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Mayor London Breed has avoided responsibility for viral videos that appear to show smash-and-grab incidents in San Francisco, saying they don’t always take place in the Golden Gate City.
Despite nearly 40,000 people struggling with homelessness and more thefts and motor vehicle thefts reported by San Francisco police than the same time last year, Breed said “the city has changed.”
Talk to Yahoo Finance LiveBreed — who took the helm in 2018 — said his beloved San Francisco was actually the victim of false publicity.
“Sometimes (negative stories and videos) … that you see go viral, it’s not always just in San Francisco,” Breed preached desperately.
“We were assigned to events that happened in other cities in the Bay Area, as well as Los Angeles. We were unfortunately the punching bag.
Breed said the negative press hasn’t clouded her vision of the city she claims is the “tech capital of the world.”
Mayor London Breed has avoided responsibility for viral videos that appear to show smash-and-grab incidents in the city, saying they don’t always take place in San Francisco.
“In fact, of the 20 largest AI companies in the world, eight are located here in San Francisco,” she commented, apparently ignoring multiple reports of accidents, chaos and traffic jams. caused by the introduction of driverless vehicles in the region.
“People still want to be here. They create their businesses, their businesses here.
While she made her illusions come true, the numbers tell a contrasting story: street drug use and retail crime remain a daily problem for many people living in the city.
According to crime data recorded between January and September 2023, thefts saw an increase of 15.9% compared to the same period last year.
Meanwhile, motor vehicle thefts have seen a 10.8 percent increase as viral videos of smashes and seizures circulate ferociously online.
According to a recent McKinsey study, 70% of San Francisco residents cite homelessness as one of the city’s top three problems.
Every night, 38,000 Bay Area residents are homeless, according to the study, Yahoo reported.
Breed did, however, acknowledge some challenges seen in the city, particularly drug use.
Although Breed is adamant the videos are not filmed in the city, a video that circulated on Reddit Thursday outside Felix F. Schoenstein & Sons Pipe Organs in San Francisco tells a different story.
“Fentanyl has really devastated many American cities like we’ve never seen before,” Breed said.
“Meth has already invaded some rural areas of the United States in recent years. So our ability to resolve these issues has been very difficult.
“In fact, what we’re doing here in San Francisco to combat this is making the difficult decision to arrest people for public drunkenness and drunkenness — and there’s a lot of criticism about that .
She said “the goal is to try to get people into treatment.”
“We know it’s not easy. We know that having an addiction is a difficult thing, but we can’t just say that things are business as usual. There is help and treatment,” she explained.
The pandemic that pushed office workers out of offices and left buildings empty due to inflation has been blamed for the struggles witnessed in the city.
Although Breed is adamant the videos are not filmed in the city, a video that circulated on Reddit Thursday outside Felix F. Schoenstein & Sons Pipe Organs in San Francisco tells a different story.
Two men can be seen jumping from a car, breaking a window and stealing the contents of the vehicle.
The person filming can be heard yelling, “Yo, get the hell out of my neighborhood.” »
Kathryn Shortsleeve, of Boston, was targeted after just two days in San Francisco when she stopped for a burger at an In-N-Out on her way to the airport.
The gang of four masked men made short work of her rental car when she stopped momentarily to eat.
Kathryn Shortsleeve, of Boston, was targeted after just two days in San Francisco when she stopped for a burger at an In-N-Out on her way to the airport.
Within seconds, a group of four men broke into his rental car and fled with his suitcases, leaving his plans to move to Bali in tatters.
“All I have with me is what I’m wearing and I love this hat and this little purse with nothing in it,” she said in a TikTok video from the airport.
“It’s such a problem in San Francisco and it’s really scary and it’s really sad and I don’t know what the solution is.”
Earlier this month, tourists visiting Ocean Beach in San Francisco had all of their belongings stolen by thieves who went from car to car, smashing their way in and looting the contents in just 10 minutes.
A family from Malta were on their second day in the city when they were forced to consider cutting their holiday short after losing their passport, camera, phone, iPad, laptop and luggage.
Last month, thieves in San Francisco were filmed cruising the streets in a Lexus, stopping in front of parked cars to smash windows and steal valuables from inside.
In one SUV, there was even a person sitting in the back when the windows were smashed, but the thief still grabbed the victim’s bag before fleeing in the waiting Lexus.
Signs are visible throughout the city warning locals and tourists not to leave anything in their cars, but the crime rate remains stubbornly high.
The Tiktoker then uploaded images of the people filmed stealing his car.
The gang in ski masks only took a few seconds to empty everything they had into their car
The rental car company asked him to drive the wrecked vehicle for 30 minutes to their drop-off to avoid a $1,000 penalty.
Last month, thieves in San Francisco were filmed cruising the streets in a Lexus, stopping in front of parked cars to smash windows and steal valuables from inside.
Tourist areas such as North Beach, Japantown and Presidio have the highest rate of car break-ins per 10,000 residents.
Last year, Lt. Tracy McCray, president of the San Francisco Police Federation, was a victim of the crime herself.
Her car was parked in the 1200 block of Franklin Street, between Tenderloin and Japantown, on March 23, 2022, while she was visiting a relative at CPMC Van Ness Campus Hospital.
McCray said she was parked for less than 30 minutes, but her car was still broken into.
She wrote a blog post titled: “Damn, They Got Me Too!” »
In 2011, police arrested only about 2 percent of reported car burglaries. Today, that figure is less than 1 percent.