william spot and district attorney chesa boudin responded.18, there were 238 repeat offenders and 20% of them were rearrested. in 2019, 219 repeat offenders and 29% rearrested. at 2020 timeframe, 126 reap repeat offenders. >> businesses were closed and covid-19. 2020 was an aberration. if we look at 2021 it's on the increase. >> the san francisco police officers association says that unless offices catch offenders in the act, police have to go through other steps of the investigation which sometimes takes a while. we got a chance to ask district attorney chesa boudin about repeat offenders. >> we have half a dozen ongoing investigations into different areas of retail theft and we are committed to continuing that to address the issue. >> he added that last year the retail theft task force recovered $8 million worth of stolen goods. >>> developments in surfside, florida a month after the deadly building collapse. the condo owners who survived are now divided on how they want that land to be used. they debated in court. some people want to rebui

chesa boudin hosted a public summit meeting on the issue today.akers flexibility, not just throwing more money at these issues. one person pointed out the billions that are spent on the homeless problem. for his part, chesa boudin addressed the importance of behavioral health and public safety. >> if you want to solve this problem, to find ways to move forward with concrete achievement. when it comes to the challenges. the no matter what crime statistics show us, for too many will not be or feel safe in our community. >> others took exception to the use of the penal code to deal with mental health issues. >>> there is an effort to rename a san francisco street after a man who was violently shoved and killed. a resolution was introduced to rename sonora lane. he was the 84-year-old man from thailand attacked while on a walk in his neighborhood in january. the 19-year-old accused ofm dety crgeselder abuse. >> everyone has been supportive and grandpa's name has been turned into something bigger than what we could have imagined and now we are working

. >> the comments come one day after san francisco district attorney chesa boudin and sfpd addressed crime. >> melanie woodrow explains how the groups work and what officials are doing to combat them. >> reporter: hundreds of thousands of people have viewed this video of 10 individuals running out of san francisco's neiman marcus with armfuls of saint laurent high-end handbags. >> they stop at nothing to get in, get out, and get away. >> reporter: he works in the burglary auto unit and says the people you see here are organized criminals, filling an order for the items they are stealing and then fencing. sometimes on retail sites. >> we are definitely finding those items on those platforms. >> reporter: detectives have methods to decipher stolen items, where buyers probably don't. >> i don't want those out there. >> reporter: san francisco investigators are working with taskforces up and down the bay area. they say this likely was not a one time hit. >> we're not just talking about a property crime, we're talking a very dangerous situation. >> reporter: it's not just large department

chesa boudin says several local chinese owned businesses are getting dozens of potentially fraudulent lawsuits, along with demand letters claiming the companies are going against the americans with disabilities act. >> the allegations of these lawsuits that are potentially fraudulent are abuses of an important law. they are exploiting and extorting small businesses, not to vindicate the critical rights or inclusion of the disabled, but rather to shake down and extort those who are already suffering. >> putin says city officials will work with local merchants to make sure their codes and practices are up to date. >>> pg&e plans to go underground to prevent wildfires. the utility says it's burying 10,000 miles of power lines. its equipment has been blamed for a series of destructive fires in california over the past several years. since october of 2019, pg&e has investigated 16 fires related to its equipment. 11 of them happened in northern california, including the deadly 2018 camp fire in butte county. and just days ago, the utility revealed its equipment may have sparked the nearby e

haven't been prosecuted by the da's office, chief scott would only offer this criticism of the a chesa boudin's policies. >> if a person has been arrested five times, when do we detain them? even if they got an ankle monitoring system, they still can make crimes. we know this because we've been able to prove crimes that way. wind we detain the person until they have their day in court? and for some people, that needs to be done so they're not victimizing more people while they're waiting on their day in court. >> reporter: a sentiment echoed by mayor breedy. >> now that they turned these cases over, there needs to be some level of accountability. >> reporter: car break-ins made infamous through videos that have gone viral on social media are up nearly 700 cases year- over-year. >> some of the plans to combat some of these rising crime statistics include an excess of officers in areas like here, around fisherman's wharf and ghiradelli square. 16 officers, in fact, whose job is to patrol this area and make sure that tourists don't get their vehicles broken into while they're parked here, enjoying

today, san francisco supervisor ahsha safai said the board sent district attorney chesa boudin a letter of inquiry, asking him what coordinated strategy he may have to stop these kinds of thefts. >> this is not crimes of opportunity. we are not asking him to target someone that's down and out. where asking to target people that are recruited by these organized crime outlets, so we're going to see what happens in the rese is. >> a statement from the da's office says that they want to focus on the criminal networks that fence the stolen goods, and today neiman marcus said that they're relieved no one was hurt physically in this incident, and they are cooperating with sf pd. police tell us that they believe these shoplifters are part of an organized crime ring that then sells these goods domestically and internationally. >> betty yu reporting live from union square. >>> san francisco police say a suspected shoplifter nearly killed a 75-year-old woman in his hurry to get away with a stolen sandwich. it happened friday afternoon in the outer mission.suspect knock the woman to the ground as h

about an hour ago, san francisco district attorney chesa boudin announced an investigation.he said several chinatown merchants were hit with dozens of potentially fake lawsuits those lawsuits appear to come from lawyers who say the businesses did not comply with disability laws. >> they are exploiting ic rights or inclusion of the disabled, but rather to shake down and extort those who are already suffering in the wake of a horrific pandemic and a wave of anti-asian and anti- chinese hate across this country. >> boudin is asking any small business owner who think they may have been targeted to come forward. he also says city officials will work with local merchants to make sure their codes and practices are up to date. >>> san jose firefighters forced to use the jaws of life to rescue someone following this car crash. happened just after noon near third and san fernando street downtown. you see the pickup truck ended up on its side there. and in santa rosa, police say that a person in a wheelchair was hit by a truck about 6:30 this morning. police say the driver of the truck

