The responses here, while pointing to legitimate issues of concern, miss the intent of your post.

One reason I posted that MD item was to contrast between the tourist vision of SF (“Oh, friendly police officers!”) and the day-to-day vision us residents have. I spend a lot of time in the Mission, and my bus heading home to the Richmond goes straight through the Western Addition and Tenderloin. So it’s disheartening to see killings, stabbings and shootings in these areas continue to go up and up and up.

While smash-and-grabs and petty theft suck huge ones, I think it’s violent crime that has SF residents (and our favorite Ross Mirkarimi!) worried most.

7. I heard a story of a policeman catching someone fucking a chicken in their parked car near Pier 39. NO JOKE.

1. well, my wallet got stolen out of my OFFICE from a vagrant who wandered in
2. This morning on the F, there were tourists as well as this bum sitting on a paint can chirping really loudly.
3. A bum walking around with a stolen razr.
4. A man followed a coworker into our work and stole her $3k purse.
5. A dead man on a bench outside of Aquatic Park.
6. Numerous cars getting broken into in pure daylight. Seriously, there’s broken window glass all over the sidewalks in this neighborhood.