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The demonstrations over immigration raids highlight the challenge facing any new police chief in a city with a long history of progressive activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043273\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043273\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco police officers face off with protesters during an anti-ICE protest on June 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor Lurie condemned the attacks, saying in a statement that “violence directed at law enforcement or public servants is never acceptable.”[aside postID=news_12044426 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-11-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday’s “No Kings” demonstration \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044426/no-kings-protests-draw-thousands-across-the-bay-area-to-rally-against-president-trump\">attracted large crowds throughout the Bay Area\u003c/a>, stressing law enforcement resources. 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It was a fateful decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan was an amiable, non-threatening sort of chief, but he was never “Agnos’ guy.” When Agnos’ main opponent promised to fire Jordan if elected, Agnos said he would keep him, a political calculation to gain support in more conservative westside neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan later resigned and ran for mayor, defeating Agnos in 1991 in a campaign dominated by concerns over homelessness, crime and drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Insider vs. outsider?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Max Carter-Oberstone is a progressive attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028726/reformist-sf-police-commissioner-is-ousted-giving-lurie-greater-control-of-oversight\">recently ousted from the Police Commission by Lurie\u003c/a>. The mayor didn’t give a reason, but Carter-Oberstone had publicly clashed with former Mayor London Breed — something most mayors don’t appreciate in their appointees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says whoever is chief in San Francisco must deal with several politically engaged constituencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got the mayor, you’ve got the police commission, you have the police officers union, the rank-and-file, the command staff, and then of course various constituencies among the residents of the city who each have their own views,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028391\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD Police Commissioner Max Carter-Oberstone listens to speakers at a rally protesting Mayor Daniel Lurie’s attempt to remove Carter-Oberstone from the Police Commission on the steps of San Francisco City Hall, on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former SFPD police chief George Gascón, who was appointed by then-Mayor Gavin Newsom after leading the department in Mesa, Arizona, said understanding local politics is essential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot be a chief of police if you don’t understand local politics,\u003cem>” \u003c/em>Gascón said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that rank-and-file cops are often wary of someone from outside the department becoming chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re going to find people wanting an outsider when there’s a perception that the internal structure is not addressing the needs of the organization and the people it serves,” Gascón said. “Generally, outside chiefs don’t last long\u003cem>.\u003c/em>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott, who came to San Francisco from the Los Angeles Police Department in 2017, broke that mold.[aside postID=news_12042515 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED.jpg']“I credit his ability to navigate a very complex political environment,” Gascón noted. “He’s a political survivor and that’s good for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón says that being an outsider has its pros and cons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was easier in the sense that I didn’t owe anybody anything,” Gascón said. “I had no allegiances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disadvantage to being an outsider, Gascón said, is that he often didn’t know where the internal alliances were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now with Scott gone, Lurie must weigh what kind of leader the department, and his administration, need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every mayor wants to have who they want as the police chief. They just can’t hire them themselves. There’s a process to it,” said Tracy McCray, president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the city charter, the San Francisco Police Commission forwards three candidates to the mayor. He can accept one, or request a new search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCray, who was recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/acting-police-chief-paul-yep-picks-command-staff-20376502.php\">promoted\u003c/a> from lieutenant to commander, worked under 11 different police chiefs during her 31 years on the force and notes that being chief “is unlike any other type of police job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be a little bit of a chameleon,” she said, referring to keeping multiple factions and interest groups happy in a city where politics is a blood sport. “You have to be able to kind of move and groove as things are thrown at you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More protests could test next chief\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Today, facing a severe shortage of officers and a wave of retirements, the SFPD is at a critical juncture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jack Glaser, who studies policing trends and best practices at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy, said the next chief should be someone who can remain calm under pressure and conflict, as recent protests suggest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that the city would be wise to think about somebody who’s going to be able to weather future storms, and I do think that we’re going to see a ramping up of protests in the months and years to come, partly related to the political environment and partly related to the situation in the Middle East,” Glaser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042524\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie walks with Captain Liza Johansen, from the Mission Police Station, and Santiago Lerma, with the Department of Emergency Management, during a public safety walk in San Francisco’s Mission District on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He added that research shows that managing protests effectively requires a “lighter touch” and good communication with protest organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need a lot of restraint on the part of the chief and the ability of the chief to convey restraint to his rank and file,” Glaser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Lurie announced Scott’s departure, he called him a friend, adding, \u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>I cannot thank you enough for what you’ve given to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036408/sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-touts-progress-crime-homelessness-first-100-days\">Crime rates in the city remain historically low\u003c/a>, including a significant drop in property crimes compared to 2023, when Lurie made public safety a centerpiece of his campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the Board of Supervisors Rules Committee will consider nominating one of seven candidates to fill a vacancy on the Police Commission, the body that will ultimately help choose Scott’s successor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott’s record is a tough act to follow. And if the new chief fails to live up to expectations, it’s Lurie who will take the political hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The moment reminds many of 1992, when the National Guard was sent in at the request of then-Gov. Pete Wilson to quell civil unrest following the acquittal of police officers who beat motorist Rodney King.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, recent protests \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043544/dozens-more-arrested-in-calmer-night-of-san-francisco-ice-protests\">resulted in around 250 arrests\u003c/a>, mostly for violence or destroying property. The demonstrations over immigration raids highlight the challenge facing any new police chief in a city with a long history of progressive activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043273\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043273\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco police officers face off with protesters during an anti-ICE protest on June 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor Lurie condemned the attacks, saying in a statement that “violence directed at law enforcement or public servants is never acceptable.