when asked whether arrest would be prosecuted by district attorney chesa boudin, mayor breed had this to say. >> unfortunately the district attorney is not here today, and i can't speak on behalf of him. >> reporter: breed calls the plan a first step toward reviving the pandemic battery tourist industry in the city. >> it's not enough to restore touristy trust, but it's a start. that's the plan. we want -- you have to prove it. you have to build trust, and people have to have better experiences in order to see that happen. >> not just this district here or fisherman's wharf and pier 39 that is going to be seeing these extra officers. in the northern district around the house of fine arts and japan town, there will be six additional bicycle officers, two additional bicycle officers derko more in the haight street corridor. >> andria borba in san francisco. thank you. >>> new video tonight of a three alarm fire in west oakland. this morning crews arrived to find one victorian engulfed in flames with a fire burning up against two other homes. chopper 5 got a look at the aftermath, just a

maybe why it's happening, and many point a finger of blame at san francisco district attorney chesa boudin, who has been open about his relook is to prosecute people for retail theft. the problem has gotten so bad that walgreens has announced it is closing 13 stores in the city. supervisor osher soph ie has said the board has sent dean a letter of inquiry asking what coordinated strategy he may have to stop the theft. >> this is not crimes of opportunity. we are not asking him to target someone that's down and out. we are asking them to target people that are recorded by these organized crime outlets, so we're going to see what happens in the next week and what his response is. >> reporter: a statement today from the da's office says they want to focus on the criminal networks that fence the stolen goods. meanwhile, the response from the public is one of disgust. robert lacombe has lived in san francisco for 71 years and has never seen it as lawless as it is now. >> what is this doing to the city? >> i don't know. it's hurting the city. your toryism -- i mean, who would want to come to a f

here, we have the district attorney chesa boudin. he and his chief of services entered into a text message chat with a journalist. they also informed, a few days before that, another reporter, quote, we are legally prohibited from discussing anything related to a juvenile case. why would they make a difference between the two. this is the public defender, dennis herrera, he is sending a co-worker a confidential draft of litigation material. normally, this material would be withheld at privileged. this is the same worker removing information from wikipedia, who does not allow this. what does all of this show? it's san francisco uses private information not accessible by the public to control the narrative. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you very much for your comments. operations, let's get the next caller, please. >> hello, supervisors. my name is joshua ochoa, and i'm a resident of d-7. i'm here to talk about eliminating the student debt resolution proposed by student walton. as someone who grew up in orange county, raised by

here, we have the district attorney chesa boudin. he and his chief of services entered into a text message chat with a journalist. they also informed, a few days before that, another reporter, quote, we are legally prohibited from discussing anything related to a juvenile case. why would they make a difference between the two. this is the public defender, dennis herrera, he is sending a co-worker a confidential draft of litigation material. normally, this material would be withheld at privileged. this is the same worker removing information from wikipedia, who does not allow this. what does all of this show? it's san francisco uses private information not accessible by the public to control the narrative. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you very much for your comments. operations, let's get the next caller, please. >> hello, supervisors. my name is joshua ochoa, and i'm a resident of d-7. i'm here to talk about eliminating the student debt resolution proposed by student walton. as someone who grew up in orange county, raised by

here, we have the district attorney chesa boudin. he and his chief of services entered into a text message chat with a journalist. they also informed, a few days before that, another reporter, quote, we are legally prohibited from discussing anything related to a juvenile case. why would they make a difference between the two. this is the public defender, dennis herrera, he is sending a co-worker a confidential draft of litigation material. normally, this material would be withheld at privileged. this is the same worker removing information from wikipedia, who does not allow this. what does all of this show? it's san francisco uses private information not accessible by the public to control the narrative. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you very much for your comments. operations, let's get the next caller, please. >> hello, supervisors. my name is joshua ochoa, and i'm a resident of d-7. i'm here to talk about eliminating the student debt resolution proposed by student walton. as someone who grew up in orange county, raised by

colleagues, this past friday, i received a final response from the district attorney, chesa boudin and police chief bill scott. if you recall, in may, we had requested additional data from both the police department and the district attorney regarding organized retail crime and retail theft happening in san francisco. the data that we received was somewhat incomplete and did not provide answers to all the questions that we had. however, the most jarring finding that i received from my letter of inquiry was that the number of annual repeated shoplifters that were reoffending over and over in our city. we have over 200 repeat offenders in an annual basis in a normal year, excluding last year during covid, and these were constantly -- there was about 25% of those that were constantly multiple offenders over and over. so for us, we feel like there's considerable more work to be done. we've all seen the headlines from target, requesting -- not requesting, but reducing their hours. had a good conversation with a representative of target. they said very clearly it had everything to do with re

and i will say in the commercial break i was educated by rachel as i often am, that chesa boudin parentsle campaign for d.a. was funded by this fund with eric holder and george soros. so that's what you get. lawrence: this is what they believe like what my mom always used to say, if you will steal, you will kill. if you kill you are going to jail. i'm not getting your tail out. they should get ahead of this. stop the stealing going to lead to everything else. rachel: exactly what she said. escalate. pete: checking back in with the duffys all morning as the world lumberjack championships get underway in wisconsin. pros all the way. who goes first? sean, ouch. plus, we are celebrating national avocado day. could it be more opposite avocado day on fax square with guacamole. we are doing both this morning. ♪ ♪ welcome to allstate. (phone notification) where we've just lowered our auto rates. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ and savings like that will have you jumping for joy. now, get new lower auto rates with allstate. because better protection costs a whole lot less. you're in good hands with allstate. click or ca