SFPD’s clearance rate for violent crime has been basically flat from 2010-2020. This is despite having a flat budget in real terms paired with increasing demand

SFPD’s clearance rate for violent crime has been basically flat from 2010-2020. This is despite having a flat budget in real terms paired with increasing demands for professionalization in policing from county and state oversight authorities. This has led to a department composed of more paper pushers and fewer patrol officers. Compare this to a place like Vegas which has something like a 90%+ murder clearance rate for decades straight because they also have the country’s 2nd biggest crime lab after the FBI and a well-trained and invested in police force. You can’t increase the overhead of policing, keep budgets the same, and then look at lower outputs and scream work strike.