But the frustration felt by Foster, who moved from Seattle in search of more sunshine, is growing among residents who now see a city in decline. There are signs that the city famous for its tolerance is losing patience.
“There’s a widespread sense that things are on the wrong track in San Francisco,” said Patrick Wolff, 53, a retired professional chess player from the Boston area who has lived in the city since 2005. San Francisco’s well-publicized problems have served as fodder for conservative media outlets. Former President Donald Trump jumped in again recently, releasing a statement saying the National Guard should be sent to San Francisco to deter smash-and-grab robberies.A high percentage of an estimated 8,000 homeless people in San Francisco are struggling with chronic addiction or severe mental illness, usually both. Some people rant in the streets, nude and in need of medical help.
The other night, Joya Pramanik’s husband spotted someone wearing a ski mask on what was an otherwise warm evening on their quiet street. She worried the masked man was up to no good — and it pains her to say that, since what she loves about San Francisco is its easy embrace of all types of characters.
Last year, Wolff, the retired chess player, helped launch a new political organization that aims to elect local officials focused on solving pressing problems. Families for San Francisco will elect Democrats, but it’s organized outside the city’s powerful Democratic Party establishment, he said.
When EVERYONE IN CHARGE from local police to government officials to president do whatever they want WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES it's only a matter of time before the people do the same. ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL! IF IT'S OKAY FOR 1 IT'S OK FOR ALL
How do you “trend down” crime stats you ask? 1. Well you defund police where they have less cops to file reports. 2. Manipulate stats over a period of time. 3. Release felons to reoffend. Happening all over Philthy. Libs cities have been a real cesspools w/ 💩stains run amok.
They're just now saying it.
xdoesrealty Legalize, regulate and tax drugs.
Did I read correctly that crime is trending down?
People move into the Mission, and are shocked and angry that the Mission is gonna be the Mission.
That’s a super strange headline for an article about crime rates falling dramatically
This is why people don’t trust American journalists
Bullshit
Associated Police
“No one wants to live there anymore. Look at the city’s housing prices…”
Please stop posting this nonsense.
Now cite the people who've had enough of the homelessness resulting from gentrification by yuppie scum.
🤔🤔🤔
Stop fucking spreading copaganda
Consent manufacturer goes brrrrrrr
Crime is not down. With the passage of all these stupid laws, ppl are being cited with misdemeanors instead of felonies and given a court date instead of going to jail to wait for court. Don’t believe the hype- here in LA, and in SF too, Crime has not slowed down one bit.
If you guys want to do something, the authors of the article are OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and JANIE HAR. They probably have social media.
buried the lede
Do u guys do news sometimes too
disgustingly dishonest headline
The CRIMES DRUGS etc destroy the beauty of the city & the safety of the people…it’s happening in many cities and will get much worse; yet LAWMAKERS (Biden, Kamala included) just shun away from it. Is this the beginning of the VENEZUELA-LIKE US? IT’S SAD!
Literally them being greedy causes this.
From your article 'Overall, though, crime has been trending down for years. More than 45,000 incidents have been reported so far this year, up from last year when most people were shut indoors, but below the roughly 60,000 complaints in previous years'
So who planted this story?
In the FOURTEENTH paragraph, acknowledges that the hypothesized 'crime wave' leaves SF still far, far below historic levels.
Imagine burying the thing that disproves your headline below the fold.
You know what was brazen crime? Jan 6th.
God damn you guys miss the 80s, don’t you?
The Trump years were hard on America, and apparently y'all are just stenographers for his Administration.
OH HEY WHAT'S THIS
Every letter of this headline is fascist propaganda lmao
clickbait
Shitty headline. Do better.
Lousy headline to get clicks. Do better, please.
PROPAGANDA PROPAGANDA PROPAGANDA PROPAGANDA
so is every journalist in SF getting blackmailed by the cops into writing this baloney?
Why do yall bury the important facts 15 paragraphs in
Hey why did you directly contradict your headline in paragraph 14?
In the 14th paragraph of this very article, you state that crime is in fact DOWN a full QUARTER. Well which is it?
