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Saturday's public file shows 1,598 calls. The live feed flagged 466 more.

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.

Better 311 · Oct 18, 2026 · 5:45 AM PT · 2 min read

San Francisco police logged 1,598 dispatched calls in the city's public dispatch archive for October 17, Saturday. The day before was 1,901.

The most common call types among the published calls were passing call (284), traf violation cite (277), suspicious person (122).

Among published calls with a district, the busiest were Mission (229), Southern (204), Central (194).

The live dispatch feed flagged 466 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 October 17: DataSF 2zdj-bwza (closed law enforcement dispatch archive), pulled October 18, 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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Saturday's public file shows 1,598 calls. The live feed flagged 466 more.

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