San Francisco is seeing its lowest homicide rate since the 1960s, according to city officials. During a press conference at San Francisco Police Headquarters on Tuesday, Police Chief Bill Scott said there have been 33 homicides citywide in 2024, so far. At the same time last year, there were...
Last Saturday, San Francisco police arrested a person wanted in San Jose for alleged sexual assault. Their vehicle was detected by cameras in the Sunset District and the suspect was arrested near Golden Gate Park. San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said the cameras have been very help...
San Francisco, frustrated by rising homicides, mulls handgun ban
Traumatic injuries (including homicides and suicides) were the second leading cause of death each year (Table 2), followed by chronic medical conditions (eg, cardiovascular disease and cancer). All decedents were tested for COVID-19. Four individuals tested positive either post mortem or during ...
upwards.[167]Cities with the lowest rate of violent crime include the Peninsula cities ofLos AltosandFoster City, East Bay cities ofSan RamonandDanville, and southern foothill cities ofSaratogaandCupertino. In 2015, 45 Bay Area cities counted zero homicides, the largest of which wasDaly City.[...
The legislation will clarify and explicitly authorize law enforcement to temporarily use non-city-owned cameras to respond to the challenges presented by organized criminal activity, homicides, gun violence, and officer misconduct, among other crimes, while strengthening critical safeguards and oversight to...
A man fatally shot two people and then killed himself after a domestic dispute in a North San Jose parking lot at about 1 a.m. local time (0800 GMT), according to the San Jose Police Department. The killings mark the 15th and 16th deaths investigated as homicides so far this year by ...
Statistics show that San Francisco ranks below other major U.S. cities for homicides, with about 6.9 homicides per 100,000 people. That is fewer than St. Louis, Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Chicago, Oakland, Minneapolis, Houston, Miami, Los Angeles, Austin and Washington, D.C....
Former San Francisco Schools Supt. Robert F. Alioto was killed when his Porsche smashed into the rear of a tractor-trailer on U.S. 101 near Morgan Hill, the California Highway Patrol reported Friday. Alioto was 54 and lived in Salinas. He was alone in his 1985 Porsche when it went out...
St. Louis had 362 homicides in 2022, compared to 56 inSan Francisco. Granted, our population is around ⅓ of St. Louis’s, but we did in only ⅙ as many people. Anyone from St. Louis, or other cities high on the murder roster, will love it in San Francisco and imagine...