Russian Hill car break-ins fell 88% in two years; residents feel safer walking at night
Police took 243 reports of car break-ins at the ends of Lombard Street’s crooked block in 2023, and none this year. In the city’s new survey, the share of Russian Hill residents who feel safe walking alone at night rose from 29% to 80%, against 37% to 60% citywide.
San Francisco Cut Tenderloin Tents 81% Under a 2020 Court Order
A federal lawsuit forced the city to cut tents 70% by July 20, 2020. It happened early, then the count climbed back for a year, until the public tally simply stopped.
The Mission Out-Tickets Downtown San Francisco by $2.5 Million a Year
Over the twelve months through July, San Francisco's Mission District generated $15.5 million in parking-citation fines, more than any other neighborhood in the city and $2.5 million ahead of the Financial District and South Beach, its own downtown core.
San Francisco police solved 6.6% of property crimes in 2018, down from 17% in 1985
Burglaries and car break-ins are about as common now as four decades ago. But in 1985 police solved one case in six. By 2018 it was one in fifteen, and the state's own numbers rule out the easy excuse.
San Francisco’s thirteen camera-enforced intersections have issued 25,467 citations since January 2024. Five of those came from the one at Market and Octavia, which required an act of the state legislature. The turn it watches has all but stopped. The injuries at that corner have not.
A census of the year’s 39,160 fire calls turns up a department that mostly doesn’t fight fire — and, among the fires it does, a city where the thing alight is the trash in the street, not the house. The rare building fire is the one still doing the killing.