It's hard to find evidence in the data that Jenkins has reduced crime.
A San Francisco Police Department advertisement is shown behind broken glass from a train stop outside of police headquarters in San Francisco, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022.police reported slightly higher rates of both violent and property crime than over the same time period last year. While the increases were modest, they seem to dispel hopes that replacing District Attorney Chesa Boudin would have an immediate effect on crime rates in the city.
To be fair to Boudin's appointed replacement Brooke Jenkins, she never promised that crime rates would drop immediately. In a statement to SFGATE Monday, Jenkins, who took office July 8, said,"We’re just a few months into my tenure, are making progress, but are just getting started." The total number of violent crimes was 3.1% higher between Aug. 1 and Sept. 25 this year than over those days last year, while property crime — burglary, arson, motor vehicle theft and larceny theft — was up 1% year-over-year.
Homicides saw the largest year-over-year percent increase of any crime in the city, increasing 20% since this time last year, and there have been