Hoover Institution fellow and conservative author Shelby Steele became a victim of San Francisco’s crime crisis when his car was broken into and burglarized on Wednesday.
The burglary took place on Hyde and Lombard Streets in the city’s Russian Hill neighborhood at around 11 a.m. Steele’s son Eli said on Twitter that they had stepped away from the vehicle for a mere 10 minutes before they were burglarized.
Pictures posted by Eli show his father looking solemnly at the broken windows of their rental car. Eli estimated that they lost $25,000 to $30,000 worth of equipment, not including the damage done to the vehicle. The pair had been shooting a documentary about San Francisco at the time.
Eli also claimed that he was hung up on by 911 operators twice when he reported the crime.
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“SF police doing nothing,” Eli wrote on Twitter. “It’s so bad that my friend is calling gang members for help.”
When Eli arrived at the police station, he reportedly encountered even more carjacking victims. He reported that he saw suspects inspecting cars outside the station until onlookers shooed them away.Â
“We yelled at them. They pulled a gun on my friend,” Eli wrote on Twitter. “He’s filing his report now. Not one police officer showed up.”
“People asking where this was. On top of famous Lombard Street,” Eli added. “One of richest neighborhoods in SF and America. I’ve worked dangerous neighborhoods for years and nothing like this.”
Twitter CTO Elon Musk responded to Steele’s tweet, telling him that Twitter employees faced similar crimes in San Francisco.
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“Many Twitter employees feel unsafe coming to work in downtown SF and have had their car windows smashed,” Musk wrote. “They also got such a null response from the police that they rarely even bother reporting crimes anymore, because nothing…
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