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Mayor, police and airport officials cite big drop in homicides and defend airport body-scanning pilot
Summary
Mayor Gavin Newsom and Chief George Gascon on Jan. 6 credited a yearlong drop in homicides and other violent crime and defended use of whole-body imaging pilots at San Francisco International Airport, stressing privacy safeguards and expanded police presence.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and Police Chief George Gascon on Jan. 6 highlighted substantial year-to-date declines in violent crime and defended an airport pilot that uses whole-body imaging to screen passengers.
"Homicides in San Francisco are down, 54% year to date," Newsom said, citing preliminary counts at a press briefing and urging continued community and interagency collaboration. He noted a 78% drop in homicides in the Mission and a 42% drop in Bayview-Hunters Point as examples of neighborhood-level change.
Chief Gascon told the Police Commission the…
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