三藩市公共安全最重要

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布里德市長日前與亞太公共事務聯盟(APAPA)領袖會面。

三藩市市長布里德

在過去的幾個月,我們繼續推進重要的公共安全政策。 這些措施中的每一項都需要幾個月的時間來建立市參事議會的支持及通過。 雖然前面還有很多工作要做,但這些都是重要的步伐,以支援我們努力為居民、上班人士和遊客打造更清潔、更安全的三藩市。

警務人員編配

目前,三藩市嚴重缺乏在街上巡邏、回應服務需求並在罪案發生時調查犯罪的警察。 在我7月底簽署的兩年市政預算中,向警員培訓課程進行了撥款,以填補警察局的200個空缺職位。

但我們必須做的不僅僅是資助警員培訓課程——還需要填補部門內空缺。 警務人員短缺是一個全國性問題。

因此我們還在預算中資助了招聘和留用獎金,用以吸引招聘新警員及阻止我們已經培訓的警員前往其他城市,並制訂新策略來幫助三藩市警察局擴大其招聘工作。

監管街頭售賣

聯合國廣場和Mission區等地未經許可的街頭售賣活動一直在擾亂社區,堵塞行人路,並傷害小商業。 出售贓物、暴力和其他非法活動往往圍繞著這種未經授權的售賣活動。

為解決這個問題,我們通過了新法律以建立一個受監管的系統,允許合法供應商運營,同時使我們更有效地防止任何出售被盜商品和並在街道製造混亂的人士。 該法現正生效,而我們已經看到街道情況有所改善。

公共安全攝像鏡頭

經過幾個月的工作,我們在這星期通過了一項新法律,允許警方登入實時攝像鏡頭,以應對重大的安全挑戰。新法律平衡為警察提供了一個工具來應對區內的毒品交易、盜竊和暴力,同時保持強力的監督和問責保護,以確保該措施得到負責任的使用。

每一項的工作都將幫助我們鞏固三藩市內的公共安全,我感謝每位公務員的辛勤工作以及支持這些政策的市參事。 我還將繼續與新任地檢官謝安宜合作,她明確表示了我們需要加強追究責任,特別是對街頭毒品交易和重複犯案的人士。但公共安全不僅僅是警務人員配置和執法工具。 我們還需要繼續圍繞暴力預防、受害人服務和非警務替代方案實施等政策工作,使到社區更安全。 以下是一些例子:

預防槍支暴力

警察局和公共衛生局致力於解決影響全國各城市的槍支暴力問題,特別是考慮到鬼槍的增加,這些鬼槍是無序列化且無法追蹤的武器,可以在家裡組裝。 最近,透過州政府的6百萬元撥款,用於預防報復性質暴力的努力,在干預最有效的醫院環境中做出快速應變,並透過緊密的社區工作在槍支暴力發生前干預。

受害人診所

根據《加州憲法》中的《馬西法》,受害者享有某些權利。 但受害者往往不知道這些權利,得不到支援,或更糟糕的是他們感到受到因從未為照顧罪案中受害者而設計的法律制度內而再次創傷或受害。

為了確保受害者得到司法系統的支援,我們目前正在培訓社區倡導者如何在整個刑事法律訴訟中執行受害人的權利,以便系統實際地支援受害者;支援診所允許個人與律師進行單對單法律諮詢,以評估他們作為受害者的權利是否得到尊重。

紐約大學警務研究計劃

三藩市在實施警務替代方案方面取得了重大進展,包括像我們的街頭危機應對團隊等計劃,都正全天候響應街頭精神疾病和成癮患者的緊急求救。 為了推進這項工作,我們成為紐約大學警務研究計劃及其關於重新構想公共安全研究的一部分。

這項研究將有助於分析哪些情況下可以安全地傳遞給非警察的急救人員,以及哪些情況應該或必須留在警方工作中。 這將有助於我們制定下一步措施,並使我們能夠繼續為有需要的人提供最有效的應對措施,同時確保警員專注於預防和應對犯罪的重要工作。

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敬安!

