SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – In my day job as a professional news photographer, I go into San Francisco all the time.
Often, I’m walking around with a $3,000 camera around my neck!
That makes me extra vigilant about crime and safety. And in the last three years of working in the city, I’ve seen a huge change in how safe San Francisco feels.
Specifically, I saw signs of lawlessness peak around 2023, in the rough period after the pandemic when people weren’t coming back to the office, and San Francisco was really struggling…