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday’s “No Kings” demonstration \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044426/no-kings-protests-draw-thousands-across-the-bay-area-to-rally-against-president-trump\">attracted large crowds throughout the Bay Area\u003c/a>, stressing law enforcement resources. It all costs money at a time San Francisco is facing a nearly $800 million budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is in this moment of political peril that Lurie must select a new police chief. Even under the best of circumstances, selecting a police chief can be a fraught decision for mayors, who have to balance competing demands of several constituencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lessons from history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1988, newly elected Mayor Art Agnos — who \u003cem>this \u003c/em>reporter was working for at the time — faced a similar challenge. That September, United Farm Workers leader Dolores Huerta — a friend and political ally of Agnos — was attending a protest outside the St. Francis Hotel, where Vice President George H. W. Bush was giving a speech. Bush was also the Republican nominee for president at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a scuffle with SFPD, the 58-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/dolores-huerta-hurt-at-protest-sept-16-1988-4809592.php\">Huerta was hit by a police officer’s baton\u003c/a>, rupturing her spleen and fracturing two ribs. It brought the department’s crowd control tactics into sharp focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044395\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1393\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty-1536x1070.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portrait of labor activist Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers group, with a union flag that reads ‘Viva La Causa,’ circa 1970s. \u003ccite>(Cathy Murphy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I will not tolerate anything that is not part of authorized crowd control tactics,” Agnos said after reviewing videotapes of the event. \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-09-16-mn-2389-story.html\">He ordered police chief Frank Jordan to investigate\u003c/a> the incident and recommend changes to crowd control policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan, distancing himself from the mayor ever so slightly, contended that the 85 or so officers dressed in riot gear acted within department policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year, in a historic twist reverberating today, Agnos signed San Francisco’s Sanctuary City policy, placing sharp limits on local law enforcement agencies’ cooperation with federal immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Agnos’ first decisions after getting elected was keeping Jordan as police chief — a holdover from his predecessor, Dianne Feinstein, despite Agnos’ frosty relationship with her. It was a fateful decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan was an amiable, non-threatening sort of chief, but he was never “Agnos’ guy.” When Agnos’ main opponent promised to fire Jordan if elected, Agnos said he would keep him, a political calculation to gain support in more conservative westside neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan later resigned and ran for mayor, defeating Agnos in 1991 in a campaign dominated by concerns over homelessness, crime and drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Insider vs. outsider?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Max Carter-Oberstone is a progressive attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028726/reformist-sf-police-commissioner-is-ousted-giving-lurie-greater-control-of-oversight\">recently ousted from the Police Commission by Lurie\u003c/a>. The mayor didn’t give a reason, but Carter-Oberstone had publicly clashed with former Mayor London Breed — something most mayors don’t appreciate in their appointees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says whoever is chief in San Francisco must deal with several politically engaged constituencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got the mayor, you’ve got the police commission, you have the police officers union, the rank-and-file, the command staff, and then of course various constituencies among the residents of the city who each have their own views,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028391\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD Police Commissioner Max Carter-Oberstone listens to speakers at a rally protesting Mayor Daniel Lurie’s attempt to remove Carter-Oberstone from the Police Commission on the steps of San Francisco City Hall, on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former SFPD police chief George Gascón, who was appointed by then-Mayor Gavin Newsom after leading the department in Mesa, Arizona, said understanding local politics is essential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot be a chief of police if you don’t understand local politics,\u003cem>” \u003c/em>Gascón said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that rank-and-file cops are often wary of someone from outside the department becoming chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re going to find people wanting an outsider when there’s a perception that the internal structure is not addressing the needs of the organization and the people it serves,” Gascón said. “Generally, outside chiefs don’t last long\u003cem>.\u003c/em>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott, who came to San Francisco from the Los Angeles Police Department in 2017, broke that mold.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco police commissioners on Wednesday will consider a crypto billionaire’s offer of nearly $9.4 million to fund \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004882/san-francisco-to-deploy-mobile-surveillance-units-in-latest-expansion-of-police-tech\">increased surveillance efforts\u003c/a>, reigniting questions about the ethics of both the controversial technology and large private donations for public programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds would come from cryptocurrency company Ripple and the San Francisco Police Community Foundation, a nonprofit created by Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen, who has been a prominent supporter of new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-police-department\">SFPD\u003c/a> technology efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved, the donation would provide new downtown office space for the Police Department’s surveillance unit, dubbed the Real Time Investigations Center, and funding for a dozen officer-operated drones to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999063/san-francisco-police-deploy-drone-surveillance-after-24-year-break\">add to the fleet\u003c/a> it brought online last summer, among other technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly $2.13 million of the donation would be in the form of a cost-free sublease of Ripple’s former office space at 315 Montgomery St. Currently, the RTIC operates out of the Hall of Justice, but according to the resolution before the Police Commission, the run-down building has hampered the unit’s ability to make use of its new technologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larsen said the space has “such bad infrastructure that the police today literally lose connectivity to their drones while they’re trying to chase a suspect and that ruins the chase.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042525\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco Police Department officer stands at 16th and Mission Streets in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ripple’s existing lease doesn’t expire until December 2026, but the company relocated into a larger space on Battery Street in Jackson Square in 2022. Until the paid-for rental expires, Larsen said he saw an opportunity to “help out” the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that after next December, it will be up to SFPD to decide whether to keep and pay for the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining $7.25 million would go toward the purchase of new drones and installation of technology upgrades in the space, provided by the San Francisco Community Police Foundation. The legislation would also waive the city’s competitive bidding requirement that would generally apply to the Police Department’s purchases of equipment, technology or services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larsen created the foundation, which was formed last year to support the San Francisco Police Department, but does not sit on its board.