SAN FRANCISCO — Two floors above San Francisco’s historic waterfront, in a glass-encased room affording panoramic views of the glittering bay, the mood among the city’s business elite was dark, apocalyptic even.It was May and the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce had just released a poll showing plunging confidence in the city’s trajectory. Concerns about crime were soaring and there was a strong chance voters were about to oust the city’s embattled district attorney. As the members noshed on smoked salmon and macarons, Chamber CEO Rodney Fong drew a dire historical parallel: the 1906 earthquake. “We have a lot of work to do as residents are more pessimistic than ever.”Then Mayor London Breed, the keynote speaker for the meeting, dressed in a bright orange suit, stepped forward. Breed beamed as she talked up San Francisco’s revival. But the heartiest spontaneous applause came not for Breed’s cheerleading but after she urged more arrests and prosecution. She exhorted b
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