San Francisco’s Chinatown has seen tourism numbers and its neighborhood economy plummet since the start of the pandemic as negative stories about crime there also went viral.
Washington D.C. resident Susan Leber said she and her family have seen videos and pictures of crime in Chinatown, but came anyway.
After spending millions of more police patrols and adding a few hundred unarmed community ambassadors to the downtown and tourism corridor, city leaders and merchants say public opinion and the economy is turning around. “Things have actually reversed. A lot of central station police presence, unarmed local ambassadors. Crime is down, and spirits are up,” said San Francisco Board Of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin.
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