[aside postID=news_12039914 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Critics of the donation say that it allows wealthy citizens to “buy” policies they want the city to adopt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a rich person bankrolling technology that police are going to buy and use in the city, also without any democratic approval,” said Matthew Guariglia, a senior policy analyst at the digital privacy nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larsen disagrees that the donation overrides community input. He said it has to go through four levels of oversight — the foundation’s board cleared the funding, and along with the sublease, will now have to gain the approval of the Police Commission, Board of Supervisors, and Mayor Daniel Lurie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has expressed support for RTIC and its technology, announcing at an April press conference that SFPD plans to expand the unit in the coming months and crediting its work in part for the city’s drop in crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“RTIC has already supported hundreds of arrests, with crime down 30% citywide, and with this new facility, the SFPD will have the tools and the technology it needs to take this work to the next level and help our officers keep our streets safe,” he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the tools the money would fund were also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978236/props-e-and-f-pass-prewrite\">backed by San Francisco voters\u003c/a> through the passage of Proposition E, which expanded SFPD’s ability to use surveillance technology and diminished the Police Commission’s power. It received 54% approval last March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the RTIC unit has assisted in more than 500 arrests and prevented “numerous” police pursuits, according to the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959511\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A street in San Francisco lined with Victorian homes and cars. The camera is angled from a lower angle to focus on shards of shattered glass on the floor.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Broken glass pieces from a car window are seen near a curb in Alamo Square in San Francisco, California, on June 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Some of these tools … have been really effective at catching these professional smash-and-grab crews that run roughshod over the city,” Larsen told KQED. “You’ve seen that now in the numbers: over 20% drop from last year in smash-and-grabs, last year was the lowest murder rate since the 1960s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guariglia pointed out that the decline in smash-and-grab robberies isn’t unique to San Francisco. Nationally, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/crime-in-california-is-trending-downward-new-data-suggests/#:~:text=California's%20decreases%20in%20violent%20and,%25%20and%204.4%25%2C%20respectively.\">property crime was down 8.4%\u003c/a> in 2024, according to the Public Policy Institute of California, and it has continued to fall this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said increased surveillance can easily have a disproportionate and negative impact on poorer, more vulnerable communities, depending on where the technology is placed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you live in a neighborhood with more surveillance … they are open to police harassment for jaywalking, for littering, a lot of really small minor things that are actionable for officers, but if you live in fancier neighborhoods up the hill with less cameras, you can get away with,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larsen said he understands that concern, but believes that San Francisco’s public safety policy has swung too far on both sides of the pendulum in recent years, from over- to under-policing. 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He said it has to go through four levels of oversight — the foundation’s board cleared the funding, and along with the sublease, will now have to gain the approval of the Police Commission, Board of Supervisors, and Mayor Daniel Lurie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has expressed support for RTIC and its technology, announcing at an April press conference that SFPD plans to expand the unit in the coming months and crediting its work in part for the city’s drop in crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“RTIC has already supported hundreds of arrests, with crime down 30% citywide, and with this new facility, the SFPD will have the tools and the technology it needs to take this work to the next level and help our officers keep our streets safe,” he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the tools the money would fund were also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978236/props-e-and-f-pass-prewrite\">backed by San Francisco voters\u003c/a> through the passage of Proposition E, which expanded SFPD’s ability to use surveillance technology and diminished the Police Commission’s power. 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Nationally, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/crime-in-california-is-trending-downward-new-data-suggests/#:~:text=California's%20decreases%20in%20violent%20and,%25%20and%204.4%25%2C%20respectively.\">property crime was down 8.4%\u003c/a> in 2024, according to the Public Policy Institute of California, and it has continued to fall this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said increased surveillance can easily have a disproportionate and negative impact on poorer, more vulnerable communities, depending on where the technology is placed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you live in a neighborhood with more surveillance … they are open to police harassment for jaywalking, for littering, a lot of really small minor things that are actionable for officers, but if you live in fancier neighborhoods up the hill with less cameras, you can get away with,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larsen said he understands that concern, but believes that San Francisco’s public safety policy has swung too far on both sides of the pendulum in recent years, from over- to under-policing. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:16 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s longest-serving police chiefs is stepping down from the job, Mayor Daniel Lurie announced Wednesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Scott, who has led the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-police-department\">police force\u003c/a> for more than eight years, will depart after assisting in a six-week transition and search for a replacement. He is moving to the newly formed Los Angeles Metro Transit Community Public Safety Department, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/05/police-chief-bill-scott-resigns-from-sfpd/\">\u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em> reports\u003c/a>. Paul Yep will serve as interim chief beginning next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On behalf of the city, I want to thank you, Chief Scott, for your steady leadership, your commitment to reform, and your dedicated service to the people of San Francisco,” Lurie said, announcing the news at City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott was selected to lead the department in 2016, after two years riled by a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11621361/s-f-district-attorney-clears-three-police-shootings-two-of-them-fatal\">series of high-profile police shootings\u003c/a>, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11752153/san-francisco-to-pay-400000-to-settle-lawsuit-over-police-killing-of-mario-woods\">death of Mario Woods\u003c/a> and increased community scrutiny. Then-Mayor Ed Lee tapped Scott to undertake reforms and transform the department into a “21st Century police force,” he said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott, who also led the department throughout Mayor London Breed’s time in office, came to the Bay Area after 27 years with the Los Angeles Police Department, where he had most recently served as deputy chief. He arrived in San Francisco planning to make changes within the department — similar to reforms he spearheaded in Los Angeles — but his tenure has been tumultuous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the pandemic and the rise of the fentanyl crisis, Scott was blamed in part for increasing overdose deaths and public drug use, as well as rising car break-ins and property crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039124\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039124\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/240830-SFSideshowLegislation-28-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/240830-SFSideshowLegislation-28-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/240830-SFSideshowLegislation-28-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/240830-SFSideshowLegislation-28-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/240830-SFSideshowLegislation-28-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/240830-SFSideshowLegislation-28-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/240830-SFSideshowLegislation-28-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chief of Police William Scott speaks during a press conference regarding sideshows in the Bay Area at the San Francisco Police Department headquarters on Aug. 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Chief Scott, by all accounts, is an honorable and hardworking police chief, but he was not a very effective police chief. Under his watch, the productivity and the efficacy of our police department continued to decline,” said veteran San Francisco political consultant Eric Jaye. “We have, at this point, one of the least productive police forces in California, if not America. And that was happening before he arrived, but that accelerated under his leadership.