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Supervisors send ordinance to create neighborhood crime units to full Board after committee amendment
Summary
The Government Audit and Oversight Committee sent an ordinance to the full Board to create district-focused neighborhood crime units in the San Francisco Police Department, adopting amendments that emphasize station-level teams and community policing; public comment was none.
San Francisco supervisors on Thursday moved an ordinance to the full Board that would amend the administrative code to create neighborhood crime units in the San Francisco Police Department, to be activated once the controller certifies the department is at the charter-mandated full staffing level.
The ordinance, sponsored by Vice Chair Supervisor Norman Yee, was presented to the Government Audit and Oversight Committee as a "common sense data driven community approach" aimed primarily at reducing property crimes, including vehicle break-ins and burglaries. "This ordinance before us today is really a way to forge a more common sense data driven community approach to combating neighborhood crimes, more specifically property crimes," Yee said.
Why it matters: committee members said the measure is intended to give station commanders more…
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