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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Police captains are a vital link to the neighborhoods and communities they serve, Peskin said. But the department’s large command staff, which Peskin said has doubled since he first took office in 2001, has created ample opportunities for advancement, increasingly luring police captains away from their districts, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin points to Central Station, which serves the Chinatown and North Beach neighborhoods in his district, and which he said has had eight different captains in the last 11 years, making it challenging for communities to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961640/will-a-plan-to-cut-sfpd-command-staff-stop-revolving-door-of-top-brass-aaron-peskin\">form strong bonds with the station’s leadership\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Ahsha Safaí underscored that concern during a hearing on the issue last month, arguing that such turnover “undermines confidence” communities have in the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had some great captains over the course of time,” he said. “But the fact that they stay for a very short period of time doesn’t allow for there to be consistency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the department’s command staff has grown, \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12310528&GUID=F1655421-C7E4-4207-9EE1-D842C51F8004\">so too has its pension liabilities\u003c/a>. According to SFPD data, the command staff’s total salary was just over $3 million in 2016, but is projected to grow to $7.5 million by 2025. Eliminating two of those positions would save the city as much as $8 million in pension liability over time, according to the board’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12350582&GUID=F4835C18-50B5-4314-A1C0-381910A31BD4\">Budget and Legislative Analyst\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin on Wednesday told KQED that the move to trim from the top “sets the tone and gives policy direction to the mayor and Board of Supervisors going forward as we enter a period of more fiscal stringency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chief Scott has argued that cutting too many command staff members will impede the department’s ability to institute comprehensive police reforms\u003ca href=\"https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/2018-11/DOJ_COPS%20CRI_SFPD%20OCT%202016%20Assessment.pdf\"> called for by the U.S. Department of Justice (PDF)\u003c/a>, and to effectively manage the burgeoning fentanyl crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know a lot has been said on costs and pensions and all that, but we have to talk about the work that has been thrust upon this department, and we are glad to do it. But we need the people to do it,” Scott said at last month’s hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to those concerns, Diana Oliva-Aroche, SFPD’s policy and public affairs director, told the budget committee on Wednesday that having additional time to prepare for the cuts, as this current proposal offers, will make for a smoother transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are two large positions that end up carrying a lot of responsibilities,” she said. “And so the time will allow us to be able to figure out the duties and responsibilities in a responsible way for the organization.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Ed Siu is a pro at giving Central Station police captains tours of Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at this point, the chairman of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cmuasf.org/%E9%97%9C%E6%96%BC-about-us\">Chinatown Merchants United Association of San Francisco\u003c/a> thinks he’s given too many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, district police captains serve as public figures and tacticians for clusters of neighborhoods. Central Station, a six-story gray slab at the edge of North Beach, oversees Chinatown as well as the Financial District, Fisherman’s Wharf, Telegraph Hill, Nob Hill and Russian Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoping to ensure captains learn the safety needs of Chinatown merchants, Siu will walk them down bustling Stockton Street, jockeying between thick crowds of shoppers to arrive at the door of New Golden Daisy, one of those restaurants with ducks hanging in the window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siu and the captain may amble over to the Sweetheart Florist, \u003ca href=\"https://sweetheartfloristsf.com/collections/blanketofferings\">which also offers traditional Chinese silk blankets\u003c/a>, before going down to Kearny Street, the heart of the neighborhood’s tourist offerings, to Hon’s Wun-Tun House for soup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ed Siu, chairman, Chinatown Merchants United Association of San Francisco\"]‘I mention it to the captains, the turnover is too fast. They should help us by knowing about Chinatown and the district.’[/pullquote]Siu has led tours for so many new police leaders that he can’t remember all of their names. The expansion of the San Francisco Police Department’s command staff has led to high turnover among captains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mention it to the captains, the turnover is too fast,” said Siu, who has owned a Chinatown travel agency for more than four decades. “They should help us by knowing about Chinatown and the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just a Central Station dilemma. Anecdotally, some San Francisco supervisors have long complained of turnover among station police captains, saying that as soon as they’ve got good footing in a neighborhood they’re already out the door, oftentimes by way of promotion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight captains have led Central Station in the past 11 years, an average of just over a year per captain. The swelling of SFPD’s leadership has also led to the swelling of salaries and pensions. According to SFPD data, the command staff’s total salary was just over $3 million in 2016, but is projected to grow to $7.5 million by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11961412 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-022-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"People cross the street at a city intersection.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-022-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-022-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-022-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-022-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-022-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-022-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People cross Stockton Street in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood on Sept. 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who represents neighborhoods served by Central Station, wants to stop the speedy promotions by eliminating four positions in the upper echelons of SFPD, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/your-sfpd/leadership\">winnowing its size\u003c/a> and redirecting funds to pay for eight police officers to walk city beats. Peskin’s budget adjustment is set to be considered at a \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/committees\">Board of Supervisors Budget & Appropriations Committee hearing\u003c/a> on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A top-heavy, bloated command staff has grown exponentially in recent years,” Peskin told KQED. “This is something that I think makes policy sense. It makes economic sense and will lead to better policing in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the move sounds like a simple budget cut, it may significantly hamper police reform efforts in San Francisco, Chief Bill Scott said at an August Board of Supervisors meeting. He admitted SFPD had staffing problems, but said the force needs administrative support as it balances the competing demands of reform and public safety concerns in the Tenderloin and surrounding neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin\"]‘A top-heavy, bloated command staff has grown exponentially in recent years. This is something that I think makes policy sense. It makes economic sense and will lead to better policing in San Francisco.’[/pullquote]One of the more recently minted commander positions, for instance, coordinates the rollout of information to the public when an officer shoots a person. That transparency is a key part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/your-sfpd/police-reform/cri-current-status\">U.S. Department of Justice’s reform recommendations to SFPD\u003c/a> in 2016, Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that goes for many of the newer command staff roles, arguing to Peskin that the department can’t just lop off a swath of commanders without consequences to that work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decades ago, there were only a handful of people who reported directly to the chief, according to Jim Wunderman, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareacouncil.org/staff/jim-wunderman/\">CEO of the Bay Area Council\u003c/a>, a nonprofit representing business interests across the region. Wunderman served in a number of roles in then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein’s administration and as chief of staff for Mayor Frank Jordan, a former chief of police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, many police captains stayed at that rank longer, even until retirement. But Wunderman recalled when Feinstein was first urged to expand the command.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dianne’s first reaction to it was pretty negative,” he said. “Why do we want to add more administrative staff? Don’t we want to put more cops out in the stations where crime actually occurs?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Feinstein was convinced. Jordan was promoted in 1978 from lieutenant to a newly created commander position. Three decades later, there are 16 sworn members of SFPD’s command staff: two assistant chiefs, five deputy chiefs and nine commanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11961410 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-005-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with glasses speaks to someone with long hair inside a store.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-005-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-005-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-005-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-005-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-005-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-005-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Store owner Tracy Liu (left) speaks with Edward Siu, president of the Chinatown Merchants United Association, at her shop in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood on Sept. 13, 2023. Liu worries about the safety of tourists affecting business at her shop. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wunderman said that when there’s leadership bloat “in any organization, whether it’s business or government for that matter, you end up with a loss of accountability. There’s too many people trying to talk to too many people and nothing gets done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some former Central Station captains include David Lazar, who now serves as an assistant chief and Julian Ng, who is now a deputy chief. Paul Yep is commander of the administration bureau and Garret Tom, who was the Central Station captain 10 years ago, is retired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can tell you as a district supervisor for most of the last quarter century that my go-to person on virtually a daily basis is the captain of Central Station,” Peskin said. “And we haven’t had a captain at all for two months, until last week, and had an acting captain for almost two years before that because of the misplaced priorities of the leadership of the department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More on San Francsisco Police Department' tag='san-francisco-police-department']And just like station captains, most command staff don’t stay in their roles for long, either. Data shows they don’t spend longer than three years in the positions before they’re promoted or retire. San Francisco’s pension liability for SFPD command staff has grown from under $100,000 a month in 2017 to a monthly cost of nearly $500,000 just this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t want a revolving door” of top staff, Peskin said. “A revolving door is pension spiking, and yes, there is some of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lily Lo, the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://bechinatown.com/\">BeChinatown\u003c/a>, a group that helps small businesses in the neighborhood, would like to see funding redirected to beat cops in Chinatown and other neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s good to have more police patrolling,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Chief Scott’s concerns over implementing hard-won police reforms, retired Judge LaDoris Cordell wonders if some roles could be taken on by less-expensive civilian staff. From 2010-2015, Cordell served as an independent police auditor for San José, a civilian position. That police auditor’s job was to make recommendations to the chief, like creating a new policy on chokeholds. In 2015, she served on the Blue Ribbon Panel that made reform recommendations to SFPD \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10454955/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\">after its racist texting scandal.