2017. auto theft, though, did rise in 2022. the highest it has been in seven years. i ll tell you the number one that i hear. tell me. reporter: the number one that i hear, it isn t necessarily violence, because those rates are it s the car break-ins. oh, the car break-ins. reporter: by far the thing people always say is girl, if you go to the city don t park your car here, there or, you know, watch where you park. yes. reporter: how do you combat that? most people unfortunately in some capacity feel that they either have been or know someone who has been a victim. my car got broken into right in front of my home. and then there was nothing in it. so that makes it even worse. it s like i don t even have anything to steal. because i know better, right? but it s a tough thing, and we re going to keep working on that to combat it. joining us now to talk more about her whole story report on what happened to san francisco is cnn anchor sara sidner.
were homeless themselves. we talked to people who use drugs themselves and talked about why they came to san francisco. and not surprisingly, many of them were not from the area but they told us, look, the drugs are cheap, they re easy to get, and you can use them on the street without worrying about being prosecuted. so there s a lot of things san francisco is trying to fix, and we get into all that in this hour. i can t wait to watch. sara sidner, thanks so much. and be sure to tune in, an all new episode of the whole story with anderson cooper. one whole story, one whole hour. it s a fantastic show. and sara s episode airs this sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern and pacific only on cnn. the oklahoma governor is trying to cancel sesame street and mr. rogers. why he is defunding the state s biggest pbs station. that s coming up.
crime, for unaffordability, for its street conditions. in one recent survey san francisco residents say they feel less safe now than at any point since 1996. that s according to the city s own controller s office. this week on the whole story with anderson cooper, our sunday night magazine show, cnn s sara sidner heads to the bay area, a place she once called home, to find out what happened to san francisco. here s a little preview. the video of the guy wheeling his bicycle into the walgreen s in san francisco, loading up and then bicycling out went worldwide. yeah. the mass swarm robberies went worldwide. reporter: even with some high-profile videos going viral, robberies and larceny, which is property theft without threat of violence, were both down in 2022 compared to pre-pandemic levels according to san francisco police data. while the number of car break-ins was actually higher in
hey, sara. are crime rates actually higher in san francisco or is it just the perception of it? it is a lot of perception. especially when it comes to violent crime. and more particularly homicides. if you look at san francisco, which is a 7 by 7-square-mile city, so a small city, they had 56 homicides in 2021 and 2022 respectively. if you look at other cities of the same size like indianapolis, indiana, you will see that they had 271 homicides in 2021. we re talking four times as many. or jacksonville, florida had nearly three times as many with 156 homicides. so when you look at it compared to other cities, when it comes to violent crime no, it doesn t stack up. san francisco has far fewer. however, when it comes to things abnd you heard the mayor herself say yeah, i have had my car broken into. so petty theft, car crimes.