Police in San Francisco is strengthening security in a downtown district, where a surge of violence has left at least six dead in the past two weeks.
More uniformed and plainclothes officers will be deployed in downtown San Francisco's Mission District, especially in areas where drugs are sold and gang members are known to gather, police chief Heather Fong said Friday.
"The violence in the Mission is unacceptable," Fong said at a press conference. She described the recent killings and other attacks in the troubled neighborhood as "senseless" and "vicious."
Two men and a woman were shot Thursday night at a street corner in the district by two men with handguns who then fled the scene in a car that had waited for them, police said. The two men died, but the woman survived with non-life threatening injuries.
Meanwhile, police have monitored the Mission District, which is known for gang activities, since Wednesday night for possible retaliation after the head of the local chapter of the Hells Angeles, a notorious outlaw motorcycle gang, was murdered a day earlier.
Police said at least six people had been killed in the district in the past two weeks and no arrests had been made in any of these killings.
The new police strategy in the district includes extended beat coverage in the areas where violence has been occurring, as well as increased patrols by police vehicles. Various units like gang task force, undercover narcotics teams and specially-weaponed SWAT teams will also be deployed to the area, according to police.
Source: Xinhua
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