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Stats just don't back that up:

[URL unfurl="true"]https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-crime-rate-bob-lee-sf-violent-map/13091172/[/URL]

I know other people love to claim it, it's a favorite of conservative Hoover and US News and World report to say SF has enormous rates of crimes and has become inculcated so widely that of course it's entered the "but even liberals agree". The problem is it just isn't true. What is true is that crime is up and is up everywhere, but still low historically speaking and not any higher in "lax" polities as compared to places where police "do something". Any time a reformer comes into power, police always ascribe any uptick in crime to exactly what you've described and typically local news loves to cover it - the name for this is copoganda (I'm actually shocked abc7 ran this). But it just isn't backed up by data. It's an anti-police reform talking point that gets promulgated but has little basis in reality. As the article states, if you or a loved one is a victim of a (violent) crime ... it's no consolation that it's rare. But that's not what should drive public policy.