Smash-and-grabs, drug dealing, car larceny and other public safety concerns in San Francisco were addressed at a news conference Friday by Mayor London Breed and Police Chief William Scott.
The tough-on-crime presentation provided updates on how the city is spending new state funds earmarked for organized retail theft, as well as new local initiatives and news on recent high-profile cases.rates of any major city and one of the highest clearance rates around homicide," said Breed, and Scott said that burglaries and thefts overall have been down compared to the previous year.
Some of that funding is also going to new police tactics, like "blitz" operations, which are used against groups of thieves that charge into a store and overwhelm On Thursday, the Dior store in Union Square was burglarized. A group of suspects drove a car into the store, smashed display cabinets and ransacked the store.
He said a Drug Market Agency Coordination Center that the mayor has set up has made a difference. The operation, which opened a station at a location on Market Street near Civic Center in April, was a program coordinated with the city's Department of Emergency Management designed to streamline the operations of multiple law enforcement agencies.
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