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While implementing reforms is important, a strong part of creating better bonds between police and Black and brown communities is true community policing, Cordell said. A key recommendation to SFPD by the Department of Justice was to craft a strategic plan for community policing. SFPD’s website shows this goal is still “in progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"California Superior Court Judge LaDoris Cordell, retired\"]‘I don’t know that any of these are contradictory. They can all be done. But it’s hard to do it in a system that says your best reward is being promoted and moving up as fast as you can.’[/pullquote]That was also a recommendation of the Blue Ribbon Panel Cordell served on, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/BRP_report.pdf\">noted that community members desired (PDF)\u003c/a> police to serve “long-term assignments in a community to get to know and build trust with residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People “get to know them, then they get to trust them,” Cordell said. “And then, when issues come up regarding crime, they’re willing to go and talk to these officers because the officers have gotten to know them. And that is the key.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Cordell, it’s not impossible for a police force to balance promotions and to provide longevity for neighborhoods. 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"content": "\u003cp>An attempt by San Francisco leaders to hold an outdoor question-and-answer session about the city’s drug crisis was thwarted Tuesday afternoon after protesters at United Nations Plaza shouted over Mayor London Breed and Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After retreating to City Hall, Breed and Peskin — who had requested the special off-site location for the full Board of Supervisors meeting to put a spotlight on problems in the area — continued to discuss how the city is addressing ongoing problems with open-air drug dealing, drug use and dangerous street conditions, all of which UN Plaza has come to symbolize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed touted many of the mental health services and programs the city has under her leadership and praised efforts to prioritize treatment over punitive approaches. But she also said accountability has been lacking, and suggested that the city’s public health-based approaches have reached their limits of efficacy in tackling the current crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Force is going to have to be a part of it, whether people like it or not. We’re going to have to do more,” Breed told the Board of Supervisors inside City Hall, in response to a question from Peskin about whether she intended to clear outdoor drug dealing and potentially reignite emergency orders, such as the one she \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11899726/sf-mayor-breed-declares-state-of-emergency-in-tenderloin\">declared in 2021 for the Tenderloin neighborhood\u003c/a>; for 90 days, the order galvanized multiple city departments to address challenges in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, we can’t just keep throwing up our hands and think all of a sudden what we are doing is working,” she said. “Compassion is killing people. And we have to push forth some tough love to change what’s happening on the streets of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Breed did not specifically comment on a potential new emergency order, she highlighted the San Francisco Police Department’s new partnership with the California Highway Patrol and the California Army National Guard, or CalGuard — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948062/newsom-taps-chp-national-guard-to-fight-san-franciscos-fentanyl-crisis\">announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom at the end of April\u003c/a> — targeting drug trafficking and dealing in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t force the state and the feds to come to the table, but finally they are coming to the table in a way that’s not necessarily traditional,” Breed said. “They are invited to work with us even to the point where if they want to oversee the operation … we will follow direction. Whatever it takes. I am willing to humble the city to do whatever is necessary to get to a better place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed also asked the board to pass her upcoming budget without any reductions and to “support the arrests for those who are struggling with addiction, especially when they break the law, to get them into drug treatment court and the support they so desperately need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Dean Preston, whose district includes the Tenderloin, compared the approach to tough-on-crime drug policies known collectively as the war on drugs, which began in the ’70s under President Richard Nixon and was greatly expanded in the ’80s under President Ronald Reagan. Black men in particular were vastly overrepresented in the increased arrests during the crack and heroin epidemics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What she’s proposing is arresting people for drug use. And that is a key part of the war on drugs, and it does nothing other than get people off the streets temporarily — and then in the end, increased drug use and increased overdoses,” Preston told KQED. “The only thing that this accomplishes is getting people out of sight for a few hours at a very high price to the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a press release, Preston later added: “If the Mayor, Supervisors, and other City leaders care about the Tenderloin, they should make sure the Tenderloin gets the investments the community needs in the budget process, support our $10 million emergency Tenderloin public safety supplemental, deliver the long promised Tenderloin wellness hub without further delay, house people who are unhoused, and make treatment on demand a reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950525\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65801_010_KQED_LondonBreedQA_05232023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Black man stands behind a camera, in a crowd, shouting.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65801_010_KQED_LondonBreedQA_05232023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65801_010_KQED_LondonBreedQA_05232023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65801_010_KQED_LondonBreedQA_05232023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65801_010_KQED_LondonBreedQA_05232023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65801_010_KQED_LondonBreedQA_05232023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protester shouts during an unusual public Q&A session with San Francisco Mayor London Breed and Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city is currently developing a pilot program to address when someone on the street is “so far under the influence of drugs that they may pose a danger to themselves or others,” according to a spokesperson for the city’s Department of Emergency Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program, which could involve enforcing public intoxication laws, will be included in the mayor’s upcoming budget proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The uncomfortable conversations have to happen. I get that people have an issue that we are getting more aggressive to people with addiction,” Breed told the board. “I’m one of those people. I lost a sister to drug overdose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Breed’s sister struggled to access treatment services years ago, Breed said, many more facilities and beds have become available under her leadership, and the wait time for treatment has since dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health and addiction advocates, however, stress that there are still not enough resources to meet the need San Francisco is facing due to fentanyl, an opioid 50 times more potent than heroin that has led to a spike in overdose deaths in the city in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they point to research that has shown that more incarceration could lead to higher overdose rates among offenders shortly after their release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"fentanyl\"]Located in the heart of San Francisco a short walk from City Hall, the historic UN Plaza is flanked by the Orpheum Theater to the west and Market Street to the south. On Wednesdays, it hosts one of the city’s largest farmers markets. But the plaza has also become ground zero for debates over policing the drug use and sales that frequently occur there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 100 people gathered in the plaza Tuesday for the unusual, short-lived Board of Supervisors meeting, which \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/politics/political-theater-mayor-london-breed-drug-crisis-united-nations-plaza-aaron-peskin/\">cost more than $4,000 to stage, according to The San Francisco Standard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One protester allegedly threw a brick toward the speaking area after Supervisor Peskin recessed the outdoor hearing and moved it back to City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other demonstrators held signs and demanded justice for Banko Brown, a 24-year-old Black trans man who was shot and killed by a Walgreens security guard last month. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949558/district-attorney-releases-video-of-banko-brown-shooting-at-walgreens-wont-files-charges-against-security-gaurd\">District Attorney Brooke Jenkins recently declined to prosecute the guard.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mayor London Breed needs to step down. 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I am willing to humble the city to do whatever is necessary to get to a better place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed also asked the board to pass her upcoming budget without any reductions and to “support the arrests for those who are struggling with addiction, especially when they break the law, to get them into drug treatment court and the support they so desperately need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Dean Preston, whose district includes the Tenderloin, compared the approach to tough-on-crime drug policies known collectively as the war on drugs, which began in the ’70s under President Richard Nixon and was greatly expanded in the ’80s under President Ronald Reagan. Black men in particular were vastly overrepresented in the increased arrests during the crack and heroin epidemics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What she’s proposing is arresting people for drug use. 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If the Biden administration rejects the city’s requests to continue halting transfers, the hospital could be required to resume relocating its more than 550 remaining patients, many of whom are elderly and lower-income, to other skilled nursing facilities as early as Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is entirely possible that on Friday, Feb. 3, hundreds of San Franciscans residing at Laguna Honda will face the trauma of possible relocation again from being discharged,” San Francisco Supervisor Myrna Melgar, whose district includes the hospital, said at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors hearing. “The rigid bureaucracy of the U.S. government has put us into this position.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospital officials have said they have no plans to resume transferring patients unless compelled to do so. Twelve of the 57 patients who were initially transferred from the hospital last summer — some of whom had dementia and limited physical and cognitive ability — died within weeks or months of being relocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Laguna Honda strongly advocated against these transfers. We warned CMS (the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) that the four-month deadline to transfer nearly 700 residents to other facilities was entirely insufficient given the complex nature of our resident population and the lack of available beds at SNFs (skilled nursing facilities) anywhere in the region or the state,” hospital officials said in a public statement earlier this month in response to regulatory citations it received following the deaths of the transferred patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roland Pickens, Laguna Honda’s interim CEO, said he is hopeful the current pause on patient transfers will be extended, allowing the hospital to continue working to address deficiencies cited by state and federal regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s hearing, other San Francisco leaders blasted federal officials for so far failing to respond to the city’s extension request, just days before the hospital could be required to resume patient transfers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a powerful and unaccountable bureaucracy,” Supervisor Rafael Mandelman said. “They [CMS] have done significant harm. They have created a ton of stress and anxiety for hundreds more people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 6 a.