Healthcare professionals demanded we drastically reduce the jail population, so we listened. On Jan 21, the SF jail population was 1,238. On March 4, when the emergency was declared, it was 1,097. Yesterday, it was 766. Meanwhile, crime rates continue to decrease in SF.
crime in SF is up significantly. Robberies up 15% in first 3 months of the year. Car thefts up 10%. Chesa is misleading the public. Crime did probably drop 10% between 1:05 and 1:07 pm on April 9th. Here is SFPD's stats: https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/2020-04/MarchCompstat20200417.pdf …