AI-linked violence is escalating in the Bay Area—a 20-year-old tied to the PauseAI movement threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home and threatened OpenAI headquarters, while a separate anti-data-center attack in Indianapolis targeted a city councilman's home with his child inside. Meanwhile, Oakland's chronic public safety failures are drawing renewed scrutiny as the Bay Area Council hands its top job to former Mayor Libby Schaaf, whose tenure left the city with the highest violent crime rate per officer among comparable US cities—and a successor now facing federal bribery charges.
A woman connected to killing an Asian senior is about to dodge trial while BART attackers walk free. January 12 is the test.
San Francisco Centre's last tenants get evicted while the Chronicle pretends shoplifting and drug use had nothing to do with it.
The YIMBY ringleader is running for Congress on housing wins, tough-on-crime bills, and a decade of fighting for algebra.
The highest property crime rate in America, the fewest cops per crime, and a 0.5% solve rate. These aren't excuses—they're failures.