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>San Francisco officials are expected to find out this week whether federal regulators will allow the city to continue postponing the transfer of patients out of Laguna Honda Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An extension would allow patients and their families to breathe a temporary sigh of relief, just days before the recently decertified hospital could be required to resume relocating its more than 550 remaining charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920121/sf-officials-outraged-over-laguna-honda-patient-deaths-following-federally-mandated-transfers\">Regulators paused their initial transfer requirement\u003c/a> in July 2022, after reports that some of the 57 patients who had initially been moved from the hospital had died. In total, 12 former patients are confirmed to have died, nearly all of whom had been transferred last year to other skilled nursing facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu is now requesting that the pause on transfers extend until at least May 30, 2023, and the status of the relocation plan is scheduled to be addressed at a Board of Supervisors hearing on Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a moral and ethical imperative to not continue the transfers,” said Joseph Urban, a health care consultant whose mother-in-law, Betty Campbell, was a resident at Laguna Honda. “We’re down to the wire again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing Campbell’s frail state, Urban and his spouse turned down the hospital’s offer last summer to relocate her. The 86-year-old died recently at the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opened in 1866, Laguna Honda is one of the oldest and largest public skilled nursing facilities in the country, treating a wide range of medical conditions including dementia, stroke, mental illness and HIV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the hospital is still licensed, it was decertified last year by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for a series of safety violations. That means it is no longer in good standing with government-provided health care options like Medicare and Medi-Cal, which fund medical costs for the vast majority of its patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Laguna Honda lost certification, CMS required the hospital to create and implement a closure plan, including the transfer of all of its nearly 700 patients, many of them elderly and frail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"laguna-honda-hospital\"]At the same time, the hospital has been working with consultants to prepare for recertification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The focus of this meeting needs to be primarily on how the Board of Supervisors can be a force for protecting the most vulnerable: those who are now residents at Laguna Honda and those of us could need a bed there at any time,” Teresa Palmer, a former Laguna Honda physician and geriatrician, wrote in a letter to the board ahead of its Tuesday hearing. “Administration at Laguna Honda and consultants obviously need more time to ‘turn the ship around.’ In order to prevent death and harm to current and future residents, this time needs to be made available by CMS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the California Department of Public Health fined Laguna Honda $36,000 for providing inadequate care to the patients who died after their transfers. Nearly all of those patients, who ranged in age from 63 to 100, were considered severely disabled, including some who were on feeding tubes, living with dementia or nonverbal, the agency’s citations show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The citations also noted that the patients who died were identified as “not discharge ready” because they were frail or otherwise not in a condition to be relocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/amp/laguna-honda-hospital-san-francisco-funding-mayor-london-breed-press-conference-healthcare-in-sf/11747735/\">current regulatory crisis facing Laguna Honda\u003c/a> began last spring, when federal regulators decertified the hospital after conducting a series of safety inspections triggered by two nonfatal drug overdoses the previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because San Francisco lacks an adequate supply of skilled nursing options, especially for people who rely on government health care plans like Medicare, most of those 57 patients were transferred out of the county. Two of the patients were sent to homeless shelters after discharge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, city leaders responded to the relocation requirement and subsequent deaths by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921717/san-francisco-sues-feds-over-forced-closure-of-laguna-honda-hospital/\">suing the federal government\u003c/a>, arguing that CMS had imposed an arbitrary and unrealistic closure deadline that didn’t give the city enough time to appeal the original infractions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several months later, however, the city agreed to drop the lawsuit in exchange for federal regulators temporarily halting the transfers and continuing to pay the $18 million in monthly Medicare and Medi-Cal costs for the remaining residents through November 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patricia McGinnis, executive director of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, called out the hurried transfers as a form of abuse and criticized state and federal regulators for pressuring the hospital to carry out the closure plan, despite the severe risk it posed to many patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call on CMS to stop the Laguna Honda closure before more residents are killed, and the Legislature to investigate CDPH and hold its leaders accountable,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Opponents warned the police’s new authority would lead to the further militarization of a police force they believe already lacks adequate accountability and is too aggressive with marginalized communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Breed dismissed those concerns, emphasizing that she was “very supportive of that decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The robots are] not trained to shoot people. There’s a lot of misinformation about what they actually will do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed insisted they would only be used in the most extreme circumstances and their deployment would require the highest level of authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the department has been very responsible in its usage of its various tools that it has,” she said, noting that the robots could be a “lifesaver and a game changer” in the most dangerous situations. “And there’s a lot of oversight necessary to ensure that there is no abuse or no problematic situations that occur.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My hope is that we never have to use it,” Breed added. “But we doubt very seriously it’ll lead to some of the issues that people have expressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department said it does not have prearmed robots and has no plans to arm robots with guns. But the department could deploy robots equipped with explosive charges “to contact, incapacitate, or disorient [a] violent, armed, or dangerous suspect” when lives are at stake, SFPD spokesperson Allison Maxie said in a statement.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"sfpd\"]“Robots equipped in this manner would only be used in extreme circumstances to save or prevent further loss of innocent lives,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors amended the proposal Tuesday to specify that officers could use robots only after using alternative force or deescalation tactics, and concluding they would not be able to subdue the suspect through those alternative means. Only a limited number of high-ranking officers could authorize use of robots as a deadly force option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police currently have a dozen functioning ground robots used to assess bombs or provide eyes in low-visibility situations, the department said, noting they were acquired between 2010 and 2017, and have not once been used to deliver an explosive device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a new California law that went into effect this year requires police and sheriff’s departments to inventory military-grade equipment and seek explicit authorization for their use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authored last year by San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu when he was still an Assembly member, the law is aimed at giving the public a forum and voice in the local government acquisition and use of military-grade weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Connie Chan, who forwarded the proposal to the full board, and on Tuesday voted for it, said she understood concerns over use of force but that “according to state law, we are required to approve the use of these equipments. 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In September, supervisors agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-drug-dealing-fe3835d12bf05c29297b78b5dfbab011\">a trial run allowing police to access in real time private surveillance camera feeds\u003c/a> in certain circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debate on Tuesday ran more than two hours, with advocates for both sides accusing the other of reckless fearmongering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I find it really shocking that just two years after our nation collectively recognized that police were using unjustified deadly force against people, disproportionally against Black and Brown people, that we’re having a conversation about letting SFPD adopt a policy, and with approval from this body, that would allow them to use robots to kill,” said Supervisor Dean Preston, who voted against the policy, joining Supervisor Hillary Ronen and Board President Shamann Walton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who voted in favor of authorization, said he was troubled by rhetoric painting the police department as untrustworthy and dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s larger questions raised when progressives and progressive policies start looking to the public like they are anti-police,” he said. “I think that is bad for progressives. 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"content": "\u003cp>Should robots working alongside law enforcement be used to deploy deadly force?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is weighing that question this week as they consider a policy proposal that would allow the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) to use robots as a deadly force against a suspect.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Paul Scharre, author\"]'For the military, they're used in combat against an enemy and the purpose of that is to kill the enemy. That is not and should not be the purpose for police forces.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new California law became effective this year that requires every municipality in the state to list and define the authorized uses of all military-grade equipment in their local law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original draft of SFPD's policy was silent on the matter of robots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaron Peskin, a member of the city's Board of Supervisors, added a line to SFPD's original draft policy that stated, \"Robots shall not be used as a Use of Force against any person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFPD crossed out that sentence with \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=11435108&GUID=2BDCB218-6FC9-4D6C-BB88-E8CB9C3AA0D9\">a red line\u003c/a> and returned the draft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their altered proposal outlines that \"robots will only be used as a deadly force option when risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers are imminent and outweigh any other force option available to the SFPD.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFPD currently has 12 functioning robots. They are remote controlled and typically used to gain situational awareness and survey specific areas officers may not be able to reach. They are also used to investigate and defuse potential bombs, or aide in hostage negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin says much of the military-grade equipment sold to cities for police departments to use was issued by the federal government, but there's not a lot of regulation surrounding how robots are to be used. \"It would be lovely if the federal government had instructions or guidance. Meanwhile, we are doing our best to get up to speed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of robots being legally allowed to kill has garnered some controversy. In October, a number of robotics companies – \u003ca href=\"https://www.bostondynamics.com/open-letter-opposing-weaponization-general-purpose-robots\">including Hyundai's Boston Dynamics\u003c/a> – signed an open letter, saying that general purpose robots should not be weaponized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Calo is a law and information science professor at the University of Washington and also studies robotics. He says he's long been concerned about the increasing militarization of police forces, but that police units across the country might be attracted to utilizing robots because \"it permits officers to incapacitate a dangerous individual without putting themselves in harm's way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robots could also keep suspects safe too, Calo points out. When officers use lethal force at their own discretion, often the justification is that the officer felt unsafe and perceived a threat. But he notes, \"you send robots into a situation and there just isn't any reason to use lethal force because no one is actually endangered.