The statement quotes Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer from a September 23, 2024, news conference describing a pre-arrest or pre-filing diversion process where a police report would be held in advance and disposed of upon program completion. This aligns with known pre-filing diversion practices in some California jurisdictions, but without access to the specific news conference transcript or official Fresno policy documents from that date, I cannot definitively verify whether Dyer made this exact statement or whether the described policy was accurately characterized at that time.

Unable to verify that Mayor Jerry Dyer made the quoted statement at a Sept. 23, 2024 news conference; without confirmation from the cited source, the claim cannot be affirmed as true.

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