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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drones will be used to quicken response time, improve situational awareness and precision and help avoid unnecessary police chases, according to Scott. He and Mayor London Breed said they believe the technology will further reduce crime, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996211/san-francisco-crime-is-down-significantly-but-its-not-clear-trend-will-last\">down significantly\u003c/a> in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is truly a force multiplier, and in light of all of our staff shortages, this could not have come at a better time,” Scott said at the press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, who also spoke at the press conference, confirmed that she has filed charges in multiple auto burglary cases because of drones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco has been far behind the curve in having the technology that we need to curb crime,” Jenkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some opposition groups have argued that the city’s use of drones violates California state law AB 481, which requires cities to go through a public approval process before acquiring items considered “military equipment.” Scott said the department believes it is in accordance with state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drones are not being used for surveillance purposes and can only be activated in response to police incidents. Footage is stored for up to 30 days before being deleted if not tied to a crime, Scott told reporters. Breed said the department is also increasing other surveillance technology and license plate scanners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police department has plans to purchase 22 more drones, along with peripheral equipment and software, for an additional $324,000 this year, according to \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6717195&GUID=27A31B2E-869C-49A5-8E77-C85C3CA81DD9&Options=ID%7cText%7c&Search=drones\">police records\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attend a big parade in San Francisco, like the St. Patrick’s Day Parade or the Cherry Blossom Festival Parade, and you might see police officers on horses leading the procession. They look stately up at the front — although the poop scoopers who follow just behind are maybe a tad less elegant. They are carrying on a longstanding tradition of mounted officers in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abby Van Soest first noticed the mounted cops at the head of the Warriors championship parade in 2022. It got her curious to know more about something that seems a little anachronistic, so she reached out to Bay Curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m curious why they still exist and what they’ve done in the past,” Van Soest said. “Also, I just want to know about the horses. Like, are there different personalities?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A day at the station\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Mounted Unit is the second oldest in the country, established in 1874. Pictures of its long history line the walls of the barn, which doubles as a police station, near the Polo Fields in Golden Gate Park. There’s also a plaque commemorating the many horses that have served over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981895\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981895\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-013-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people groom a horse inside a barn.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-013-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-013-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-013-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-013-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-013-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-013-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stable attendant Katie Corrigan (left) and Officer Eric Caracciolo (right) get Sonny (center) ready for patrol in the morning at the SFPD Stables in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. The San Francisco Police Department Mounted Patrol Unit supplements patrol all over the city, and has done so since 1874. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The current set of horses — Rusty, Bubba, Sonny, John, Duke and Gus — live outside full time, unless an extreme weather event forces them inside the barn. The stalls are mostly used to store their saddles, bridles and other equipment. Police horses have to be smart and calm in order to handle the many strange sounds and conditions of patrolling in a big city like San Francisco. Geldings, castrated male horses, are often the best personality matches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The life of a police horse is pretty nice. On days when they are not out on patrol they get to rest in the corral, often sleeping in the sun, eating treats and going out on training walks with stable staff. They also might do some additional training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981897\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-022-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Horse bridles and bits hang from labeled hooks.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-022-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-022-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-022-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-022-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-022-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-022-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Equipment for each horse of the San Francisco Police Department Mounted Patrol Unit is hung underneath their names at the SFPD Stables in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We use a lot of these props,” said stable attendant Katie Corrigan, showing me a stall filled with a wide assortment of supplies. There are gym mats to simulate walking on unfamiliar terrain, reflective emergency blankets that make a crinkling sound, trash can lids and pool noodles. Corrigan uses these props to expose the horses to various startling situations, so if they come upon that noise or sensation while patrolling they aren’t surprised by it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re going to hear somebody opening their trash can, dropping their trash can, sounds that can be startling,” she said. “So we use that here at the barn [to] get the horse used to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes the horses even find joy in the training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I start to blow bubbles, [Sonny] comes running to them,” Corrigan said. “He loves it. He’ll actually blow into the wand himself to make them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Going out on patrol\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most days, officers take the horses out on patrol, either walking right out the gate to patrol Golden Gate Park or Ocean Beach, or loading the horses into a trailer and taking them to a different part of the city. They often patrol North Beach, Union Square and the Tenderloin, but could be sent anywhere by the higher ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981902\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981902\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-050-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Three police officers on horseback ride down a city street near Union Square.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-050-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-050-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-050-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-050-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-050-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-050-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: Officer Eric Caracciolo and Sonny, Officer Robert Byrne and Gus, and Sergeant Theresa SanGiacomo and John of the San Francisco Police Department Mounted Patrol Unit patrol around Union Square in San Francisco on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a process to get the horses ready for patrol. The officers start by grooming the horses. If they’re dusty from being outside they might vacuum their fur or give them a good brushing down. They pick out their hooves so nothing bothers their feet and check to make sure their equipment is clean, presentable and undamaged. When the horses are ready to go, the officers mount up and head out.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why does San Francisco have a mounted unit at all?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When the mounted unit was established in 1874, horses were the fastest way to get around and gave officers a leg up over most citizens moving around on foot. Many of the police stations still in use today, like the Richmond, Ingleside, and Park police stations, used to have stables. Back when horses were the norm, officers used them to patrol, interact with citizens, control crowds and chase down suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2261px\">\u003ca href=\"https://digitalsf.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A145259?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=df1e2f205eae6a3921c8&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=8\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993259\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/guarding-candy-store.png\" alt=\"Black and white photo of police on horseback guarding a loaded truck.\" width=\"2261\" height=\"977\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/guarding-candy-store.png 2261w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/guarding-candy-store-800x346.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/guarding-candy-store-1020x441.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/guarding-candy-store-160x69.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/guarding-candy-store-1536x664.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/guarding-candy-store-2048x885.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/guarding-candy-store-1920x830.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2261px) 100vw, 2261px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mounted police guard a candy store during a 1940 strike. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As technologies have changed over time, the department has modernized too. Now, police move around in squad cars or on motorcycles and the mounted unit is primarily a community engagement tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really, truly is amazing to interact with people on a horse,” said Sergeant Theresa SanGiacomo of the mounted unit. “And I think San Franciscans deserve that. They deserve officers in their neighborhoods that they are comfortable approaching and talking to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SanGiacomo used to be stationed at the Tenderloin station as a beat cop. Now, she regularly patrols that same neighborhood on horseback, but her interactions with people are far different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981904\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-052-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman in sunglasses pets police horses on the street in San Francisco.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-052-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-052-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-052-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-052-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-052-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-052-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan Hughes, visiting from England, pets San Francisco Police Department Mounted Patrol Unit horse Gus at Union Square in San Francisco on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I have posed for more pictures and talked to more young people in the Tenderloin on a horse than I probably ever did walking the beat,” SanGiacomo said. “It is a barrier breaker to communicate with people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most often people want to know the horse’s name and ask if they can pet him. But once the ice is broken, SanGiacomo said there’s a natural opening to ask how folks are doing, see if they need help with anything and direct them to more services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of people that don’t like the police, who would not normally talk to the cops,” SanGiacomo said. “But they love animals. And so it is probably more useful than most people would gather it to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981900\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-037-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A police officer in uniform leads a horse out of a trailer in downtown San Francisco.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-037-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-037-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-037-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-037-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-037-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-037-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officer Robert Byrne of the San Francisco Police Department Mounted Patrol Unit leads Gus out of the trailer at Union Square in San Francisco on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If mounted officers see illegal behavior while on patrol, they write tickets and make arrests too. Often that involves calling for backup from squad cars because they try not to dismount for the horses’ safety. But SanGiacomo said she can often get to a location more quickly than a car can. She’s also got great visibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can see over everything,” she said. “You have what would be the equivalent of a bird’s eye view of things going on around you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mounted unit used to be used for crowd control — horses are big and can be intimidating so people usually get out of their way. But SanGiacomo said the last time she remembers the horses being deployed that way was during the Iraq War protests of 2003. The protests were largely peaceful, but when police tried to clear the streets so the city could return to normal operations, protesters didn’t listen. SanGiacomo was a beat cop at the time, there on foot with about 40–50 other officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And [the mounted unit] was successfully able to clear Market Street,” she said. “Emotions are high, but officers on horses and dirt bikes were able to do it with one pass. It was incredible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been a few times when horses injured civilians in crowded situations, however, so SanGiacomo said the mounted unit is no longer used for crowd control.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why has the mounted unit lasted so long?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco isn’t the only Bay Area police department with a mounted unit — San José still has one and the National Parks Department has one that patrols the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. But San Francisco’s mounted unit is special — it’s protected by the city charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993263\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2261px\">\u003ca href=\"https://digitalsf.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A155601?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=ee31b4445092a13ed86e&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=7\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993263\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Mounted-unit-GGP-stables.png\" alt=\"Black and white posed photo of mounted unit in front of the stables in Golden Gate Park.\" width=\"2261\" height=\"977\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Mounted-unit-GGP-stables.png 2261w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Mounted-unit-GGP-stables-800x346.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Mounted-unit-GGP-stables-1020x441.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Mounted-unit-GGP-stables-160x69.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Mounted-unit-GGP-stables-1536x664.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Mounted-unit-GGP-stables-2048x885.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Mounted-unit-GGP-stables-1920x830.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2261px) 100vw, 2261px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Group of San Francisco Police Department mounted policemen by the SFPD stables in Golden Gate Park circa 1950. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1988, the city faced budget shortfalls. Then mayor, Art Agnos, was looking for ways to reduce city spending and suggested trimming the mounted unit’s budget. Police supporters got a proposition on the city ballot that proposed enshrining the mounted unit in the city charter. The proposition passed with more than 85% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2261px\">\u003ca href=\"https://digitalsf.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A198367?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=df1e2f205eae6a3921c8&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=16\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993265\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/horse-rider-city-overlook.png\" alt=\"Mounted officer in profile looks out over San Francisco from a hill.\" width=\"2261\" height=\"977\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/horse-rider-city-overlook.png 2261w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/horse-rider-city-overlook-800x346.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/horse-rider-city-overlook-1020x441.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/horse-rider-city-overlook-160x69.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/horse-rider-city-overlook-1536x664.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/horse-rider-city-overlook-2048x885.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/horse-rider-city-overlook-1920x830.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2261px) 100vw, 2261px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mounted police officer overlooking a city park and view of downtown beyond. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today the unit is small and no new officers have been assigned in a while — although the department says there are officer shortages everywhere. The list of police officers who would like to join the unit is long. It took SanGiacomo 24 years to get into the mounted unit and she says it’s the hardest job she’s ever had. But she loves it. She encourages residents to come by, pet the horses and interact with a small piece of San Francisco history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I’ve got a 3 year old and he’s super into emergency vehicles right now… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[child mimics emergency vehicle siren]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and he’s often mimicking fire trucks, ambulances and police cars… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[child mimics emergency vehicle siren]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So I was delighted to share with him that this week Bay Curious was digging in on another — less abrasive sounding — way that police get around.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[sound of horse hooves clacking]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> On horseback!\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Our question asker first noticed San Francisco police on horseback at the 2022 Golden State Warriors parade….\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News Reel: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And what a celebration it was, thousands of warriors fans…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Abby Van Soest: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They were sort of leading a, like, part of the procession. My name is Abby Van Soest, and I live in the Excelsior District of San Francisco.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Once Abby noticed them, she started seeing the mounted police at events all over the city. It got her thinking.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Abby Van Soest: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m curious about why they still exist and what they’ve done in the past. Also, I just want to know about the horses. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[chuckles]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> ]Like, are there, like, different personalities? Do they bring out different horses for different events? What does the care of taking care of them go into? Yeah. All of that stuff.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> San Francisco has the second oldest mounted police unit in the country…after New York City. They’ve been around more than a hundred and fifty years. Today on the show, we’ll meet the horses and their riders…learn how their role on the force has changed over time…and get a sense of what their day to day lives look like. I’m Olivia Allen-Price and this is Bay Curious.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[child neighs]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Sponsorship Message]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Have you ever seen police on horses walking through Golden Gate Park or down city streets…and wondered…what’s up with that? We sent Bay Curious producer and editor Katrina Schwartz to learn more about the history and purpose of some of the police force’s most majestic members…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The San Francisco Police Stables are tucked away next to the Polo Fields in Golden Gate Park. Unlike a lot of other stations, it’s quiet here with just the sounds of birds chirping, a few lawnmowers, and the horses of course. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[sound of horse hooves clacking]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: O\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">h, Rusty Roo!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah who’s this we see?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is Rusty. He’s our resident artist and you think I’m joking, but I’m not. He’s learned how to paint. He’s a sweet, sweet, sweet horse. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> His art is abstract and he favors the color red. There are currently six horses living here: Rusty, Bubba, Sonny, John, Duke and Gus. Bubba is the smiler. And John is Mr. Reliable. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Hi. Do you like that microphone? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[horse mouth noise]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Oh, yes you do\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, you know, he can’t be too sure. It may be a cover for a carrot. You know, who knows?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My name is Theresa San Giacomo. I’m a sergeant in the police department assigned to the mounted unit.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Because the mounted unit is stationed in Golden Gate Park the public is free to wander by and pet the horses if they’re near the fence.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re standing in the police stables, which is also our station. It’s a police station in a barn. Two and one.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The barn is a massive concrete affair built in the 1930s. Theresa is giving me the grand tour…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have pictures in the barn dating back to the late 1800s.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It clearly used to house more horses than it does now. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each horse has their own equipment. Their saddles are specific for them, for their body shape, their size. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s evident Theresa and all the police officers and stable staff are very fond of their four-legged co-workers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They have stars. And so it has their name on it instead of a number. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Theresa has wanted this job for a long time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">it sounds like a B.S. story, but it’s honest to God, true. I was a young girl. We were at Christmas time. We’re at pier 39. We were all dressed up. And I saw two cops on horse posing for pictures. And my mom remembers it and I remember it, I looked at my mom and I said, I want to do that when I grow up. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She joined the San Francisco Police Department in 1995 and immediately put her name on a list of officers interested in serving in the mounted unit. But it’s a long list. Theresa only made it into the unit in 2019…24 years later.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have posed for more pictures and talked to more young people in the Tenderloin on a horse than I probably ever did walking the beat. It is a barrier breaker to communicate with people.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The mounted unit has shrunk over the years. Currently there are only 3 officers and six working horses. So, more horses than riders. And that’s where Katie Corrigan comes in.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katie Corrigan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We like to keep their minds busy as well as their bodies busy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Katie is a stable attendant.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katie Corrigan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We use a lot of these props.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She shows me a horse stall filled with items she uses to train the horses. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katie Corrigan:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> We have trash can lids. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[metal clangs]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katie Corrigan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know,\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">you’re walking down the street, you’re going to hear somebody opening their trash can, dropping their trash can lid. All sounds that can be startling. So we use that here at the barn, get the horse used to it so when it’s out there, it’s like, oh I’m familiar with that sound, no big deal.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The city is full of things that startle horses…muni bus air brakes, kids shrieking in bounce houses, bubbles… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katie Corrigan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sonny is one of our horses. When I start to blow bubbles, he comes running to them. He loves it. He’ll actually blow into the wand himself to make them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And the horses get plenty of time to rest and nap in the sun too. But it isn’t all fun and games. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> They may seem out of date, but mounted officers are still cops. And when the first mounted officer was sworn in June 1, 1874, horses were the best available technology…the fastest way to get around. And they would have put officers at an advantage over most of the public who would be on foot. Theresa says back then \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">many\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of the police stations were mounted units.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A little known fact: Richmond Police Station used to be a horse police station. Ingleside police station were stables, so they were all over the city.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> But as cars became more common, the police took up the new technologies. The mounted unit shifted to focus more on patrolling Golden Gate Park and the beach and doing community engagement. They’ve also been used to help with crowd control – like during the Iraq war protests in 2003. Theresa was a Tenderloin beat cop at the time, and not working with the horses yet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was maybe 40 to 50 officers, including myself, on Market Street with a crowd of about 200,000 coming down Market Street towards us. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She says the protest was peaceful, but police needed to clear the street of people so buses and cars could pass. Protesters weren’t listening to her and the cops on foot. But then the cops on horses and motorcycles arrived.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It can become very confrontational very quickly. Escalates, emotions are high, but officers on horses and dirt bikes were able to do it with one pass. It was incredible.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Horses have been used for crowd control because they’re big and intimidating. People tend to get out of the way when a horse advances towards them. But having a horse in a crowd can be risky too. There were a few times in the early 2000s where horses injured people — so Theresa says they’ve stopped using them in crowd control situations.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At this point, you might be wondering, why do we even have a mounted unit anymore? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, in the late 1980s, city leaders had the same thought and tried to save some money by cutting the mounted unit. That led police supporters to propose a ballot measure that enshrined the mounted unit in the city charter. It passed by a huge margin… more than 85-percent of the vote. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And so now, we are protected by city charter. So the police department has to have a mounted unit.\u003c/span>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I guess San Franciscans like their traditions! The most common place to see them now is at the head of parades…or bringing some pomp and circumstance to grand events, like the memorial for Senator Dianne Feinstein. And they do a lot of community engagement. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It really, truly is amazing to interact with people on a horse. And I think San Franciscans deserve that. They deserve officers in their neighborhoods that they are comfortable approaching and talking to.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Theresa says a lot of people have negative associations with the police. They’ve had bad experiences or associate sirens with danger. But the horses change the dynamic.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It usually starts with, oh my gosh, horse. Can I pet your horse? Can I take a picture?\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But then it transitions to, you know, how’s things? How are you doing today? Any help you need? You know, giving them phone numbers for resources, resource centers, outreach centers. And not just young people, all people.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mounted unit officers and horses go out patrolling almost every day. They either head out the front gates to patrol Golden Gate Park or load the horses into trailers and take them to other parts of the city. Theresa suspects they are sent to be a visible presence in areas experiencing more crime. They give tickets, respond to crimes and make arrests like other officers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We were down in Washington Square in North Beach a few months ago.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Theresa and another officer were on a routine patrol in North Beach.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was something going on that shouldn’t have been going on.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A person was grabbing food off plates, harassing outdoor diners. To protect the horses, Theresa says mounted officers try not to dismount. She called for back up from a patrol car and followed the person on horseback.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can see over everything you have what would be the equivalent of a bird’s eye view of things going on around you.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And once the squad car officers stopped the man, Theresa did the paperwork.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">No matter where officers are assigned to patrol, the day starts at the stables. Officers spend some quality time with their horses, cleaning and grooming them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If they’re extremely dusty or dirty, we vacuum them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then they brush their tails and manes. Scrape out the sand and rocks from their hooves.\u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And make sure their saddles are in good shape.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> [Jangling sounds]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today Sonny and Bubba are heading out on patrol with officers Eric and Theresa. They mount up and head out the front gate to patrol their home turf — Golden Gate Park.