Surveillance in San Francisco, California
86/100 · Extreme
San Francisco ranks #4 among the 100 most surveilled US cities we track, with 2,023 documented surveillance devices — about 231.5 per 100,000 residents.
546
License plate readers
1,396
CCTV cameras
40
DOT traffic cameras
41
Red light / speed cams
24
Internet-exposed cameras
$1.6M
Federal surveillance grants
Police technology
- Police tech score: 85/100 across 10 documented technologies
- Gunshot detection (ShotSpotter): Deployed
- Police camera registry / doorbell partnership: Not documented
Counts are documented devices from OpenStreetMap, state DOT feeds, municipal open data and the EFF Atlas of Surveillance. They are a floor, not a total — undocumented cameras are common, and a device appearing here is not confirmation it is currently operating.