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Richmond Station captain outlines prevention and patrol plans as residents press for relief from car break-ins
Summary
Captain Simon Silverman described redistricting, crisis intervention training and targeted enforcement to address rising property crime; multiple residents and merchants used public comment to press for more prosecutions, plainclothes operations and neighborhood prevention measures.
Captain Simon Silverman and incoming Captain Paul Yap presented Richmond Station operations, redistricting and local outreach at the Police Commissions Richmond Station meeting and answered community questions about a wave of auto burglaries.
Silverman outlined recent station changes — Golden Gate Park was made its own car sector during a July redistricting — and described staffing, dedicated school officers, two officers assigned to Golden Gate Park and an investigations unit. He emphasized crisis intervention training (CIT) for de-escalation and named outreach programs such as the Sandlot youth sports and an after-school creative writing partnership. “We have a lot of different languages in the…
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