San Francisco is somewhere in the middle of the pack for US Cities by rate of violent crime. It has about half the number of violent crimes per capita of Philadelphia, for example.
As a side node, San Jose has shockingly little crime. It had the sixth least violent crime per capita of US cities in 2010, at about half the rate of San Francisco.
I always take stats like crime with a grain of salt, though, as everyone in the community has an incentive to juice them. Crimes have a tendency to get "lost" or downgraded in the stats, and that happens at different rates in different places.
As a side node, San Jose has shockingly little crime. It had the sixth least violent crime per capita of US cities in 2010, at about half the rate of San Francisco.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cities_by_crime_r...
I always take stats like crime with a grain of salt, though, as everyone in the community has an incentive to juice them. Crimes have a tendency to get "lost" or downgraded in the stats, and that happens at different rates in different places.