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How San Francisco is licking crime — and offering hope forAmerica

San Francisco, a city long associated with exotic ideas, has been experimenting with a radical notion — cracking down on car thieves. 

Unlike some of the city’s other adventures, this one is actually working out. 

Car break-ins are down 85% from 2023 and 50% for the first three months of 2026, compared to the first three months of 2025. 

This is good news for residents and tourists, and bad news for auto-repair shops that did a brisk business in new car windows. 

Smash-and-grab break-ins were such an ingrained part of San Francisco life that an argot grew up around them:

Breaking into cars is known as “bipping,” and the shards of glass left behind are called “San Francisco diamonds.”

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Residents were putting up signs warning tourists of frequent break-ins — the equivalent of the “no radio” signs that New Yorkers once put in their cars to deter thieves in the bad, old days of the 1980s and 1990s.

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