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It's not SF specific, but nationally violence peaked in the early '90s in America: https://www.statista.com/graphic/1/191219/reported-violent-c...

IIRC it was at least partly getting lead out of gasoline in the '70s: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2017/06/01/new-evide...




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