San Francisco District Attorney Plans To Curb Area Crime Using Mental Health Outreach, Treatment
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón will launch a program using a three-year, $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to curb violence in the Eastern Bayview area of Bayview-Hunter's Point. The program aims to prevent crime in the area -- which accounted for 26% of the city's murders from 2008 to 2011 -- through intervention, mental health outreach and treatment and increased access to victim compensation.
- "San Francisco DA To Fight Crime With Healing" (Papenfuss, HealthyCal, 11/8).