At the height of San Francisco’s car break-in epidemic, phones were ringing non-stop at glass repair shops, and business was booming.
“We used to get 60 to 80 calls a day,” said Hank Wee, manager of In & Out Auto Glass, a large garage on Bayshore Boulevard. He remembered how the shop was abuzz in 2017, a year when thousands of people returned to their cars to find windshields splintered and glass lodged in their door frames.
But now that the city’s most aggravating property crime has hit a 22-year-low , calls to In & Out and other repair shops have dropped . And dropped…