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first time a robot was reported being used by law enforcement as a deadly force in the United States was in 2016 when the Dallas Police Department used a bomb-disposal robot armed with an explosive device to kill a suspect who had shot and killed five police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email statement to NPR, SFPD public information officer Allison Maxie wrote, \"the SFPD does not own or operate robots outfitted with lethal force options and the Department has no plans to outfit robots with any type of firearm.\" Though robots can potentially be equipped with explosive charges to breach certain structures, they would only be used in extreme circumstances. The statement continued, \"No policy can anticipate every conceivable situation or exceptional circumstance which officers may face. The SFPD must be prepared, and have the ability, to respond proportionally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Scharre is author of the book \u003cem>Army Of None: Autonomous Weapons And The Future Of War\u003c/em>. He helped create the U.S. policy for autonomous weapons used in war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scharre notes there is an important distinction between how robots are used in the military versus law enforcement. For one, robots used by law enforcement are not autonomous, meaning they are still controlled by a human.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For the military, they're used in combat against an enemy and the purpose of that is to kill the enemy. That is not and should not be the purpose for police forces,\" Scharre says. \"They're there to protect citizens, and there may be situations where they need to use deadly force, but those should be absolutely a last resort.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is concerning about SFPD's proposal, Scharre says, is that it doesn't seem to be well thought out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Once you've authorized this kind of use, it can be very hard to walk that back.\" He says that this proposal sets up a false choice between using a robot for deadly force or putting law enforcement officers at risk. Scharre suggests that robots could instead be sent in with a non-lethal weapon to incapacitate a person without endangering officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As someone who studies robotics, Ryan Calo says that the idea of 'killer robots' is a launchpad for a bigger discussion about our relationship to technology and AI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to robots being out in the field, Calo thinks about what happens if the technology fails and a robot accidentally kills or injures a person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It becomes very difficult to disentangle who is responsible. Is it the people using the technology? 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They are remote controlled and typically used to gain situational awareness and survey specific areas officers may not be able to reach. They are also used to investigate and defuse potential bombs, or aide in hostage negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin says much of the military-grade equipment sold to cities for police departments to use was issued by the federal government, but there's not a lot of regulation surrounding how robots are to be used. \"It would be lovely if the federal government had instructions or guidance. Meanwhile, we are doing our best to get up to speed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of robots being legally allowed to kill has garnered some controversy. In October, a number of robotics companies – \u003ca href=\"https://www.bostondynamics.com/open-letter-opposing-weaponization-general-purpose-robots\">including Hyundai's Boston Dynamics\u003c/a> – signed an open letter, saying that general purpose robots should not be weaponized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Calo is a law and information science professor at the University of Washington and also studies robotics. He says he's long been concerned about the increasing militarization of police forces, but that police units across the country might be attracted to utilizing robots because \"it permits officers to incapacitate a dangerous individual without putting themselves in harm's way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robots could also keep suspects safe too, Calo points out. When officers use lethal force at their own discretion, often the justification is that the officer felt unsafe and perceived a threat. But he notes, \"you send robots into a situation and there just isn't any reason to use lethal force because no one is actually endangered.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first time a robot was reported being used by law enforcement as a deadly force in the United States was in 2016 when the Dallas Police Department used a bomb-disposal robot armed with an explosive device to kill a suspect who had shot and killed five police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email statement to NPR, SFPD public information officer Allison Maxie wrote, \"the SFPD does not own or operate robots outfitted with lethal force options and the Department has no plans to outfit robots with any type of firearm.\" Though robots can potentially be equipped with explosive charges to breach certain structures, they would only be used in extreme circumstances. The statement continued, \"No policy can anticipate every conceivable situation or exceptional circumstance which officers may face. 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"content": "\u003cp>Leland Yee. Fiona Ma. Ed Jew. Carmen Chu. Katy Tang. Gordon Mar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2001, these six Asian American officials passed the torch to one another, representing San Francisco’s majority-Asian District 4 on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now for the first time in more than 20 years — and the first time since San Francisco began electing supervisors by district, rather than citywide — a non-Asian elected official will represent its electorate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joel Engardio is now supervisor-elect. The incumbent, Mar, conceded the race to Engardio on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the Asian community and other communities of color, marginalized communities, it’s extremely important to have representatives that share their lived experience and have the depth of understanding not only of their shared concerns but their hopes and dreams,” Mar said in an interview, Friday. “It’s been a great honor for me to represent District 4, a majority-Asian district, these past four years, as someone who does share that deep connection and experience with working-class Asian American families in the Sunset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Engardio also represents a number of firsts. He’s the first openly gay legislator to represent District 4, and he’s the first challenger to topple an incumbent elected San Francisco supervisor in a district election.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Joel Engardio, SF supervisor for District 4\"]‘As a candidate, I did a lot to do Chinese-language outreach. And many people on my staff and many of my volunteers spoke Mandarin and Cantonese. I will do a lot to make sure that we’re communicating with and connecting with every resident in the Sunset.’[/pullquote]But Mar’s defeat is a cause for concern among some Asian leaders in San Francisco — regardless of their politics. The usual tribalism in this city pits left-leaning progressives against centrist moderates. In that framework, Mar is seen as a progressive and Engardio a moderate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most Asian supervisors in San Francisco have leaned progressive, and often found backing among Asian communities. Yet a moderate-leaning faction of Chinese voters may have found their voice during recent recalls in the city — which could change the calculus of whom Asian voters send to office, no matter their ethnicity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, longtime Asian American leaders see a benefit to having Asian elected officials in City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mabel Teng, a former supervisor who won her office during citywide elections in the 1990s, noted that Mar’s defeat leaves only one Asian member of the Board of Supervisors — Connie Chan — \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/sanfranciscocountycalifornia\">in a city that’s 37% Asian\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also bemoaned the defeat of Ann Hsu, who would have brought an Asian immigrant’s perspective to the school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Asian community is hurting deeply with the defeat of Gordon Mar and Ann Hsu. This is the first time in decades, since my tenure on the [Board of Supervisors], there is one Asian elected on the [board] and Board of Education,” Teng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio says he wants to represent all of his constituents, and is committed to keeping an ear to the needs of Asian communities in his district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a candidate, I did a lot to do Chinese-language outreach. And many people on my staff and many of my volunteers spoke Mandarin and Cantonese,” Engardio said. “I will do a lot to make sure that we’re communicating with and connecting with every resident in the Sunset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 4 encompasses the Sunset and Parkside neighborhoods, and is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/sfchip/SF_SupervisorialPrintableHealthProfiles/All_Districts_Profile_Data.pdf\">majority Asian (PDF)\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/Press%20Release%207.20.21-%20Sunset%20Chinese%20Cultural%20District.pdf\">nearly 40% Chinese (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to city data. Those neighborhoods — more than many dense, urban San Francisco locales — resemble a suburban utopia, with single-family homes and higher rates of car driving versus transit use. It’s a slice of the proverbial American dream for families who emigrated here and the generations that came after them. It’s also home to retail corridors with many Asian anchor businesses, like 25th Irving Market, a popular grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932792\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11932792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian man in a blue suit holding a microphone and speaking with protesters behind him in support of gig workers.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Supervisor Gordon Mar, representing District 4, seen here supporting the creation of a statewide union of Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and other gig workers on Oct. 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Chinese community is so interwoven into District 4 that Supervisor Mar helped create the Chinese Cultural District in the Sunset in 2021. During the initial planning process, some of the groups involved with its formation planned a march against anti-Asian hate on the Great Highway in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an example of the types of community activities that could be organized on a regular basis through the Sunset Chinese Cultural District,” Mar said at the time, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Lee, politics lecturer at San Francisco State University, noted that Asian American leaders tend to be more in tune with the needs of that community. And those issues are many: Rising anti-Asian hate stemming from the pandemic, related but separate hate crimes and violence against Asians, and the health of Asian-owned businesses rank among needs Lee says are top of mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that is a concern for many people, including leaders in the Asian American community,” he said. “And it puts more pressure on the mayor to — through appointments, should openings come forward — to appoint Asian Americans to the Board of Supervisors so that we have a board that looks like the people of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lack of representation disproportionately affects the Chinese community in particular, which makes up a majority of District 4, said Malcolm Yeung, director of a prominent Chinatown nonprofit, the Chinatown Community Development Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the Chinese community, this is a blow. You know, it’s decreasing our representation quite significantly,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s been an ongoing narrative since the recalls of District Attorney Chesa Boudin and three school board candidates of an “emerging Chinese moderate vote,” Yeung said, a more vocal sector of the Chinese community that leans more centrist in their politics. Notably, with some exceptions, many previously elected San Francisco supervisors who are Asian were progressives: Eric Mar (brother to Gordon), Sandra Fewer, Jane Kim, Norman Yee and Connie Chan, for instance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that newly activated electorate isn’t backing the usual Asian candidates in San Francisco, who have sometimes tacked toward progressive politics.