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo:\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> [at a distance] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alright, See you later! Bye!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[horse hooves clacking]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That was Bay Curious producer and editor Katrina Schwartz. This is Katrina’s last story for Bay Curious for a while because she’s headed out on maternity leave! We wish you all the best in this exciting new chapter, Katrina\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Also some warm welcomes! Ana De Almeida Amaral is joining Bay Curious as an intern and producer Amanda Font is returning to the show after welcoming baby Theo into the world. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Abby Van Soest: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This show was edited by me, Olivia Allen-Price.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Produced by Katrina Schwartz, Amanda Font, and Christopher Beale.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Big thanks to Abby, our question asker this week. Thanks also to Alex Gonzales and \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rachael Myrow. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m Olivia Allen-Price. You’ve been listening to Bay Curious. Ye-haw. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attend a big parade in San Francisco, like the St. Patrick’s Day Parade or the Cherry Blossom Festival Parade, and you might see police officers on horses leading the procession. They look stately up at the front — although the poop scoopers who follow just behind are maybe a tad less elegant. They are carrying on a longstanding tradition of mounted officers in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abby Van Soest first noticed the mounted cops at the head of the Warriors championship parade in 2022. It got her curious to know more about something that seems a little anachronistic, so she reached out to Bay Curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m curious why they still exist and what they’ve done in the past,” Van Soest said. “Also, I just want to know about the horses. Like, are there different personalities?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A day at the station\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Mounted Unit is the second oldest in the country, established in 1874. Pictures of its long history line the walls of the barn, which doubles as a police station, near the Polo Fields in Golden Gate Park. There’s also a plaque commemorating the many horses that have served over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981895\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981895\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-013-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people groom a horse inside a barn.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-013-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-013-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-013-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-013-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-013-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-013-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stable attendant Katie Corrigan (left) and Officer Eric Caracciolo (right) get Sonny (center) ready for patrol in the morning at the SFPD Stables in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. The San Francisco Police Department Mounted Patrol Unit supplements patrol all over the city, and has done so since 1874. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The current set of horses — Rusty, Bubba, Sonny, John, Duke and Gus — live outside full time, unless an extreme weather event forces them inside the barn. The stalls are mostly used to store their saddles, bridles and other equipment. Police horses have to be smart and calm in order to handle the many strange sounds and conditions of patrolling in a big city like San Francisco. Geldings, castrated male horses, are often the best personality matches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The life of a police horse is pretty nice. On days when they are not out on patrol they get to rest in the corral, often sleeping in the sun, eating treats and going out on training walks with stable staff. They also might do some additional training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981897\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-022-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Horse bridles and bits hang from labeled hooks.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-022-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-022-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-022-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-022-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-022-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-022-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Equipment for each horse of the San Francisco Police Department Mounted Patrol Unit is hung underneath their names at the SFPD Stables in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We use a lot of these props,” said stable attendant Katie Corrigan, showing me a stall filled with a wide assortment of supplies. There are gym mats to simulate walking on unfamiliar terrain, reflective emergency blankets that make a crinkling sound, trash can lids and pool noodles. Corrigan uses these props to expose the horses to various startling situations, so if they come upon that noise or sensation while patrolling they aren’t surprised by it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re going to hear somebody opening their trash can, dropping their trash can, sounds that can be startling,” she said. “So we use that here at the barn [to] get the horse used to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes the horses even find joy in the training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I start to blow bubbles, [Sonny] comes running to them,” Corrigan said. “He loves it. He’ll actually blow into the wand himself to make them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Going out on patrol\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most days, officers take the horses out on patrol, either walking right out the gate to patrol Golden Gate Park or Ocean Beach, or loading the horses into a trailer and taking them to a different part of the city. They often patrol North Beach, Union Square and the Tenderloin, but could be sent anywhere by the higher ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981902\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981902\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-050-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Three police officers on horseback ride down a city street near Union Square.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-050-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-050-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-050-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-050-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-050-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-050-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: Officer Eric Caracciolo and Sonny, Officer Robert Byrne and Gus, and Sergeant Theresa SanGiacomo and John of the San Francisco Police Department Mounted Patrol Unit patrol around Union Square in San Francisco on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a process to get the horses ready for patrol. The officers start by grooming the horses. If they’re dusty from being outside they might vacuum their fur or give them a good brushing down. They pick out their hooves so nothing bothers their feet and check to make sure their equipment is clean, presentable and undamaged. When the horses are ready to go, the officers mount up and head out.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why does San Francisco have a mounted unit at all?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When the mounted unit was established in 1874, horses were the fastest way to get around and gave officers a leg up over most citizens moving around on foot. Many of the police stations still in use today, like the Richmond, Ingleside, and Park police stations, used to have stables. Back when horses were the norm, officers used them to patrol, interact with citizens, control crowds and chase down suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2261px\">\u003ca href=\"https://digitalsf.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A145259?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=df1e2f205eae6a3921c8&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=8\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993259\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/guarding-candy-store.png\" alt=\"Black and white photo of police on horseback guarding a loaded truck.\" width=\"2261\" height=\"977\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/guarding-candy-store.png 2261w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/guarding-candy-store-800x346.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/guarding-candy-store-1020x441.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/guarding-candy-store-160x69.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/guarding-candy-store-1536x664.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/guarding-candy-store-2048x885.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/guarding-candy-store-1920x830.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2261px) 100vw, 2261px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mounted police guard a candy store during a 1940 strike. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As technologies have changed over time, the department has modernized too. Now, police move around in squad cars or on motorcycles and the mounted unit is primarily a community engagement tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really, truly is amazing to interact with people on a horse,” said Sergeant Theresa SanGiacomo of the mounted unit. “And I think San Franciscans deserve that. They deserve officers in their neighborhoods that they are comfortable approaching and talking to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SanGiacomo used to be stationed at the Tenderloin station as a beat cop. Now, she regularly patrols that same neighborhood on horseback, but her interactions with people are far different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981904\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-052-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman in sunglasses pets police horses on the street in San Francisco.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-052-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-052-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-052-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-052-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-052-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-052-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan Hughes, visiting from England, pets San Francisco Police Department Mounted Patrol Unit horse Gus at Union Square in San Francisco on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I have posed for more pictures and talked to more young people in the Tenderloin on a horse than I probably ever did walking the beat,” SanGiacomo said. “It is a barrier breaker to communicate with people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most often people want to know the horse’s name and ask if they can pet him. But once the ice is broken, SanGiacomo said there’s a natural opening to ask how folks are doing, see if they need help with anything and direct them to more services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of people that don’t like the police, who would not normally talk to the cops,” SanGiacomo said. “But they love animals. And so it is probably more useful than most people would gather it to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981900\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-037-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A police officer in uniform leads a horse out of a trailer in downtown San Francisco.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-037-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-037-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-037-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-037-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-037-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240402-SFPDMOUNTED-JY-037-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officer Robert Byrne of the San Francisco Police Department Mounted Patrol Unit leads Gus out of the trailer at Union Square in San Francisco on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If mounted officers see illegal behavior while on patrol, they write tickets and make arrests too. Often that involves calling for backup from squad cars because they try not to dismount for the horses’ safety. But SanGiacomo said she can often get to a location more quickly than a car can. She’s also got great visibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can see over everything,” she said. “You have what would be the equivalent of a bird’s eye view of things going on around you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mounted unit used to be used for crowd control — horses are big and can be intimidating so people usually get out of their way. But SanGiacomo said the last time she remembers the horses being deployed that way was during the Iraq War protests of 2003. The protests were largely peaceful, but when police tried to clear the streets so the city could return to normal operations, protesters didn’t listen. SanGiacomo was a beat cop at the time, there on foot with about 40–50 other officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And [the mounted unit] was successfully able to clear Market Street,” she said. “Emotions are high, but officers on horses and dirt bikes were able to do it with one pass. It was incredible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been a few times when horses injured civilians in crowded situations, however, so SanGiacomo said the mounted unit is no longer used for crowd control.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why has the mounted unit lasted so long?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco isn’t the only Bay Area police department with a mounted unit — San José still has one and the National Parks Department has one that patrols the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. But San Francisco’s mounted unit is special — it’s protected by the city charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993263\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2261px\">\u003ca href=\"https://digitalsf.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A155601?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=ee31b4445092a13ed86e&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=7\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993263\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Mounted-unit-GGP-stables.png\" alt=\"Black and white posed photo of mounted unit in front of the stables in Golden Gate Park.\" width=\"2261\" height=\"977\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Mounted-unit-GGP-stables.png 2261w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Mounted-unit-GGP-stables-800x346.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Mounted-unit-GGP-stables-1020x441.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Mounted-unit-GGP-stables-160x69.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Mounted-unit-GGP-stables-1536x664.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Mounted-unit-GGP-stables-2048x885.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Mounted-unit-GGP-stables-1920x830.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2261px) 100vw, 2261px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Group of San Francisco Police Department mounted policemen by the SFPD stables in Golden Gate Park circa 1950. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1988, the city faced budget shortfalls. Then mayor, Art Agnos, was looking for ways to reduce city spending and suggested trimming the mounted unit’s budget. Police supporters got a proposition on the city ballot that proposed enshrining the mounted unit in the city charter. The proposition passed with more than 85% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2261px\">\u003ca href=\"https://digitalsf.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A198367?