親愛的讀者們：
最近，我與警察局局長施革和地方檢察官謝安宜共同宣布了三藩市已從加州有組織零售盜竊補助計劃中獲得了1730萬元的資助，該計劃由加州社區與國家懲教委員會管理，該委員會提供資金給全州各地的地方執法機構來打擊有組織的零售盜竊。
三藩市警察局獲得了1530萬元的有組織零售盜竊預防補助計劃，而地方檢察官辦公室則獲得了200萬元的加州有組織零售盜竊檢控補助計劃。這是一項重要的支持，有助於擴大我們打擊零售盜竊的工作。零售盜竊損害不同類型的大小商業，對上班族和居民造成了危險和威脅。
這些為期三年資助將提供資金給三藩市警察局和地方檢察官辦公室的人員。考慮到三藩市警察局的人手不足，這些資助將提供撥款給更多人員，包括加班以配合警務行動，使社區內有更多警員服務。資助還將提供犯罪分析師，確保我們積極且有策略性地打擊犯罪。
這筆資金還將支付必要的設備和警車，以增強我們針對有組織零售盜竊和汽車轉化器盜竊策略的行動。而重要的是，該資助還將為自動車牌識別讀卡器提供資金，這將幫助警察識別這些有組織犯罪分子用於打擊涉及犯罪的車輛。部分資金將用於審計和評估措施，以及與公眾的溝通，以便我們在所做的工作中保持透明度。
三藩市警察局亦計劃舉辦一個座談會，屆時執法機構、官員、商人和社區利益持份者可以共同合作，確保我們在解決有組織零售盜竊方面取得所需的進展。
地方檢察官辦公室將利用這筆資助資金來聘請一名全職專職地方檢察官和一名全職調查員，以檢控三藩市的零售盜竊犯罪。
三藩市地方檢察官辦公室目前將零售盜竊案件分配給不同單位的檢察官，具體取決於犯罪行為的性質和嚴重程度。這筆資助將增加這方面的能力，使該辦公室能夠聘請一名全職檢察官專注於市內的零售盜竊問題。將在起訴過程的早期對零售盜竊罪犯進行評估，以尋求適當的結果，針對初犯者的分流計劃，到在適當情況下提供藥物或精神健康治療選擇，再到必要時進行拘留以保護公共安全。該計劃的整體目標將是減少累犯率，追究罪犯的責任。
作為該計劃的一部分，三藩市地方檢察官辦公室將監控數據，以確定在市內受影響最嚴重的地區起訴最嚴重的零售盜竊罪犯的最有效方法。
我要感謝州長紐森，他不僅為三藩市撥款，還在整個州內各地撥款。零售盜竊不僅在某個城市的邊界內發生，對執法機構來說至關重要的是他們得到支持，不僅要保護三藩市，還要與其他地區合作打擊這些盜竊集團。
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敬安！
三藩市市長 倫敦．布里德
Public safety grants that work for everyone
My fellow San Franciscans,
Recently, I joined San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott and District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced that San Francisco has received $17.3 million in grant funding from the State of California’s Organized Retail Theft Grant Program, administered by the Board of State and Community Corrections, which is providing funds to local law enforcement agencies across the state to combat organized retail theft.
In total, the San Francisco Police Department has been awarded $15.3 from the Organized Retail Theft Prevention Grant Program and the District Attorney’s Office is being awarded $2 million from the California Organized Retail Theft Vertical Prosecution Grant Program. This is critical support to help us expand on our efforts to tackle retail theft. Retail theft hurts both small and large businesses, and it’s dangerous and threatening for workers and residents.
The grants will provide funding for dedicated personnel in the San Francisco Police Department and District Attorney’s Office for the next three years.
In light of the San Francisco Police Department’s staffing shortages, the grants will fund more personnel, including overtime for operations that will put more officers in the community. It will also fund crime analysts, who will ensure we are fighting crime aggressively and strategically.
The money will also pay for essential equipment and vehicles to enhance operations as part of our organized retail theft and catalytic converter theft strategy. Importantly, the grant will also fund Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR) that will help officers identify the vehicles that these organized criminals use to perpetrate their crimes. Some of the funding will pay for auditing and accountability measures, and communication with the public, so that we can be transparent in the work that we do.
The SFPD plans to host a symposium where law enforcement, politicians, business owners, and community stakeholders can work collaboratively to ensure we are making the progress that we need to make in addressing organized retail theft.
The District Attorney’s Office will use this grant to fund a full time dedicated Assistant District Attorney and a full-time dedicated District Attorney Investigator to prosecute retail theft crimes in San Francisco.
The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office currently assigns retail theft cases to prosecutors in various units, depending on the nature and severity of the criminal conduct. This grant will add to that capacity, allowing the office to have a full-time prosecutor to focus on retail theft issues in the City. Retail theft offenders will be evaluated early in the prosecution process so that appropriate outcomes can be sought, ranging from diversion programs for first-time offenders, to drug or mental health treatment options where appropriate, to incarceration where needed to protect public safety. The overall goal of the program will be to reduce recidivism and hold offenders accountable for their actions.
As part of the program, SFDA will monitor data to determine the most effective ways to prosecute the most serious retail theft offenders operating in the hardest hit areas of the City.
I want to thank Governor Newsom for investing not just in San Francisco, but in jurisdictions across the entire state. Retail theft does not start and stop at any one city’s borders and it’s critical that our law enforcement agencies have the support to not only protect San Francisco, but to work with other jurisdictions to disrupt these theft rings.
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Sincerely,
London N. Breed
Mayor
