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Another 572 calls on Thursday were flagged sensitive and are not in the public file.

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.

Better 311 · Sep 25, 2026 · 5:44 PM PT · 2 min read

San Francisco police logged 1,891 dispatched calls in the city's public dispatch archive for September 24, Thursday. The day before was 2,087.

The most common call types among the published calls were passing call (359), traf violation cite (330), suspicious person (202).

Among published calls with a district, the busiest were Southern (302), Mission (274), Northern (226).

The live dispatch feed flagged 572 more of the day's calls as sensitive, and the city withholds their details. They are not in this archive, so the daily count understates total dispatches.

Dispatch totals measure demand and response workload, not crime rates: a call is a request for service, and an incident report is an allegation until it is resolved.

These briefs are generated from the same public file every day. They are meant to be the shortcut: the city's own portal asks you to page through records one call at a time.

Dispatch file for September 24: DataSF 2zdj-bwza (closed law enforcement dispatch archive), pulled September 25, 2026. Counts are distinct calls received in the city's file day, compared with the prior file day and the seven day average. Sensitive calls are withheld by the city and are counted from the public flag only.

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Another 572 calls on Thursday were flagged sensitive and are not in the public file.

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