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Police Commission reviews crime trends, CIT expansion, Benchmark EIS fixes and language-access updates; several motions pass
Summary
At its May meeting the San Francisco Police Commission received the chief's weekly crime report, heard the CIT annual report and updates on the Early Intervention System's transition to Benchmark and the SFPD's language-access work, and approved a revised community policing DGO for meet-and-confer along with routine consent items.
The San Francisco Police Commission on Wednesday heard the SFPD's weekly report and multiple presentations on oversight and programs, then approved several procedural motions including sending a revised community-policing Department General Order (DGO 1.08) to meet-and-confer.
Chief Bill Scott opened the substantive portion of the meeting with a weekly report saying the city is "27% below where we were this time last year" in overall crime, driven primarily by reductions in property and violent crime. Scott gave specific operational figures: 366 guns seized year-to-date compared with 436 at the same point last year and 41 ghost guns seized this year compared with 40 last year. He described several major incidents under investigation, including a homicide near Columbus Avenue and North Point where a suspect later turned himself in.
The commission received a report from Lt. Donald Anderson on the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT). Anderson…
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