三藩市市長 倫敦.布里德

Public Safety Priorities For A Safer San Francisco

By Mayor London Breed

Over the last several months, we have continued to push forward critical public safety policies. Each of these measures took months of work to build support for and pass through the Board. While we have a lot of work ahead of us, these are significant steps that will support our efforts to make San Francisco cleaner and safer for our residents, workers, and visitors.

Police Staffing

Right now, San Francisco has a significant shortage of police officers able to walk beats, respond to calls for service, and investigate crimes when they happen. In our two-year city budget that I signed at the end of July, we funded new academy classes to fill 200 vacant positions in our Police Department.

But we have to do more than just fund academy classes – we also need to fill them. Police staffing shortages are a national issue. That’s why we also funded recruitment and retention bonuses in our budget, so we can attract new recruits and keep the officers we’ve already trained from leaving for other cities, as well as develop new strategies to help SFPD expand its recruitment efforts.

Regulating Street Vending

Unpermitted street vending in places like UN Plaza and the Mission have been disrupting our neighborhoods, blocking our sidewalks, and hurting small businesses. The selling of stolen goods, violence, and other illegal activity often surround this unpermitted vending.

To address this, we passed new laws to create a regulated system that allows legitimate vendors to operate, while giving us the ability to better prevent anyone from selling stolen goods and creating chaos on our streets. That system is now in place and we are already seeing improvements on our streets.

Public Safety Cameras

This week, after months of work, we passed a new law allowing the police to access live camera footage to deal with significant safety challenges. The new law balances giving our police a tool to confront the drug dealing, theft, and violence in our neighborhoods, while maintaining strong oversight and accountability protections to ensure this tool is used responsibly.

Each of these steps will help us shore up public safety in this City and I appreciate the hard work of City staff, as well as the members of the Board of Supervisors who supported these policies. I will also continue to work with our new District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, who has made it clear that we need to strengthen accountability in our City, especially for the open-air drug dealing and those committing repeat offenses.

But public safety isn’t just about police staffing and enforcement tools. We also continue to implement polices around violence prevention, victim services, and alternatives to policing, all of which help make our communities safer. Here are some examples to highlight our work:

Focused Gun Violence Deterrence

Our Police Department and Department of Public Health are committed to addressing the gun violence that has been impacting cities across the country, especially given the increase in ghost guns, which are un-serialized and untraceable weapons able to be assembled at home. A recent state grant for $6 million is being applied to regional and city-based efforts to prevent retaliatory violence, to rapid response at hospital-based settings where interventions can be most effective, and to intervene before gun violence occurs through intensive community-based work.

Clinics and Trainings for Victims

In the California Constitution, victims have certain rights under Marsy’s Law. But too often victims don’t know these rights, aren’t supported, or, worse, feel re-traumatized or victimized by the legal system which was never designed to care for victims of crime.

To make sure victims are supported by our justice system, we are currently training community-based advocates on how to enforce victims’ rights throughout criminal legal proceedings so the system actually supports victims; supporting clinics to allow individuals to speak one-on-one with an attorney to get legal counseling when individuals want to assess whether their rights as crime victims were respected.

NYU Policing Project

San Francisco has made significant progress implementing alternatives to policing, including programs like our Street Crisis Response Team that are responding 24/7 to emergency calls for those suffering with mental illness and addiction on our streets. To further this work, we are a part of the NYU’s Policing Project and their research on Reimagining Public Safety.

This study will help analyze what additional situations can be safely routed to first responders other than the police, and what situations should or must remain with the police. This will help us develop our next steps and allow us to continue providing the most effective response to those in need, while also ensuring our police officers are focused on doing the important work of preventing and responding to crime.

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Sincerely,

London N. Breed

Mayor

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