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- Just before 11 a.m. on Sunday, a fatal shooting occurred in Visitacion Valley. San Francisco police fond the body of a 31-year-old man at the 100 block of Blythdale Avenue. According to SF Crime (via BCN) someone who knew the victim called the police. Several; gun shell casings were found at the scene.
Update: the murder victim has been identified as Gregory Bennett.
Police have yet to make any arrests. Do you know something? If so, call the SFPD's anonymous tip line at 415-575-4444.
- According to a report from UC Berkeley, San Francisco's crime cameras haven't done shit--other than using taxpayers' dollars dollars, that is--to slowdown such criminal activity as assaults, sex offenses or robberies. Tjose crimes have just moved down the block, hidden from the cameras' views. And Newsom? Doesn't care. He called the study "conclusively inconclusive." How clever.
According to the Gate, Mayor Newsom "wants to install more cameras around the city because they make residents feel safer." Feel safer? Well, so long as or actions are based in feelings rather than logic, then....well, we wouldn't be San Francisco without it.
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