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jane Kim, former San Francisco supervisor\"]‘What we’re also seeing is a greater diversity of perspectives that are now being represented by Chinese and Chinese American voters. Meaning they’re not just going to vote for a candidate because they are aligned from the same community, but they’re also going to be looking very carefully at their agenda as well.’[/pullquote]Notably, Gordon Mar spoke out against recalls, not because of the candidates necessarily, but on principle. That \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/election/article/These-were-the-neighborhoods-that-drove-the-17228393.php\">was out of step\u003c/a> with many voters in his district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly, that emerging moderate vote is not going towards Chinese candidates as a whole. We saw that with Gordon,” Yeung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mar himself said there was more nuance in that argument: Conservative Chinese voters have always been around. They pushed back on legal cannabis dispensaries on the west side of the city, for instance, and have long organized around Lowell High School. But he acknowledged the recall may have bolstered their political views across the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redistricting may also have played a role in Mar’s loss, Yeung noted, as voting precincts added to District 4 \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2022/04/redistricting-update-task-force-sticks-with-unpopular-map-makes-some-tweaks-before-ending-at-3-a-m/\">during a redistricting process earlier this year\u003c/a> added in neighborhoods that ultimately voted to favor Engardio, \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/november-8-2022-election-results-summary\">who won by just shy of 500 votes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Progressive former Supervisor Jane Kim, now the state director for the California Working Families Party, said she noticed this new emerging Chinese electorate, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re also seeing is a greater diversity of perspectives that are now being represented by Chinese and Chinese American voters. 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He gave that as an example of finding a compromise between his values, and his neighborhood’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the reason for Mar’s loss, Kim said the decreasing voice of Asian Americans in San Francisco politics will lead to “an increased call for more representation in the 2024 [election] cycle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albert Chow, owner of Great Wall Hardware on Taraval Street in District 4 personally endorsed Supervisor Mar. But when asked whether he would be concerned about a lack of Asian leadership in his neighborhood, he struck a favorable tone about Engardio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s Joel’s turn to take the seat as supervisor [of] District 4. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Leland Yee. Fiona Ma. Ed Jew. Carmen Chu. Katy Tang. Gordon Mar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2001, these six Asian American officials passed the torch to one another, representing San Francisco’s majority-Asian District 4 on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now for the first time in more than 20 years — and the first time since San Francisco began electing supervisors by district, rather than citywide — a non-Asian elected official will represent its electorate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joel Engardio is now supervisor-elect. The incumbent, Mar, conceded the race to Engardio on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the Asian community and other communities of color, marginalized communities, it’s extremely important to have representatives that share their lived experience and have the depth of understanding not only of their shared concerns but their hopes and dreams,” Mar said in an interview, Friday. “It’s been a great honor for me to represent District 4, a majority-Asian district, these past four years, as someone who does share that deep connection and experience with working-class Asian American families in the Sunset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Engardio also represents a number of firsts. He’s the first openly gay legislator to represent District 4, and he’s the first challenger to topple an incumbent elected San Francisco supervisor in a district election.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But Mar’s defeat is a cause for concern among some Asian leaders in San Francisco — regardless of their politics. The usual tribalism in this city pits left-leaning progressives against centrist moderates. In that framework, Mar is seen as a progressive and Engardio a moderate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most Asian supervisors in San Francisco have leaned progressive, and often found backing among Asian communities. Yet a moderate-leaning faction of Chinese voters may have found their voice during recent recalls in the city — which could change the calculus of whom Asian voters send to office, no matter their ethnicity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, longtime Asian American leaders see a benefit to having Asian elected officials in City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mabel Teng, a former supervisor who won her office during citywide elections in the 1990s, noted that Mar’s defeat leaves only one Asian member of the Board of Supervisors — Connie Chan — \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/sanfranciscocountycalifornia\">in a city that’s 37% Asian\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also bemoaned the defeat of Ann Hsu, who would have brought an Asian immigrant’s perspective to the school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Asian community is hurting deeply with the defeat of Gordon Mar and Ann Hsu. This is the first time in decades, since my tenure on the [Board of Supervisors], there is one Asian elected on the [board] and Board of Education,” Teng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio says he wants to represent all of his constituents, and is committed to keeping an ear to the needs of Asian communities in his district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a candidate, I did a lot to do Chinese-language outreach. And many people on my staff and many of my volunteers spoke Mandarin and Cantonese,” Engardio said. “I will do a lot to make sure that we’re communicating with and connecting with every resident in the Sunset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 4 encompasses the Sunset and Parkside neighborhoods, and is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/sfchip/SF_SupervisorialPrintableHealthProfiles/All_Districts_Profile_Data.pdf\">majority Asian (PDF)\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/Press%20Release%207.20.21-%20Sunset%20Chinese%20Cultural%20District.pdf\">nearly 40% Chinese (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to city data. Those neighborhoods — more than many dense, urban San Francisco locales — resemble a suburban utopia, with single-family homes and higher rates of car driving versus transit use. It’s a slice of the proverbial American dream for families who emigrated here and the generations that came after them. It’s also home to retail corridors with many Asian anchor businesses, like 25th Irving Market, a popular grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932792\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11932792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian man in a blue suit holding a microphone and speaking with protesters behind him in support of gig workers.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Supervisor Gordon Mar, representing District 4, seen here supporting the creation of a statewide union of Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and other gig workers on Oct. 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Chinese community is so interwoven into District 4 that Supervisor Mar helped create the Chinese Cultural District in the Sunset in 2021. During the initial planning process, some of the groups involved with its formation planned a march against anti-Asian hate on the Great Highway in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an example of the types of community activities that could be organized on a regular basis through the Sunset Chinese Cultural District,” Mar said at the time, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Lee, politics lecturer at San Francisco State University, noted that Asian American leaders tend to be more in tune with the needs of that community. And those issues are many: Rising anti-Asian hate stemming from the pandemic, related but separate hate crimes and violence against Asians, and the health of Asian-owned businesses rank among needs Lee says are top of mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that is a concern for many people, including leaders in the Asian American community,” he said. “And it puts more pressure on the mayor to — through appointments, should openings come forward — to appoint Asian Americans to the Board of Supervisors so that we have a board that looks like the people of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lack of representation disproportionately affects the Chinese community in particular, which makes up a majority of District 4, said Malcolm Yeung, director of a prominent Chinatown nonprofit, the Chinatown Community Development Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the Chinese community, this is a blow. You know, it’s decreasing our representation quite significantly,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s been an ongoing narrative since the recalls of District Attorney Chesa Boudin and three school board candidates of an “emerging Chinese moderate vote,” Yeung said, a more vocal sector of the Chinese community that leans more centrist in their politics. Notably, with some exceptions, many previously elected San Francisco supervisors who are Asian were progressives: Eric Mar (brother to Gordon), Sandra Fewer, Jane Kim, Norman Yee and Connie Chan, for instance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that newly activated electorate isn’t backing the usual Asian candidates in San Francisco, who have sometimes tacked toward progressive politics.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Most use is voluntary, as it is in San Francisco, although a new ordinance in Houston, Texas, mandates certain businesses — bars, nightclubs and convenience stores — to record outside their premises at all times and share footage with police when requested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the new policy comes after years of a tumultuous pandemic in which viral footage of rampant shoplifting and brutal attacks on Asian Americans fueled a sense of unease and lawlessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new rules, police can monitor live for up to 24 hours, but only in emergencies where lives are at stake or in criminal investigations with a captain’s written approval. They can also monitor high-profile events to decide where to deploy officers. Permission must be received from the individual, business or community district for access to their cameras. Only outdoor areas can be monitored.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11841385,news_11899726,news_11747249\"]The trial period will last 15 months, giving supervisors about a year’s worth of data to review before they decide whether to extend the pilot program, tweak it or end it, Peskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU of Northern California was among more than two dozen groups that called on supervisors to prohibit live surveillance except in emergencies, saying it would disproportionately affect African Americans and other vulnerable communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation sued San Francisco on behalf of protestors in 2020, claiming \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11841385/sf-police-used-camera-network-to-illegally-spy-on-protestors-new-lawsuit-alleges\">San Francisco police illegally monitored live feeds of protestors\u003c/a> who were marching in the wake of George Floyd’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privacy advocates argued that police violated a local ordinance requiring the department to gain permission from the Board of Supervisors to monitor live feeds when they accessed a camera network operated by the Union Square Business Improvement District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also said police surveillance of public demonstrations can discourage people from exercising their rights to free speech and assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, a judge decided in favor of San Francisco. In his ruling, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Ulmer said the Union Square group gave police access to the cameras for the 2019 Pride Parade, before the ordinance was implemented, and therefore the police were allowed to continue accessing the network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two advocacy groups announced last month that they will appeal the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board President Shamann Walton, who is Black and voted against the legislation, said police already have the tools to request video footage from private citizens and make arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know the thought process is, ‘Just trust us, just trust the police department.’ But the reality is people have been violating civil liberties since my ancestors were brought here from an entirely, completely different continent,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Breed thanked the board, saying live surveillance would allow the police “to respond to the challenges presented by organized criminal activity, homicides, gun violence,” and even officer misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11899726/sf-mayor-breed-declares-state-of-emergency-in-tenderloin\">In December, the mayor called for a crackdown\u003c/a> on illegal vending and drug dealing in the Tenderloin, one of the most economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in the city with among the highest overdose rates. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=11240602&GUID=8E192C3D-24AF-4851-A25A-DC5DA85E7E77\">supervisors voted Tuesday for a trial run allowing police to monitor, in real time, private surveillance cameras\u003c/a> in certain circumstances, despite strong objections from civil liberties groups alarmed by the potential impact on privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed requested the ability to monitor in real time and was supported by merchants and residents who say police officers need more tools to combat drug dealing and retail theft they say have marred the city’s quality of life. It is temporary and will sunset in 15 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote was 7-4, with some supervisors astonished that the governing board of politically liberal San Francisco would consider granting more powers to law enforcement in a city that celebrates its activism. Others pushed back, saying they were tired of sophisticated criminal networks taking advantage of San Francisco’s lax attitude toward retail theft and other property crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Aaron Peskin, a privacy advocate who successfully passed legislation in 2019 to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11746658/san-francisco-may-ban-police-city-use-of-facial-recognition-technology\">ban the use of facial recognition software\u003c/a> by San Francisco police and other city departments, voted for the expansion. He said his team worked hard with the mayor and other members of the board to negotiate safeguards, including strict reporting requirements on when live monitoring was used and whether it improved safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized that is anathema to some,” said Peskin. “I am willing to give it a try.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The trial period will last 15 months, giving supervisors about a year’s worth of data to review before they decide whether to extend the pilot program, tweak it or end it, Peskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU of Northern California was among more than two dozen groups that called on supervisors to prohibit live surveillance except in emergencies, saying it would disproportionately affect African Americans and other vulnerable communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation sued San Francisco on behalf of protestors in 2020, claiming \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11841385/sf-police-used-camera-network-to-illegally-spy-on-protestors-new-lawsuit-alleges\">San Francisco police illegally monitored live feeds of protestors\u003c/a> who were marching in the wake of George Floyd’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privacy advocates argued that police violated a local ordinance requiring the department to gain permission from the Board of Supervisors to monitor live feeds when they accessed a camera network operated by the Union Square Business Improvement District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also said police surveillance of public demonstrations can discourage people from exercising their rights to free speech and assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, a judge decided in favor of San Francisco. In his ruling, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Ulmer said the Union Square group gave police access to the cameras for the 2019 Pride Parade, before the ordinance was implemented, and therefore the police were allowed to continue accessing the network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two advocacy groups announced last month that they will appeal the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board President Shamann Walton, who is Black and voted against the legislation, said police already have the tools to request video footage from private citizens and make arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know the thought process is, ‘Just trust us, just trust the police department.’ But the reality is people have been violating civil liberties since my ancestors were brought here from an entirely, completely different continent,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Breed thanked the board, saying live surveillance would allow the police “to respond to the challenges presented by organized criminal activity, homicides, gun violence,” and even officer misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11899726/sf-mayor-breed-declares-state-of-emergency-in-tenderloin\">In December, the mayor called for a crackdown\u003c/a> on illegal vending and drug dealing in the Tenderloin, one of the most economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in the city with among the highest overdose rates. At the time, she announced she would seek legislation allowing law enforcement real-time access to surveillance video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her harsh words — Breed said it was time to be “less tolerant of all the bull— that has destroyed our city” — the neighborhood remains troubled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916212/chesa-boudin-recall-sf-voters-on-track-to-oust-district-attorney\">San Francisco’s progressive prosecutor Chesa Boudin was ousted\u003c/a> from the district attorney’s office in a rare recall and replaced by Brooke Jenkins, who supports the trial program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To become law, the proposal needs a second vote, which is usually perfunctory and given the following week. Two members of the city’s five-member police commission, a citizen-led oversight body, have requested that the board hold off on the final vote until they have an opportunity to review the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"title": "'The Fences Didn't Help': 24th Street Mission BART Vendors Brace for New Permit System Amid Crackdown on Sale of Stolen Goods",
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"content": "\u003cp>The 24th Street BART plaza, in San Francisco’s Mission, is the beating heart of the city’s Latino Cultural District. Commuters riding the escalators up from the underground station are immediately immersed in the unmistakable aroma of carne asada sizzling in the nearby taquerias, the sounds of street ministers preaching in Spanish and the sight of people from all walks of life moving through this Bay Area crossroads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaza has traditionally served as a public space to congregate or rest, as well as an unofficial marketplace for street vendors. But in recent months, it’s become a point of contention among community members, amid the city’s ongoing efforts to combat the sale of stolen goods on its streets. In response to public safety concerns from San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen, who represents the district, BART erected fences around the plaza in late July, keeping only a narrow corridor open for passengers to access the station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923861\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923861\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57805_021_24thMissionVendors_08112022-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"24th Street and Mission BART in the background and a man pushing an ice cream cart in the foreground\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57805_021_24thMissionVendors_08112022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57805_021_24thMissionVendors_08112022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57805_021_24thMissionVendors_08112022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57805_021_24thMissionVendors_08112022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57805_021_24thMissionVendors_08112022-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vendors sell goods on 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco on Aug. 11, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But on August 20, a group of self-described community members and vendors dismantled the fences in protest, lambasting the blockade strategy as an attack on lower-income people already struggling to survive. The fences have remained dismantled since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronen this week told KQED she has no intention of asking BART to reinstall them and said she regrets not having first held a town hall to gather community input before the original decision was made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You live and you learn and in the future we will do that,” said Ronen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Calle 24, a local community group, convened its own town hall this past Tuesday, an event that drew some 200 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923853\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923853\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58094_021_KQED_24thMissionTownHall_08232022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stands speaking with one arm raised, as several other people sit listening in the background\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58094_021_KQED_24thMissionTownHall_08232022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58094_021_KQED_24thMissionTownHall_08232022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58094_021_KQED_24thMissionTownHall_08232022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58094_021_KQED_24thMissionTownHall_08232022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58094_021_KQED_24thMissionTownHall_08232022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Cristina Gutiérrez speaks during a town hall meeting filled with Mission residents, local vendors and members of community organizations about the fence that was put up at 24th and Mission BART, at the Latino Task Force health site in San Francisco on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What can we do to better protect the women who go out to work for their children?” asked Yolanda Dorado, a Mission resident who said she walks through the plaza before sunrise in order to get to work, and has been harassed there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community needs more police to prevent people from selling drugs outside BART,” added Silvia Ferrusquía, who runs a nearby bridal and quinceañera dress shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some in attendance, particularly younger people, voiced concerns that more law enforcement presence in the neighborhood would likely lead to an uptick in police violence against people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You and your history have shown us how a community can protect itself,” said Rut Hernandez, who grew up in the Mission. “If the older generation thinks the police can be of help, it’s worth considering it. Even if we’re not in agreement about that, we can reach some sort of compromise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On August 20, within hours of the fences being dismantled, the plaza was once again packed with vendors as pedestrians gathered to watch a low-rider parade.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Joshua Baltodano, Mission resident\"]‘The fences didn’t help. If anything, they just created more of a problem.