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=df1e2f205eae6a3921c8&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=16\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993265\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/horse-rider-city-overlook.png\" alt=\"Mounted officer in profile looks out over San Francisco from a hill.\" width=\"2261\" height=\"977\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/horse-rider-city-overlook.png 2261w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/horse-rider-city-overlook-800x346.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/horse-rider-city-overlook-1020x441.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/horse-rider-city-overlook-160x69.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/horse-rider-city-overlook-1536x664.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/horse-rider-city-overlook-2048x885.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/horse-rider-city-overlook-1920x830.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2261px) 100vw, 2261px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mounted police officer overlooking a city park and view of downtown beyond. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today the unit is small and no new officers have been assigned in a while — although the department says there are officer shortages everywhere. The list of police officers who would like to join the unit is long. It took SanGiacomo 24 years to get into the mounted unit and she says it’s the hardest job she’s ever had. But she loves it. She encourages residents to come by, pet the horses and interact with a small piece of San Francisco history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I’ve got a 3 year old and he’s super into emergency vehicles right now… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[child mimics emergency vehicle siren]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and he’s often mimicking fire trucks, ambulances and police cars… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[child mimics emergency vehicle siren]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So I was delighted to share with him that this week Bay Curious was digging in on another — less abrasive sounding — way that police get around.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[sound of horse hooves clacking]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> On horseback!\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Our question asker first noticed San Francisco police on horseback at the 2022 Golden State Warriors parade….\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News Reel: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And what a celebration it was, thousands of warriors fans…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Abby Van Soest: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They were sort of leading a, like, part of the procession. My name is Abby Van Soest, and I live in the Excelsior District of San Francisco.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Once Abby noticed them, she started seeing the mounted police at events all over the city. It got her thinking.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Abby Van Soest: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m curious about why they still exist and what they’ve done in the past. Also, I just want to know about the horses. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[chuckles]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> ]Like, are there, like, different personalities? Do they bring out different horses for different events? What does the care of taking care of them go into? Yeah. All of that stuff.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> San Francisco has the second oldest mounted police unit in the country…after New York City. They’ve been around more than a hundred and fifty years. Today on the show, we’ll meet the horses and their riders…learn how their role on the force has changed over time…and get a sense of what their day to day lives look like. I’m Olivia Allen-Price and this is Bay Curious.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[child neighs]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Sponsorship Message]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Have you ever seen police on horses walking through Golden Gate Park or down city streets…and wondered…what’s up with that? We sent Bay Curious producer and editor Katrina Schwartz to learn more about the history and purpose of some of the police force’s most majestic members…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The San Francisco Police Stables are tucked away next to the Polo Fields in Golden Gate Park. Unlike a lot of other stations, it’s quiet here with just the sounds of birds chirping, a few lawnmowers, and the horses of course. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[sound of horse hooves clacking]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: O\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">h, Rusty Roo!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah who’s this we see?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is Rusty. He’s our resident artist and you think I’m joking, but I’m not. He’s learned how to paint. He’s a sweet, sweet, sweet horse. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> His art is abstract and he favors the color red. There are currently six horses living here: Rusty, Bubba, Sonny, John, Duke and Gus. Bubba is the smiler. And John is Mr. Reliable. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Hi. Do you like that microphone? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[horse mouth noise]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Oh, yes you do\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, you know, he can’t be too sure. It may be a cover for a carrot. You know, who knows?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My name is Theresa San Giacomo. I’m a sergeant in the police department assigned to the mounted unit.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Because the mounted unit is stationed in Golden Gate Park the public is free to wander by and pet the horses if they’re near the fence.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re standing in the police stables, which is also our station. It’s a police station in a barn. Two and one.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The barn is a massive concrete affair built in the 1930s. Theresa is giving me the grand tour…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have pictures in the barn dating back to the late 1800s.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It clearly used to house more horses than it does now. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each horse has their own equipment. Their saddles are specific for them, for their body shape, their size. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s evident Theresa and all the police officers and stable staff are very fond of their four-legged co-workers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They have stars. And so it has their name on it instead of a number. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Theresa has wanted this job for a long time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">it sounds like a B.S. story, but it’s honest to God, true. I was a young girl. We were at Christmas time. We’re at pier 39. We were all dressed up. And I saw two cops on horse posing for pictures. And my mom remembers it and I remember it, I looked at my mom and I said, I want to do that when I grow up. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She joined the San Francisco Police Department in 1995 and immediately put her name on a list of officers interested in serving in the mounted unit. But it’s a long list. Theresa only made it into the unit in 2019…24 years later.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have posed for more pictures and talked to more young people in the Tenderloin on a horse than I probably ever did walking the beat. It is a barrier breaker to communicate with people.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The mounted unit has shrunk over the years. Currently there are only 3 officers and six working horses. So, more horses than riders. And that’s where Katie Corrigan comes in.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katie Corrigan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We like to keep their minds busy as well as their bodies busy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Katie is a stable attendant.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katie Corrigan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We use a lot of these props.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She shows me a horse stall filled with items she uses to train the horses. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katie Corrigan:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> We have trash can lids. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[metal clangs]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katie Corrigan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know,\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">you’re walking down the street, you’re going to hear somebody opening their trash can, dropping their trash can lid. All sounds that can be startling. So we use that here at the barn, get the horse used to it so when it’s out there, it’s like, oh I’m familiar with that sound, no big deal.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The city is full of things that startle horses…muni bus air brakes, kids shrieking in bounce houses, bubbles… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katie Corrigan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sonny is one of our horses. When I start to blow bubbles, he comes running to them. He loves it. He’ll actually blow into the wand himself to make them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And the horses get plenty of time to rest and nap in the sun too. But it isn’t all fun and games. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> They may seem out of date, but mounted officers are still cops. And when the first mounted officer was sworn in June 1, 1874, horses were the best available technology…the fastest way to get around. And they would have put officers at an advantage over most of the public who would be on foot. Theresa says back then \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">many\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of the police stations were mounted units.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A little known fact: Richmond Police Station used to be a horse police station. Ingleside police station were stables, so they were all over the city.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> But as cars became more common, the police took up the new technologies. The mounted unit shifted to focus more on patrolling Golden Gate Park and the beach and doing community engagement. They’ve also been used to help with crowd control – like during the Iraq war protests in 2003. Theresa was a Tenderloin beat cop at the time, and not working with the horses yet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was maybe 40 to 50 officers, including myself, on Market Street with a crowd of about 200,000 coming down Market Street towards us. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She says the protest was peaceful, but police needed to clear the street of people so buses and cars could pass. Protesters weren’t listening to her and the cops on foot. But then the cops on horses and motorcycles arrived.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It can become very confrontational very quickly. Escalates, emotions are high, but officers on horses and dirt bikes were able to do it with one pass. It was incredible.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Horses have been used for crowd control because they’re big and intimidating. People tend to get out of the way when a horse advances towards them. But having a horse in a crowd can be risky too. There were a few times in the early 2000s where horses injured people — so Theresa says they’ve stopped using them in crowd control situations.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At this point, you might be wondering, why do we even have a mounted unit anymore? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, in the late 1980s, city leaders had the same thought and tried to save some money by cutting the mounted unit. That led police supporters to propose a ballot measure that enshrined the mounted unit in the city charter. It passed by a huge margin… more than 85-percent of the vote. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And so now, we are protected by city charter. So the police department has to have a mounted unit.\u003c/span>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I guess San Franciscans like their traditions! The most common place to see them now is at the head of parades…or bringing some pomp and circumstance to grand events, like the memorial for Senator Dianne Feinstein. And they do a lot of community engagement. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It really, truly is amazing to interact with people on a horse. And I think San Franciscans deserve that. They deserve officers in their neighborhoods that they are comfortable approaching and talking to.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Theresa says a lot of people have negative associations with the police. They’ve had bad experiences or associate sirens with danger. But the horses change the dynamic.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It usually starts with, oh my gosh, horse. Can I pet your horse? Can I take a picture?\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But then it transitions to, you know, how’s things? How are you doing today? Any help you need? You know, giving them phone numbers for resources, resource centers, outreach centers. And not just young people, all people.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mounted unit officers and horses go out patrolling almost every day. They either head out the front gates to patrol Golden Gate Park or load the horses into trailers and take them to other parts of the city. Theresa suspects they are sent to be a visible presence in areas experiencing more crime. They give tickets, respond to crimes and make arrests like other officers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We were down in Washington Square in North Beach a few months ago.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Theresa and another officer were on a routine patrol in North Beach.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was something going on that shouldn’t have been going on.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A person was grabbing food off plates, harassing outdoor diners. To protect the horses, Theresa says mounted officers try not to dismount. She called for back up from a patrol car and followed the person on horseback.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can see over everything you have what would be the equivalent of a bird’s eye view of things going on around you.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And once the squad car officers stopped the man, Theresa did the paperwork.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">No matter where officers are assigned to patrol, the day starts at the stables. Officers spend some quality time with their horses, cleaning and grooming them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If they’re extremely dusty or dirty, we vacuum them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then they brush their tails and manes. Scrape out the sand and rocks from their hooves.\u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And make sure their saddles are in good shape.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> [Jangling sounds]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today Sonny and Bubba are heading out on patrol with officers Eric and Theresa. They mount up and head out the front gate to patrol their home turf — Golden Gate Park.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theresa SanGiacomo:\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> [at a distance] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alright, See you later! Bye!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[horse hooves clacking]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That was Bay Curious producer and editor Katrina Schwartz. This is Katrina’s last story for Bay Curious for a while because she’s headed out on maternity leave! We wish you all the best in this exciting new chapter, Katrina\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Also some warm welcomes! Ana De Almeida Amaral is joining Bay Curious as an intern and producer Amanda Font is returning to the show after welcoming baby Theo into the world. