CITY & COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO Police Department Data Driven Prevention & Intervention Strategies
CITY & COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO
Police Department
Data Driven Prevention & Intervention Strategies
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These three Districts make up 71% of all the shootings that are occurring in the city.
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Homicide Incidents by Month
2019 2020 Trend Line
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37%
9%5%
1% 1%
17%
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2020 Shootings w/ Injury
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Strategic & Community Initiatives
SFPD Reducing Violence Through Strategic & Community Initiatives
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Crime Strategies Division’s MissionDevelop and implement strategies through a data driven approach to improve public safety with respect.
Crime Analysis Unit• Operational Analysis• Data Reports• Strategic Assessment• Temporal Heat Maps/Charts
Strategic Response Team • SVRT• Consultant Project - CPSC• Operation Genesis• Strategic Team
CSD leverages data & community-focused processes.
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Crime Analysis Unit (CAU)CAU provides analyt ics
that support distr ict response and
department deployment.
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Strategic Response Team
SFPD Strategies
Community Makeup
Community Stakeholders
Community Partners
City Partners
SFPD Resources
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MISSION:
Our mission is to work with at risk youth and provide them with self-confidence to help them abandon their fears and believe in themselves and their abilities to achieve success.
Prevention & Intervention
Programs Include:
Genesis Academy
Youth Career Academy
Neighborhoods United
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Street Violence Response Team (SVRT)
The Street Violence Response Team (SVRT) is a service coordination process organized to address the violence prevention and enforcement efforts of San Francisco, as well as identifying service providers that can offer continued support to those impacted by the violence.
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SVRT: Immediate Activation Process
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SVRT Partners
City Departments•Department of Public Health (DPH)
Comprehensive Crisis Services•District Attorney's Office •DA’s Victim Services Division•San Francisco Unified School District•Housing Authority•Department of Police Accountability •Mayor's Office of Housing and
Community Development•Municipal Transportation Agency•City Supervisors
Law Enforcement•San Francisco Police Department•Adult Probation•Juvenile Probation
Community Based•Street Violence Intervention
Program (SVIP)•UCSF/ZSFGH Wraparound Project
Faith Based •Archdiocese of San Francisco•SFPD Chaplains
Identify Follow Up Items/ Develop Action Plans
Identify Community Concerns
Identify Leads (Supportive Services)
Identify Supportive Needs
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SVRT Snapshot
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California Partnership for Safe Communities (CPSC)
Reduce the rate of homicides and injury shootings which primary affect
communities of color.
1. Accomplish this goal by employing evidence-based strategies that reduce
violence while minimizing the use of arrest and incarceration.
2. Align various violence reduction efforts internally and across both justice
system and community intervention partners.
3. Develop a unified strategy to accomplish these objectives
Overall Goals:
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California Violence Intervention & Prevention (CalVIP) Grant
Grant Dollars Requested: 1.5 MillionGrant Term: 3 years; 2020 – 2023
Project Title: CONNECT-You
Focus: Supervisorial District 10, Shamann Walton
Partners: - Street Violence Intervention Program (SVIP) - California Partnership for Safe Communities
(CPSC)- Northeastern University
Program Population: Adult, highest at-risk individuals
Objective: - Reduce shootings and homicides- Decrease recidivism, re-arrest, and
victimization- Build trust in and legitimacy of SFPD with
those individual impacted by violence.
This strategy will combine elements of procedural justice, intensive life coaching, and case management through a cognitive behavioral therapy model with aspects of focused deterrence.
Evaluation: Dr. Braga and the Northeastern team will conduct a rigorous evaluation of the impact of these strategies related to violent victimization, violent re-arrest, and community perceptions of trust and police legitimacy.
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Community Engagement DivisionThe Community Engagement Division (CED) oversees a variety of programming that allows officers to mentor youth, educate the community, and support local agencies in order to build relationships and trust.
CED
Youth Programming
Community Safety Education
Programming
School Resource Officers
ExternalCollaboration
- Wilderness Program- SFPAL Program- SFPD Jazz Project- Summer Grads
Internship Program
- Community Police Academy
- Reserve Officer Program
- ALERT Volunteers
- CHARM Committee for resource fairs, training and other events.
- United Playaz Gun Buy Backs
- CBOs/City Agencies
- Violence Curriculum Experts
- Linkages to other service providers
- Educational presentations
MOU voided
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District Response
SFPD Reducing Violence through Operations
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District Community Partnerships
SF SAFE SF HOPE
CPAB Comm. Partners
Comm. Stakeholders
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Field Operations BureauFollowing a violent crime, district Captains play a critical role in a pro-active response, internal collaboration with Investigations Bureau and positive communications with the community.
Forward Facing
Messaging
External Coordination & Processes
Internal Coordination & Processes
InitialNotifications
Command StaffCity LeadersCommunity LeadersPartner Departments
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Investigations BureauEnvironmental AssessmentShort & Long Term Response PlanRegional Law Enforcement (When appropriate)
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City Attorney (When appropriate)District Attorney’s OfficeStreet Violence Response Team (SVRT) MeetingCommunity Police Advisory Board (When appropriate)
Community Meetings
Social Media
Community Events
Local News
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Investigative Follow Up
SFPD Reducing Violence through Investigations
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Investigations Bureau-Investigative Follow Up
Interactions with families and victims of those impacted by violent crimes have come to the forefront for many of these specialized units.
Victim, Family &
Community
General Crimes
Major Crimes
Special Victims
Unit
More intentional investigative follow up has led to:
1. Increased transparency 2. Positive community relations3. Effective investigations
The Investigations Bureau coordinates the expertise of various specialized units to investigate incidents and produce prosecutable cases.
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Victim Centered Approach In collaboration with DPH, Command Staff and Investigators from the Homicide Unit meet with the mothers/families of deceased victims.
Objective: - Cold Case Unit
- Case/Investigation Update
- Service Connections
- General Support
Tiffany Sutton, DirectorCrime Strategies DivisionSan Francisco Police [email protected]
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