AI-linked violence has arrived in San Francisco: a man threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home and threatened to burn OpenAI's headquarters, while a parallel attack in Indianapolis targeted a city councilman over data centers. Meanwhile, SF's own criminal justice system is in quiet collapse—courts have gone five years without reporting case data to the state, resolve only 32% of filed cases, and routinely let the clock run out on prosecutions while the public defender's budget balloons. From encampment disease outbreaks blocked from cleanup by federal injunction to open-air fencing of stolen wine two blocks from licensed restaurants, the through-line is the same: maximum friction for the law-abiding, minimum consequence for everyone else.
The city disabled its license plate readers to virtue signal national issues. Immigrant shopkeepers are paying the price.
Now a civil rights lawsuit names the officials who told parole agents to look the other way.
A woman tears down his flyers in the Richmond. On camera. Then explains it isn't racist. This is what erasure looks like in real time.
Drug arrests collapsed to zero. Overdose deaths tripled to 810 per year. The data is in, and so is the body count.
A man caught with a loaded gun got diversion and a homework assignment. 36 days later, someone was dead.
Zohran Mamdani will increase net spending to defend 3 core policy pillars that are destined for failure
If safety is something you purchase—guards, gates, cameras—you've already conceded that public order has failed.
UESF is striking Monday—even though Union sources say they'll just accept the same deal in a few days they could take today.
Flock Safety just 7x'd what even the best homicide detective in America can do. The technology works. The question is whether your city will use it.
A drunk driver hit her and fled. Flock cameras found them. Now privacy activists want to shut it all down.