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Forum: Drones and Public Safety

By Dr. Kerr : westsideobserver – expert

Local anti-crime non-profit Stop Crime SF sponsored “Drones and Public Safety” forum on May 21st at the Northern Police Station on Fillmore Street. Some 50 people attended, including a handful of officers with SFPD’s drone program.

Following introductions by Anna Kearney, Stop Crime SF’s Development Director, and under the watchful eye of co-founder Frank Noto, we heard from officers from SFPD’s Real-Time Investigation Center. The 4 drone models currently in use were displayed, from a tiny 8-inch model to an imposing 26-inch device fitted with a speaker, heat-sensing camera, searchlight, and zoom optics. Attendees were treated to a drone flight demonstration that surveyed the station’s parking lot.

The Real-Time Investigation Team consists of Capt. Thomas Maguire and Lt. Scott Ryan in Strategic Investigations, Capt. Steve Jonas in Field Operations, and Sgt. Tony Suhrke. Dmitri Shimolin, CEO of SafeCity Connect, manages the City’s security camera network and collaborates with SFPD’s drone team.

Capt. Maguire believes that drones, license plate readers and security cameras are partially responsible for the recent decline in crimes. Last year, in collaboration with the Oakland PD, some 500 felony arrests resulted from real-time technology that integrated license plate readers, security camera networks, and drones”…(more)

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Analysis links 12 groups and gangs to most of SF’s gun violence

By Michael Barba : sfexaminer – excerpt (includes maps and graphics)

A new analysis of crime in San Francisco has found just a dozen groups of high-risk individuals are responsible for a majority of gun violence citywide.

The analysis, presented to the Police Commission by a nonprofit consultant Wednesday, shows that 12 groups or gangs in the Bayview and other police districts were involved in most of the gun homicides that occurred between 2017 and mid-2020 and non-fatal shootings from 2019.

At least 58 of the 162 homicides reported in San Francisco from January 2017 to June 2020 involved either a victim or suspect, or both, associated with a group or gang, according to the analysis. Of those group-involved homicides, 36 were motivated by an ongoing group conflict or a personal dispute…(more)