截至3月，旧金山凶杀案同比激增83%
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旧金山市警方的统计数据显示，2023年，旧金山的暴力犯罪案件数量继续攀升，抢劫案件增加，今年头三个月的凶杀案相比去年也出现激增。
San Francisco homicides soared 83%
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截至3月31日，2023年已有11起凶杀案，去年仅有6起，同比激增83%。
在4月的前三周，凶杀案情况开始趋于平稳，截至4月23日共有14起，而去年为15起。二月份，凶杀案同比增加33%，一月份同比增加67%。
总体而言，暴力犯罪增加4%，而作为公共安全风向标的抢劫案数量在1月份增加11%，2月份增加18%，3月份增加15%。截至4月23日，总体增加11.4%。
去年秋天，前众议院议长南希•佩洛西的丈夫在旧金山的豪宅里遭到了令人震惊的入室袭击。今年4月，Cash App创始人鲍勃•李（Bob Lee）被刺杀，一名前消防员遭到暴力袭击，这一切都让这座城市感到震惊。这三起事件的部分内容都被监控记录了下来。
李在Rincon Hill社区被刺杀的第二天，53岁的前市政官员唐•卡米尼亚尼（Don Carmignani）在Marina District遭到袭击者用水管攻击后入院治疗。警方迅速逮捕了24岁的游民加勒特•多蒂（Garrett Doty），罪名是使用致命武器袭击和殴打他人，造成严重伤害。
然而，本周卡米尼亚尼的律师声称，他们被告知地方检察官办公室计划撤销对多蒂的指控，认为在这起导致卡米尼亚尼头骨骨折并被监控拍下的野蛮袭击中，多蒂是在自卫。多蒂周三上午出现在法庭上，指控没有撤销。他将于周四上午9点返回法庭。
周三晚上，詹金斯的办公室在推特上发表声明，将诉讼延误归咎于卡米尼亚尼，称他回避了采访请求，而检察官希望他出席初步听证会，“这样我们就可以继续追究多蒂对这起暴力袭击的责任。”声明警告说，如果他不出席周四的听证会，根据州法律，多蒂将被无罪释放，
在周三晚上的一份声明中，代表嫌疑人的市公共辩护人办公室（Public Defender’s Office）称，监控视频显示，卡米尼亚尼在暴力事件发生前拿着一罐胡椒喷雾接近了多蒂。
辩护人杰西•西弗（Jessie Seyfer）说：“一名第三方证人告诉警方，她听到卡米尼亚尼威胁说，如果多蒂不离开该地区，就用刀刺死他。”“多蒂对卡米尼亚尼的举动是出于自卫。”
卡米尼亚尼之前向福克斯新闻表示，一群无家可归的“罪犯”在他母亲位于旧金山Marina District的前门外安营扎寨。他说他的母亲报了警，他也报了警。然而，这群人一整天都在骚扰他的母亲和女朋友，据称他们在公共场合吸毒，还骚扰路人。
（图：街头游民 图片来源：Don Carmignani）
卡米尼亚尼当晚赶到那里，要求他们离开。然后发生了这起暴力事件。据卡米尼亚尼的律师说，卡米尼亚尼的头部和面部多次被击中，甚至在他将要逃跑并背对袭击者的时候，他从背后遭到一击，他的头骨受伤。
曾带头罢免前地方检察官切萨•布丹（Chesa Boudin）的活动家和评论员里奇•格林伯格（Richie Greenberg）表示：“市政厅官员……通过挑选部分数据，把旧金山描绘得过于美好，好像只有凶杀案才重要，但我们知道真相，并且每天都能感受到，”
格林伯格在接受采访时表示：“人们不仅仅是在发生凶杀案后感觉缺乏安全感，（城市中）还有很多受伤事件，财产遭武装抢劫，各个地方的汽车遭到砸抢，商店和药店频繁被盗，游客也成为了袭击的目标。”
San Francisco homicides soared 83% through March, police statistics show
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Robberies have increased steadily too
Violent crime in San Francisco continues to climb in 2023, led by steadily increasing robberies and after homicides jumped during each of the first three months of the year, city police statistics show.
Homicides were up by 83%, with 11 in 2023 compared to six last year through March 31, the most recent full-month data available.
Through the first three weeks of April, the killings have begun leveling off, with 14 total through April 23 compared to 15 last year. In February, homicides had climbed 33%, after they jumped 67% in January.
Overall, violent crime is up 4%, and robberies, a bellwether indicator of public safety, rose by 11% in January, 18% in February and 15% in March. Through the April 23 window, they are up by 11.4% overall.
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Nima Momeni, right, stands up to exit the courtroom after an appearance at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco, Tuesday, April 25, 2023. Momeni has been charged with murder in the death of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee, left. (Bob Lee/Facebook, AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
"City Hall officials…are trying to paint too-rosy a picture of San Francisco by cherry-picking the data as if only homicides matter, and yet we here know the truth and feel the sentiment on a daily basis," said Richie Greenberg, an activist and commentator who spearheaded the recall effort against former District Attorney Chesa Boudin.
