I know that the press is exaggerating the supposed “crime wave” in my own city (NY), and I don’t expect SF to be much different. The press seems to have a hate-on for urban areas ever since COVID struck. I’ve been to SF multiple times, though not post-COVID (I haven’t been on a plane since 2020).
I was in SF after the Kate Steinle shooting, and it wasn’t the den of crime and iniquity that the right-wing press and Trumpanzees were painting it as. I’m skeptical that downtown SF looks like Bucha or Mariupol right now.
