A thirteen-year-old was arrested for leading San Francisco police on a crime spree over the weekend, as billionaires launched a $4 million campaign to address their crime-ridden “fatal loop” image.
The San Francisco Police Officers Association posted a tongue-in-cheek comment on X about the teenager who was detained Saturday after she and an accomplice allegedly stole a vehicle and led them on a wild police chase.
Police said the “Baby Bipper,” a slang term used in the Bay Area for someone who breaks into cars, crashed the stolen car into two others near the Bay Bridge on-ramp around 8:30 am on Saturday.
“What did you do this morning?” the association asked in its publication.
“This 13-year-old boy from Mountain View allegedly helped push a car and rolled down Central to ride his bike.
A 13-year-old girl was arrested after leading officers on a police chase in a stolen Kia that she allegedly stole and then crashed on October 21, 2023 on the Bay Bridge ramp. Twitter/San Francisco POA
“She refused to stop for San Francisco police and put lives in danger by choosing to provoke a police chase, losing control of her stolen vehicle and wrecking two other cars.”
A few hours after that incident, San Francisco Mayor London Breed attended a mural project in the city’s East Cut Crossing area for a new $4 million advertising campaign called “It Starts Here” that he hopes combat the city’s “doom loop” reputation.
A homeless area on a street in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, California, on August 1, 2019. September 17, 2023. Mayor London Breed’s office has faced criticism related to crime and people’s issues homeless in the city.David G. McIntyre
Billionaires, including Ripple CEO Chris Larsen, raised the money to attack negative narratives of the city as too expensive to afford to live in, but overrun by homeless people and drug addicts, unsafe for tourists and abandoned by retailers.
“This is to instill hope and get people excited about San Francisco. And part of it is you have to counter some of the negativity with some of the positivity of what’s happening,” Breed told NBC Bay Area.
Television ads show picturesque views of the Golden Gate Bridge, followed by glimpses of San Francisco’s contribution to cultural history with events like the Summer of Love, while advertising the city as the birthplace of Silicon Valley and tech companies like Apple. , Google and Uber. .
The narrator of the two-minute ad concludes the cinematic presentation by saying: “If everything changes in an instant. Well, then it was most likely designed and built here in San Francisco. And the best is yet to come.”
Advance SF is an organization comprised of San Francisco’s leading employers dedicated to supporting an “equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people who work and live in San Francisco,” according to its website.advancesf.org
The “It Starts Here” campaign follows the city’s massive $6 million launch of “Always San Francisco,” another television advertising campaign that aired in the New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Boston and Houston markets in hopes to recover the loss in tourism. dollars last year.
Funding for that campaign came from the city, grants from the state tourism office and the tourism industry, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
A homeless man is shown using fentanyl in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco on August 17, 2023. David G. McIntyre
Ricci Lee Wynne, a longtime San Francisco resident, told The Post that while millions of dollars are being poured into eye-catching ads that paint the city in a positive light, tourists and business owners could be in for a rude awakening once let them land.
Wynne, who has a condo in the busy South of Market, or SoMa, district, has amassed hundreds of raw images of addicts overdosing near his building, criminals walking naked in broad daylight, and homeless men and women in need of care. medical and mental. health care.
Wynne himself has been targeted by drug dealers who constantly sell everything from fentanyl to heroin near his block. Just a few blocks from Wynne’s house is a 24/7 open-air drug market in front of the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building.
Ricci Lee Wynne, a community activist who lives less than a mile from Downtown San Francisco, told The Post that he was attacked by drug dealers while trying to film their operation on the corner of Market and 8th streets. Marjorie Hernandez / NY Post
Instead of spending millions of dollars on ads, he said, the city should focus on helping small businesses stay afloat as more and more big-box retailers leave downtown.
“People see these nice ads, but when they get here, what they see is essentially what they call ‘poverty porn,’” Wynne said.
“These billionaires and millionaires are putting forward this vision of San Francisco as a world-class destination, but when they get here, everything is closed downtown at 7 or 8 in the afternoon because of crime.
“There are no shops open or they are permanently closed, and the only place to eat after 9 at night is a pizzeria or some run-down places. People probably won’t come back if you don’t fix what’s wrong first.”
Meanwhile, municipal workers at the Department of Public Works were recently issued bulletproof vests to protect them from attack while they serve citations to vendors operating without proper licenses.
Some city workers have been punched and kicked in the stomach, had objects thrown at them and even received death threats while working the streets, city officials said.
“They have been subjected to attacks, verbal and physical attacks,” San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott told local ABC7 KGO. “So it really makes it difficult for them to do their jobs.”
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