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 50 homicides in 2023. (There were 54 homicides by the end of the year.) "Our shootings a...
Police said homicides are down comparing this year to the same period last year, with 69 homicides in 2024 compared to 96 in late September of 2023. Police credited the crime prevention program Operation Ceasefire as one of the reasons for the decline. "Givi...
New Year Brings an Increase in Homicides in San FranciscoSAN FRANCISCO - It was, the mayor of San Francisco said, a"shocking start" to the year for a...Elias, Paul
1991 would mark the city's deadliest year, registering 179 homicides[207] within city limits (while the region as a whole peaked at 278 homicides),[208] capping off an unabated, eight-year climb in murders, rapes, robberies, and assault dating back to 1983. At the time, the city was ...
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...
"This doesn’t have to do with San Francisco, this has to do with human nature," Scott said. "Facts show and research shows that most people who commit homicides know the people that they kill." The chief said while the focus around Lee's killing has gained national att...
SAN FRANCISCO - The number of homicides in the city of San Francisco has already eclipsed the number of people who were killed last year, and there are still 36 days left in 2020 and COVID-19 may be to blame for the increase in killings. Police say homicides and street violence are up...
San Francisco, frustrated by rising homicides, mulls handgun ban
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