San Francisco city leaders said last week that criminals are burglarizing homes and breaking into vehicles in residential neighborhoods more lately because the pandemic has driven away the tourists who these criminals would normally target. On Wednesday, San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen, District Attorney Chesa Boudin, and Ingleside Capt. Ronen said tourism in San Francisco had gone down "substantially" because of the pandemic. Consequently, "criminal rings" no longer have tourists to target in tourist hotspots, she said. "If you used to live from couch to couch at friend’s houses, they don’t want you on their couch in the context of a contagious virus pandemic.

Source: Fox News February 15, 2021 21:33 UTC