# Trip advise - how unsafe is SF & Oakland

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Tags:** vacation-travel\
**Created:** [March 10, 2024, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trip-advise-how-unsafe-is-sf-oakland/998671 "2024-03-10T15:34:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2024, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trip-advise-how-unsafe-is-sf-oakland/998671/26 "2024-03-11T16:04:31Z")

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> [@RitterSport](#):
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> It’s less dangerous than Cleveland, Milwaukee, or Indianapolis, but somehow those cities never show up in threads here about how the world is falling apart. Weird.

These statistics are for **reported** crime. People are more like to report a crime when there is an effective police/criminal justice system–something San Francisco doesn’t have.

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