People need to remember that the media is complicit in manufacturing consent to take away your rights, it happened in the 80s,90s,2000s, and its happening again now they want to undermine the forming of a class conscience and make us hate each other, to be anxious about everyone.
Weird
literally from your own article. you are fake news.
You’re talking about the tech industry, right?
14th paragraph
Journalism
14th chapter. Shame on you, you're supposed to be objective.
Your own article even says crime is down but sure amplify the few voices of some angry NIMBYS who are part of the problem. Next time do some real journalism and talk to a variety of people not just the ones that reinforce your copaganda.
You mean that crime is down, as you mention 14 paragraphs into the article?
Oooh, more copaganda. Paging michaelharriot
Coproganda from the AP.
Pure uncut American copaganda
Love the part where you mention crime is actually *DOWN*
copaganda bs
Buried in the same piece - what should have been the lead. Why are you doing this?
Gimme a fucking break.
I mean what are you gonna do? Move to Wyoming? Idaho? Kentucky?
Same energy
And yet you say 14 paragraphs down):
these 'perception of crime/fear' stories- as opposed to actual data- have been used for years to make big city mayors (translation: Dems) look bad
May & policymakers understand that crony capitalism + wealth inequality = decline.May USA, California & San Francisco learn COVID19´s lessons.Fairly tax the rich to invest in affordable housing,universal healthcare,free education option& safe infrastructure,incl easy voting.
Oh, another SOME PEOPLE story. I thought we were over this kind of lazy framing, but apparently SOME JOURNALISTS can’t be bothered.
Hint: AP neglected the fact that the crime has been trending down. But they didn't mention that until the 14 paragraph. SundayMorning The MSM is helping the right-wing groups to recall a progressive DA. chesaboudin That's demented my brain. No shame.
Any headline that includes, “some residents…saying” is spin——for clicks. Do better.
Click bait.
SF mentality, we don’t like what’s happening now, but we’ll continue to vote democrat no matter what. So they really haven’t had enough, because they’ll continue to elect the same ideals and “leadership” who’ve allowed it all to happen. They get City they voted for.
Lmao the wording on this is amazing. “Tolerant”
Why did you wait 14 paragraphs to point out that crime is actually down though? 🤨🤦🏻♂️
This isn’t journalism and it’s socially irresponsible for a “reputable” “news” outlet to engage in the manufacturing of culture wars.
tolerance doesn’t cause crime.
you have been the one, lone, neutral and reliable outlet—the only news outlet i still fully trust. is that about to change?
overall tho crime is down. has been for years. as you yourself note in paragraphs 14. so are you also serving the right wing seditionists?
The Associate Propaganda.
Maybe start with crime is down since pre-pandemic and stop with the other bullshit
Well 'some residents' of san Francisco are asshats
What is brazen is the copaganda that ap puts out. Garbage.
Do you have such breathless coverage of crime, homelessness, and poverty for other cities like Austin, Miami, Atlanta, Phoenix?
🗑
Shame on you
Crime may be down bc so many of us have given up on the idea that reporting a crime will ever come to anything! I've have my car stolen (found it myself by using my Tesla app), house broken into, bikes stolen, never reported any of it bc I know it would be a waste of time.
San Francisco lib bourgeois gets more fascist year after year, what else is new
Nah, it’s still pretty great, actually
This tweet is a brazen crime
crime is down
Jesus fuck where are your editors? This is a trash article
This piece is a hit job, one of many meant to perpetuate the republican recalls of DA Boudin and Mayor Breed. Crime is down in SF. And if it were up, why do we not hear calls for the police chief’s head?
delete this clickbait
Copaganda
Personally I fear DoorDash and Walgreens’s wage theft A LOT more.
Crime is down from 2019.
do better. You ain’t Fox News.
Thanks for lying.
all of them are the worst people to meet at a party
Who in the fuck wrote this.
The AP wants, more than anything, cops to murder more non-whites
Cool. Byeee.
