Comments on: Police Talk Quality-of-Life Issues, Shootings

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 03:16:18 +0000

I agree that the vendors selling crappy used records from the 1980s should be left alone. I mean, the cops don’t have a million better things to do with their time, with the fact that people get stabbed, crack gets sold and all the other actually harmful things that happen within blocks of that BART stop?

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 19:19:03 +0000

Thanks for that dose of racism. I’m sure that white professionals should be blamed for Latino gang shootings.

By: Kev

Kev — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 09:19:28 +0000

Please slow the traffic on South Van Ness Ave as it has turned into a freeway.

MUNI is constantly speeding.
Taxis are constantly speeding.
Everyone is travelling way faster than 25 mph.

There have been huge accidents on a regular basis. This is a far bigger problem than many of the other issues.

No other Mission district st as short as South Van Ness is allowed to move as fast.

Please do something.

By: NoGuns

NoGuns — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 02:48:17 +0000

^^^ best comment ever. Gangs or gentrify – just stop the shooting!

By: J Smith

J Smith — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 22:34:04 +0000

Exactly, that’s the message I’m getting… Gangs aren’t a problem in the Mission, the only problem and the only issue is gentrification. Latinos aren’t responsible for any of the issues going on in the Mission, it’s all people from “outside” who have invaded “their” neighborhood… And a reminder on that issue – before large numbers of Mexican immigrants moved into the neighborhood in the 1940s-1960s, the Mission was predominantly white (Irish, German and Polish American). But no one owns the neighborhood – I would like it to be diverse and welcoming for anyone. And Niner, if you want to live in a place where gangs run things, I’m sure there are some border towns in Mexico where you can get what you are looking for.

By: Huong

Huong — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 22:17:34 +0000

…because people have no obligation to pay taxes.

By: Huong

Huong — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 22:14:20 +0000

This…coming from someone opening representing the Norteno street gang on their Facebook profile.

By: J Smith

J Smith — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 22:01:28 +0000

I used to have sympathy for your cause, but it’s hard after listening to the same complaints about gentrification. Gentrification and hipsters with colored hair aren’t preventing Latino youths in the Mission from studying hard, getting trained in a profession, and getting a job. What are you doing besides complaining? And I’ll be here a while… I worked hard, got a graduate degree and a good job, saved money and bought an apartment here. If you and your friends have been living in the Mission for so long, then you could have done the same a long time ago for a lot less money. But I suspect that many of the Latino families that did that back in the day have cashed in and moved out a while ago, fueling the gentrification that you complain about.

By: Kev

Kev — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:59:13 +0000

I have lived in the Mission long before it was gentrified. I like some of the changes are but not all of them.

There is no way to stop change for that matter so one must just roll with it.

I must say however that I have never been the victim of a crime against my person in the Mission. My car has been broken in to once in twenty years.

I am a biy confused that a commenter feels that gentrification will make us safe.

By: neighbor

neighbor — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:41:42 +0000

I find it very interesting that when one commenter asks what La Raza is doing to help support and train the youth in the Mission, the response we get from La Raza is “Gentrification!!! Derp!!!.” Gentrification is not the reason that people have been loitering, passed out drunk, dealing drugs, etc. at 16th and Mission for the last 25 years. The people who make 16th and Mission what it is, which is BAD, have no intention of joining the community around them in any meaningful way, working or not, white or not, Google bus or not. Do you really think that the kids loitering at 16th and Mission WANT to work at Pig and Pie? What is La Raza doing to help those kids WANT to work at Pig and Pie? I bet a whole lot of nothing, except maybe giving them the excuse of “gentrification.”