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Chief Gascon: Part 1 crimes down 9% year to date; city highlights partnerships and prevention programs
Summary
Chief George Gascon told the commission the city is roughly 9% below last year in Part 1 crimes and outlined training partnerships, gun-recovery figures and community programs. Mayor Gavin Newsom and District Attorney Kamala Harris highlighted cross-agency collaboration and prosecution gains.
Chief George Gascon presented the San Francisco Police Department's quarterly crime update, telling the Police Commission that, year to date, Part 1 crimes are down about 9% compared with the same period the prior year.
"We continue to be at a 9% reduction," Gascon said, listing a year-to-date decrease in violent and property crimes and noting a recent four-week uptick in some violent-crime categories. He also highlighted that officers recovered 787 crime guns during the reporting period.
Gascon described new training and leadership programs funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance and a leadership-curriculum partnership with the University of San Francisco that will aim to develop promotion-relevant training and operational models. The chief said the department is working to integrate new assessment methods into promotional testing to emphasize relevant skills.
Mayor Gavin Newsom praised the department's approach to deploying resources using data-driven analysis and warned against politicizing deployment decisions: "Let's keep that in the hands of the police professionals," he said, urging continued trust in operational discretion. District Attorney Kamala Harris credited the partnership between prosecutors and police for increasing charging and conviction rates and highlighted recent operations that yielded stronger prosecution cases.
Commissioners and staff discussed community policing efforts, youth outreach, and the role of community advisory boards. Presenters from San Francisco SAFE and the department's Community Relations Unit urged residents to follow crime-prevention best practices, such as not leaving valuables visible in cars and reporting suspicious activity.
The chief and local partners also noted work on domestic-violence services and an $800,000 DOJ grant for bilingual services for victims, as well as programs to support veterans, homelessness interventions and interagency collaboration.
