Where crime is going up — and down — in S.F.

Is crime up in San Francisco? One vital issue seems to be diverging traits in neighborhoods with the very best and lowest incomes.

A Chronicle evaluation of metropolis knowledge discovered that the wealthiest neighborhoods noticed a soar in “money-motivated” crimes reminiscent of automobile break-ins, robberies and burglaries lately, whereas those with the bottom incomes noticed a downward pattern.

For different kinds of crime, the neighborhood-level knowledge additionally reveals a extra complicated image than the citywide traits. One instance: Assaults principally decreased throughout neighborhoods or elevated modestly, however in a single neighborhood — the Marina — reported assaults elevated by greater than 100%.

The info additionally speaks to why residents of 1 neighborhood might even see issues otherwise than these in one other.

See the data here.

Dwelling with it?

Public well being consultants need you to know that the “finish” in “endemic” doesn’t imply ending.

Within the context of infectious ailments, it actually signifies that the virus is right here to remain — presumably without end.

Some elements of the pandemic, reminiscent of full lockdowns and worries about overflowing ICUs, could grow to be within the rearview mirror. However some pandemic customs could nicely stay, reminiscent of common testing, carrying masks indoors and booster shot regimens in response to case surges.

Read more from Erin Allday on what an endemic COVID appears like for the Bay Space and when it would arrive.

• Why aren’t Bay Space residents speeding for COVID booster shots just like the preliminary vaccines? Complicated messaging from the primary booster rollouts could also be accountable, consultants stated.

• Pre-pandemic crowds are returning quicker on S.F. Muni’s weekend strains. Different charts show that shortened, rare strains are slowest to get better.

• Opinion: That is what HPV-ridden rabbits can educate us about vaccine hesitancy.

What to eat

I realized on this week’s Bite Curious e-newsletter that I don’t have the largest candy tooth within the Chronicle newsroom. (Colleagues who labored with me within the Earlier than Occasions knew I stored a jar of peanut butter cups on my desk, for stress snacking throughout newsroom emergencies.)

Reporter Janelle Bitker takes over our Monday meals e-newsletter along with her musings on marriage and desserts, and buried in there are gold nuggets on the place to seek out the very best sweets within the Bay Space. Whether or not it’s a kouign amann from B Patisserie in San Francisco or an ube-coconut ensaymada from the Authentic Luisa and Son Bakeshop in Union Metropolis, her suggestions supply just a little sugar for everybody.

Deliver on the beers at Woods, the experimental S.F. brewery that’s opening two new taprooms. It’s transferring right into a historic constructing on Treasure Island and hopes to be up and operating by the tip of the month, proprietor Dan Woods stated. The second in San Anselmo is anticipated to open by the tip of the yr.

Across the Bay

• Off the streets: S.F. broadened tips on who will be compelled into court-ordered psychological well being and drug therapy in 2019. Solely two people have been handled to date.

• Layoffs looming: San Francisco, amongst different Bay Space college districts, is cutting teaching jobs this yr regardless of going through a instructor scarcity. The lecturers receiving pink slips are those with much less seniority — devastating, some say, for variety efforts.

• Household separation: Bay Space relations are divided between Oakland and Haiti. Their destiny is within the fingers of a federal immigration decide, who will decide whether they qualify for asylum.

• Mixing in: The biggest housing development in San Francisco’s Portola neighborhood in 50 years is difficult to identify.

• Civil rights lawsuit: The mom of Mario Gonzalez, the person who died final April after Alameda cops restrained him facedown, has sued town and regulation enforcement company, accusing it of utilizing extreme pressure.

• From Joe Garofoli: What’s the one hangup within the push for recall reform? The worry of a lieutenant governor-led coup.

• Freeway killing: A suspect has been arrested within the capturing of Gene Ransom, a Cal Athletics Corridor of Fame inductee and East Bay basketball legend remembered as a great teammate.

• Oakland spa capturing: The therapeutic massage therapist injured in a capturing final week at a spa close to Lake Merritt was hiding customers and co-workers when gunfire broke out, the enterprise house owners stated.

• Breakfast is again: The top of an period was only a momentary hiatus for Bette’s Oceanview Diner in Berkeley, the place staff are reopening the restaurant as a worker-owned enterprise.

Sport, set, match

Pickleball, the game that exploded in reputation through the pandemic, continues to be popping.

Knowledge visualization developer Nami Sumida tried to e-book a San Francisco court docket to play in late January and located that everybody else is leaping on the game that’s equal elements tennis, pingpong and badminton.

Greater than 90% of the accessible time to play at one Golden Gate Park athletic facility has been booked in current months, practically twice that of its tennis choices. Here’s how to maximise your probabilities of reserving a time to play.