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SFPD presents midyear homicide statistics; commissioners press for neighborhood strategy
Summary
SFPD homicide section presented year‑to‑date maps and charts showing a shift from gang‑related homicides to more spontaneous and narcotics‑related shootings, an increase in juvenile victims and in Hispanic male homicides, and reported roughly 3,600 narcotics arrests and about 600 guns seized year‑to‑date.
At Item 6c the San Francisco Police Department delivered a midyear homicide briefing and detailed statistical charts, prompting extended commissioner questioning and public comment about prevention and enforcement strategies.
Lieutenant Murphy, who leads the homicide section, described how the unit deploys inspectors to homicide, in‑custody death and suspicious‑death scenes, and then walked the commission through year‑to‑date maps and graphics by district, motive and weapon type. Murphy said homicides that had been concentrated in Bayview Hunters Point in earlier years appeared to be ‘‘displaced’’ and that, for 2007 to date, the…
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