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Abby Van Soest: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This show was edited by me, Olivia Allen-Price.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Produced by Katrina Schwartz, Amanda Font, and Christopher Beale.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Big thanks to Abby, our question asker this week. Thanks also to Alex Gonzales and \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rachael Myrow. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m Olivia Allen-Price. You’ve been listening to Bay Curious. Ye-haw. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 10 p.m. Saturday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco officials succeeded Saturday night in stopping large numbers of skaters from riding down Dolores Street by setting up scores of barricades and stationing dozens of law enforcement officers in the planned path of the “Dolores Hill Bomb.” But skaters weren’t too disappointed, they just shifted their antics to Church Street on the opposite side of Dolores Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skater Mark Urbieta said moving to Church was always part of the plan given that police interference on Dolores was expected, even though Church is, in his words, “gnarlier and narrower” than Dolores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can never stop a skater’s pride, bro, this s*** is never going to stop,” Urbieta said while resting after a nasty fall. “Every single day. We’re going to do it regardless. We’re going to do it from Twin Peaks all the way to Downtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from using one police vehicle to stop traffic from crossing 18th Street at the bottom of Church Street, police made no effort to interfere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Urbieta added that if the police had moved to block off Church Street, attendees would have just found another hill to bomb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993149\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993149\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1274\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed-800x510.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed-1536x978.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed-1920x1223.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An individual skates down Church Street during the annual Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gigi Basilio successfully rode to the bottom of the hill on her second attempt after a fall on her first try. She embraced her friend as the crowd cheered her on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were dapping me up, saying ‘You got this! You got this!’ and deep down inside, I felt like I had it, and I did it! And I’m so proud of myself because that’s the scariest thing I’ve ever experienced,” Basilio said, clearly emotional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basilio said she felt the large police presence was unnecessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993150\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993150\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1327\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed-1536x1019.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed-1920x1274.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skaters walk back up Church Street during the annual Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re not doing nothing wrong. We’re just trying to skate, trying to bomb, have fun, make memories, be with friends, family, with each other. Why are they trying to ruin our day?” Basilio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one person was taken away by paramedics after falling at the bottom of the hill. On-site volunteer medics attended to others who suffered minor scrapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 6 p.m. Saturday: \u003c/strong>San Francisco’s Mission Dolores Park was filled Saturday afternoon with crowds reveling in the summer heat wave. But among the revelers were police setting up metal barricades, blocking Dolores Street. The big question in the neighborhood: Will the “Dolores Hill Bomb” happen this year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993148\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993148\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skaters ride down Church Street during the annual Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The “hill bomb” is an annual, informal event organized by the Bay Area skateboard community where hundreds of skaters ride down a steep section of Dolores Street adjacent to the city’s Dolores Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C82r59Hy9R3/\">Instagram post\u003c/a> by user vellskiiii set the time for 7 p.m. Saturday, but following messaging by the San Francisco Police Department strongly discouraging people from taking part, vellskiii posted that the event was canceled. “Event CANCELED!!! Police will be waiting at Dolores!!!” But it is unclear how many will receive that message — or heed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993134\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993134\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1231\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED-800x492.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED-1020x628.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED-1536x945.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED-1920x1182.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A skater rides down Church Street seated on a skateboard during the Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024 \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year’s hill bomb comes almost exactly one year since last year’s, which ended in San Francisco police mass-arresting 113 people, most of them minors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents of those arrested have since criticized the police response, detailing how their children were detained in the cold for hours without access to food, water or restrooms. Some of the parents have since sued the city and police on behalf of their children for alleged civil rights violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the condemnations from parents and other community members, along with the looming specter of a costly class action lawsuit against the city, the San Francisco Police Department appears poised to use a similar approach this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993136\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993136\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD stationed nearby during the Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The plan is almost the same ask as last year’s event,” wrote Mission Station Sgt. Jeff Aloise in a late June email to a Department of Public Works employee. “Dolores St will need to have enough barricades starting at 21st St stretching from building to building in an East/West direction, all the way down to 18th St/Dolores.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993132\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993132\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">18th and Dolores streets in San Francisco were closed on July 6, 2024, in an attempt to prevent the annual Dolores Hill Bomb. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those emails were uncovered in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/dizz_h/status/1808705494623596549\">public records request\u003c/a> and shared with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event draws large crowds of people who come to watch the skaters ride down the hill at high speeds. Not everyone makes it. Many skaters sustained injuries and one died in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993133\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993133\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1410\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED-800x564.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED-1020x719.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED-1536x1083.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED-1920x1354.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A skater rides down Church Street during the Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some have criticized the event for being unsafe for both skaters and neighbors alike. Residents of the area say participants vandalize both public and private property during and after the event. Police said last year’s arrests began in response to attendees assaulting officers and vandalizing a MUNI light rail train.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the hill bomb is an organic gathering and, with no designated sponsors or organizers, canceling the event is not as simple as making an announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn’t stopped city officials from attempting to discourage attendance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993129\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993129\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omar Arroyo crashes while riding down Church Street as part of the annual Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re here to say officially, we do not intend to allow a hill bomb tomorrow,” Police Chief Bill Scott said during a Friday news conference. “We’re going to do everything we can to keep our community safe, to prevent that from happening. And as far as we’re concerned, there is no hill bomb tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who represents the area, has echoed similar feelings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked in late June what he had to say to those planning to attend, he responded, “I would encourage them not to this year. I think this event has been unsafe for a number of years. I am eager and willing to partner with folks in the community who want to try to do a safe and fun hill bomb in 2025. But I think in 2024, the infrastructure is not there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993130\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993130\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-6-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-6-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-6-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omar Arroyo shows his injury after skating down Church Street during the Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mandelman and Scott also led a community meeting on Monday, inviting community members to share their thoughts and recommendations for the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several attendees who identified themselves as members of the skateboarding community said the city leaders should have begun outreach months ago, not days before the anticipated event, and they should have been proactive instead of waiting for an organizer to step up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaron Breetwor, a downhill skater, said he applied for a city grant to host similar downhill skating events, only for the grant program to be canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993143\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993143\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-31_qed-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-31_qed-3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-31_qed-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-31_qed-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-31_qed-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-31_qed-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-31_qed-3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A spectator shows support during the annual Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There were people who were prepared to put together the community engagement necessary to do things like this safely,” Breetwor said. “There is no lack of city interest in this event. There’s a lack of goodwill and good intent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11956110,news_11955479,news_11955465\"]Naomi Lopez, a Dolores Street resident and a parent of a then-15-year-old spectator who was arrested at last year’s Hill Bomb, is among those suing the city and police department for last year’s mass arrests. She called the situation a missed opportunity “to turn an event that has become ugly and has become us-against-them into a community event that could show teenagers, especially Black and brown ones, who are not represented in this room, that they belong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other attendees pushed back, expressing skepticism that any organization would agree to take on the liability of holding such an injury-prone event with a reputation for lawlessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, the hill bomb has attracted bad actors who do not have a peaceful intent,” said Carolyn Kenady, chair of the Dolores Heights Improvement Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993144\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993144\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An individual skates down Church Street during the annual Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even detractors of the hill bomb criticized city leaders for not being more decisive and proactive in efforts to stop the event from occurring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One person said that they had to push through the crowd with their toddler to reach their home and that their calls to 911 after hearing gunshots went unanswered. Another expressed disbelief at seeing children directing traffic. Another questioned why the city has stood by while the event proceeds in similar fashion year after year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993131\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993131\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paramedics assist a skater after a fall during the Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When dealing with this or any event that poses challenges, the City must change its approach to one that truly protects our community and keeps it safe,” said Rachel Lederman, senior counsel with the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, the firm representing the arrested teens in a lawsuit. “That will not happen through increasingly aggressive and militarized policing. Civilian agencies should be managing this event collaboratively with the skateboard community and engage in de-escalation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said legal observers will be there on Saturday and her organization is prepared to take legal action if any further civil rights violations occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can never stop a skater’s pride, bro, this s*** is never going to stop,” Urbieta said while resting after a nasty fall. “Every single day. We’re going to do it regardless. We’re going to do it from Twin Peaks all the way to Downtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from using one police vehicle to stop traffic from crossing 18th Street at the bottom of Church Street, police made no effort to interfere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Urbieta added that if the police had moved to block off Church Street, attendees would have just found another hill to bomb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993149\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993149\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1274\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed-800x510.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed-1536x978.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed-1920x1223.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An individual skates down Church Street during the annual Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gigi Basilio successfully rode to the bottom of the hill on her second attempt after a fall on her first try. She embraced her friend as the crowd cheered her on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were dapping me up, saying ‘You got this! You got this!’ and deep down inside, I felt like I had it, and I did it! And I’m so proud of myself because that’s the scariest thing I’ve ever experienced,” Basilio said, clearly emotional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basilio said she felt the large police presence was unnecessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993150\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993150\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1327\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed-1536x1019.