We are eerily on schedule
Scratch liberals and fascists bleed
Why does your article say crime is trending down when you have a sensationalized headline suggesting the opposite? Are you lying or bad at your job, or both?
Disgraceful “journalism.”
Hey AP it would be great if you stopped spreading debunked far right propaganda
If any of you have watched The Wire, you would question if crime was actually down. bunnyforever
Is the AP Style Guide just a postcard now?
What happened to and impartial jər-nə-ˌli-zəm? Must everything have a deceitful political slant?
Why do you give a shit about them if crime is trending down
Yeah which people are saying that?
Lol
I'm planning on moving to San Francisco BECAUSE of the crime. I'm bringing 7 magnificos with me.
Some residents = rich Karens and Kenneths
What about black on Asian hate crimes no one wants to confront?
Are they all named Karen?
This article is brazen trash.
Wow, you’re terrible at your job.
14th paragraph:
Brazen hatred of the poor, open contempt for the mentally ill, and trashed journalistic credibility have some tolerant readers of the Associated Press saying they’ve had enough.
Contradicting your thesis 80% of the way through your work… it’s not a good feeling, but when it happens it shouldn’t be published.
Some residents, huh? Well, if they don't like it they can move to Venezuela.
“She worried the masked man was up to no good.” Is this seriously considered reporting?
Congratulations!🍾🏅
Trash article. Byyyyeeee
I like how it says “some residents” so it is true.
There’s ur crime go fetch like a good boy
Have you even READ the article?
By “some” you mean republicans who don’t read.
*ahem*
This is bullshit “reporting.” While “open drug use” has been rampant in SF for decades, violent crime is actually DOWN. Ridiculous.
Why did it take you 14 paragraphs to acknowledge that while crime is up this year, it's still below the number in previous years? Oh, I know. It doesn't help you push your agenda. DO BETTER
Literally just being messengers for the wealthy and the police state. Shame on you.
Did you want to read the article first? 'Overall, though, crime has been trending down for years.'
You shoot your own argument in the foot in your own article. Wtf?
'Brazen crime' yet buried in the article is the phrase 'Overall, though, crime has been trending down for years.'
Someone put up a live feed of SOMA for these 'but muh crime charts' delusional copers.
I live here and it is fine. Same problems any big city has. Stop placating cry babies with ideological axes to grind. Still much better than living in any shit hole in Florida or Texas.
Here's what my SF neighborhood of Bernal Heights looks like. Oh, the humanity
Liberal mayors are destroying our cities with their lack of leadership and its interesting how voters will go along with voting into office politicians who enable homelessness, open drug use, trash and graffiti until it affects their real estate values. Then they've had enough.
You tell facts in the 14th paragraph? That is poor journalism.
Getting ratioed for copaganda.
Breathless headline wankery. You should be ashamed of yourselves. Sell your soul for clicks
These things are worse as compared to what decade in San Francisco's history?
The entire premise of this is a lie.
AP headlines are generally written in Moscow. So, that that...
This really is the absolute worst piece of blatantly biased churnalism that I've ever seen come out of the . You guys should be utterly ashamed at having published this. 'Bad Citizen Frown' for you, AP — you didn't even bring enough marshmallows for the whole class.☹️
Are those some people exaggerating?
Judging from the comments, san fran is full of shitty mentally ill people. I saw that they gave a good welcome to the Afghan refugees, they already killed a few of them.
Here’s the relevant content, which is buried in the bottom of this click bait article from
Your headline is horseshit.
A shameful disgrace from the . Masquerading as “news.” 2 reporters fill up thousands of words letting privileged San Franciscans spew disgust & anger at people in need. Buried in the middle of this hateful screed is the fact that crime in SF is down.
This is a classic, runaway moral panic.
Nice attention grabbing headline
Yes we must stop this Domestic Terrorism Violence RepublicansAreTheProblem
This is cruel journalistic malpractice and you should be ashamed.
Stop publishing copaganda
Retract this post. The article itself doesn't even support the claim. Crime is down significantly from last year, but you're claiming that crime is rampant. Media priorities that have nothing to do with facts or reality, but support right wing talking points.
Brazen crime, open drug use and trashed streets have some residents of right-leaning Oklahoma City saying there is no overarching politically motivated media narrative here.
Your own article says that it’s been trending down for years.
you have to get to the 14th paragraph to read that 'overall crime been trending down'. y'all just troll news now.
Trash Propaganda! tolerant readers have had enough of 💩 reporting by AP hacks olgarrod 🤡 janiehar 🤡 . fixed it.
San Francisco is my favorite city ever! I long to be back there but the odds of that happening don’t seem good. SanFrancisco 💙🌈💜🤟
Click bait. Read the 14th paragraph.
AP is a racist news organization now?
I love visiting SF. She never disappoints. 💖💖
So statisically, your reporting is inaccurate and misleading, but anecdotally you're correct. Gotchya, folks, this is the gold standard of journalism right here 👆🏻
Your own story states that “overall, crime is trending down.” But, you just can’t stop with the click bait, right?
I’ve lived in the SF Bay Area my entire 58 years. The only thing that’s destroying San Francisco are the rich assholes who think they are better than everyone else — same as every where else.
Crime is down
THIS JUST IN: trying to bullshit readers for clicks and manufactured rage
San Francisco is extremely tolerant, unless your poor.
Why is the crime rate down in San Fran then?
I live in Hayes Valley and it’s fine. Kind of ironic that the guy complaining owns a business that sells intoxicating beverages.
Why not try both sides journalism? Does that concept not apply to the poor?
Keep in mind everything starts at the top. US has had 40 years of brutal, hardcore capitalism on the federal level for 40 years... Between that and corruption across the board, we r GOING to collapse
Property crime was actually down in SF YTD…..
You screened them for high tolerance? Or did you pull the word off a maga’s Twitter feed?
And people wonder why Dan White committed murder and killed himself. I was living there then. He was a sergeant in the 101st Airborne Division during the Vietnam War He returned to San Francisco to work as a police officer. then joined the San Francisco Fire Department.
Bullshit
This is bullshit and you know it
huh i wonder why this isn’t the headline
No no no….that is what you all voted in….enjoy it now!!
According to 'The AP', crime has been trending down. But sure go ahead guys, vote Republican to reverse that. (Great job AP. Way to bury the lede)
Those doing the above probably don't read AP.
Time to call up Dirty Harry.
Halfway down, we get some truth: “Overall, though, crime has been trending down for years. More than 45,000 incidents have been reported so far this year, up from last year when most people were shut indoors, but below the roughly 60,000 complaints in previous years.”
I’ve worked and played in SF 31 years plus and you have no idea what you are talking about
omarali50 To quote a great man, shocking if true.
Yeah, rich conservatives in any major city are always available to criticize the city’s policies. Excellent work coming up with that “news” story. Next do a piece on what the Head of LA’s police union thinks about crime in LA!
Also in this article⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ 'Overall, though, crime has been trending down for years. More than 45,000 incidents have been reported so far this year, up from last year when most people were shut indoors, but below the roughly 60,000 complaints in previous years.'
So what ,there are feces on the street! It’s organic and if prepared correctly can make for some good fertilizer or hardened figurine. If you don’t like it you can always pick it up right and remove it
How does that go? Reap...sow.... along those lines.
Really they’re finally getting fed up with their social Democrats then start voting Republican
If you or anyone you know has been a victim of crime or street harassment in San Francisco, please fill out and share this form with them to help build the case for major class action lawsuit against the city! “
Not some, a lot of residents here are fed up!
They voted for that, that's what they get force them to stay
May the enjoy their WOKENESS.
Brazen crime, open drug use and trashed streets is the other residents of San Francisco saying they've had enough...
MaxAuricchio
Well you wanted voted for liberals
It happens and eventually gets better. We just need the right leadership.
SF is even in the top ten most crime in US.
That’s what happens in a Snowflake town.
Keep your asses there, you voted for it, go enjoy that 'diversity'
Get rid of the democrats. The crime will leave.
Stop voting blue to make that change.
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