SFist: What Goes Up Shouldn't Go Down

cgb

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:00:52 -0800

What I'm tired of, in addition to crime, are people who blame all of SF's violence on "other" people who don't live in San Francisco. You have a nice little list there, Jeffrey Baker, but there is one mistake I see. The haloween shooting in the Castro was between two SAN FRANCISCO gangs. One from Lakeview (or Oceanview, or Ingleside, whatever you want to call it), and the other from the Sunnydale projects in Vis Valley. Gangs from these two hoods have been shooting each other up for a long, long time. I'm tired of elitist snobs who think SF is perfect, and that any problem must be the fault of outsiders. People who think like that often ARE the outsiders/transplants, etc... Yes, criminals "commute" and many come to SF, but People from SF go to Oakland, East Palo Alto or Richmond to shoot other people as well.

SFGary

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:32:55 -0800

This stat tells me that, if so inclined, I can get away with murder in this city. I just have to pick out my gang colors so the cops stay away from me.

David Wilton

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:47:58 -0800

I'm sorry but crime is not down in this frigging city. People are just fed up with waiting 9 hours for a cruiser to respond to his or her non-emergency car burglary. What's down are reports. I have plenty of anecdotal evidence to back me up on that one too. Just one: my friend's slashed convertible top discovered a mere few hours after parking briefly on the street at Folsom and 11th. Did he report it? No, of course not because they told him it would be "a while" before someone could come out and take the report and he would have to wait there for them. Forget it and get insurance.

Jeffrey W. Baker

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:10:27 -0800

You know what could lower the homicide rate? A $20 bridge toll. Seriously. People come here to shoot each other just like they come here to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. It's ridiculous. Memo to people: please do not come to San Francisco for any of the following reasons: 1) You'd like to kill somebody on Eddy Street 2) You're planning to shoot up a bar in Japantown 3) You would like to fire into a crowd on Halloween 4) You are on an extended binge of road rage 5) Any other type of trip where you would bring a firearm Thanks, San Franciscans