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed-1920x1274.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skaters walk back up Church Street during the annual Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re not doing nothing wrong. We’re just trying to skate, trying to bomb, have fun, make memories, be with friends, family, with each other. Why are they trying to ruin our day?” Basilio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one person was taken away by paramedics after falling at the bottom of the hill. On-site volunteer medics attended to others who suffered minor scrapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 6 p.m. Saturday: \u003c/strong>San Francisco’s Mission Dolores Park was filled Saturday afternoon with crowds reveling in the summer heat wave. But among the revelers were police setting up metal barricades, blocking Dolores Street. The big question in the neighborhood: Will the “Dolores Hill Bomb” happen this year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993148\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993148\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skaters ride down Church Street during the annual Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The “hill bomb” is an annual, informal event organized by the Bay Area skateboard community where hundreds of skaters ride down a steep section of Dolores Street adjacent to the city’s Dolores Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C82r59Hy9R3/\">Instagram post\u003c/a> by user vellskiiii set the time for 7 p.m. Saturday, but following messaging by the San Francisco Police Department strongly discouraging people from taking part, vellskiii posted that the event was canceled. “Event CANCELED!!! Police will be waiting at Dolores!!!” But it is unclear how many will receive that message — or heed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993134\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993134\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1231\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED-800x492.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED-1020x628.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED-1536x945.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED-1920x1182.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A skater rides down Church Street seated on a skateboard during the Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024 \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year’s hill bomb comes almost exactly one year since last year’s, which ended in San Francisco police mass-arresting 113 people, most of them minors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents of those arrested have since criticized the police response, detailing how their children were detained in the cold for hours without access to food, water or restrooms. Some of the parents have since sued the city and police on behalf of their children for alleged civil rights violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the condemnations from parents and other community members, along with the looming specter of a costly class action lawsuit against the city, the San Francisco Police Department appears poised to use a similar approach this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993136\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993136\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD stationed nearby during the Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The plan is almost the same ask as last year’s event,” wrote Mission Station Sgt. Jeff Aloise in a late June email to a Department of Public Works employee. “Dolores St will need to have enough barricades starting at 21st St stretching from building to building in an East/West direction, all the way down to 18th St/Dolores.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993132\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993132\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">18th and Dolores streets in San Francisco were closed on July 6, 2024, in an attempt to prevent the annual Dolores Hill Bomb. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those emails were uncovered in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/dizz_h/status/1808705494623596549\">public records request\u003c/a> and shared with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event draws large crowds of people who come to watch the skaters ride down the hill at high speeds. Not everyone makes it. Many skaters sustained injuries and one died in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993133\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993133\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1410\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED-800x564.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED-1020x719.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED-1536x1083.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED-1920x1354.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A skater rides down Church Street during the Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some have criticized the event for being unsafe for both skaters and neighbors alike. Residents of the area say participants vandalize both public and private property during and after the event. Police said last year’s arrests began in response to attendees assaulting officers and vandalizing a MUNI light rail train.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the hill bomb is an organic gathering and, with no designated sponsors or organizers, canceling the event is not as simple as making an announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn’t stopped city officials from attempting to discourage attendance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993129\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993129\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omar Arroyo crashes while riding down Church Street as part of the annual Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re here to say officially, we do not intend to allow a hill bomb tomorrow,” Police Chief Bill Scott said during a Friday news conference. “We’re going to do everything we can to keep our community safe, to prevent that from happening. And as far as we’re concerned, there is no hill bomb tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who represents the area, has echoed similar feelings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked in late June what he had to say to those planning to attend, he responded, “I would encourage them not to this year. I think this event has been unsafe for a number of years. I am eager and willing to partner with folks in the community who want to try to do a safe and fun hill bomb in 2025. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Naomi Lopez, a Dolores Street resident and a parent of a then-15-year-old spectator who was arrested at last year’s Hill Bomb, is among those suing the city and police department for last year’s mass arrests. She called the situation a missed opportunity “to turn an event that has become ugly and has become us-against-them into a community event that could show teenagers, especially Black and brown ones, who are not represented in this room, that they belong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other attendees pushed back, expressing skepticism that any organization would agree to take on the liability of holding such an injury-prone event with a reputation for lawlessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, the hill bomb has attracted bad actors who do not have a peaceful intent,” said Carolyn Kenady, chair of the Dolores Heights Improvement Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993144\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993144\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An individual skates down Church Street during the annual Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even detractors of the hill bomb criticized city leaders for not being more decisive and proactive in efforts to stop the event from occurring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One person said that they had to push through the crowd with their toddler to reach their home and that their calls to 911 after hearing gunshots went unanswered. Another expressed disbelief at seeing children directing traffic. Another questioned why the city has stood by while the event proceeds in similar fashion year after year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993131\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993131\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paramedics assist a skater after a fall during the Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When dealing with this or any event that poses challenges, the City must change its approach to one that truly protects our community and keeps it safe,” said Rachel Lederman, senior counsel with the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, the firm representing the arrested teens in a lawsuit. “That will not happen through increasingly aggressive and militarized policing. Civilian agencies should be managing this event collaboratively with the skateboard community and engage in de-escalation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said legal observers will be there on Saturday and her organization is prepared to take legal action if any further civil rights violations occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>About a dozen former employees of SF SAFE, a police-affiliated nonprofit that abruptly shut down last month, gathered at City Hall on Thursday to file an official complaint in an effort to recover lost wages and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decades-old crime prevention organization abruptly closed its doors in January and laid off much of its staff after an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/Police%20Department%20SF%20SAFE%20Assessment%2001.18.24.pdf\">official audit\u003c/a> found it had \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/18/san-francisco-police-wrongly-paid-nonprofit-79k-for-lavish-expenses-report-finds/\">misused nearly $80,000 of taxpayer money\u003c/a> — funded by SFPD — for “excessive” expenditures, including a trip to Lake Tahoe, luxurious gift boxes and limo services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Miles, a former employee, said he’s still waiting to get paid for at least a week of work and 50 hours of vacation and sick time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a total injustice for us to put in work for a company or organization, and because of someone else’s actions, we fall under unpaid. That’s totally unfair,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF SAFE stands for Safety Awareness for Everyone, which SFPD describes as its “nonprofit community engagement arm.” It remains unclear if the organization’s closure is permanent or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick Mulligan, the director of the city’s Office of Labor Standards Enforcement, which helped former SF SAFE employees fill out claim forms, said he couldn’t comment on the case because it is an open investigation but suggested it would not be resolved anytime soon, as his office is currently backlogged with at least 200 other cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some former employees also said they experienced poor working conditions at SF SAFE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was terrible. Honestly, I wish I’d never worked here,” said Miles, who had been at the nonprofit for eight months. He said at one point on the job, a man waiting for service acted as if he was going to pull a gun on him, an incident Miles reported but received no response about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kyra Worthy, SF SAFE’s former executive director for the last six years, was fired by its board shortly after the audit came out following allegations that the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/31/san-francisco-safe-castro-community-on-patrol-missing-funds/\">hadn’t been paying some of the partner organizations\u003c/a> it worked with and that its bank accounts were depleted, with indications of check forgery also thrown in the mix, the \u003cem>SF Standard\u003c/em> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/sfpd-contractor-accused-of-stiffing-mission-nonprofit-625/\">SF Latino Task Force\u003c/a> has also claimed that SF SAFE owes them $625,000 for training services. And a florist business in the Mission District said the group owes it nearly $20,000 for a large number of flowers purchased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Worthy nor the lawyers for SF SAFE replied to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his negative experience working at SF SAFE, Miles, the former employee, said he greatly appreciates his former coworkers and their ongoing unity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It means everything because if we weren’t all united here right now, we’d probably be just swept under the rug,” he said. “But since we’re coming together as a unit and a group, I believe they have to hear us out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gina Guitron, another former employee, said she is still owed $10,000 in back pay. She said Worthy, the former executive director, also created a toxic environment by pitting staff members against each other and not providing health insurance to employees who were hired within the second half of last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just really hope it does get resolved with the right people,” Guitron said. “We will find somebody to get justice.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This March, the politics of crime in San Francisco can be found up and down the ballot, from judicial races to local ballot measures. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED’s Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez joins us to unpack Proposition E, a measure put forward by Mayor London Breed that would expand the power of the San Francisco Police Department.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC2035323775&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/sanfrancisco/proposition-e\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED Voter Guide: Proposition E\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/48ujR1K\">Subscribe to KQED’s Political Breakdown newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Well, it’s no secret that people are worried about crime and safety in San Francisco, even though the data doesn’t really prove that crime has gotten worse. Still, Mayor London Breed is on a mission to prove she’s doing something about it. And to do that, she put some propositions on the ballot for San Francisco voters to decide on this March, including prop E, which would dramatically change how police operate in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>When people ask me to explain Prop E, I’m like, well, how long do you have?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>A whole episode worth the time, Joe. Today, KQED politics reporter Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: breaks down San Francisco’s Prop E. Who’s for it, who’s against it, and why so many people are spending big money on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Crime is pretty much top of every voter’s mind right now. It is permeating nearly every ballot measure, nearly every elected office this March or in this coming race in November in San Francisco. And I would say even broadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Joe, we’re mostly going to talk about one of the most sweeping of these propositions on the ballot, prop E. But I do want to talk broadly about all of them. First, what is the sort of range of things that these propositions would do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>You ready? Because we’re going to go through the alphabet soup. So prop B is about the number of police we have in San Francisco. We have about 1500 police officers right now, and prop B aims to increase that number. But it ties increasing that number to a future tax measure. Prop F is also comes with Mayor London breed and prop F is about mandating drug treatment for people that the city suspects are doing drugs who are receiving benefits from the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>This would allow the city to say, hey, we think you’re doing drugs, you should go get treatment. And if they don’t, then they could be kicked off that assistance. And that could also mean rental assistance. Those are all straight forward compared to prop E, because prop E isn’t one thing about the cops. It is a grab bag of things that Mayor London Breed and some others want to see changed to help police do their jobs as the public increasingly worries about public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, yeah. Let’s dive into the details. I know that there are four main components to prop E. What are those, Joe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Sure. So at a high level, those components are use of force reporting. So paperwork around when cops use force, the powers of the police commission, public surveillance and the ability for police officers to go on car chases and when and how?