SF Supervisor says tourists no longer source of fresh bait for city’s criminals
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San Francisco city leaders said last week that criminals are burglarizing homes and breaking into vehicles in residential neighborhoods more lately because the pandemic has driven away the tourists who these criminals would normally target.
Ronen said tourism in San Francisco had gone down "substantially" because of the pandemic. Consequently, "criminal rings" no longer have tourists to target in tourist hotspots, she said. Boudin echoed that theory, saying that the pandemic has been especially hard "for people who were already struggling to begin with, who were already living paycheck to paycheck, or struggling to find a place to sleep every night." "If you used to live from couch to couch at friend’s houses, they don’t want you on their couch in the context of a contagious virus pandemic. So, that’s definitely part of the picture."More Related News