SF Politics Crime Down Both In SF and Nationally Over the Last Year; Breed and Biden Sure to Campaign On It With crime a hot-button issue in the upcoming November elections, both SF Mayor London Breed and President Joe Biden can tout that crime has decreased significantly in the last six to twelve months. But they may have a tough time convincing voters of that.
SF News Newsom Says Highway Patrol Has Seized 42 Pounds of Fentanyl In the Tenderloin Alone This Past Year One year into Governor Newsom sending California Highway Patrol officers into SF in a fentanyl crackdown, he’s touting that they’ve seized 42 pounds of fentanyl just in the Tenderloin, and insists that crime is down significantly in SF.
SF News Mayor Breed Touts Claim That Crime Is Down 7% In SF Over the Last Year As the 2024 mayoral race heats up, Mayor London Breed is hyping fresh statistics saying that overall crime was down by 7% in San Francisco in 2023, though that number depends on how you cook the books.
SF News Homicides Way Down But Crime Rate Way Up In S.F. This Year There have been less than 40 homicides in San Francisco so far this year, compared to 67 last year and 98 in 2009, but instances of other crimes are way up, led by
SF News Why So Low, Murder Rate? Newsom, That's Why. Yesterday, after SFist asked why the San Francisco murder rate in 2009 has been so low, the Examiner answered: Mayor Gavin Newsom. While the city almost hitting 50 at the same time last
