san francisco police commissioner kevin benedicto. so we want mayor london breed and others t come and have a conversation here, just like we had yesterda with supervisor dorsey. that is what we know you expect. real conversations about public safety and bringing everybody around the table to find ways t move forward. >>> coming up at 5:00, our jose martinez goes deeper. he is talking to you, our neighbors and community members about how you feel. do you feel safe? >>> so let's cross the bridge now to oakland. the mayor there is having her own issues. we ar talking about mere sheng thao. she is looking for the cities last police chief in the last 1 years. the 30th. anne makovec tells us about her conversation with sheng thao today. >> reporter: mirror tau says that her organization is trying to get the bottom of it. more and more citizens' personable data has been leaked onto the dark web. the new breach is sai to be 60 times larger than the last one, mainly impacting city employees. >> we are doing everything we can to notify individ

we wanted to talk about these numbers with san francisco police department commissioner kevin benedicto. >> i know the people are scared. it is always scary and anxiety-inducing when there is an act of violence in our community. but i think it is important with our fear and anxiety to remember that we are in a community that is generally safe. we are together as a community, and there are real problems in san francisco we should take those problems seriously, but not to buy into these false narratives about a crime wave or things like that. >> he says the city has been taking steps to address the issue of crime, including increasing police presence in high-crime areas and implementing programs to help prevent crime. he knows there is one issue they still need to work on. >> the police department is understaffed. the commission is trying to do what it can to improve staffing. we just had a recruitment fair. i have been working with the staff to try to increase our academy graduation rates. >> reporter: as the city grapples with the issue of crime, residents like christina say they will c

we wanted to talk about these numbers with san francisco police department commissioner kevin benedicto. >> i know that a lot of people are scared and it is always scary and anxiety inducing when there is an act of violence in our community. but i think it is important in our fear and anxiety to remember that we are in a community that is generally safe. that we are together as a community, and that there are real problems in san francisco and that maybe we should take these seriously, but not to buy into these false narratives about a crime wave or things like that. >> reporter: he says the city has been taking steps to reduce the issue of crime, including increasing police presence in high crime areas and implementing programs to help prevent crime. he knows there is one issue they still need to work on. >> the police department is understaffed. the commission has done what it can to improve staffing. sfpd just had a recruitment fair. i have been working with the command staff to try to increase our academy graduation rates. >> reporter: christina tells me that of course she plans to

police commissioner kevin benedicto address some of those comments. >> i find it premature and and distastefulit this. this horrifying act of violence in 2 a preconceived narrative and use it to advance a political agenda. i would discourage people from reading the the fear-mongering put the station and things on twitter putting things by the ceo of twitter. >> who happens to be, of course, elon musk who tweeted about san francisco letting repeat violent offenders go free, calling out san francisco's da brooke jenkins by name. she defended her office in response calling repeat offenders, one of her top priorities killing lee has raised questions about the safety of san francisco and weather. >> it is becoming more violent or kron four's. dan kerman takes a look at the numbers. >> the killing of tech exec bob lee has raised questions about violent crime in san francisco. is it getting worse? a review of sfpd crime stats during the pandemic years of 2020 2021. 2022 suggests violent crime is up over all a little over 8% with about 408 more incidents in 2022. compared to 2020 drilling down, homici

you, zack for that update at the police commission meeting one member of the police commission, kevin benedicto criticize those who he said are using the high profile crime to make a political point. he singled out twitter ceo elon musk tweeted quote. violent crime in san francisco is horrific, and even if attackers are caught, they are often released immediately. is the city taking stronger action to incarcerate repeat violent offenders. musk then tagged district attorney brooke jenkins. i find it premature and distasteful to try to fit this. this horrifying act of violence into a preconceived narrative and use it to advance a political agenda. premature said any new information on the case will be released as quickly as possible. san francisco mayor london breed released a statement saying in part quote san francisco is prioritizing public safety, including recently passing our budget, supplemental, so we have the police staffing necessary to have more police officers in our neighborhoods and to investigate violent crimes when they do occur. the mayor went on to say she's confident whoever is

police commissioner kevin benedicto addressed some of those comments. >> i find it premature and and distasteful to try to fit this. this horrifying act of violence in 2 a preconceived narrative and use it to advance a political agenda. i would discourage people from reading >> the the fear-mongering put the station and things on twitter putting things by the ceo of twitter. >> he was, of course, referring to elon musk who tweeted about san francisco letting repeat offenders go free, calling out san francisco da brooke jenkins by name and she defended her office in response calling repeat offenders, one of her top priorities. well, kind of a store owners in san francisco say they've had enough. a group of them gathered today to air their grievances about an increase in robberies. they say that they've become easy targets and that the city is not doing enough to protect them. kron four's rob nesbitt joins us live now with a look at how serious these crimes have become. rob. stephanie, the owners of these cannabis store say their surveillance cameras show what appears to be the same gr

ktvu fox two news and that the police commission meeting one member of the police commission, kevin did, benedicto criticized those who said you're using the high profile of this crime to make political points. point here, he singled out twitter ceo elon musk tweeted quote. violent crime in san francisco. it's horrific, and even if attackers are caught, they are often released immediately is a city taking stronger action to cross the rate repeat offenders. must then tagged district attorney brooke jenkins about it. i find it premature and distasteful to try to fit this. this horrifying act of violence into a preconceived narrative and use it to advance a political agenda chief said any new information on the case will be released as quickly as possible. london breed released a statement saying in part quote san francisco's prioritizing public safety, including recently passing our budget, supplemental, so we have the police staffing necessary to have more police officers in our neighborhoods. and to investigate violent crimes when they occur, the mayor went on to say she's confident whoever is arr