How DANGEROUS is SAN FRANCISCO for Visitors?

[YoshidaYui]

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Love #3

Unbelievable. You wouldn't pull that crap in Philly.

[gab13by13]

2. I had a blast 15 years ago at Fisherman's Wharf

Ate at Joe's Crab Shack and watched the Bush Man scare people. Took the tour to Alcatraz. Bought a nice wallet in one of the shops.

[3Hotdogs]

8. Fisherman's Wharf... vacation, maybe 15 years ago. There was an abundance of Salmon that year.

Fishermen were given permission to sell their Salmon off their boats. You could buy a whole fish, about 20 pounds for $5.00. I recall seeing guys on bicycles, peddling away with Salmon sticking out of their backpacks.

Again, the fishermen were on the economic balls of their asses. $5.00 a fish.

So....


I am standing by as this elderly woman comes up, "Do you have a discount for seniors?"

[paleotn]

3. No enforcement for shoplifting under $900?

Or car break in's under $900? Defecating in public? Want to blame someone, look no further than city hall. Sounds like a break down in the basic "blocking and tackling" of running a city. The basic stuff that makes a city livable for everyone.

Burlington VT is having some of the same troubles on a much smaller scale and for the same reasons. Don't want to dump on our Progressive friends, but you've got to temper ideology with good sense and pragmatism. Sorry, but that's how the real world works. You may not like the cops. They may need reform, certainly, but they're as essential to the function of a city as the fire department. Happy thoughts only go so far.

[walkingman]

4. It's been about 5 years since I was in San Francisco but it is my

favorite city in America. I would love to live right in the heart of town but cannot afford it. The closest thing we have in Texas is Austin but it is getting better every year, except for our traffic problems which I blame on "Aggie Engineering".

[MenloParque]

5. I've lived in the city since the late 70's. It was once great but after 2004-2005 it totally

Lost its artistic feel. Tech bros have replaced artists. Mexican communities have been replaced with tech enclaves. Much of the year I rent my place out so I can be at the cabin in the Sierra Nevada mountains. I can work anywhere. Hubby was born and raised in Hunters Point, a historic black neighborhood. Of course the yuppies are now taking over that neighborhood. Those who say it’s unsafe are mostly transplants from the Midwest, Europe or Asia. It ain’t that bad. SF is now a shell of its former self. A bedroom tech community with a large homeless population. It’s sad really.

[kimbutgar]

6. Native San Franciscan here

This video broke my heart. I know those neighborhoods and it’s sad. Downtown is so sad to go to. I worked in the financial district for over 25 years and after the pandemic it’s a ghost town. And the homeless situation is ghastly. I used to got to a big lots on mission street that closed because of shoplifters who just grabbed stuff and walked out. I now feel strongly they need to repeal the $900 of value threshold to prosecute shoplifters.

[Mr.Bill]

7. I stopped watching after the

load of bullshit about the shoplifting. The organized mass shoplifting has produced many arrests and prosecutions, it just took some time. A private security guard cannot arrest 20 people at the scene of the crime. It's also not happening much anymore. All shoplifting is still a crime and is prosecutable. If you don't believe me, try doing some the next time you go there.

[lambchopp59]

9. Oh, my.

Me just say I wouldn't want to hang around 16th and Mission for long, but I was just in the city for my MD appointment prior to the rainstorms. I walked extensively through the tenderloin and civic center like I used to. There were an obvious pair wacked on heroin doing some inadvertent contortionist performance art. Pockets of tent encampments with some fecal odor and watch where I stepped. But overall it's the same old city, now overwhelmed with the homeless infiltration it's always had to some extent.
To me, different day, some bad places improved, some mediocre spots sort of hazardous.
Saying all this and I cannot, circumstantially get the video to run. But by it's segment titles the guy sure spends a lot of energy focusing on the blights.
I got one only the older residents will recall:
Remember the old downtown Woolworths? Off Powell St. station if I remember correctly. It's where I could affordably get student supplies.

[NBachers]

10. Live & work in the heart of the Mission; visit all the places he filmed frequently; I find many

reasons to love being here. And yes, I have to thread my way through the open air shoplifted items bazaar that are openly sold at 24th and Mission. I know about the camera thefts and the tourist luggage car break-ins. I watch where I step on the street, and would love to see more enforcement against the slimeball crooks that commute to the city and commit brazen crimes with no worries of prosecution. But I'm staying. There's still a world-class dynamism available every time I walk out the door.

[YoshidaYui]

11. Totally agree and

Serioulsly., the Weed is great here!