San Francisco crime statistics compare favorably to other major U.S. cities on the surface, but one expert argues the city’s numbers have covered up a problem for over a decade.
“Crime is worse than the data shows,” Charles “Cully” Stimson, Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow and former prosecutor in San Francisco, told Fox News Digital.Â
“People do not report these crimes because when you have a DA who’s pro criminal and not going to enforce the law, the cops aren’t going to go out and arrest somebody when they know the case is going to be no papered.”
Stimson’s comments come in the aftermath of the killing of tech executive Bob Lee, who was fatally stabbed in an area of San Francisco typically thought to be one of the city’s safest and most upscale.
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The shocking murder brought San Francisco’s crime situation back into the national spotlight, with the city earning scorn from critics such as Elon Musk, who opined after the killing that San Francisco’s “violent crime” problem “is horrific.”
The high-profile crime and Musk’s comments sparked widespread discussion of San Francisco’s crime problem, with many pointing out that the Twitter CEO’s argument doesn’t align with statistics.
“San Francisco is close to the bottom of the list of major cities, with 6.9 homicides per 100,000 people,” one article from ABC 7 said, citing FBI and San Francisco police data.
The data, reviewed by Fox News Digital, does show San Francisco coming in at a lower homicide rate than other major cities, with its murder rate checking in below St. Louis, Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Chicago, Oakland, Minneapolis, Houston, Miami, Los Angeles, Austin and Washington, D.C.
Other forms of violent crime such as rapes and assaults have also remained relatively stable in San Francisco over the last four years, the data shows, while murders have ticked up slightly. Property…
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