Just to reinforce what you say here

> I think we all live in our own bubbles, because I see so much discussion of SF crime.

As a European on this platform it's ceaseless whinging about the state of SF and how the "woke mob" are ruining San Francisco and the state of the Tenderloin versus Mission or Market or whatever and I don't particularly care to know.

Like I've started to learn the parts of a city I have no particular interest in visiting from repeated stories about how someone shouted and pooped in the street because of boogeyman de jour.

Definitely feels like maybe YC could make a "local HN" to save the rest of us from these circular discussions.

I appreciate you saying so. As a 20-year SF resident I wondered if it was just confirmation bias making me think those topics/views were incredibly common. But it's at the point where I'd almost rather deal with Bitcoin boosters.

Yes, it's common for one and the same topic to be perceived as both hideously overrepresented and hideously underrepresented on HN.

Even the very most popular stories get perceived as being suppressed—for a striking example see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35296170.

>I also think it's important to note that there is a huge difference between "should we prevent random street killings?" and "how much effort should SFPD exert to protect cars when the majority of actual SF residents don't even own one?"

Hmm, the vast majority of tourists in Orlando aren't Orlando residents, but if I got murdered back in my hotel on a Disneyworld trip, I would hope they'd be willing to at least poke into it.

Again, I agree murders are important to discuss, but it is not a good idea to talk about smash and grabs like they are murders.

18% of that 810k is under 18.

397k for 664k adults means a 59.8% car ownership rate.

I think it is important to note that police do not only protect adult residents.