San Francisco’s Crime is Getting So Bad, Some Residents Are Hiring Their Own Cops

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SoMa Becomes a Dumping Ground for Services

If you live in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood, you might get a faster response from a private security guard than from the police.

That’s the reality for residents who have watched their streets fill with homeless encampments, open-air drug use, and sidewalks blocked by people in crisis.

Over the past year, local property owners pooled together $820,000 to hire their own security patrols…

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