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Is San Francisco actually on the rise?

For the better part of the previous decade, San Francisco was a frequent punching bag in certain corners of popular media. The likes of Fox News and Joe Rogan would’ve had you believe the city was a lawless, dystopian hellscape, one that would've made an appropriate setting for the latest Batman film. Homelessness, open-air drug use and rampant petty crime were the primary issues destroying the city — so the narrative went — as was the city government’s refusal to do anything about it. It was a dangerous place, and you shouldn’t go there. This description has died down in recent years, especially following the election of Mayor Daniel Lurie, and a concerted public relations effort to frame SF as a city on the rise. But has anything really changed? If so, what? Perhaps more interestingly, how accurate was San Francisco’s reputation to begin with? Here at SFGATE, we’ve been actively covering the city since our newsroom’s inception in 1994. Our journalists have captured the pulse of San Francisco, from writing about its most famous faces to its best-known landmarks. We are constantly chronicling the evolution of this city. This past summer, our audience intern, Nathan Kuczmarski, embarked on a central video quest to find out how people perceive San Francisco today. He takes a deep dive into the data and how the numbers align with actual feelings of “safety.” Speaking to experts and San Francisco locals, he found the story Fox News doesn’t want to tell about the city. It’s messy and complex. In the social media age, weighing perception vs. reality is a tall, near-impossible task. So is San Francisco actually on the rise? We invite you to watch the video as we do our best to answer it. Filmed, narrated and edited by Nathan Kuczmarski Additional editing and supervision produced by Melissa Cho Special thanks to Alex Bastian, Bruno Chemel, Christopher Herrings, Austin McManus, the SFGATE staff An original SFGATE production