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 highest property crime rate in America, the fewest cops per crime, and a 0.5% solve rate. These aren't excuses—they're failures.