San Francisco Police Step Up Efforts To Deter Vehicle Break-Ins

CBS San Francisco

August 25, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO -- Auto burglaries have been a notorious problem in San Francisco for years with the number of incidents exploding beginning around 2017. That year there were more than 30,000 break-ins reported in the city. While the numbers have declined, auto burglaries continue to be a daily catastrophe for people across the city, many of them tourists. Police say they are pressing to bring the numbers down and the numbers have dipped slightly.

Visiting from Argentina, the Molina family stopped at Alamo Square in the city for one quick look at a landmark, only to find themselves in the middle of a more notorious San Francisco postcard.

"We walked up to the Painted Ladies to look at them and then we just came back to the car," Maria Molina said. "And they took ... our passports, my computer, my iPad."

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