Word: franciscos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knows better than I that this impression of that particular district is entirely in error and I can say in all truth that there is no district in San Francisco which can be described as being "tough." The San Francisco Police Department has worked hard and takes great pride in the fact that ours is one of the most crimeless cities among metropolitan cities of the world. We have never had racketeers or gangsters here; we have not had a kidnaping for ransom since the turn of the century; sex crimes of violence are lower per capita of population than...
Since the opening of the Golden Gate International Exposition there has been . . . [a] noticeable absence of the type of crimes one might reasonably expect. This record can be attributed only to police vigilance and efficiency, plus the fact that San Francisco has no district where abound people who can be described as "tough" and who would protect law-violators in their operations...
...QUINN Chief of Police San Francisco, Calif...
Perhaps you are right in considering the area bounded by Larkin, Ellis, Mason and Turk Streets as the "toughest" section of San Francisco. Some might consider North Beach or the South of Market area bounded by Ninth, Market, Second, and Harrison Streets as tougher, but, as a professional social worker who has carried a case load in both areas, I do not think...
From the standpoint of the greatest number of arrests-both felony and misdemeanor-hopheads, gambling joints, "hook-shops" (mostly girls on "call" or working out of their own apartments), TIME'S area is probably San Francisco's toughest. It is an area that seems to sleep in the daytime in order to teem with activity at night...