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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Yeah, he’s going to cause a lot to happen before he’s gone...
Mr Edmonds-Waters, the man with two named, said “Just let them touch those nice things,just once”.
Play Liberal Games, Innocent people Die.
I’m shocked...
When a city promotes a feel good no morality lifestyle they shouldn’t be surprised when they reap the whirlwind.
271 days, 13 hours, 31 minutes and 12 seconds. But who is counting?
How long will it take for the city to look like Detroit?
The author means sympathy, not empathy, and that sympathy is generally an inverse function of actual familiarity with the, er, "downtrodden." The only "downtrodden" in San Francisco are the taxpayers.
Let them stew and rot................
If only we were already down to that last 12 seconds. I’d feel better.
SF as Baghdad by the Bay is Sodom to LA’s Gomorrah.
A ‘No Fault’ State .. Haa!!
If it weren’t for tech, SF would be Oakland.
My Thai - American SIL is definitely afraid to go into the City because of predatory, hostile, aggressive street people. They are not yet that aggressive in Daley City, yet.
And will it really matter. Meet the New Boss. Same as the Old Boss.
I couldn’t wait to get out of there!
Great tagline.
Sanctuary city. They deserve every single crime that comes their way.
“Empathy for criminals usually stop when one is personally affected by their crimes. The old ‘liberal mugged by reality’...”
You mean like Francois Hollande being in the stadium the jihadi’s decided to attack late November 13? Did you EVER see anyone so far to the left turn so fast?
San Francisco should stay with 'empathy for the downtrodden'. When Obama empties prisons the sociopathic killers can move to San Francisco en masse... where they'll be 'understood'... AND away from the rest of us.
Check with Laz, he’ll have it down to the second.
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