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The file recorded 1,539 calls sunday, 2% below the 1,576-call daily average over the previous seven days. Mission led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 440 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,598 calls saturday, 1% below the 1,616-call daily average over the previous seven days. Mission led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 466 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,773 calls friday, 9% above the 1,622-call daily average over the previous seven days. Mission led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 471 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,868 calls thursday, 14% above the 1,633-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 594 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,856 calls wednesday, 13% above the 1,644-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 577 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,699 calls tuesday, 2% above the 1,668-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 514 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,681 calls sunday, 13% below the 1,933-call daily average over the previous seven days. Central led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 437 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,892 calls saturday, 1% below the 1,919-call daily average over the previous seven days. Northern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 532 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,833 calls friday, 4% below the 1,916-call daily average over the previous seven days. Mission led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 535 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,973 calls thursday, 4% above the 1,906-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 683 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,941 calls wednesday, 3% above the 1,889-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 611 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,866 calls tuesday, matching the 1,872-call daily average over the previous seven days. Mission led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 590 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
San Francisco's 311 intake file logged 60 illegal posting requests in the seven days ending October 6, 2026, up 39.5 percent from the weekly pace of the prior three weeks.
The file recorded 1,727 calls monday, 8% below the 1,873-call daily average over the previous seven days. Mission led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 403 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,653 calls sunday, 11% below the 1,861-call daily average over the previous seven days. Mission led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 430 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,631 calls saturday, 11% below the 1,834-call daily average over the previous seven days. Mission led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 463 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,829 calls friday, matching the 1,822-call daily average over the previous seven days. Mission led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 570 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,895 calls thursday, 4% above the 1,825-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 618 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,832 calls wednesday, 1% below the 1,852-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 565 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,733 calls tuesday, 7% below the 1,858-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 468 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,727 calls monday, 6% below the 1,847-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 540 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,498 calls sunday, 20% below the 1,875-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 424 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
Larceny Theft was the largest category, and Tenderloin logged the most reports. 20 incidents dated Saturday fell in the violent categories tracked here. Reports remain allegations until resolved.
The file recorded 1,842 calls friday, 4% below the 1,928-call daily average over the previous seven days. Mission led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 260 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
Drug Offense was the largest category, and Tenderloin logged the most reports. 20 incidents dated Friday fell in the violent categories tracked here. Reports remain allegations until resolved.
The file recorded 1,559 calls saturday, 18% below the 1,909-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 409 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,891 calls thursday, 2% below the 1,930-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 572 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
Other Miscellaneous was the largest category, and Southern logged the most reports. 22 incidents dated Thursday fell in the violent categories tracked here. Reports remain allegations until resolved.
The file recorded 2,087 calls wednesday, 8% above the 1,933-call daily average over the previous seven days. Mission led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 173 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
Larceny Theft was the largest category, and Tenderloin logged the most reports. 16 incidents dated Wednesday fell in the violent categories tracked here. Reports remain allegations until resolved.
The file recorded 1,731 calls tuesday, 11% below the 1,948-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 510 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,667 calls monday, 16% below the 1,982-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 472 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
Sign-related 311 requests reached 42 in the seven days ending September 21, 2026, 50 percent above the prior three-week weekly average of 28.0.
The file recorded 1,739 calls sunday, 11% below the 1,949-call daily average over the previous seven days. Mission led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 510 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,654 calls saturday, 15% below the 1,939-call daily average over the previous seven days. Mission led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 480 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,984 calls wednesday, 2% above the 1,944-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 625 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
Warrant was the largest category, and Tenderloin logged the most reports. 19 incidents dated Wednesday fell in the violent categories tracked here. Reports remain allegations until resolved.
The file recorded 1,966 calls tuesday, 2% above the 1,926-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 263 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
Larceny Theft was the largest category, and Mission logged the most reports. 21 incidents dated Tuesday fell in the violent categories tracked here. Reports remain allegations until resolved.
The file recorded 1,890 calls monday, 1% above the 1,868-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 601 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
Sewer-related service requests reached 253 in the seven days ending September 14, about 43 percent above the prior three-week average of about 177 per week, according to San Francisco's published 311 records.
The file recorded 1,597 calls sunday, 13% below the 1,846-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 394 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,760 calls saturday, 4% below the 1,827-call daily average over the previous seven days. Mission led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 481 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,840 calls friday, 1% above the 1,815-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 577 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
Commemoration · Better 311Twenty-five years after the attacks, the World Trade Center Health Program counted 145,275 currently enrolled members as of June 30, 2026. California accounts for 1,130 of them, and Bay Area search and rescue teams were among the crews sent to Ground Zero in 2001.
The file recorded 1,851 calls thursday, 3% above the 1,801-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 543 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 2,004 calls wednesday, 12% above the 1,792-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 587 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
Larceny Theft was the largest category, and Southern logged the most reports. 36 incidents dated Wednesday fell in the violent categories tracked here. Reports remain allegations until resolved.
The file recorded 1,835 calls tuesday, 2% above the 1,805-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 82 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
Larceny Theft was the largest category, and Southern logged the most reports. 27 incidents dated Tuesday fell in the violent categories tracked here. Reports remain allegations until resolved.
