Hoover Institution member and conservative author Shelby Steele became a victim of the San Francisco crime crisis when his car was broken into and burgled on Wednesday.

The burglary happened around 11 a.m. on Hyde Street and Lombard Street in the Russian Hill neighborhood. Steele’s son Eli said on Twitter that they walked just 10 minutes from the vehicle before it was broken into.

Pictures posted by Eli show his father gazing solemnly at the broken windows of their rental car. Eli estimated that they lost between $25,000 and $30,000 worth of equipment, not counting damage to the vehicle. The couple had been filming a documentary about San Francisco at the time.

Eli also claimed he was hung up on twice by 911 when reporting the crime.

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Eli estimated that they lost between $25,000 and $30,000 worth of equipment, not counting the damage to the car.

“The SF police are doing nothing,” Eli wrote on Twitter. “It’s so bad my friend is calling gang members for help.”

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When Eli arrived at the police station, he reportedly encountered more auto theft victims. He said he saw suspects checking cars in front of the train station until onlookers chased them away.

“We yelled at them. They pointed a gun at my friend,” Eli wrote on Twitter. “He is now submitting his report. Not a single police officer showed up.”

“People ask where that is. Up on famous Lombard Street,” Eli added. “One of the wealthiest neighborhoods in SF and America. I worked in dangerous neighborhoods for years and nothing like it.”

Twitter CTO Elon Musk responded to Steele’s tweet, telling him that Twitter employees in San Francisco were facing similar crimes.

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“Many Twitter employees are feeling unsafe coming into downtown SF for work and their car windows have been smashed,” Musk wrote. “Also, they got so little reaction from the police that they hardly bother to report crimes because nothing happens.”

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San Francisco Republican Party leader John Dennis told Fox News Digital he was “sad but not surprised” by the situation.

“The Steeles interviewed me in my yard for almost two hours yesterday for an upcoming documentary,” Dennis explained. “Sometime after I left my home, thieves showed the Steeles what San Francisco is about these days — victimizing decent, hard-working people.”

Pictures posted by Eli show his father looking solemnly at the damaged windows of their rental car.

“San Francisco is run by incompetents. Shelby and Eli Steele learned that straight away. It hurts to say that about the place I love to live in.” [in]but stay away from San Francisco until crime is curbed,” the statement continued.

The San Francisco Police Department told Fox News Digital they are currently investigating the crime.

“Officials have documented this incident,” said a spokesman. “No arrests were made. This is an active and ongoing investigation.”

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SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — A pair of brazen garage break-ins were captured on video in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood.

One video shows Burglars intentionally ramming a garage with their car. It happened on Friday, March 4 around 5:30 pm on Franconia Street, in Bernal Heights. The driver casually gets out of the car and approaches the damaged garage. Another camera captures the passenger getting out as someone walks by with a dog across the street.

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The two burglars walk out with stolen production equipment, and even hold up traffic on the residential street.

“The idea that these people could drive a car through my garage door in broad daylight, surrounded by witnesses and casually walk out with more of my property is a clear sign that there is no consequences to that type of action here in the city,” said resident Alex Cruzvergara.

This was actually the second time in two weeks Cruzvergara believes the same crooks hit his garage.

Video shows what appears to be a Subaru Outback outside his garage on February 18 around midnight. The burglars stole $25,000 worth of production equipment.

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He said he lost nearly $7,000 worth of gear in the most recent break-in. One thief even dropped his hat in the garage, which police have as evidence.

Cruzvergara is a cinematographer and owns a small production company. He believes he was targeted.

“It was clear to me that they knew what they were taking. They knew what they had missed the first time, and wanted to come back and get the rest of it,” he said.

He’s since canceled and lost out of several jobs without his gear.

“They just didn’t really have any second thought, or anything just drove up, looked at the garage for a few minutes,” said neighbor Campbell Yore. “It’s pretty disturbing to see that.”

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Over the weekend, Cruzvergara noticed the same Subaru driving around his neighborhood and he followed it at a safe distance while he called the police. He said SFPD later found the car abandoned but identified two suspects.

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