Foundering
Foundering: Bob Lee, the Tech Industry, and the City That’s Become Its Reluctant Home
A year before Bob Lee was killed, San Francisco recalled its progressive district attorney, Chesa Boudin, in a campaign heavily funded by venture capitalists. They rallied around fear of crime.
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With Nima Momeni convicted of second degree murder, the media storm around Bob Lee faded. Reporter Shawn Wen tries to make sense of the widespread fascination with Lee’s death. She looks to the period before his death, when San Francisco was gripped by a bitter political fight over street crime, and to the years afterwards, when it emerged from the doom loop and into the AI boom.
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