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		mlyle on April 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged kil... Possibly an all-time low. It's hard to compare numbers >40 years old, because they very possibly are not measuring the same things. As to ease when you "start extremely high" -- SF is now safer, when it comes to violent crime, than most major cities in the US. What it does have is an extremely high rate of quality of life crime.

bink on April 13, 2023 [–]

As an example: domestic violence was absolutely not treated the same >40 years ago and the odds of it being reported at all were quite a bit lower.

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