, a retired photographer, said of this leafy part of the city, where tourists flock to view the steeply sloped, crooked street adorned with flower beds.
San Francisco, America’s boom town, is flooded with the cash of well-paid technology workers and record numbers of tourists. At the same time, the city has seen a sharp jump in property crime, up more than 60 percent since 2010, though the actual increase may be higher because many of the crimes go unreported.
Recent data from the F.B.I. show that San Francisco has the highest per-capita property crime rate of the nation’s top 50 cities. About half the cases here are thefts from vehicles, smash-and-grabs that scatter glittering broken glass onto the sidewalks.
The city, known for a political tradition of empathy for the downtrodden, is now divided over whether to respond with more muscular law enforcement or stick to its forgiving attitudes.
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On the other side is David Campos, a supervisor who opposes the increase in police officers and describes Mr. Wiener’s views as “a very knee-jerk kind of punitive approach that is ineffective and inconsistent with the values of San Francisco.”
Mr. Campos and many others evoke the charitable spirit of the city’s namesake, St. Francis.
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Liberal Paradise
Wait until Obama empties the prisons.
Empathy for criminals usually stop when one is personally affected by their crimes. The old "liberal mugged by reality" expression applies.
May San Francisco be swamped with their values.
BTW, buying more ammo.
California already released thousands of their prisoners. Last year, I believe.
Yo Judith; Buck the SF propaganda and buy a gun to protect you at home. Trust me when I say the criminals will have their way long before the cops arrive. It falls on your shoulders to protect yourself.
Methinks that Mr. Campos might evoke a different spirit if he were to experience the city's crime a bit more directly. A thorough mugging just might set his thinking straight.
Commie ruin everything
Less Guns!! Nothing Sharp!! They’re trying to go paperless, so that’s less paper cuts!! Eventually!!
Great post!!!!!!!!!!!!
——The city, known for a political tradition of empathy for the downtrodden, is now divided over whether to respond with more muscular law enforcement or stick to its forgiving attitudes.——
You can’t fix stupid or libtard...
Forgive the criminals....you get more crime....
Is it really that hard?
If it is true that a conservative is frequently just a liberal who has been mugged, we can expect to one day soon have a few more conservatives in San Francisco.
The city I loved to visit in my youth has become the ultimate cesspool.
If only it was incorrect.
We’re going to see more rioters in action, burning stuff, I imagine. Egged on by the community organizer. He’s still got around 270 days (don’t know exact number).
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