The number of traffic tickets issued by San Francisco police continued climbing upward in the first four months of 2025, according to police data — though SFPD still issues only a fraction of the tickets they did before 2020.
Compared to the same period last year, tickets were up nearly 50% in the first four months of 2025, a Chronicle analysis found, building on increases in early 2024.
Just under half of the violations this year were in the “Focus on Five” category, which includes the infractions most likely to cause a collision: speeding, running red lights and stop signs, failing to yield while turning and failing to yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk…