According to San Francisco Police reports, the weekend following Christmas was mostly quiet in the Mission. However, two robberies with force left at least three victims injured and their property stolen.
The corner of 24th and Mission saw one incident early Saturday morning. Around 1 a.m., two men in their 20s approached a 46-year-old man from behind and began punching him. Once they knocked him to the ground, the young men took his cell phone and wallet and fled the scene. The 46-year-old had bruises on his ribs and went to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Sunday afternoon at 26th and Harrison, around 2 p.m., a group of five men in their 20s got into a verbal altercation with two other men, aged 32 and 43-years-old. The verbal fight turned physical and one of the younger men brandished a handgun. The five younger men then reportedly stole the two older men’s wallets before fleeing the scene.
If you have any information about any of the incidents described above you can leave an anonymous tip at Mission Station by calling 415-552-4558.
Crime is trauma and the county offers different services. Here is a link to a page of services.
Victims of violent crime can also contact the Trauma Recover Center at UCSF.
How can we address crime, when we don’t know how bad it is? Look at Joe Eskenazi’s article this week on SFPD’s lying with the crime stats:
“This month, SF Weekly revealed that it’s difficult to know whether crime is going up or down when the crime statistics keep going up and down.
Within San Francisco Police Department annual reports, crime totals for given years change from year to year; the 2012 total of burglaries given in 2013 is not the same as the 2012 total of burglaries given in 2014 (and the numbers reported to the FBI aren’t consistent, either). Again, this makes tracking whether crime is fluctuating something of a futile endeavor.
The SFPD has not yet offered a complete and cogent explanation for this.”
WHY SHOULD SFPD GET A PASS?