Posts Tagged: crime

A Tenderloin Crime Breakthrough?

Posted September 8, 2015 by

On August 24 I described the deplorable threats to seniors caused by drug dealing around the Page Hotel at the southwest corner of Turk and Leavenworth Streets in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. Calling the building’s owner the Tenderloin’s “worst landlord,”<br> Read More »

Do Neighborhoods Need Street Parking?

Posted April 6, 2015 by

When the Tenderloin’s Sizzler restaurant failed in the late 1980’s, its backers blamed a lack of parking. Potential customers did not want to walk for blocks at night through a high crime neighborhood, which was often required due to the<br> Read More »

How Statistics on Crime, Housing Can Mislead

Posted March 17, 2015 by

Jonah Owen Lamb’s March 16 SF Examiner story (“SF Police Report Drop in Crime But Numbers Are Inconsistent”) highlights an increasing problem: urban policies wrongly driven by misleading statistics. We see this in the testing obsession dominating public schools, in<br> Read More »

The “Broken Windows” Fraud

Posted August 13, 2014 by

When a government policy victimizes low-income African Americans or Latinos, it continues despite a lack of success. We see this in the ongoing drug war and in the media’s renewed efforts to legitimize the statistically discredited “broken windows” anti-crime strategy.<br> Read More »