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Chief reports largely flat crime trends; reserves and patrol specials update provided
Summary
Chief reported overall crime essentially flat with some property crime variation and 26 homicides year-to-date; Lt. Henry Perra provided detailed reserves counts, training practices, and volunteer-hours totals.
At the June 15 San Francisco Police Commission meeting, the chief reported that filing crime measures were down in some categories while overall figures were essentially flat compared with last year. "Filing crime continues to be down in San Francisco. It's down 8%," the chief said, adding that property crimes were up about 5% but had decreased over the most recent 30 days. He placed year-to-date homicide counts in context: "We're at about 26 homicides year to date," noticeably lower than counts in earlier peak years, the chief said.
Lieutenant Henry Perra delivered a status update on patrol specials and the police reserves program. He said that patrol specials were generally in compliance but that some needed more time to obtain required holsters; he granted a 30-day extension for those officers. On reserves, Perra reported "we currently have 33 active reserves" with 24 level-one, 5 level-two and 4 level-three reserves and 61 active applicants awaiting the next testing dates. He also provided volunteer-hour totals for 2010 (13,385 hours) and 2009 (11,600 hours).
Commissioners asked about post-academy training for reserves; Perra said the basic academy is 990 hours and that the department provides roughly four hours per month of additional training, with occasional 16-hour blocks when academy availability allows. He confirmed active recruiting of reserves.
The updates provided operational detail but did not contain immediate policy votes.
