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Chief: homicides up year-to-date; department opens internal review after video allegation
Summary
Assistant Chief Tom Scheuer told the commission that, as of Feb. 26, homicides were 15 year-to-date compared with 9 in 2010; shootings and arrests showed mixed trends. Scheuer said the department opened an investigation after press conferences alleging Fourth Amendment violations and pledged an impartial inquiry.
At the San Francisco Police Commission meeting on March 2, Assistant Chief Tom Scheuer delivered the department—s most recent crime statistics and outlined steps the SFPD is taking in response to recent violence.
Scheuer said the extraction period ending Feb. 26 showed overall Part I crimes were largely flat; he reported that violent crimes were down in the most recent extraction period (about 8%), and that overall Part I crime was down 13% when comparing extraction periods.…
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