The freeways make it easy to commute in and out for criminals.
My housemate's car was stolen about 15 years ago(!) and used for a bank robbery somewhere else on the peninsula (also close to a freeway) and abandoned in Oakland.
There's a regular sweep of my neighborhood on the peninsula for unlocked cars at night, they will take anything, and break into cars for visible bags. It's practically every third topic on Nextdoor.
I live in SF and would watch my old neighbor in the subsidized housing across the street park a new ebike in the garage every day. They would throw away random exhaust bits in the public trash can around midnight once or twice a week. Every few months they would have a “garage sale” and every item on the sidewalk was still new in box. All completely random stuff.
Everyone knew about it. People complained. The cops knew. The postman knew they stole packages. Nothing anyone could do. They still live there. Still stealing.
My housemate's car was stolen about 15 years ago(!) and used for a bank robbery somewhere else on the peninsula (also close to a freeway) and abandoned in Oakland.
There's a regular sweep of my neighborhood on the peninsula for unlocked cars at night, they will take anything, and break into cars for visible bags. It's practically every third topic on Nextdoor.