SF is trending in the right direction for the first time in 25 years. It’s a good start, but we’ve got a ways to go before we’re not number one for property crime out of the largest 25 cities in the US for 8 years running (yes, that’s a fact – check the FBI data yourself).

As usual ML tries to minimize property crime, because that’s an important component if an anarchical socialism agenda.

In reply to Gloria.

The place for forming justice reform is the legislature, not the DA’s office or the judge”s bench.

In reply to Gloria.

Yes we could’ve seen as much success as Oakland under Pam Price if we had simply kept Boudin in office.

Hold the presses! San francisco is in crime “limbo” (though the most egregious violent offenses have risen over the last couple of years). Not much has changed at all. I seem to remember millions of our dollars were spent to displace the reform-minded elected DA (who was robbed of his chance to realize his agenda), and replace him with a law and order DA, who with all her billionaire backers promised a sea change in public safety. Add to this the despair that has led, since the Boudin recall, to unprecedented drug overdoses. These statistics are evidence that all that narrative from the recallers was nothing but self-serving BS.

Great piece. I love the easy-to-understand datavis and presentation of facts without hyperbole. I wish more reporting on crime in the city was like this.

“San Francisco saw an 8.2 percent decline in crime across the city, data from the San Francisco Police Department shows, with a 9 percent drop in property crimes.”
8.2 and 9 percent down, from sky high to stratospheric levels. Congratulations, all is good then! /s

Appreciate the data and the visualization, but comparing to 2019 and stopping there is a bit arbitrary, isn’t it? 2019 was the low year for homicides in 10 yrs (didn’t check if other crimes are similar)–the homicides for the prior years were:
2018: 46
2017: 56
2016: 58
2015: 52
2014: 45
https://sfgov.org/scorecards/public-safety/violent-crime-rate-and-property-crime-rate
So, homicides are higher than the low year we had in 2019, but within the range that they bounced between from 2009 till now — after the spike in homicides in the Mission in 2007, the feds arrested M13 leaders, and the homicide rate in the city dropped by 50%, from approximately 100/year down to the levels we still see of between 45-56/year, with1 exceptional year of 69 in 2012)