"San Francisco's 2024 homicide rate was 35, which itself marked a 64-year low, and the lowest number of killings in the city since the Eisenhower administration. But things are looking even less violent here in 2025, with the Chronicle noting Tuesday that we could be on track for another historically low number perhaps 27 by the end of the year. That would mark the fewest killings recorded here since 1954."
"The SFPD's crime dashboard shows that the city has had 22 homicides to date in 2025. That includes the father and two children killed in a gruesome murder-suicide last week in Westwood Park some of the details of which we still do not know. With just 10.5 weeks left in the year, if the current rate holds, the city would see another five (or so) homicides before the new year."
"Notwithstanding the uptick in violent crime that we saw during the pandemic, SF's homicide rate has been trending generally downward since a high water mark in 2007, when the city saw 98 homicides. As the Chronicle also notes, per-capita homicides have been trending downward in most of the nation's large cities, with San Francisco's 2024 rate among the ten lowest."
San Francisco recorded 35 homicides in 2024, the lowest number of killings since the Eisenhower administration and a 64-year low. City data show 22 homicides to date in 2025, including a recent murder-suicide that killed a father and two children. If the current rate holds with 10.5 weeks remaining, the city could end 2025 with roughly 27 homicides, the fewest since 1954. Homicides peaked at 98 in 2007 and have generally trended downward since then, despite a pandemic-related uptick. Per-capita homicides declined in most large U.S. cities, with Los Angeles and Portland dropping 26% and 51% in 2024. Assaults are down 14% year over year.
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