Reported Crime Sharply Down, Yet Residents Remain Uneasy
Moumita Chakraborty Reported wrongdoing has steadily declined in San Francisco, with 2024 experiencing the lowest rates in two decades. So far, the downward trend has continued in 2025. In the first half…
Crime & Safety
Burglars Use Mail Key to Access Multiple Dogpatch Buildings
Rebekah Moan A Dogpatch condominium building was burglarized twice, along with a third attempt, in the span of four days earlier this year. Instead of smashing windows or picking locks, the criminals…
Beneath the Fluorescents: Safeway, Theft, and the Socio-Economic Divide
Camile Messerley Ongoing activities at Safeway’s Potrero Center location highlight a broad set of social issues facing the store, San Francisco, and other urban areas. Shoppers rely on the market for routine…
Incidences of Rape Decline, While Robberies and Murders Increase
Jessica Zimmer Between 2022 and 2023, San Francisco saw a three percent dip in overall crime and a marked reduction in certain offenses, including rape, down 17 percent; assault and burglary, both…
Dogpatch Family’s Entire Belongings Stolen from U-Haul
At the end of March, Deanna Borbon and René Felbermayr packed a U-Haul to move to Los Angeles with their two small children and left it parked on Texas Street…
Catalytic Converters Stolen from Under Police’s Noses
Potrero View Staff Four identifiably marked San Francisco Police Department vehicles had their catalytic converters surgically removed by thieves last month. “On September 12, 2022, at approximately 1 p.m., a San Francisco Police…
Potrero Annex-Terrace Residents Concerned About Break-Ins, Other Issues
Potrero Annex-Terrace residents are concerned that Bridge Housing and the San Francisco Housing Authority (SFHA) aren’t responding to problems plaguing the public housing complex. Among the identified issues are empty…
Crime Trends Largely Static through the First Quarter of the Year
Michael Iacuessa One-quarter of San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) incident reports in Potrero Hill and Dogpatch so far this year have involved vehicle larceny. Other robberies, including bike theft and stolen packages,…
Property and Violent Crimes Up, Homicides and Human Trafficking Down
According to San Francisco Police Department data, between 2016 and 2018 the number of violent and property crimes in the City increased, the former jumping by 11.8 percent last year.…
Products Locked Up at Potrero Center Safeway, as City Battles Property Crime
Jacob Bourne Numerous items are caged behind glass doors at the Potrero Center Safeway, dissuading some would-be shoppers from patronizing the store. “My family has stopped shopping there,” commented J.R. Eppler, Potrero…
Crime and Safety Report
Steven J. Moss More than 30 years have passed since photographer Barbara Martz was robbed, raped and knifed to death in her home near 25th and Texas streets. In late-January a jury convicted…
Police Captain Wants More Ways to Handle Violence
Keith Burbank According to San Francisco Police Department Captain Raj Vaswani , who heads Bayview Station, which is responsible for peace on Potrero Hill, among other Southside neighborhoods, in light of the…
Local House Busted for Dealing Drugs
Paul McDonald On Monday, November 30th, just after 12 p.m., about a dozen men from various S.F. law enforcement agencies batter rammed through the front door of a house on the South…
Far Higher Percentage of Blacks Arrested than Whites in SF
Last year, the San Francisco Police Department arrested 3,413 African-Americans for felonies, compared with 3,207 arrests of Whites, according to data from the California Attorney General’s (AG) Office. Although the…
Video Clips, Citizen Tips Help Police Solve Violent Crime Cases
Crime & Safety Report — Sponsored by Mainline Security A front page article in last month’s View cited government statistics that indicate that less than half of all murders committed…
Police Work to Curb Auto Burglaries, Thefts
Police in the Bayview district, which serves Potrero Hill and Dogpatch, made two automobile burglary arrests in the first two weeks of September, as they continue to struggle to counter…
Missing Teacher Found Dead
A Downtown High School teacher who went missing in July in El Dorado County is dead, according to that County’s coroner’s office. San Francisco resident Edward Cavanaugh, 45, died sometime…
Experienced, Soft-Spoken Cop Takes Helm at Bayview Station
Raj Vaswani, Bayview Station captain, is a soft-spoken man who believes that patrol officers are the backbone of the San Francisco Police Department. Vaswani took over as captain in April,…
District 10 Supervisor Wants Better Anti-Violence Measures
An audit of municipally-funded violence prevention services has prompted District 10 Supervisor Malia Cohen to call for new measures to stem aggression in Bayview-Hunters Point, Potrero Hill, and Visitacion Valley.…
May: Crime and Safety Report
PV Staff Southside residents have been frustrated by the perceived lack of police attention to the relentless vehicle thefts and burglaries from cars, with attendant smashed windows. In January, the latest month…
Homeless Man’s Attorneys Demand More Deputies Be Prosecuted in Beating Case
A legal team for a homeless man allegedly beaten at San Francisco General Hospital by a San Francisco Sheriff’s deputy is demanding that three more deputies be prosecuted for the…
Sheriff’s Deputy Charged with Battering SF General Hospital Patient
The San Francisco District At-torney has charged a San Francisco sheriff’s deputy with four felonies and a misdemeanor after the officer allegedly battered a San Francisco General Hospital patient late…