San Francisco Chronicle (SFC) Slammed Online For Asking If Locals Should ‘Tolerate’ Crime Surge
California, and San Francisco in particular, has long been in the spotlight for an
unprecedented crime surge that has been recorded amid declining living standards statewide, the pandemic and skyrocketing rates of people dying from armed violence across the US.
San Francisco residents have expressed their outrage after the SFC asked in Twitter last week whether locals “
should tolerate burglaries as a part of city living, and focus on barricading homes.”
Bewildered Twitter users wondered
how this level of crime could be tolerated, noting that "nobody is searching for answers," as "stealing from and hurting other people is just wrong."
According to a poll conducted in June, more than
40 percent of San Francisco residents said they
plan to move out of the city within the next few years. Eight out of 10 San Francisco respondents believed that crime in the city has
skyrocketed in recent years.
