San Francisco seems to have massive sociopolitical pressure to not officially report crime.

Having reported crime in SF after I was burgled via forced entry I can say first hand that it is arduous and the only reason I went through with the process is for insurance reasons. I do not trust those statistics at all. People who value their time more than the goods they were deprived of may decide that it simply isn't worth reporting. Every officer I talked to made sure to tell me that they weren't going to do anything about it, that there was no hope of getting my stuff back, and that I should avoid wasting everyone's time. If I didn't have a rather expensive laptop stolen I wouldn't have bothered. I was required to wait for police to arrive and they took over 8 hours arriving at 5am and all they did was tell me in person they were not going to do anything and they were clearly upset that I actually went through with the report and made them visit.

One of the offices that a friend worked at had a homeless person enter the lobby and start harassing people. They called the police who then reprimanded the reception and told them that the homeless person has their rights and does not have to leave, they informed the homeless person that he was under no obligation to leave which made it even more difficult for the office staff to remove him which they were unable to do. Women had to be escorted in and out of the office for the rest of the day while a random homeless person hurled abuse at them. It was all extremely unpleasant.

Kate Steinle was a friend of a friend and she was randomly shot and killed by a homeless person on Pier 14 not far from where I was living in SF. The accused was acquitted due to lack of evidence. A senseless killing of a kind lady for which there will be no justice.

I did not have much respect for SF police but after living there for some time I have even less respect for them now. This mess is part of their refusal to do their job, maybe that's due to a political diktat but it has been in place for so long now it seems that the current crop of police officers are totally ok with this status quo. I guess everyone who wasn't has already left the force.

Ugh, that sounds truly lousy.

In the US - due to endemic health care system issues - it seems employers thereby provide health care as part of the employment package.

Have there been moves to provide private personal security and/or some form of alternative policing system by employers in SF?

If not, it sounds like it should be on the cards in the near future.

I don’t know, most of the people I knew in SF have already left. Mainly to Austin.

I’m not sure what future the US has. I don’t know if its fate will be like Latin America with a gutting of the middle class, or South Africa with the high crime and corruption with rolling blackouts, or Russia with a massive private security industry.