San Francisco has seen a massive drop in crime since 2022, alongside a massive rise in police surveillance. Correlation or causation?
SF’s crime collapsed. So did its resistance to surveillance
San Francisco has 98 police drones, 400 AI license plate readers, and a billionaire-funded real-time crime center. Crime is down 44%. Nobody seems to mind — yet. But experts say the city is running an experiment with no control group and no plan to slow down.
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