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dissatisfaction with the department and city leadership culminated in the 2022 recall of District Attorney Chesa Boudin \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">—\u003c/span> and was a key factor in Breed’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017844/exit-interview-london-breed-reflects-on-more-than-6-years-as-san-franciscos-mayor\">failed 2024 mayoral reelection bid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, over the last year, San Francisco has seen a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036408/sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-touts-progress-crime-homelessness-first-100-days\">dramatic drop in crime\u003c/a>, and just this January, the department announced that it had completed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020778/state-ends-oversight-sfpd-after-long-reform-effort-followed-fatal-shootings\">eight-year-long reform\u003c/a> process in collaboration with the Department of Justice. In 2016, SFPD began a review of its practices following the series of police shootings and intensifying dissatisfaction, and throughout Scott’s tenure, it has worked with the DOJ to implement more than 270 recommended reforms.[aside postID=news_12037898 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250428_WARRANTLESSSEARCHES_GC-19-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“The accomplishments demonstrate that the SFPD can be a national model for policing in the 21st century, showing that reform efforts build community trust, which improves public safety,” the department announced in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s chapter of the NAACP acknowledged Scott led the department through difficult times, including protests following the killing of George Floyd, and thanked him for his service to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chief Scott served our city with distinction, compassion, and consistency,” Jonathan Butler, NAACP San Francisco Branch President, said in a statement. “Importantly, Chief Scott consistently demonstrated his commitment to the work of the NAACP San Francisco Branch — participating in many of our meetings and showing up as a partner in our shared pursuit of justice and equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite efforts to reform, the city’s over-policing of Black residents, including disproportionate pretextual stops, persisted under Scott, said James Taylor, a professor of politics at the University of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chief Scott largely came in response to the Mario Woods movement, and it is significant that he was in the position during Mayor London Breed’s administration if, for nothing else, the symbolic importance that he represented as an African-American chief of police,” Taylor said. “But having a Black person as the head of SFPD did absolutely nothing to curtail the disproportionate minority contact SFPD has, and it’s worse than any police department in the state of California on police stops.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037951\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250428_WARRANTLESSSEARCHES_GC-27-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250428_WARRANTLESSSEARCHES_GC-27-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250428_WARRANTLESSSEARCHES_GC-27-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250428_WARRANTLESSSEARCHES_GC-27-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250428_WARRANTLESSSEARCHES_GC-27-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250428_WARRANTLESSSEARCHES_GC-27-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250428_WARRANTLESSSEARCHES_GC-27-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie attends a press conference announcing the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office’s plan to resume warrantless searches of criminal defendants who have been released and awaiting trial, outside of City Hall on April 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Officers’ Association and Scott have also clashed at times over certain policing policies, like avoiding seating handcuffed suspects on the ground. But in a statement on Wednesday, the group thanked him for his service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we may not have always agreed on issues, we valued and respected each other’s roles,” said SFPOA President Tracy McCray. “We always believed that each of us was doing what we felt was best for public safety and best for our officers, and that we were committed to hiring and retaining the best officers for the SFPD. We wish him well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie said that Scott will aid him in a six-week transition as he selects a new chief, who will be chosen from a list of options proposed by the citizen Police Commission.[aside postID=news_12038968 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-599_qed-1020x681.jpg']“I am committed to building a leadership team in SFPD that builds on our early progress, strengthens and deepens the ranks of our officers and command staff, and uses all the tools available to continue our comeback,” Lurie said. “And I look forward to working with the Commission, the Board of Supervisors, our officers, and communities across the city to do just that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the selection process, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020118/lurie-names-sf-first-chief-public-safety-tapping-former-police-commander\">Paul Yep\u003c/a>, who has been serving as City Hall’s public safety czar for the last four months, will return to SFPD as interim chief. He previously served in the department for 28 years, including as captain of Central Station, overseeing parts of Chinatown and the city’s downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yep resigned from his post as captain in 2018, shortly after a civil lawsuit alleged he rear-ended someone in Burlingame while driving under the influence in a city-owned vehicle and used his position to intimidate the other motorist. In court filings, Yep vehemently denied the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, Yep, who grew up in San Francisco and now lives in San Mateo, campaigned alongside Lurie and has become a close ally to the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Yep is serving as interim chief, Lurie said on Wednesday, “at City Hall, we have an experienced, capable team that will continue the work Paul has been doing” as policy chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>As San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032239/overdoses-climb-lurie-orders-scaling-back-harm-reduction-programs\">scales back some harm reduction programs\u003c/a> amid the city’s crackdown on open-air drug markets, UCSF doctors are raising concerns and emphasizing the integral role that such public health strategies play in keeping drug users safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harm reduction, which aims to mitigate the risks of death and long-term damage associated with drug use, has spurred increasingly polarized debate between coalitions that support and oppose the strategy. However, doctors and policy experts say increasing collaboration is the best way to ensure public health for the whole city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Harm reduction and treatment are like part and parcel of each other,” Dr. Ayesha Appa, an assistant professor of medicine at UCSF, said during a town hall on Thursday hosted by the Treatment on Demand Coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that for one of her patients, “having relationships with people who are offering safer-use supplies allowed him to feel valued and then think, ‘I’m worth something. I can do this,’” and get on methadone, a medication used to treat opioid addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>November’s election results, though, show a city growing more concerned with getting drugs and drug users off the streets and out of public view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A harm reduction program representative speaks with people on a popular alleyway in the Tenderloin neighborhood to hand out Narcan, fentanyl detection packets and tinfoil to those who need them as a part of drug addiction outreach in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Nick Otto/Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>New \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> campaigned on public safety, saying the city needed to crack down on open-air drug markets. He and other candidates running against incumbent London Breed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008970/its-maddening-addiction-experts-cry-foul-at-mayoral-candidates-push-for-drug-arrests\">criticized\u003c/a> some of her efforts focused on harm reduction, including the shuttered Tenderloin Center, which was the city’s first publicly run overdose prevention site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Breed’s latter years as mayor, she \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996234/sf-mayor-says-very-aggressive-encampment-sweeps-will-start-in-august\">moved away\u003c/a> from a harm-reduction approach to the drug crisis, which progressive politicians had embraced. And in District 5, which includes the Tenderloin, voters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013950/dean-preston-concedes-sf-district-5-race-to-bilal-mahmood-blasts-right-wing-pressure-groups\">ousted their progressive supervisor\u003c/a> in favor of a more moderate leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have a city that moved in a pragmatic direction – a lot of people are clearly unhappy with a number of things in the city, but a big part of what they’re unhappy about is drugs, homelessness, disorder, crime,” said Keith Humphreys, a drug policy expert and professor of psychiatry at Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists and nonprofits who have advocated for harsher crackdowns on public drug use — and criticized the city for making it too “easy” for people to use drugs — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024579/luries-sf-fentanyl-emergency-ordinance-sails-through-its-first-test\">joined Lurie\u003c/a> during his first month in office to introduce his “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020848/now-sf-mayor-lurie-unveils-emergency-plans-drug-homelessness-crises\">Fentanyl State of Emergency Ordinance\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen people suffering in the name of compassion and body autonomy, and it has to end,” said Gina McDonald, the co-founder of Mothers Against Drug Addiction and Deaths, who hosted the rally. “We believe that this fentanyl state of emergency ordinance is a state of emergency. It’s a five-alarm fire that needs to be mitigated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12032239 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240903-OverdoseResponse-42-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation gained wide approval from the Board of Supervisors, with only a single vote against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Lurie released more details on how he plans to use his expanded powers under the ordinance, which includes increasing treatment availability, clearing open-air drug markets and “reassess[ing] policies for distribution of fentanyl smoking supplies” — a service \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997957/heres-why-some-san-francisco-nonprofits-give-foil-and-pipes-to-drug-users\">provided by some city-funded nonprofits\u003c/a> that had drawn controversy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also worked with law enforcement to set up a mobile police command unit at the 16th Street BART station in the Mission, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028996/san-francisco-police-arrest-84-people-in-overnight-drug-market-raid-at-city-park\">overnight police raids\u003c/a> at prominent drug markets have increased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Supervisor Matt Dorsey introduced the “Recovery First Ordinance” at the end of February, which would make entirely stopping illicit drug use and attaining long-term treatment “the primary objective of the city’s drug policy.” In a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/mattdorsey/status/1905468937963536639\">post on the social media platform X\u003c/a> on Friday criticizing the UCSF doctors, Dorsey wrote that abstinence-only approaches to ending drug use include medication-assisted treatments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push toward recovery-focused drug policy has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032239/overdoses-climb-lurie-orders-scaling-back-harm-reduction-programs\">unpopular with harm reduction advocates\u003c/a>, who say reducing efforts to give out safer smoking supplies like foil and pipes is “misguided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study from independent scientific research organization RTI International found that increased drug seizures by law enforcement also increased opioid overdose mortality. But Humphreys said what it fails to account for is the public health of non-drug users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998115\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/001_KQED_SOMABuprenorphineDelivery_03232023_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998115\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/001_KQED_SOMABuprenorphineDelivery_03232023_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/001_KQED_SOMABuprenorphineDelivery_03232023_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/001_KQED_SOMABuprenorphineDelivery_03232023_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/001_KQED_SOMABuprenorphineDelivery_03232023_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/001_KQED_SOMABuprenorphineDelivery_03232023_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/001_KQED_SOMABuprenorphineDelivery_03232023_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/001_KQED_SOMABuprenorphineDelivery_03232023_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A psychiatric clinical pharmacist with the San Francisco Department of Public Health packs a backpack with harm reduction supplies before making deliveries to SROs and Permanent Supportive Housing in San Francisco on March 23, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The purpose of taking drug dealers off the street is not to change the overdose rate,” he told KQED. “The purpose is to make neighborhoods safe for families and get drug dealers off the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said an integrated public health approach — which the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-drug-dealing-tenderloin-emergency-center-18132343.php\">has been working on for years\u003c/a> but continues to need more of — would combine a nighttime bust by police with onsite harm reduction services, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Europe, in cities that have closed down open-air things, the police and the public health people work side by side,” he told KQED. “Police will say we’re closing down this open-air drug corner and the dealers are ours and the users are yours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will arrest the people … but then drive the methadone vans saying, ‘Who wants treatment, who needs clean needles right here?’ They use it as an opportunity to engage people into care because your dealer’s gone, but you know you could get to treatment right this second.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12033114 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/005_KQED_CarFreeMarketSt_01222020_8366_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four UCSF doctors who spoke about the importance of harm reduction on Thursday stressed the importance of linking harm reduction and treatment services by offering them in the same spaces and making the on-ramp to treatment less intimidating for drug users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said that reducing the distribution of safer drug supplies and medications that treat opioid addiction will make people less safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live in the city, I have kids … so that allows me to understand people who say, ‘Why the hell are you handing out opioids to people with opioid use disorder …handing out supplies to people that help them use drugs?’” said Dr. Scott Steiger, a professor in the departments of Medicine and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UCSF. “I could wave a magic wand and stop all of that, but we can’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This particular city has done this before and is very good at figuring out ways to be more inclusive, to bring people back into the larger community who are otherwise stigmatized or outsiders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco prosecutors said they don’t have enough evidence to file criminal charges against any of the roughly 40 people who police arrested last week as part of a pre-dawn “drug market crackdown” at the intersection of Market Street and Van Ness Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The raid marks the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030060/after-2-raids-sf-police-say-theyll-follow-drug-markets-from-block-to-block\">third overnight action\u003c/a> the city has carried out in recent weeks at hot spots for the sale and use of illegal drugs. Though police and Mayor Daniel Lurie have touted the aggressive law enforcement operations, some supervisors and others have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029456/supervisors-probe-san-franciscos-crackdown-outdoor-drug-use-dealing\">raised concerns about their efficacy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We charged none of those people,” Assistant DA Ana Gonzalez \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/03/sf-police-raid-market-van-ness-arrests-no-criminal-charges/\">told \u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em>\u003c/a> before speaking at a community meeting on Tuesday at the Tenderloin police station, explaining that there was a lack of sufficient cause to do so. “We had five people who maybe it was close, but we had to go back and go to the police and be like, ‘Can you say more about these?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA’s office plans to meet with police officials to discuss “how to do it smarter” so future arrests are more likely to result in charges, Gonzalez told community members at the meeting. She attributed the lack of follow-through to growing pains as the city adopts a new approach to enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[City leaders] are trying, but they’re trying too fast,” she said of San Francisco’s aggressive new push, under Mayor Daniel Lurie, to break up the city’s most notorious open-air drug markets. “We do not have the tools that would make this easier … [and police] are doing something that they have never done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996083\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996083\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFPD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFPD.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFPD-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFPD-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFPD-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFPD-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFPD-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Law enforcement arrested about 40 people in a large drug raid at Market and Van Ness in San Francisco last week, but prosecutors say there isn’t enough evidence to file charges. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=968098015470532\">Facebook video\u003c/a> posted by the San Francisco Police Department after Thursday’s early morning raid shows a legion of officers swarming the area, zip-tying people and making arrests — even setting up a folding table on the street to do the processing, as suspects sat waiting in clusters on the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This activity will not be tolerated [and] and we will continue these operations for as long as it takes,” the post reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DanielLurie/status/1902799634722087069\">separate post on X\u003c/a> featuring the video, Lurie echoed that sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day I see families waiting for Muni here, amidst open drug use and dealing,” he said. “This will not be tolerated, and we will be relentless in dismantling drug markets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Led by the Drug Market Agency Coordination Center, a multi-agency task force, the raid follows another one in February \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DanielLurie/status/1895549458571804821\">at Jefferson Square Park\u003c/a>, during which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028996/san-francisco-police-arrest-84-people-in-overnight-drug-market-raid-at-city-park\">nearly 90 arrests or citations\u003c/a> were issued — the vast majority for non-drug-related offenses like loitering. Police have also recently increased surveillance operations on 6th Street and near the 16th Street–Mission BART station.[aside postID=news_12028996 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/123_1-1020x459.jpg']At Tuesday’s meeting, Gonzalez emphasized that her office can only file charges when a law has obviously been violated. Unlike the Jefferson Square Park raid, where people were charged for being in the park after it closed at 10 p.m., there was no such obvious violation during Thursday’s action on a public street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For every single one of those people, I need to be able to articulate to the judge what crime that person committed,” Gonzalez said. “Who are you marking to be able to articulate that they committed a crime?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez emphasized it was crucial for the DA’s office to be deliberate in how it handles the uptick in arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you arrest enough people or cite enough people without being able to establish probable cause, the next thing you know, there’ll be complaints,” she said. “And then cops will get in trouble, and then there’ll be a chilling effect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The raids come \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032239/overdoses-climb-lurie-orders-scaling-back-harm-reduction-programs\">amid efforts\u003c/a> by the nascent Lurie administration to ramp up enforcement, fulfilling a key campaign promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Knoble, acting captain of the Tenderloin Station, told community members at Tuesday’s meeting that actions of this scale require a huge amount of planning and resources. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At Tuesday’s meeting, Gonzalez emphasized that her office can only file charges when a law has obviously been violated. Unlike the Jefferson Square Park raid, where people were charged for being in the park after it closed at 10 p.m., there was no such obvious violation during Thursday’s action on a public street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For every single one of those people, I need to be able to articulate to the judge what crime that person committed,” Gonzalez said. “Who are you marking to be able to articulate that they committed a crime?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez emphasized it was crucial for the DA’s office to be deliberate in how it handles the uptick in arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you arrest enough people or cite enough people without being able to establish probable cause, the next thing you know, there’ll be complaints,” she said. “And then cops will get in trouble, and then there’ll be a chilling effect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The raids come \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032239/overdoses-climb-lurie-orders-scaling-back-harm-reduction-programs\">amid efforts\u003c/a> by the nascent Lurie administration to ramp up enforcement, fulfilling a key campaign promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Knoble, acting captain of the Tenderloin Station, told community members at Tuesday’s meeting that actions of this scale require a huge amount of planning and resources. He said that even though no charges were ultimately filed, raids like these still have real impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Lurie] is taking action. He’s looking for things to happen,” Knoble said. “And when you start to do anything new, what do you do? ‘OK, that’s not quite working, so let’s adjust.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is based on original reporting from Mission Local’s Eleni Balakrishnan.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> planted a flag in the overdose debate by ordering the San Francisco Public Health Department to scale back some harm reduction programs as part of efforts to address the city’s drug crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s latest move, following the announcement of an upcoming behavioral health facility at 822 Geary for people experiencing a mental health or drug crisis, comes amid nighttime law enforcement raids targeting entrenched drug markets and a \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/2025_03_OCME_Overdose_Report.pdf\">steady rise in overdose rates\u003c/a> since October 2024, according to data from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is specifically planning to cut back on publicly-funded programs that hand out safe smoking supplies, such as pipes, foil and straws, according to Department of Public Health Director Daniel Tsai, who announced the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031847/sf-sees-decline-in-overdose-deaths-but-fentanyl-remains-a-major-threat\">most recent overdose data\u003c/a> at a press conference earlier this week. Clean needle exchanges and Narcan distribution will remain, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s directive has sparked controversy among health experts and harm reduction advocates, who say programs that offer supplies for safer smoking are proven to reduce overdoses and infections associated with drug use and can connect users to treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This idea that if you make smoking supplies disappear, people are going to stop using — it’s a smokescreen and really misguided,” said Laura Guzman, executive director of the National Harm Reduction Coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco contracts with the DOPE project, a program of NHRC, to distribute Narcan and other harm reduction supplies across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000177\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000177\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230831-SAFE-USE-POP-UP-MD-05_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230831-SAFE-USE-POP-UP-MD-05_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230831-SAFE-USE-POP-UP-MD-05_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230831-SAFE-USE-POP-UP-MD-05_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230831-SAFE-USE-POP-UP-MD-05_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230831-SAFE-USE-POP-UP-MD-05_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230831-SAFE-USE-POP-UP-MD-05_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boxes of Narcan, the overdose prevention drug, at a safe drug use pop-up site created by volunteers with Concerned Public Response in San Francisco on Aug. 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These directives, unfortunately, are just responding to political perspectives,” Guzman continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fentanyl, an opioid about 50 times more potent than heroin, is the most common drug currently associated with overdose deaths in the city. The majority of fentanyl users in San Francisco and across California consume fentanyl by smoking, which is far less likely to lead to an overdose than injecting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study found that fentanyl injection users were 40% more likely to experience a non-fatal overdose and 253% more likely to have bacterial or viral infections caused by needle use. While both methods can lead to an accidental overdose, addiction experts say that the shift to smoking fentanyl has likely kept overdose rates from being even higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vladimir Andreyev, who used heroin for several years before turning to smoking fentanyl, has lived on San Francisco’s streets for more than a decade. Craving shelter after a rainy weekend, Andreyev recently stopped by a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026575/a-new-triage-center-opened-in-san-francisco-but-questions-remain\">pop-up triage center\u003c/a> on Sixth Street because he heard he might be able to find a shelter bed.