A thirteen-year-old was arrested for leading San Francisco police on a crime spree over the weekend – as the billionaire launched a $4 million campaign to tackle his crime-ridden “noose of doom” image.
The San Francisco Police Officers Association posted cryptic comments about X about the teenager who was arrested Saturday after he and an accomplice allegedly stole a vehicle and led them on a wild police chase.
Police said “Baby Bipper”— Bay Area slang for someone who breaks into cars— crashed the stolen car into two others near the Bay Bridge on-ramp at about 8:30 a.m. Saturday.
“What are you doing this AM,” the association asked on their post.
“This 13 year old Mountain View is said to help lift the car & roll through Central to go bippin’.
A 13-year-old girl was arrested after leading officers on a police chase in a stolen Kia she allegedly stole and then crashed on Oct. 21. 2023 on the Bay Bridge ramp.Twitter/San Francisco POA
“He refused to stop for the SFPD & put his life in danger by choosing to pursue the police, lost control of his stolen ride & crashed into 2 other cars.”
Hours after the incident, San Francisco Mayor London Breed attended a mural project in the city’s East Cut Crossing area for a new $4 million “It Starts Here” ad campaign that hopes to combat the city’s “doom-loop” reputation.
A homeless area on the street in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco, California on August. 17, 2023. Mayor London Breed’s office has faced criticism regarding the city’s crime and homelessness issues.David G. McIntyre
Billionaires, including Ripple CEO Chris Larsen, raised money to attack the city’s negative narrative as too expensive to live in yet overrun by homeless people and drug addicts, unsafe for tourists and abandoned by retailers.
“This is to instill hope and to get people excited about San Francisco. And part of it is, you have to counter some of the negatives with some of the positives about what’s going on,” Breed told NBC Bay Area.
The TV ad shows a beautiful view of the Golden Gate Bridge, followed by a glimpse of San Francisco’s contribution to cultural history with events like the Summer of Love, while proclaiming the city as the birthplace of Silicon Valley and tech companies including Apple, Google and Uber.
The narrator of the two-minute commercial ends the cinematic presentation with, “If it changes everything in an instant. Well, chances are, it was dreamed up and built right here in San Francisco. And the best is yet to come.”
Advance SF is an organization of San Francisco’s leading employers dedicated to supporting “an equitable, resilient and vibrant economy shared by everyone who works and lives in San Francisco,” according to its website.advancesf.org
The “It Starts Here” campaign follows the massive $6 million launch of “Always San Francisco”— another TV ad campaign airing in the New York, Chicago, Washington, DC, Boston and Houston markets in hopes of recovering lost tourism dollars last year.
Funding for the campaign came from the city, grants from the state tourism bureau and the travel industry, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
A homeless man is shown using Fentanyl in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District on August 17, 2023. David G. McIntyre
Longtime San Francisco resident Ricci Lee Wynne told The Post that while millions of dollars are being pumped into flashy ads that paint the city in a positive light, tourists and business owners may be in for a rude awakening once they land.
Wynne, who has a condo in the bustling South of Market, or SoMa, District, has collected hundreds of raw footage and photos of addicts overdosing near her building, criminals walking naked in broad daylight and homeless men and women in need of medical and mental health care. health care.
Wynne has been personally attacked by drug dealers who regularly sell everything from fentanyl to heroin near her block. Just a few blocks from Wynne’s house is a 24/7 open drug market in front of Nancy Pelosi’s federal building.
Ricci Lee Wynne, a community activist who lives less than a mile from Central San Francisco, told The Post she was attacked by drug dealers when she tried to film their operation at the corner of Market and 8th streets. Marjorie Hernandez / NY Post
He said instead of wasting millions of dollars on advertising, the city should focus on helping small businesses survive as more and more big-box retailers leave the downtown area.
“People watch these nice commercials, but when they get here, what they see is basically what they call ‘poverty porn,'” Wynne said.
“These millionaires and billionaires put forth a vision of San Francisco as a world-class destination, but when they get here, everything is shut down in the downtown area at 7 or 8 o’clock at night because of the crime.
“No shop is open or closed forever, and the only place to eat after 9pm is a pizza place or some rundown place. People are unlikely to come back if you don’t fix the wrongs first.”
Meanwhile, city workers from the Public Works Department were recently given bulletproof vests to protect them from attacks as they handed out citations to vendors operating without proper licenses.
Several city workers have been punched and kicked in the stomach, had objects thrown at them and even received death threats as they worked on the streets, city officials said.
“They have been subjected to assault, verbal and physical assault,” San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott told local ABC7 KGO. “So it really makes it difficult to do their job.”
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