The file recorded 1,525 calls Monday, 17% below the 1,833-call daily average over the previous seven days. Mission led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 410 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,409 calls Sunday, 24% below the 1,850-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 371 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,661 calls Saturday, 12% below the 1,877-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 481 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
The file recorded 1,814 calls Friday, 3% below the 1,877-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 497 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
Larceny Theft led the 207 reports, and Southern logged the most. Thirteen incidents dated Friday fell in the violent categories tracked here. Reports remain allegations until resolved.
The file recorded 1,829 calls Thursday, 3% below the 1,887-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 532 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.
San Francisco police logged 1,948 dispatched calls in the city's public dispatch archive for September 2. The archive is the demand side of the record: what people asked for, not what officers found.
Police published 230 incident reports on September 2. Reports are allegations until resolved, and this count is paperwork: what officers wrote up.
Service brief · Better 311All northbound lanes of U.S. 101 close at the Cesar Chavez and 17th Street exits from 11 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Monday. The detour runs northbound I-280, and Caltrans wants you on transit instead.
Data brief · Better 311San Francisco asked 311 to clean streets and sidewalks 6,625 times in the seven days through September 2. That is more than a third of everything the city logged that week, and Mission filed one in five of the cleaning requests.
Brief · Better 311Sin Miedo, a gallery run by the Sketchboard Co. drawing collective, opens September 19 in the storefront at 2831 Mission Street. The Portal Cinema, a nonprofit 45-seat house, is set to open near 29th Street next month.
Brief · Better 311SFMTA records obtained by Gazetteer SF count 4,178 tickets on Waymo vehicles in 2025 and 4,131 more through July 19, 2026. The fines pass $957,000.
Brief · Better 311The Board of Appeals voted 4-0 to save the sycamore at Rhode Island and 19th Street, then voted 4-0 against a rule change that would end appeals for trees the city calls hazardous.
Brief · Better 311The alley's famous walls live on verbal agreements with owners, not in any city file. The week they disappeared, the record around them logged seven requests, all for trash.
Data brief · Better 311Street defect reports rose 32 percent in a week. Sidewalk and pavement damage is two of every three, and the same addresses keep coming back.
Data brief · Better 311Public graffiti reports rose 69 percent in a week and private reports rose 77. Mission carries a third of the load, and the record is full of repeats.
Follow-up · Better 311The Budget and Finance Committee voted 3 to 0 to send the five-year permit software deal to the full board. Chen said the data does not show the software works. A new clause would let the city exit after one more weak year.
Brief · Better 311The Budget and Finance Committee votes today on a five-year extension for OpenGov, the permit system that missed its own March deadlines.
Data brief · Better 311The new one-month rule lands as the eviction file shows nonpayment notices already falling and breach notices taking their place.
Analysis · Better 311A thousand closure notes point to the same problem: the stamp tells you less than the note.
The city's ballot file holds 1,998 measures going back to 1907. Five concerned cannabis. Four passed. None of the first four could change a law.
The state's official initiative history lists four marijuana or cannabis measures that qualified for a statewide ballot between 1972 and 2016. Voters rejected two and approved two.
Ten local letters plus a regional transit measure, and 14 statewide propositions. Here is what each one is called on the official lists, and how to read what you are voting on.
Oakland services, East Bay institutions, transit, and regional records.
Oakland Police logged 467 incidents in the seven days ending September 15, down 16 percent from the prior week. The file is the department's own log and incidents remain allegations until resolved.
Oakland Police logged 302 incidents in the seven days ending September 8, down 41 percent from the prior week. The file is the department's own log and incidents remain allegations until resolved.
Oakland Police logged 394 incidents in the seven days ending September 1, down 21 percent from the prior week. The file is the department's own log and incidents remain allegations until resolved.
The volunteer commission that advises Oakland on arts and culture policy is recruiting four Oakland residents. Applications are open now, and the commission next meets in public on September 28.
Data brief · Better 311Oakland logged 403 abandoned-auto reports last week, nearly as many as illegal dumping. Of the cars reported in late June and early July, 43 percent were still open on September 2.
Data brief · Better 311Oakland's 311 file logged 59 sideshow reports in August. That is the highest month in a year and nearly five times July's 12. The city built this category on purpose, and
Data brief · Better 311Seventy graffiti reports hit Oakland's 311 file in the last seven days. That is up a third from the three weeks before. It is not a citywide wave. It is a District 7 wave
Follow-up · Better 311508 illegal-dumping reports in seven days, up 46 percent. District 5, the slowest to close, is up 158 percent.
Breaking · Better 311219 requests in seven days. That is double the normal rate, and it is not evenly spread: District 7 is up 194 percent.
Data brief · Better 311Pavement requests are running 40% above the five-year average for this week of the year.
Data brief · Better 311The median is nine days. In Sobrante Park it's fourteen. A closed case is not the same as a cleared corner.
Brief · Better 311The rapid bus carries about 15,500 riders a day, and roughly a third of its operating cost has come from cap-and-trade money. A state board decision and a thin budget backfill leave that stream at less than a third of what transit asked for.
Data brief · Better 311The metro unemployment rate rose from 3.6 percent in May to 4.2 percent in June. That is the same jump the file has shown every June since 2019.
Brief · Better 311Yes, the money cleared. On Tuesday the state Senate and Assembly sent the budget trailer bill carrying $125 million for Golden Gate Fields to the governor. Newsom include
Teams, public recreation, schools, facilities, and neighborhood life.