In a news briefing earlier this month following the arrest of Bay Area tech entrepreneur Nima Momeni, 38, in the stabbing murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee, 43, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins sought to reassure the public about safety in the city. She came into office after voters ousted the far-left Boudin.
A woman appears to be defecating in a bus shelter on the streets of San Francisco on Friday, April 14, 2023. Homelessness and crime continue to plague the city’s Tenderloin District. (Flight Risk for Fox News Digital)
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"It’s not just a lack of feeling safe from being killed, it’s being injured, our property taken at gunpoint, our cars being broken in to anywhere in town, our stores and pharmacies looted and tourists targeted," Greenberg told Fox News Digital.
The violence comes in the wake of a shocking home invasion hammer attack on the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in their San Francisco mansion last fall and as the city reels from Lee's murder in early March and a pipe assault on a former fire commissioner. Portions of all three incidents were caught on video.
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"Since taking office last July, I've worked tirelessly to ensure that San Franciscans not only feel safer, but actually are safer," she said. "Even one murder is too many, regardless of the facts."
However, she also veered off-topic and blasted Tesla founder Elon Musk for a tweet suggesting crime was out of control.
People inhabit encampments on the streets of San Francisco on Saturday, April 15, 2023. Homelessness and crime continue to plague the city’s Mission District. (Flight Risk for Fox News Digital)
"Many people I know have been severely assaulted," Musk wrote in response to a tweet about Lee's murder. "Violent crime in SF is horrific and even if attackers are caught, they are often released immediately."
Jenkins singled out Musk's tweet as "reckless and irresponsible."
"I've dedicated the last eight years of my career to holding some of our city's most violent offenders accountable," she said. "And as your district attorney, I promise that my office will continue the fight to enhance public safety and to hold Mr. Lee's killer, as we do all others, accountable."
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VideoA day after Lee's murder in the ritzy Rincon Hill neighborhood, a former city official, Don Carmignani, 53, was hospitalized after a pipe attack in the Marina District.
Police quickly arrested a 24-year-old homeless man, Garret Doty, on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and battery causing serious injury.
This still image taken from video released by lawyers for Don Carmigani, left, shows a man swinging a metal object at the former San Francisco fire commissioner outside a gas station in the city's Marina District in early April. Carmignani was hospitalized with a fractured skull, and a homeless 24-year-old was arrested. (Colla & Ray LLP)
However, Carmignani's lawyers earlier this week claimed they were told the DA's office plans to drop charges against Doty, deeming the brutal attack, which fractured Carmignani's skull and was captured on video, came in self-defense.
Doty appeared in court Wednesday morning – and the charges were not dropped. He is scheduled to return to court Thursday at 9 a.m.
A man is doubled-over in a doorway in San Francisco on Saturday, April 15, 2023. Homelessness and crime continue to plague the city’s Tenderloin District. (Flight Risk for Fox News Digital)
In a statement released on Twitter Wednesday evening, Jenkins' office blamed the delay on Carmignani, saying he had avoided requests for an interview and that prosecutors wanted him present for the preliminary hearing "so we can move forward with holding Doty accountable for this violent attack."
If he did not show up at Thursday's hearing, the statement warned, Doty would be released without bail under state law,
SAN FRANCISCO CRIME PROBLEM RUNS DEEPER THAN ROSY STATISTICS FROM CITY, EXPERT SAYS
A woman walks past flowers left outside an apartment building where Cash App founder Bob Lee was fatally stabbed in San Francisco, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
However, Jenkins' office has not responded to inquiries about the Doty case from Fox News Digital. Carmignani's attorneys did not respond to a request for comment either.
In a statement Wednesday evening, the city's Public Defender's Office, which is representing the suspect, said additional surveillance video of the altercation shows Carmignani approaching Doty with a can of pepper spray before the violence.
Don Carmignani says this image shows his suspected attackers camped out in front of his mother's house on the morning of his assault. (Courtesy of Don Carmignani)
"A third party witness told police that she heard Carmignani threaten to stab and kill Doty if he did not leave the area," said Jessie Seyfer, a defense spokesperson. "Doty responded to Mr. Carmignani in self-defense."
San Francisco police stats through March 2023 (Mobile users go here)
Carmignani previously told Fox News Digital that a group of "known criminals" who are homeless set up an encampment outside his mother's front door in San Francisco's Marina District. He said his mother called the police, and so did he. However, the group continued to bother his mother and girlfriend throughout the day while allegedly using drugs in public and harassing passersby.
Carmignani arrived that evening and asked them to leave, he said. Then a fight broke out.
The ensuing altercation was captured on video by surveillance cameras and bystanders with cellphones.
Carmignani is struck in the head and face multiple times, even after he tries running away and has his back to the attacker – with the final blow from behind puncturing his skull, according to his lawyers.
Fox News' Haley Chi-Sing contributed to this report.