[aside postID=news_12026575 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-26-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“The only good thing about fentanyl was it helped me get off needles. The needle… that’s really depressing,” Andreyev, 42, told KQED while waiting for a ride to a shelter that a social worker at the center found for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guzman said new fentanyl users tend to smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Smoking supplies, in particular, engage communities that are not already engaged in needle exchange programs,” she said. “So that directive goes contrary to all evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s administration is doubling down on law enforcement to disrupt outdoor drug markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are actively dismantling the illegal drug markets as part of our ongoing commitment to public safety. San Franciscans deserve safe and clean streets,” he \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DanielLurie/status/1902799634722087069\">posted on social media platform X\u003c/a> on Thursday, after police arrested nearly 40 people for being near an outdoor drug market at Market and Van Ness streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the third overnight raid the city has carried out in recent weeks. Police surveillance has also increased on Sixth Street and near the 16th Street BART station. Some residents and officials have applauded the crackdown for at least temporarily clearing chaotic public areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you drive by there now, things are definitely better,” Supervisor Stephen Sherrill said at a recent press conference, referring to an overnight drug market raid that led to dozens of arrests at Jefferson Square Park. “Residents are rightfully hesitant to declare victory, and I don’t think anybody here is ready to declare victory at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029042\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/123_1-scaled-e1740692245681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"900\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police officers carried out a sweeping drug market raid on the evening of Feb. 26, 2025, in Jefferson Square Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Sebastian Luke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Police and supervisors have said that the actions have pushed dangerous activity to other areas, and they are developing longer-term deterrence strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andreyev, who sleeps outside near Sixth Street, has noticed the changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s cleaned up a lot. I’ve had a lot of friends get arrested,” he said. “You just have to be careful and follow the rules [if you] don’t want to end up in jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overdose rates fluctuate, and no specific intervention can be easily attributed to increases or decreases on a month-to-month basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Department of Public Health told KQED that what matters is that overdose deaths “are preventable, and we must have a quick, accessible and effective treatment and sustainable recovery” to drive rates down “and make our communities healthier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple health experts said they are concerned that winding down some harm reduction programs while increasing enforcement could lead to a sustained increase in overdose rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2831697?resultClick=1\">study\u003c/a> released this week by RTI International, a nonpartisan research organization, found that overdose risk was significantly higher in the days shortly after police seized drugs in San Francisco. The study looked at time and location data for both police drug enforcement actions and overdose deaths from January 2020 to September 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That increased risk can be due to a variety of factors, including, as the study points out, if a drug user looks for a new supply after a drug bust, they could accidentally consume something more potent than their tolerance is used to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These findings suggest that the enforcement of drug distribution laws to increase public safety for residents in San Francisco may be having an unintended negative consequence of increasing opioid overdose mortality,” the study concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:34 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you drive in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, now might be a good time to slow your roll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twelve of the city’s 33 new speed cameras began operating at the stroke of midnight on Thursday amid efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020559/can-san-francisco-stop-traffic-violence-so-far-efforts-failing\">reduce traffic fatalities\u003c/a> following a particularly deadly year for the city’s pedestrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Installed in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028444/sf-struggling-reduce-traffic-deaths-slow-streets-could-be-answer\">high-injury corridors \u003c/a>where speeding is common, the cameras will automatically snap photos of the rear license plates of motorists traveling 11 mph or more over the posted speed limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the next 60 days, speeding drivers in the camera zones will receive no-fee warning notices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These cameras will immediately begin issuing warnings to educate drivers on the importance of lower speeds,” Michael Roccaforte, a spokesperson for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"San Francisco speed camera locations\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-Ri5ud\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Ri5ud/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"1000\" height=\"637\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city plans to start issuing \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/why-were-introducing-speed-safety-cameras-first-california\">real citations\u003c/a> in late May, with penalties ranging from $50 for drivers caught going 11 to 15 mph over the posted speed limit and going as high as $500 for the rare 100 mph instance. Tickets will be processed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/why-were-introducing-speed-safety-cameras-first-california\">Verra Mobility\u003c/a>, the contractor the city hired to install and maintain the devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining 21 cameras will be activated on a rolling basis over the coming weeks, according to the SFMTA, which is overseeing the program and intends to update \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/projects/speed-safety-cameras\">its website\u003c/a> daily to show which camera locations are live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is the first city in California to install automated speed-enforcement cameras, long an aspiration of street safety advocates frustrated by the city’s lack of progress in reaching its long-term goal of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010882/tragic-sf-pedestrian-death-raises-question-vision-zero-failure\">eliminating traffic deaths\u003c/a> and serious injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big moment for all of us who’ve been pushing for this technology to be allowed in San Francisco,” said Marta Lindsey, a spokesperson with Walk San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032140\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A speed camera on Geary Street in San Francisco on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The activation of the cameras comes more than a year and a half after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB645\">AB 645\u003c/a> authorizing the devices in San Francisco, Oakland, San José, Los Angeles, Long Beach and Glendale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since New York City implemented the country’s first red-light safety camera program in 1992, more than 300 cities across the U.S. have installed traffic safety cameras, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.iihs.org/topics/speed/speed-camera-communities\">Insurance Institute for Highway Safety\u003c/a>, a nonprofit research group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been so eager for this solution to come to San Francisco, especially when it’s proven so successful in places like \u003ca href=\"https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2025/nyc-dot-speed-cameras.shtml\">New York City\u003c/a>, where it’s just dramatically shifted behavior and, most importantly, reduced traffic crashes,” Lindsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speeding is consistently the primary cause of severe and fatal traffic crashes, she noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to end these tragedies on our streets, you have to go after speed,” Lindsey said. “Drivers slow down, and then the crashes go