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截至3月，舊金山凶殺案同比激增83%
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舊金山市警方的統計數據顯示，2023年，舊金山的暴力犯罪案件數量繼續攀升，搶劫案件增加，今年頭三個月的凶殺案相比去年也出現激增。
San Francisco homicides soared 83%
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截至3月31日，2023年已有11起凶殺案，去年僅有6起，同比激增83%。
在4月的前三周，凶殺案情況開始趨於平穩，截至4月23日共有14起，而去年為15起。二月份，凶殺案同比增加33%，一月份同比增加67%。
總體而言，暴力犯罪增加4%，而作為公共安全風向標的搶劫案數量在1月份增加11%，2月份增加18%，3月份增加15%。截至4月23日，總體增加11.4%。
去年秋天，前眾議院議長南希•佩洛西的丈夫在舊金山的豪宅裏遭到了令人震驚的入室襲擊。今年4月，Cash App創始人鮑勃•李（Bob Lee）被刺殺，一名前消防員遭到暴力襲擊，這一切都讓這座城市感到震驚。這三起事件的部分內容都被監控記錄了下來。
李在Rincon Hill社區被刺殺的第二天，53歲的前市政官員唐•卡米尼亞尼（Don Carmignani）在Marina District遭到襲擊者用水管攻擊後入院治療。警方迅速逮捕了24歲的遊民加勒特•多蒂（Garrett Doty），罪名是使用致命武器襲擊和毆打他人，造成嚴重傷害。
然而，本周卡米尼亞尼的律師聲稱，他們被告知地方檢察官辦公室計劃撤銷對多蒂的指控，認為在這起導致卡米尼亞尼頭骨骨折並被監控拍下的野蠻襲擊中，多蒂是在自衛。多蒂周三上午出現在法庭上，指控沒有撤銷。他將於周四上午9點返回法庭。
周三晚上，詹金斯的辦公室在推特上發表聲明，將訴訟延誤歸咎於卡米尼亞尼，稱他回避了采訪請求，而檢察官希望他出席初步聽證會，“這樣我們就可以繼續追究多蒂對這起暴力襲擊的責任。”聲明警告說，如果他不出席周四的聽證會，根據州法律，多蒂將被無罪釋放，
在周三晚上的一份聲明中，代表嫌疑人的市公共辯護人辦公室（Public Defender’s Office）稱，監控視頻顯示，卡米尼亞尼在暴力事件發生前拿著一罐胡椒噴霧接近了多蒂。
辯護人傑西•西弗（Jessie Seyfer）說：“一名第三方證人告訴警方，她聽到卡米尼亞尼威脅說，如果多蒂不離開該地區，就用刀刺死他。”“多蒂對卡米尼亞尼的舉動是出於自衛。”
卡米尼亞尼之前向福克斯新聞表示，一群無家可歸的“罪犯”在他母親位於舊金山Marina District的前門外安營紮寨。他說他的母親報了警，他也報了警。然而，這群人一整天都在騷擾他的母親和女朋友，據稱他們在公共場合吸毒，還騷擾路人。
（圖：街頭遊民 圖片來源：Don Carmignani）
卡米尼亞尼當晚趕到那裏，要求他們離開。然後發生了這起暴力事件。據卡米尼亞尼的律師說，卡米尼亞尼的頭部和麵部多次被擊中，甚至在他將要逃跑並背對襲擊者的時候，他從背後遭到一擊，他的頭骨受傷。
曾帶頭罷免前地方檢察官切薩•布丹（Chesa Boudin）的活動家和評論員裏奇•格林伯格（Richie Greenberg）表示：“市政廳官員……通過挑選部分數據，把舊金山描繪得過於美好，好像隻有凶殺案才重要，但我們知道真相，並且每天都能感受到，”
格林伯格在接受采訪時表示：“人們不僅僅是在發生凶殺案後感覺缺乏安全感，（城市中）還有很多受傷事件，財產遭武裝搶劫，各個地方的汽車遭到砸搶，商店和藥店頻繁被盜，遊客也成為了襲擊的目標。”
San Francisco homicides soared 83% through March, police statistics show
https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-francisco-homicides-soared-83-march-police-statistics-show
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.
