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 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 Crime-Addled Piedmont Will Photograph Every Last License Plate That Enters Town In a new effort to keep out Oakland criminals who are behind a string of home-invasion robberies in Piedmont, the tony township wants to start photographing every license plate that crosses its borders.
SF News The Guardian Angels Are Actually Stopping Crimes Now (Sort Of) We don't hear about San Francisco's chapter of the Guardian Angels too often, probably because the unarmed, beret-wearing citizen group doesn't do much other than get keys thrown at them for hassling ladies
SF News After Another Extra-Long Meeting, Oakland City Council Approves Hiring Controversial Police Consultant We thought this hiring was already done in December, but it turns out that Bill Bratton, formerly Chief of Police in L.A., still needed formal Council approval to begin his consulting gig
