SFPD - CITY BY THE BAY BECOMING SCAM CAPITAL

The San Francisco Police Department is worried that the City by the Bay is fast becoming the scam capital of America.

Frauds are up while law enforcement assigned ti tackle those crimes, is down.

It's been reported in the local press that there were 19 SFPD inspectors assigned to fraud cases in 1990, but there are only eight now. That has caused a severe backlog of cases. Those eight officers are now working on: 1230 general fraud cases; 145 check-fraud cases; 400 access-card-fraud cases; and 325 Approximate amount of embezzlement cases. A large percentage of them seem to be targeting the elderly and the non- or little-English spoken categories of Asian or Hispanic citizens.