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fences didn’t help. If anything, they just created more of a problem,” said Joshua Baltodano, a nearby resident who helped create the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/missiondefence_sf/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mission DeFence\u003c/a>” Instagram page to organize resistance against the fences. “When the fences were here, there was no room for anybody. Now we have room to actually have some legitimate vendors out here selling their goods and services and trying to make a living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baltodano said BART tried to reinstall the fences later on Saturday morning but gave up when community members refused to leave the plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vendor Demetra Block, who has been selling used clothes on the streets for the past two years, said she came back and set up shop at the plaza shortly after the fences came down. She said she relies on the plaza not only to sell her wares, but also to buy basic necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sell my stuff for $1, $2 or $5. Which is very affordable. I also have to come here to get my laundry detergent,” she said. “I can’t afford no $20 laundry detergent at the stores. But I can come here and get it for 10 or 15 bucks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also pushed back against the assertion that open-air markets, like this one, are dangerous, and said in the time she has been coming here, she has never seen a fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These people are trying to feed their families. They’re staying out of trouble. They’re not selling drugs,” Block said. “Why would they take this place from us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ronen said in the months leading up to the fences being erected, her office received numerous complaints from constituents that the plaza had become overcrowded and unruly, with an increasing number of people selling stolen goods and making it hard for seniors and people with disabilities to navigate the sidewalks. Meanwhile, nearby brick-and-mortar businesses complained that the street vendors created unfair competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronen also said some longtime vendors who had sold in the neighborhood for decades reported being assaulted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would come and rip their tablecloth off the table and have all of their wares flying away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923854\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923854\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57817_005_24thMissionVendors_08102022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a hat stands next to a variety of wares with houses in the mission in the background\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57817_005_24thMissionVendors_08102022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57817_005_24thMissionVendors_08102022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57817_005_24thMissionVendors_08102022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57817_005_24thMissionVendors_08102022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57817_005_24thMissionVendors_08102022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerome Allen sells items a block away from 24th and Mission streets to have more space, in San Francisco on Aug. 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Stop and Shop’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another vendor, Jerome Allen, used to sell goods at the plaza but was forced to move down Mission Street when the fences went up. His sidewalk spread, which he calls “Stop and Shop,” is among the larger ones in the vicinity. It stretches the entire length of a typical retail storefront, and is organized by wares, including shoes, clothes, tools, electronics and games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can name something I don’t have, I’ll give you something for free,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he tries to maintain a legitimate business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the stuff, people donate to me,” he said. “They’ll just pull up in their car and give me a bag of stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Allen acknowledges that inevitably, some of what he and others sell may have originally been stolen before it reaches them — what he calls “boosting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the boosting has gotten a little out of hand, you know, they’re doing too much,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, viral videos of organized retail theft operations — including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1G8cA_s9BI\">brazen robbery of a Louis Vuitton store\u003c/a> in the city’s upscale Union Square shopping district, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R09QamyK1YM\">a man in a Walgreens casually throwing items off a shelf\u003c/a> into a garbage bag and riding his bicycle out of the store — thrust San Francisco into the national spotlight, particularly galvanizing the attention of conservative media outlets, which pumped out headlines describing the city as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-san-francisco-crime-attitude-of-lawlessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lawless\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and local politicians took notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Illegal street vending has posed a significant challenge to our city and our small businesses for quite some time now, and it has only gotten worse since the beginning of the pandemic,” said San Francisco Mayor London Breed in a March press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unwanted publicity from retail theft spurred action from politicians and law enforcement agencies, who began to focus on cracking down not only on theft, but also the resale of the stolen goods. The BART plaza fence was another of these reactions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet some of the vendors who spoke with KQED said they were in favor of the fences. Garcia is one of the vendors who continued selling alongside the fences while they were still up (he asked that his full name not be used because he fears for his safety). He said he actually welcomed the fences, because it prevented people from harassing him while he worked.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Hillary Ronen, San Francisco supervisor\"]‘I believe this law is essential to making change in the neighborhood, because once people realize that their goods are going to be confiscated, then it’s no longer going to be profitable to sell these stolen goods in the streets.’[/pullquote]Garcia said someone even recently stole the dolly he had used to transport his stuff. But he still returns to the plaza to sell his wares, and uses what he earns to pay his rent and send money home to his family in Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another vendor, Lourdes Villegas, who sells tamales and champurrado, a warm beverage, at the plaza, said that she supports the fences because they prevented people from hanging around her table at the plaza. She said the crowds made her food appear unhygienic and drove customers away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re protecting our area so that we can continue to maintain our livelihood. If we let it one person come, everyone will come,” said Villegas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923855\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923855\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57792_009_24thMissionVendors_08112022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Vendors on 24th and Mission BART plaza stand under red tends speaking to people\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57792_009_24thMissionVendors_08112022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57792_009_24thMissionVendors_08112022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57792_009_24thMissionVendors_08112022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57792_009_24thMissionVendors_08112022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57792_009_24thMissionVendors_08112022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susana Rojas (right), executive director of Calle 24, speaks with a vendor on 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco on Aug. 11, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The new rules\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The fences were a last resort, and were never intended to be the permanent solution to address the complaints about deteriorating conditions at the plaza. That was intended to be addressed by a controversial \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/apply-street-vending-permit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new street vendor permit\u003c/a> ordinance the city’s Board of Supervisors unanimously passed in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wording of the\u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=10676767&GUID=38123A26-8DC6-42A9-89C5-9C18D4CE8AE7\"> measure\u003c/a> makes a clear connection between unregulated street vending and an increase in disturbances that require police intervention. It specifically cites an informal market of vendors at United Nations Plaza in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood that “fuels unlawful activity [and] leads to a high volume of 911 calls, incident reports, and arrests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the new law had been slow to implement on the ground — the city’s Department of Public Works now plans to begin enforcing it on September 12, roughly six months after its passage. Ronen, who has tried to fast-track its implementation, said the department needed time to create the entire permitting process, and that the ordinance includes a mandatory outreach period to inform street vendors of the changes and allow them enough time to comply with the new rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susana Rojas, executive director of Calle 24 in the Mission, is one of the community organizers putting the word out about the new law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after spending several months trying to inform vendors about the imminent rule changes, she said many people are still confused about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s fear. This is the way that they make their money. Anytime that they think, ‘Oh my God, I’m not gonna be able to vend there,’ they kind of shut off. So we have to come back multiple times until they understand what it is,” she said. “For us, what is important is that they do understand and they are ready so that they don’t end up getting moved and lose income with something that’s preventable if we all work together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new rules, vendors will be required to register for a business license, and pay a $430 fee to get a permit. They’ll also need to show proof of original purchase if they’re selling products that appear to be new. Without that proof, their goods can be confiscated by city enforcement officers; if they continue selling without permits, they could face fines of up to $1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923857\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923857\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57809_027_24thMissionVendors_08112022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A variety of different items seen through a fence\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57809_027_24thMissionVendors_08112022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57809_027_24thMissionVendors_08112022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57809_027_24thMissionVendors_08112022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57809_027_24thMissionVendors_08112022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57809_027_24thMissionVendors_08112022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goods for sale on 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco on Aug. 11, 2022. \u003ccite>(Bath LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ronen said she sees this new law as the “ultimate solution” to ending the sale of stolen goods on city streets, and the allegedly unsafe conditions that accompany them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe this law is essential to making change in the neighborhood, because once people realize that their goods are going to be confiscated, then it’s no longer going to be profitable to sell these stolen goods in the streets,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also acknowledges that many people who take to selling goods on the street are simply trying to earn a basic income, and notes that the new rules do not carry any criminal penalties for vending without a license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do believe that the vendors themselves, even the vast majority of the vendors selling the stolen goods, are not criminals themselves. They’re trying to survive,” she said. “This is the result of living in an expensive city with minimum-wage jobs, rising inequality and all these deep-rooted social problems that we have in San Francisco not allowing people to make ends meet.”[aside tag=\"mission, BART\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]Susana Rojas, with Calle 24, said that the nonprofit reluctantly supported the fences being erected. She said they did so because the number of complaints from community members made them feel that they had run out of options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never said that the fence was perfect. The fence was a little barrier to protect the vendors and to provide some kind of relief. That’s what the fences are, and to also give us an opportunity to create the process so that our vendors can have the BART plaza back,” said Rojas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going forward, she hopes that the future of the plaza will be community led.