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>How dramatic of a shift would probably make in how Sfpd operates currently. And let’s let’s maybe take them one by one, starting with police chases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Police have in the past restricted, and the police commission has restricted how fast a police can go in San Francisco and when they can go on these car chases, essentially. And that’s for very good reason. It’s because car chases are dangerous. Where we are now is that there has to be a threat to life. But this proposition would allow police to make pursuits for some lower level offenses, like robberies, for instance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>The argument being that people who are, say, robbing a, a jewelry store know that if they can get in the car and they’re not an immediate threat to life, they know that they can speed away and not be pursued. So we may see a lot more of these because the bars lowered. Police can make a chase if there are lower level offenses like robberies, even if there isn’t a threat to life. And that is a is a fundamental change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What about the changes that probably would make to how officers report about use of force? Help me understand that one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>So right now, police officers need to file paperwork whenever they use force in an interaction with the suspect. If prop E were to pass, the use of force documentation will only happen if someone is injured or a firearm was pointed directly at them. And what they will do instead is use your body camera footage. And so they say, okay, well there is force used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Well it doesn’t rise to the level of taking documentation down, but we will log your body camera footage and that will serve as our documentation of the incident. And the argument being that, you know, we’re in a staffing shortage for police. When they do use force, they are stuck behind a desk writing paperwork, and this may free them up to actually be out there on the streets, helping to prevent crime merely with their presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And what about the issue of surveillance, Joe? How dramatic of a shift would probably make in how Sfpd currently surveil the public?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Oh, completely dramatically so. Right now, the San Francisco Police Department is very limited in how they can access surveillance. They have to ask permission of businesses to obtain surveillance footage. They can’t place their own cameras in the city. A lot of that was curtailed by the Board of Supervisors, who really were in particular worried about police use of facial recognition technology and enhanced surveillance and really want to limit police’s ability to do mass surveillance of San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>But this would help them circumvent that. Essentially, Police Chief Bill Scott could choose to, put up surveillance cameras throughout the city. They could employ, different surveillance technologies. They could even have drones under prop E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And then, Joe, there is these proposed changes to the police commission. How exactly would probably change how this really citizen oversight body, the police Commission, functions. Now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>This one is probably the most fundamental change to how police operate in San Francisco. Essentially, in a nutshell, the police commission can make policies that dictate how the police operate. But this change under prop is huge, because essentially what would happen is when the police commission wants to pass a policy, they have to go have a public meeting at every police station in San Francisco in order to make that happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>And the only person who can waive that process is the police chief himself. That gives the police department an incredible ability to stymie, slow down, and gum up the process of passing policies that they don’t like, and especially the mayor. Because if the mayor doesn’t agree with the policy, the mayor can ask the police chief to gum up that process and slow it down for the, police commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, why London Breed put prop E on the ballot and the arguments against it. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>This was, as we mentioned earlier, mayor London Breeds idea to put property on the ballot. How does she explain her rationale behind this proposition?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>When London Breed announced this proposition in October. She really laid out her philosophy that we needed to give the police department expanded powers to address what she sees and the electorate sees as a public safety crisis in San Francisco, even if the data doesn’t bear that out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mayor London Breed: \u003c/strong>So many of us know that numbers mean nothing when you feel unsafe, when there’s a perception of issues around safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>She’s responding to the electorate who is angry and dissatisfied, and that is her viewpoint of why property is needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mayor London Breed: \u003c/strong>That doesn’t mean we walk away from our values. It just means we have another tool to help combat the crime that is terrorizing San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Poll after poll after poll, and you have to take them as a snapshot in time. They’re not necessarily predictive of an election, but poll after poll show Mayor London breeds numbers are down. People don’t believe the city is going in the right direction. And right now the person that they’re laying that on is the mayor. I mean, if you just roll back two years ago, that person was Chase a Boudin, the former district attorney who was ousted in a recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>And that anger and frustration is like a tide. And that tide rolled over Chesa Boudin. And now that tide is coming for mayor London breed. And that’s what we’re really seeing in the polls. People are dissatisfied with the state of San Francisco, and they are holding the mayor accountable for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Who else is supporting prop E? Joe, if you like? There were a lot of moderate politicians standing behind London Breed at that press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Another person who spoke in favor of prop E is Nancy Tung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Tung \u003c/strong>Prop E is one of those things, which just makes sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>She’s an assistant district attorney, but she’s also really well known in the Chinese community for her prior run for the district attorney’s office and for her prominence on the San Francisco Democratic Party board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Tung \u003c/strong>While the mayor is doing her best to try to fill the ranks in the police department, we still have to protect public safety. We have to do more with less. And the way we do that is to take off restrictions from the police department and then also allow them to use technology to help them in their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Supervisor Matt Dorsey, and unsurprisingly, is, backing prop used to work for the police department as a head of communications, I should say. But you know other groups as well. Stop Crime Action, which has been a really influential group lately. The San Francisco Police Officers Association, which is the union representing police officers, is backing prop E. Annie Chung, who is the president and CEO of Self-Help for the elderly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>She has a lot of standing in, the Chinese community in San Francisco. She’s been a decades long advocate for them, is rallying people to prop E, the Golden Gate Restaurant Association. And, you know, you have to imagine a lot of restaurants and bars are kind of tired of having to deal with, crime and break ins. So they’re behind it. And that’s also why the San Francisco Council of District Merchants Associations behind it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Who are like the organizations, the politicians who are standing out against prop E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>It should be no surprise that a lot of the organizations that push for controls on police surveillance are against property. That includes the ACLU of Northern California. That includes the Electronic Frontier Foundation. They’re out in front, opposing property. And just that this ACLU rally goes out this past week, mayoral candidate Ahsha Safaí was there, but also members of the police commission who don’t want to see the power of the police commission curtailed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kevin Benedicto: \u003c/strong>The other side might have the money, but I think we have the people on our side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>So Kevin Benedicto is a member of the San Francisco Police Commission. He was appointed in 2022. And he had this to say about why he’s opposing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kevin Benedicto: \u003c/strong>Probably it lowers safeguards and that allows the department to cut corners and lower safeguards when it comes to use of force, which is very dangerous. It lowers safeguards when it comes to surveillance technologies. It lowers safeguards when it comes to high speed, dangerous vehicle pursuits. And we have serious public safety issues in San Francisco. Just lowering safeguards across the board is not going to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>So I was at the ACLU press conference. One compelling story came from Ciara Keegean, a 25 year old San Franciscan who works in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ciara Keegean: \u003c/strong>Two months ago, I was in a horrible car accident caused by the Sfpd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>And she was driving home from work one evening when she came in a head on collision with a suspect being chased by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ciara Keegean: \u003c/strong>My family and I later requested the police report, and, found out that the car had been involved in an armed mugging in downtown San Francisco. The police spiked the tires before it got onto the bridge, and chased the car at up to 80mph across the bridge into Oakland, where it finally hit me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>She was hospitalized after she had some soft tissue injuries. She has had a hard time at work. She’s going through therapy. She’s trying to get past the trauma of what she went through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ciara Keegean: \u003c/strong>When the car hit me. I was on handsfree speakerphone, talking to my boyfriend. And the only thing he heard was my screams and the sirens of police cars. I was transported…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>She was able to tell me that she opposes Prop E because she doesn’t want other people to go what she went through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ciara Keegean: \u003c/strong>this proposition will make San Franciscans less safe and endangered my lives. And it will endanger other San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>People against Prop E are worried that more police chases will lead to more deaths and more injuries on San Francisco streets. And perhaps chiefly, they’re worried that the curtailing of the power of the citizen led police commission will lead to fewer police policies that keep them on the right side of criminal justice reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I do also want to ask you about campaign spending. How much money has been spent on prop E and who’s been spending it in opposition?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>“No on E” has raised about $200,000. And that’s mostly raised by the ACLU. The yes on E! Campaign, committee that is tied to Mayor London breed has raised $750,000 at this point. The Lori for prop e campaign that’s by Miranda Breed’s opponent, Daniel Lurie. The Levi Strauss ER and nonprofit CEO raised about $607,000. So that’s a combined about a $1.3 million for property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And is that a lot of money for a local ballot measure?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>That is a metric ton of money for a local ballot measure. Yes. Some of the biggest funders of the yes on the campaign are Ron Conway, the angel investor and godfather of Silicon Valley, who has backed a lot of large companies. The ripple CEO Chris Larsen, is backing us on E! Together, they’ve dropped hundreds of thousands of dollars. Into a local races. It is a lot of money, and there’s a lot of money from tech folks who, you know, are arguing a political stance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>They are arguing for less citizen oversight over police, for more and expanded police powers. And really, when you see the amount of the people backing it, it’s really a bevy of people who are supporters of London Breed and who are right now working to kind of shift the balance of power in San Francisco towards more moderate Democrats and away from progressives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, do we have a sense of how good of a chance prop E might have at passing, do we know?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>A lot of polling shows San Franciscans fed up with crime and fed up with homelessness and all sorts of issues around public safety. So, you know, looking at that sentiment and what I’m hearing from sources who I interview out there about the sentiment around public safety, I think it’s a pretty sure bet that anything that says police on the ballot will get a really big yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Seems like even a shift from how folks are feeling in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Yeah, absolutely. And, you know, we have to question that shift in light of the data, right? The data does show a more nuanced picture of crime in San Francisco. And that shows a more nuanced picture of crime in California. You know, some great reporting by colleagues here, KQED, including Marisa Lagos, has shown that, you know, crime is up in other places, including with more Republican leaning district attorneys and leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>So is it something that is happening at the local level and things we’re doing here, or is the perception of crime tied more around media reporting what we’re seeing on social media, and when does that end? When will we ever stop being scared for public safety? And when does that stop driving our politics? Because right now it’s driving our politics pretty heavily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>No amount of impact on the streets has made us feel safer. And that’s what you hear a lot. It’s not really about the data, it’s about how people feel. But what will change that? What will change how people feel? And that’s an answer I don’t think anyone has right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Joe, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, a politics reporter for KQED. By the way, KQED has got a pretty comprehensive voter guide online with information about both state and local races across all nine Bay area counties. Just go to KQED.org/VoterGuide. This 55 minute conversation with Joe was cut down and edited by producer Maria Esquinca. Alan Montecillo is our senior editor, who scored this episode and added all the tape. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Well, it’s no secret that people are worried about crime and safety in San Francisco, even though the data doesn’t really prove that crime has gotten worse. Still, Mayor London Breed is on a mission to prove she’s doing something about it. And to do that, she put some propositions on the ballot for San Francisco voters to decide on this March, including prop E, which would dramatically change how police operate in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>When people ask me to explain Prop E, I’m like, well, how long do you have?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>A whole episode worth the time, Joe. Today, KQED politics reporter Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: breaks down San Francisco’s Prop E. Who’s for it, who’s against it, and why so many people are spending big money on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Crime is pretty much top of every voter’s mind right now. It is permeating nearly every ballot measure, nearly every elected office this March or in this coming race in November in San Francisco. And I would say even broadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Joe, we’re mostly going to talk about one of the most sweeping of these propositions on the ballot, prop E. But I do want to talk broadly about all of them. First, what is the sort of range of things that these propositions would do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>You ready? Because we’re going to go through the alphabet soup. So prop B is about the number of police we have in San Francisco. We have about 1500 police officers right now, and prop B aims to increase that number. But it ties increasing that number to a future tax measure. Prop F is also comes with Mayor London breed and prop F is about mandating drug treatment for people that the city suspects are doing drugs who are receiving benefits from the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>This would allow the city to say, hey, we think you’re doing drugs, you should go get treatment. And if they don’t, then they could be kicked off that assistance. And that could also mean rental assistance. Those are all straight forward compared to prop E, because prop E isn’t one thing about the cops. It is a grab bag of things that Mayor London Breed and some others want to see changed to help police do their jobs as the public increasingly worries about public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, yeah. Let’s dive into the details. I know that there are four main components to prop E. What are those, Joe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Sure. So at a high level, those components are use of force reporting. So paperwork around when cops use force, the powers of the police commission, public surveillance and the ability for police officers to go on car chases and when and how?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>How dramatic of a shift would probably make in how Sfpd operates currently. And let’s let’s maybe take them one by one, starting with police chases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Police have in the past restricted, and the police commission has restricted how fast a police can go in San Francisco and when they can go on these car chases, essentially. And that’s for very good reason. It’s because car chases are dangerous. Where we are now is that there has to be a threat to life. But this proposition would allow police to make pursuits for some lower level offenses, like robberies, for instance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>The argument being that people who are, say, robbing a, a jewelry store know that if they can get in the car and they’re not an immediate threat to life, they know that they can speed away and not be pursued. So we may see a lot more of these because the bars lowered. Police can make a chase if there are lower level offenses like robberies, even if there isn’t a threat to life. And that is a is a fundamental change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What about the changes that probably would make to how officers report about use of force? Help me understand that one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>So right now, police officers need to file paperwork whenever they use force in an interaction with the suspect. If prop E were to pass, the use of force documentation will only happen if someone is injured or a firearm was pointed directly at them. And what they will do instead is use your body camera footage. And so they say, okay, well there is force used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Well it doesn’t rise to the level of taking documentation down, but we will log your body camera footage and that will serve as our documentation of the incident. And the argument being that, you know, we’re in a staffing shortage for police. When they do use force, they are stuck behind a desk writing paperwork, and this may free them up to actually be out there on the streets, helping to prevent crime merely with their presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And what about the issue of surveillance, Joe? How dramatic of a shift would probably make in how Sfpd currently surveil the public?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Oh, completely dramatically so. Right now, the San Francisco Police Department is very limited in how they can access surveillance. They have to ask permission of businesses to obtain surveillance footage. They can’t place their own cameras in the city. A lot of that was curtailed by the Board of Supervisors, who really were in particular worried about police use of facial recognition technology and enhanced surveillance and really want to limit police’s ability to do mass surveillance of San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>But this would help them circumvent that. Essentially, Police Chief Bill Scott could choose to, put up surveillance cameras throughout the city. They could employ, different surveillance technologies. They could even have drones under prop E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And then, Joe, there is these proposed changes to the police commission. How exactly would probably change how this really citizen oversight body, the police Commission, functions. Now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>This one is probably the most fundamental change to how police operate in San Francisco. Essentially, in a nutshell, the police commission can make policies that dictate how the police operate. But this change under prop is huge, because essentially what would happen is when the police commission wants to pass a policy, they have to go have a public meeting at every police station in San Francisco in order to make that happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>And the only person who can waive that process is the police chief himself. That gives the police department an incredible ability to stymie, slow down, and gum up the process of passing policies that they don’t like, and especially the mayor. Because if the mayor doesn’t agree with the policy, the mayor can ask the police chief to gum up that process and slow it down for the, police commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, why London Breed put prop E on the ballot and the arguments against it. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>This was, as we mentioned earlier, mayor London Breeds idea to put property on the ballot. How does she explain her rationale behind this proposition?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>When London Breed announced this proposition in October. She really laid out her philosophy that we needed to give the police department expanded powers to address what she sees and the electorate sees as a public safety crisis in San Francisco, even if the data doesn’t bear that out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mayor London Breed: \u003c/strong>So many of us know that numbers mean nothing when you feel unsafe, when there’s a perception of issues around safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>She’s responding to the electorate who is angry and dissatisfied, and that is her viewpoint of why property is needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mayor London Breed: \u003c/strong>That doesn’t mean we walk away from our values. It just means we have another tool to help combat the crime that is terrorizing San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Poll after poll after poll, and you have to take them as a snapshot in time. They’re not necessarily predictive of an election, but poll after poll show Mayor London breeds numbers are down. People don’t believe the city is going in the right direction. And right now the person that they’re laying that on is the mayor. I mean, if you just roll back two years ago, that person was Chase a Boudin, the former district attorney who was ousted in a recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>And that anger and frustration is like a tide. And that tide rolled over Chesa Boudin. And now that tide is coming for mayor London breed. And that’s what we’re really seeing in the polls. People are dissatisfied with the state of San Francisco, and they are holding the mayor accountable for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Who else is supporting prop E? Joe, if you like? There were a lot of moderate politicians standing behind London Breed at that press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Another person who spoke in favor of prop E is Nancy Tung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Tung \u003c/strong>Prop E is one of those things, which just makes sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>She’s an assistant district attorney, but she’s also really well known in the Chinese community for her prior run for the district attorney’s office and for her prominence on the San Francisco Democratic Party board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Tung \u003c/strong>While the mayor is doing her best to try to fill the ranks in the police department, we still have to protect public safety. We have to do more with less. And the way we do that is to take off restrictions from the police department and then also allow them to use technology to help them in their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Supervisor Matt Dorsey, and unsurprisingly, is, backing prop used to work for the police department as a head of communications, I should say. But you know other groups as well. Stop Crime Action, which has been a really influential group lately. The San Francisco Police Officers Association, which is the union representing police officers, is backing prop E. Annie Chung, who is the president and CEO of Self-Help for the elderly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>She has a lot of standing in, the Chinese community in San Francisco. She’s been a decades long advocate for them, is rallying people to prop E, the Golden Gate Restaurant Association. And, you know, you have to imagine a lot of restaurants and bars are kind of tired of having to deal with, crime and break ins. So they’re behind it. And that’s also why the San Francisco Council of District Merchants Associations behind it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Who are like the organizations, the politicians who are standing out against prop E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>It should be no surprise that a lot of the organizations that push for controls on police surveillance are against property. That includes the ACLU of Northern California. That includes the Electronic Frontier Foundation. They’re out in front, opposing property. And just that this ACLU rally goes out this past week, mayoral candidate Ahsha Safaí was there, but also members of the police commission who don’t want to see the power of the police commission curtailed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kevin Benedicto: \u003c/strong>The other side might have the money, but I think we have the people on our side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>So Kevin Benedicto is a member of the San Francisco Police Commission. He was appointed in 2022. And he had this to say about why he’s opposing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kevin Benedicto: \u003c/strong>Probably it lowers safeguards and that allows the department to cut corners and lower safeguards when it comes to use of force, which is very dangerous. It lowers safeguards when it comes to surveillance technologies. It lowers safeguards when it comes to high speed, dangerous vehicle pursuits. And we have serious public safety issues in San Francisco. Just lowering safeguards across the board is not going to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>So I was at the ACLU press conference. One compelling story came from Ciara Keegean, a 25 year old San Franciscan who works in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ciara Keegean: \u003c/strong>Two months ago, I was in a horrible car accident caused by the Sfpd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>And she was driving home from work one evening when she came in a head on collision with a suspect being chased by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ciara Keegean: \u003c/strong>My family and I later requested the police report, and, found out that the car had been involved in an armed mugging in downtown San Francisco. The police spiked the tires before it got onto the bridge, and chased the car at up to 80mph across the bridge into Oakland, where it finally hit me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>She was hospitalized after she had some soft tissue injuries. She has had a hard time at work. She’s going through therapy. She’s trying to get past the trauma of what she went through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ciara Keegean: \u003c/strong>When the car hit me. I was on handsfree speakerphone, talking to my boyfriend. And the only thing he heard was my screams and the sirens of police cars. I was transported…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>She was able to tell me that she opposes Prop E because she doesn’t want other people to go what she went through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ciara Keegean: \u003c/strong>this proposition will make San Franciscans less safe and endangered my lives. And it will endanger other San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>People against Prop E are worried that more police chases will lead to more deaths and more injuries on San Francisco streets. And perhaps chiefly, they’re worried that the curtailing of the power of the citizen led police commission will lead to fewer police policies that keep them on the right side of criminal justice reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I do also want to ask you about campaign spending. How much money has been spent on prop E and who’s been spending it in opposition?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>“No on E” has raised about $200,000. And that’s mostly raised by the ACLU. The yes on E! Campaign, committee that is tied to Mayor London breed has raised $750,000 at this point. The Lori for prop e campaign that’s by Miranda Breed’s opponent, Daniel Lurie. 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And really, when you see the amount of the people backing it, it’s really a bevy of people who are supporters of London Breed and who are right now working to kind of shift the balance of power in San Francisco towards more moderate Democrats and away from progressives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, do we have a sense of how good of a chance prop E might have at passing, do we know?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>A lot of polling shows San Franciscans fed up with crime and fed up with homelessness and all sorts of issues around public safety. 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And that’s an answer I don’t think anyone has right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Joe, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, a politics reporter for KQED. By the way, KQED has got a pretty comprehensive voter guide online with information about both state and local races across all nine Bay area counties. Just go to KQED.org/VoterGuide. This 55 minute conversation with Joe was cut down and edited by producer Maria Esquinca. Alan Montecillo is our senior editor, who scored this episode and added all the tape. 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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. Cordell said SFPD may need to think more creatively, like offering incentive pay or other benefits if police stay in communities longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know that any of these are contradictory. They can all be done,” she said. “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.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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