down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12020559 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-26-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, San Francisco experienced its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020559/can-san-francisco-stop-traffic-violence-so-far-efforts-failing\">highest traffic death toll\u003c/a> in nearly two decades, with 41 people killed in vehicle collisions, 24 of them pedestrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spike in fatalities has led to widespread calls for the city to intensify its traffic safety efforts, as activists, the public and some members of the Board of Supervisors increasingly criticize the SFMTA for falling behind on its ambitious program aimed at rapidly improving conditions for people walking and rolling at more than 900 locations across the city by the end of 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About three-fourths of those projects, including improving crosswalks and resetting traffic signals to give pedestrians more time to cross, have been finished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Dec. 17 meeting of San Francisco County transportation officials, Supervisor Rafael Mandelman asked Shannon Hake, SFMTA’s Vision Zero program manager, why the cameras were being deployed in March, even though the agency had set a target of February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a problem when we articulate a public goal and are very clear about it and respond to people who are concerned about whether we can make that goal and over and over again to reassure them that we can — and then don’t,” Mandelman said. “That’s something that I think drives our public a little nuts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032384\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Rafael Mandelman speaks at Manny’s in San Francisco on Jan. 5, 2025, before a trash pickup in the Mission District, part of a weekend of service before the inauguration of Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hake attributed the extended deployment timeline to factors like identifying a contractor to run the system, completing electrical and structural engineering and working out an agreement with the city’s Public Works agency to mount the cameras on light poles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Speed cameras are a powerful solution. [They] will prevent tragedies, like what happened to my family,” said Jenny Yu, who became a pedestrian safety advocate after her mother was struck and permanently disabled by a speeding motorist in San Francisco 14 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at a press event on Thursday in the city’s North Beach neighborhood, Yu said her mother had been crossing Anza Street and Park Presidio Boulevard in the Richmond District and had the walk sign when an SUV made a left turn and collided into her. Yu’s mother suffered a ruptured spleen, multiple fractures and a traumatic brain injury and now requires round-the-clock care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still sometimes wonder where my mother was going when she was hit by a speeding driver,” said Yu, who co-founded San Francisco Bay Area Families for Safe Streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want this to happen to anyone else,” she continued, holding back tears. “But we’re going to need more solutions for the city to make Vision Zero the success story it can be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsey similarly acknowledged that more needs to be done. 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We can stop the killing and start the healing in every aspect to represent the beautiful city of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott’s nomination, which must be confirmed by the Board of Supervisors, comes days after the board approved Lurie’s motion to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028306/sf-activists-rally-against-luries-push-remove-outspoken-police-commissioner\">remove progressive attorney Max Carter-Oberstone\u003c/a> from the Police Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Mayor London Breed initially appointed Carter-Oberstone, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025784/lurie-aims-oust-sf-police-commissioner-pushed-reforms-clashed-breed\">their collegiality fizzled\u003c/a> after the commissioner revealed Breed’s practice of asking commissioners to sign undated resignation letters in order to take the job. 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Replacing Carter-Oberstone with a police commissioner who is more aligned with the mayor’s office could allow Lurie greater influence over that list if Scott is fired or resigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Matt Dorsey, a former SFPD spokesperson, said that he didn’t believe Lurie sought Carter-Oberstone’s ouster in preparation for replacing Scott and that Lurie has the right to seek his own appointments as a newly elected mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, I don’t believe this is about Mr. Carter-Oberstone. 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With Carter-Oberstone’s removal, the mayor will also need to nominate another person to the commission, possibly furthering Lurie’s sway over the police oversight board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco has taken a dangerous step backward,” said Brian Hofer, executive director of nonprofit Secure Justice, in a statement responding to Carter-Oberstone’s removal. “Commissioner Carter-Oberstone was removed not because he failed in his duties but because he was too effective at holding SFPD accountable. This decision sends a chilling message to anyone who dares to stand up for justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/dcronin\">Dana Cronin\u003c/a> contributed to this report\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Proponents of police accountability are urging supervisors to reject the motion, saying it could jeopardize the critical role and independence of watchdog agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the board signs off on this removal, which is being made with no accusation of wrongdoing, no accusation of incompetence, it will set a terrible precedent for not only the independence of the Police Commission but for every independent charter commission in the city,” Carter-Oberstone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter-Oberstone, who currently serves as vice president of the commission, said he was notified three weeks ago by the mayor’s office that it would be pursuing his formal removal after he rejected Lurie’s request for his resignation. The mayor still hasn’t provided the public with an explanation for why he should be removed, Carter-Oberstone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email sent to him by Lurie’s chief of staff, Staci Slaughter, which was obtained by KQED, Carter-Oberstone was told that the mayor is looking for a commissioner who is more open to collaboration. Carter-Oberstone’s relationship with former Mayor London Breed, who twice appointed him to the Police Commission, soured after he voted against her pick for the commission’s president and publicly exposed her office’s now-prohibited practice of having commission appointees preemptively sign undated resignation letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028382\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters of San Francisco Police Commissioner Max Carter-Oberstone attend a rally on the steps of San Francisco City Hall protesting Mayor Daniel Lurie’s attempt to remove Carter-Oberstone from the Police Commission on Feb. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He was also one of several city officials and commissioners who opposed Breed’s Proposition E, which greatly reduced the Police Commission’s oversight authority over SFPD and expanded the use of surveillance technology and police chases. Voters passed the measure last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter-Oberstone noted that he has no problems working with the mayor’s office to improve public safety as long as the independence of the commission is maintained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12027784 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241119-SFHomelessArrests-17-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela Chan, an assistant chief at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, said during Monday’s rally that San Francisco needs more commissioners like Carter-Oberstone and urged supervisors to “vote [their] values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need commissioners … who are not afraid to speak truth to power, who are not afraid to whistle blow when he knows something is wrong and unjust,” Chan, who previously served on the Police Commission, said during the rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several nonprofit organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, also spoke up in support of Carter-Oberstone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Commissioner Carter-Oberstone has been a persistent, reliable advocate for police accountability and data-driven independent oversight,” said Musa Tariq, a policy coordinator at CAIR. “Under his leadership, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996060/san-francisco-police-are-now-restricted-from-certain-traffic-stops-heres-why\">limited abusive pretext traffic stops\u003c/a>, exposed corruption and more. 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