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hoping that we can come up with a community solution to make it better and to really have the steps that are going to support people … and addressing the root issues,” said Rojas, adding that her organization is now working to help some vendors fill out their paperwork and pay the new fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But opponents of the new vendor law say it will just make life harder for people already struggling to make ends meet, and will ultimately further displace longtime residents of the Mission by removing a crucial source of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether she plans on getting a permit to sell her goods, vendor Demetra Block scoffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t afford $430. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The 24th Street BART plaza, in San Francisco’s Mission, is the beating heart of the city’s Latino Cultural District. Commuters riding the escalators up from the underground station are immediately immersed in the unmistakable aroma of carne asada sizzling in the nearby taquerias, the sounds of street ministers preaching in Spanish and the sight of people from all walks of life moving through this Bay Area crossroads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaza has traditionally served as a public space to congregate or rest, as well as an unofficial marketplace for street vendors. But in recent months, it’s become a point of contention among community members, amid the city’s ongoing efforts to combat the sale of stolen goods on its streets. In response to public safety concerns from San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen, who represents the district, BART erected fences around the plaza in late July, keeping only a narrow corridor open for passengers to access the station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923861\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923861\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57805_021_24thMissionVendors_08112022-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"24th Street and Mission BART in the background and a man pushing an ice cream cart in the foreground\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57805_021_24thMissionVendors_08112022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57805_021_24thMissionVendors_08112022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57805_021_24thMissionVendors_08112022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57805_021_24thMissionVendors_08112022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57805_021_24thMissionVendors_08112022-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vendors sell goods on 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco on Aug. 11, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But on August 20, a group of self-described community members and vendors dismantled the fences in protest, lambasting the blockade strategy as an attack on lower-income people already struggling to survive. The fences have remained dismantled since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronen this week told KQED she has no intention of asking BART to reinstall them and said she regrets not having first held a town hall to gather community input before the original decision was made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You live and you learn and in the future we will do that,” said Ronen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Calle 24, a local community group, convened its own town hall this past Tuesday, an event that drew some 200 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923853\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923853\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58094_021_KQED_24thMissionTownHall_08232022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stands speaking with one arm raised, as several other people sit listening in the background\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58094_021_KQED_24thMissionTownHall_08232022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58094_021_KQED_24thMissionTownHall_08232022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58094_021_KQED_24thMissionTownHall_08232022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58094_021_KQED_24thMissionTownHall_08232022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS58094_021_KQED_24thMissionTownHall_08232022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Cristina Gutiérrez speaks during a town hall meeting filled with Mission residents, local vendors and members of community organizations about the fence that was put up at 24th and Mission BART, at the Latino Task Force health site in San Francisco on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What can we do to better protect the women who go out to work for their children?” asked Yolanda Dorado, a Mission resident who said she walks through the plaza before sunrise in order to get to work, and has been harassed there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community needs more police to prevent people from selling drugs outside BART,” added Silvia Ferrusquía, who runs a nearby bridal and quinceañera dress shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some in attendance, particularly younger people, voiced concerns that more law enforcement presence in the neighborhood would likely lead to an uptick in police violence against people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You and your history have shown us how a community can protect itself,” said Rut Hernandez, who grew up in the Mission. “If the older generation thinks the police can be of help, it’s worth considering it. Even if we’re not in agreement about that, we can reach some sort of compromise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On August 20, within hours of the fences being dismantled, the plaza was once again packed with vendors as pedestrians gathered to watch a low-rider parade.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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She said she relies on the plaza not only to sell her wares, but also to buy basic necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sell my stuff for $1, $2 or $5. Which is very affordable. I also have to come here to get my laundry detergent,” she said. “I can’t afford no $20 laundry detergent at the stores. But I can come here and get it for 10 or 15 bucks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also pushed back against the assertion that open-air markets, like this one, are dangerous, and said in the time she has been coming here, she has never seen a fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These people are trying to feed their families. They’re staying out of trouble. They’re not selling drugs,” Block said. “Why would they take this place from us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ronen said in the months leading up to the fences being erected, her office received numerous complaints from constituents that the plaza had become overcrowded and unruly, with an increasing number of people selling stolen goods and making it hard for seniors and people with disabilities to navigate the sidewalks. Meanwhile, nearby brick-and-mortar businesses complained that the street vendors created unfair competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronen also said some longtime vendors who had sold in the neighborhood for decades reported being assaulted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would come and rip their tablecloth off the table and have all of their wares flying away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923854\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923854\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57817_005_24thMissionVendors_08102022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a hat stands next to a variety of wares with houses in the mission in the background\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57817_005_24thMissionVendors_08102022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57817_005_24thMissionVendors_08102022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57817_005_24thMissionVendors_08102022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57817_005_24thMissionVendors_08102022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57817_005_24thMissionVendors_08102022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerome Allen sells items a block away from 24th and Mission streets to have more space, in San Francisco on Aug. 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Stop and Shop’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another vendor, Jerome Allen, used to sell goods at the plaza but was forced to move down Mission Street when the fences went up. His sidewalk spread, which he calls “Stop and Shop,” is among the larger ones in the vicinity. It stretches the entire length of a typical retail storefront, and is organized by wares, including shoes, clothes, tools, electronics and games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can name something I don’t have, I’ll give you something for free,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he tries to maintain a legitimate business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the stuff, people donate to me,” he said. “They’ll just pull up in their car and give me a bag of stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Allen acknowledges that inevitably, some of what he and others sell may have originally been stolen before it reaches them — what he calls “boosting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the boosting has gotten a little out of hand, you know, they’re doing too much,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, viral videos of organized retail theft operations — including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1G8cA_s9BI\">brazen robbery of a Louis Vuitton store\u003c/a> in the city’s upscale Union Square shopping district, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R09QamyK1YM\">a man in a Walgreens casually throwing items off a shelf\u003c/a> into a garbage bag and riding his bicycle out of the store — thrust San Francisco into the national spotlight, particularly galvanizing the attention of conservative media outlets, which pumped out headlines describing the city as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-san-francisco-crime-attitude-of-lawlessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lawless\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and local politicians took notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Illegal street vending has posed a significant challenge to our city and our small businesses for quite some time now, and it has only gotten worse since the beginning of the pandemic,” said San Francisco Mayor London Breed in a March press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unwanted publicity from retail theft spurred action from politicians and law enforcement agencies, who began to focus on cracking down not only on theft, but also the resale of the stolen goods. The BART plaza fence was another of these reactions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet some of the vendors who spoke with KQED said they were in favor of the fences. Garcia is one of the vendors who continued selling alongside the fences while they were still up (he asked that his full name not be used because he fears for his safety). He said he actually welcomed the fences, because it prevented people from harassing him while he worked.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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That was intended to be addressed by a controversial \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/apply-street-vending-permit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new street vendor permit\u003c/a> ordinance the city’s Board of Supervisors unanimously passed in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wording of the\u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=10676767&GUID=38123A26-8DC6-42A9-89C5-9C18D4CE8AE7\"> measure\u003c/a> makes a clear connection between unregulated street vending and an increase in disturbances that require police intervention. It specifically cites an informal market of vendors at United Nations Plaza in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood that “fuels unlawful activity [and] leads to a high volume of 911 calls, incident reports, and arrests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the new law had been slow to implement on the ground — the city’s Department of Public Works now plans to begin enforcing it on September 12, roughly six months after its passage. Ronen, who has tried to fast-track its implementation, said the department needed time to create the entire permitting process, and that the ordinance includes a mandatory outreach period to inform street vendors of the changes and allow them enough time to comply with the new rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susana Rojas, executive director of Calle 24 in the Mission, is one of the community organizers putting the word out about the new law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after spending several months trying to inform vendors about the imminent rule changes, she said many people are still confused about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s fear. This is the way that they make their money. Anytime that they think, ‘Oh my God, I’m not gonna be able to vend there,’ they kind of shut off. 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