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Monday's dispatch file: 1,524 calls, down from 1,960 the day before.

The file recorded 1,524 calls monday, 22% below the 1,963-call daily average over the previous seven days. Southern led the listed districts. The live feed flagged 469 sensitive calls that are not in the archive.

Better 311 · Nov 3, 2026 · 5:46 AM PT · 2 min read

San Francisco police logged 1,524 dispatched calls in the city's public dispatch archive for November 2, Monday. The day before was 1,960.

The most common call types among the published calls were passing call (303), traf violation cite (192), suspicious person (149).

Among published calls with a district, the busiest were Southern (261), Mission (206), Central (203).

The live dispatch feed flagged 469 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 November 2: DataSF 2zdj-bwza (closed law enforcement dispatch archive), pulled November 3, 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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