Like every city, SF is evolving with the times. It changed pretty radically when Silicon Valley overflowed into its streets and buildings, and that tide has turned.
The tech wave (both ebb and flow) and covid have greatly exaggerated SF's problems.
AND, given that SF has always been at the leading edge of social change, it's the target of choice for RW'ers.
Nobody is immune to problems. Some just get more pub.
It’s not only NY, LA, San Francisco. Retail crime has hit a bustling Kansas metropolis
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/02/business/organized-retail-crime-wichita-kansas/index.html
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A local Victoria’s Secret lost $30,000 a month to theft, authorities say. The Cabela’s has reportedly lost more merchandise than any other in the nation. They’re not in San Francisco, Chicago or New York, the way some might assume. They’re in Wichita, Kansas.
A pattern of store thefts - not just one-off petty shoplifting incidents, but more serious planned and brazen heists from pricey luxuries to everyday products – has retailers on edge across the country. In some cities like San Francisco, retailers are closing up shop, pointing the finger at crime.
But it’s not just big coastal cities grappling with the problem. In America’s Midwest, a bustling, mid-sized metropolis, known for its rich entrepreneurial heritage as home to both Pizza Hut and The Coleman Co. is also wrestling with the gravity and pervasiveness of retail theft.
Republican Kris Kobach, Kansas’ attorney general, said retail crime is a “spiraling problem” in his state, adding that Kansas and Missouri are among the top 10 states in the nation for volume of retail crime. Kansas lost approximately $642 million in stolen goods in 2021, he said.
Are "Libs" responsible for crime? Not really.
Big cities, SF in particular, are just leading-edge.
But as they say in the dogsled business:
"Only the lead dog gets a change of scenery"
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