Sacramento PD Chief Kathy Lester sits down with KCRA 3, speaks on crime, safety

Six months after being officially sworn in, Sacramento’s first female police chief, Kathy Lester sat down with KCRA 3’s Morning News at 9 am on Tuesday to speak about some of the biggest challenges the department has faced lately. Earlier in the year, Lester announced a violent crime reduction strategy as one of her key pursuits as the department’s newest chief. She said that strategy is something they’ve worked on for a while as crime has steadily increased.”We were not unique when you looked at our numbers compared to the rest of the nation over the last few years, you’ve seen a significant increase in violence. But in particular, gun violence. And we were no exception here in Sacramento,” she said. Lester said one of the bigger challenges in the city is not only the increase in guns in the community, but also how “people are behaving with guns.”“It really comes down to not just having the guns, but, you know, people resorting to violence to resolve differences and they’re doing it very quickly. And that’s really been contributing to our numbers and to the increase,” she said. She said that the department is taking a different approach, where instead of only looking into enforcement, they would look into what is driving this increase in violence. Watch the full video in the video above.

Six months after being officially sworn in, Sacramento’s first female police chief, Kathy Lester sat down with KCRA 3’s Morning News at 9 am on Tuesday to speak about some of the biggest challenges the department has faced lately.

Earlier in the year, Lester announced a violent crime reduction strategy as one of her key pursuits as the department’s newest chief.

She said that strategy is something they’ve worked on for a while as crime has steadily increased.

“We were not unique when you looked at our numbers compared to the rest of the nation over the last few years, you’ve seen a significant increase in violence. But in particular, gun violence. And we were no exception here in Sacramento, ” she said.

Lester said one of the bigger challenges in the city is not only the increase in guns in the community, but also how “people are behaving with guns.”

“It really comes down to not just having the guns, but, you know, people resorting to violence to resolve differences and they’re doing it very quickly. And that’s really been contributing to our numbers and to the increase,” she said.

She said that the department is taking a different approach, where instead of only looking into enforcement, they would look into what is driving this increase in violence.

Watch the full video in the video above.

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