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SFPD reports drop in overall Part 1 crime, cites successful coordination around NBA All-Star and Chinese New Year events
Summary
Chief Scott told the Police Commission that year-to-date Part 1 crime is down overall, with violent crime down about 13% and property crime down about 37%; shootings are up about 5% while homicides have declined to one so far this year. He credited interagency coordination for safe major events and described ongoing investigations into recent shootings.
Chief Scott told the Police Commission on Feb. 19 that year-to-date Part 1 crime in San Francisco has fallen sharply overall, driven by a roughly 13% reduction in violent crime and about a 37% decrease in property crime. The department reported a roughly 56% decline in auto break-ins and said overall deaths are down more than 30% compared with this time last year.
Scott said shootings are up about 5% year to date, but homicides have fallen to one this year compared with three at the same point last year; the department said homicide investigators have cleared several older cases, raising the homicide clearance rate. "Our homicide investigators are doing some really, really good work," Scott said, adding that the clearance rate reflects cases closed as investigators built new leads.
Scott highlighted the department's coordination with other agencies during recent large events, saying the NBA All-Star activities and the Chinese New Year parade produced "no significant incidents" inside San Francisco. He credited work by the California Highway Patrol, SFPD units, and other city departments for preventing sideshows from taking hold in the city and for disrupting a larger sideshow that occurred on the Bay Bridge and nearby Daly City.
The chief reviewed several specific incidents over the past week, including three nonfatal shootings that produced three victims (one suspected stray-bullet incident in Sunnydale), multiple ongoing investigations with no arrests yet, an arrest connected to a 2022 homicide (handled in juvenile court because the suspect was 16 at the time), a robbery on Fillmore Avenue with an arrest, and a knife assault that produced lacerations and an arrest at the scene.
Scott said the department activated a stunt-driving response unit and increased patrols at noted hotspots and credited festival and event planning for limited in-city impacts. He said the department's strategy is to "get to the hot spots and prevent these events from happening before they could set up." The department also said it logged hundreds of outreach engagements around a newly stood-up triage site on 6th Street (discussed elsewhere on the agenda) over its first week.
The commission thanked Scott and staff for the report; commissioners asked for follow-ups on an unsolved shooting in the DeBose Triangle area and pressed for more detail on the 6th Street triage outcomes and service linkages.
The meeting record shows the commission did not take additional formal action on the chief's crime report.
