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Probably from all those years of covering up sex crimes.

 

Thanks to Nancy Grace, my grandmother was convinced every car that drove by a school was a predator looking to kidnap a kid. Didn’t matter what the data showed.

 

2/3 of San Francisco is Singe Family Homes. It’s up to local supervisors to change the zoning.

Housing Solution: Backyard Cottages Could Add One-Third More Homes to San Francisco - San Francisco Public Press

 

Some of that, I suspect, is a product of the psychology that made him a great wrestler. Wrestlers who are that good are always doing conditioning, working out, or wrestling because they can't fathom someone catching up to them.

 

Some commercial can be converted, but probably not in numbers big enough to solve the housing crisis.

Moody's Analytics CRE | Why Office-to-Apartment Conversions are Likely a Fringe Trend at Best

 

Murder isn’t the only crime.

 

“Hey, man, you’re looking good these days.”

“Thanks, I’ve lost 50 pounds. I’m not where I want to be. I have another 50 to go, but I’m making progress.”

<Alma kicks in the door>

Alma: Quit playing language arts with the numbers and being sanguine about how you’re still a fat ass!!!

 

Agree.

I think the tipping point for our quality-of-life stuff here was the pandemic.

That said, the local press continues to overstate / exaggerate things like subway violence. Fear sells papers.

NYPD Announces Citywide Crime Statistics for February 2023

 

True.

But it sure is a leading indicator of a city's violence profile, and how and why an out-of-town honk with an agenda like Kellyanne Conway gets traction with her "feelings" about "safety."

 

As much as I tire of the “whatabout Chicago?!!?!” shtick in politics these days, there was something like a 40-percent spike in non-murder violent crime there during the past few years.

And, I grew up in a city with an even higher crime rate than that. The only reason I rarely felt unsafe in Philadelphia is because I knew where to go and where not to. That’s what an out-of-towner just looking to own some libs doesn’t understand.

But that doesn’t mean it’s overall a safe place to live. Or that the “data” tell the whole story. Or that crime cordoned off into one part of the city is a legit mitigation strategy.

 

Was once in a really crappy part of Philadelphia with two sacks full of Christmas presents. Never felt unsafe. It was like Lecter carrying Starling past the carnivorous boars.