Reported crime kept dropping to historic lows in San Francisco last year. That was true in every neighborhood too — with two notable exceptions.
Unlike the rest of the city, crime increased in SoMa and Mission Bay between 2024 and 2025, according to police data. That change is almost entirely due to larceny theft — the most numerous crime in the city at large as well as in most neighborhoods.
That pattern first emerged early last year, the Chronicle previously found. At the time, Supervisor Matt Dorsey noted that some of what might be driving the increase is a change in reporting habits: Because crime numbers are so small on the neighborhood level, small changes in reporting can have big impacts…