San Francisco (CrohnSan Francisco Police Department celebrates a significant decrease in the crime, especially in one of the most frustrated cases in the city for drivers: storming cars. Reports in its lowest level in more than 20 years.
SFPD Bill Scott, the long city problem, with the stealing cars that it shatters is finally improving.
“Although employment has decreased historically, we are a breakthrough,” Scott said. “We owe the strategy that we put in 2023.”
Scott says that cars fracture have decreased significantly, with reports of less than two decades. The influence has been especially clear in recent weeks when San Francisco has hosted many major events, such as NBA All-Star Weekend and March Madness.
In 2017, SFPD recorded the highest level in the city of that year with more than 31,000 reported incidents. In 2024, this number fell to about 9500.
In general, car decreased operations have decreased by more than 50 percent. Scott attributes the focus on dismantling the organized crime rings behind the theft.
“It is not a matter of the amount of arrests, but the quality. Many of this organized crime,” said Scott.
Tourist hot points. Historically suffering from rest operations, you also see improvements. SFPD says the administration is committed to maintaining strong enforcement efforts to pay the numbers even less.
“We have ways to go, but we do not play with this,” Skout said.