Crime overall in the city of San Francisco has been trending downward over the last year/year and a half, despite ongoing issues with property crime and car break-ins in multiple neighborhoods. But at a Police Commission meeting last week, newly-appointed Mission Police Station Captain Bill Griffin discussed the disturbing rise in homicides in the neighborhood so far this year — there have been three, with nine overall in 2016, and only two in 2015, as the Examiner reports.

Griffin says violent crime appears to be on the rise overall too, noting that it mostly seems connected to nightlife — he's referring, probably, to the fatal shooting on 19th Street in March in the vicinity of places like Bissap Baobab and Beauty Bar, and perhaps this New Year's Day shooting on Shotwell that happened just after 2 a.m., though it's unclear what else he's talking about. Here at SFist we've noted a couple of disturbing incidents in and around Dolores Park having nothing to do with nightlife, like this attack by a group of juveniles last week, and this early morning shooting in February.

It's not all bad news, however. Last year in the Mission, robberies dropped by 14 percent, rapes were down 22 percent, and aggravated assaults were up only slightly, from 572 in 2015 to 596 in 2016. Overall, violent crime was down five percent in the neighborhood year over year, but that may change for 2017.

As of March, looking at just the first couple months of the year, Hoodline reported that crime was trending downward in the central city, though the average number of crimes per month in the Mission was already trending upward. The same was true of the Castro, Duboce Triangle, and the Haight as well.

In the middle of last year, we looked at SF's overall plummeting crime rate, though even at the time, rape and homicide were tracking very similarly to 2015.

In 2016, Griffin told the Police Commission that the vast majority of calls received by the department were homeless-related issued, followed by mental health calls.

Previously: SF's Plummeting Crime Rate (Except For Homicides), By The Numbers