Heat maps of where last year’s 30,000 police reports were taken in San Francisco show car break-ins are concentrated in tourist hot spots — from the Beach Chalet to Fisherman’s Wharf, from the Academy of Sciences to, yes, Lombard Street.
Sometimes, the losses are major: passports, cash, laptops, entire packed suitcases. Other times, they’re small yet devastating. McMahon vividly recalls the time parents with two little girls returned to their car to see the window smashed.
The older girl burst into tears. She’d just been released from UCSF Medical Center, where she was being treated for leukemia, and a teddy bear that she’d been given at the hospital was gone.
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