A 43-year-old woman was packing up her laundry on 22nd Street near Alabama Street on Friday at 11:45 p.m. when a 20-something suspect shoved her against the machines, according to the police report.

He yelled at her, discovered her cell phone and fled on Alabama Street. Did you really need that phone mister?

Meanwhile somewhere between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. on Friday night and Saturday morning someone broke into a garage on the 600 block of Capp Street between 21st and 22nd streets and stole some power tools.

The police recap indicated Saturday was fairly calm — at least in the Mission.

On Sunday at 8:20 p.m. a 25-year-old man was sitting at the back of the bus riding up Mission Street near 25th Street when two suspects approached him and told him to get off the bus.

The victim stood up to comply, but one of the suspects pushed him back down and then punched him in the eye while an accomplice took the victim’s wallet. The suspects — between the ages of 20 to 25 — fled on Mission Street. One hopes the wallet was empty of cash.

The victim, who suffered a black eye, refused medical treatment.

No arrests have been made.

Crime is trauma and the county offers different services. Here is a link to a page of services.

Victims of violent crime can contact the Trauma Recover Center at UCSF.

Follow Us

Founder/Executive Editor. I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019 when I retired. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still there.

As an old friend once pointed out, local has long been in my bones. My Master’s Project at Columbia, later published in New York Magazine, was on New York City’s experiment in community boards.

Right now I'm trying to figure out how you make that long-held interest in local news sustainable. The answer continues to elude me.

Join the Conversation

1 Comment

  1. Reply
Leave a comment
Please keep your comments short and civil. Do not leave multiple comments under multiple names on one article. We will zap comments that fail to adhere to these short and very easy-to-follow rules.

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *