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nipponese01/22/20251 replyview on HN

It's just really hard to swallow the findings in this paper (all non-US cities) when you can see such a visible change on the streets in SF since the pandemic.

By all official accounts crime is down in SF, but many agree something has changed in the way homeless carry. I would dare to use the word "entitled" to describe the cavalier way large encampments and bicycle chop shops are set up.


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kcrwfrd_01/22/2025

I think a confounding variable is that SF also significantly reduced jail sentencing and prosecution of other types of crime during the pandemic.