AI-related violence has escalated from threats to arson, with a 20-year-old linked to PauseAI throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home and threatening OpenAI headquarters — part of a pattern of targeted attacks on tech leaders that authorities are only beginning to reckon with. Meanwhile, the region's public safety institutions are failing on multiple fronts: SF courts haven't reported criminal case data to the state in five years while clearing only 32% of cases, Oakland's chronic under-policing earned it the second most dangerous city ranking in America, and a federal judge blocked cleanup of a Berkeley encampment for 16 months even after a leptospirosis outbreak. The through-line is a set of policy choices — on policing, courts, and encampments — whose costs are being paid by residents.
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