Rain quieted the streets of San Francisco’s Mission District Tuesday morning. On the northeast plaza at 16th and Mission, foot traffic thinned as workers and residents moved through the drizzle.
A single police cruiser and a truck from public works sat near the northeast BART entrance at 9:30 a.m. Rain kept most of the usual denizens away.
Julian Avenue and Caledonia and Wiese streets were unusually empty at 10 a.m.
Carlos, a full-time employee with Hunter Point Family for the past three months, cleans the east side of Julian Avenue in San Francisco. A former truck driver, he says the $20-an-hour job sometimes feels too risky.
“I just plan to keep the area as clean as I can; that’s all I have the tools to do, besides being good to the people who show respect,” he says.
A Julian resident reported that police handcuffed two men at 2:45 p.m. today on Julian Avenue near 15th Street. It is unclear why. We have asked the San Francisco Police Department for details, and will post their response as soon as we receive it.
i chose to look at the street scenes myself on this particular day.
while my observations coincide with the reporter’s details, i note the reporter didn’t note the amount of excrement on the sidewalks. there was a lot despite the absence of people.
and that excrement appears to be from animals not humans.
i would have posted pictures of that.
it demonstrates the willingness (hypocrisy) of the residents to use the streets as their pet’s toilet while complaining about the filth of the people living on their streets.
Thanks to Mission Local and all the contributors for carefully documenting day by day events with this “operation.” Really important to neighbors and residents. Taxpayers are beyond curious about daily dollars and costs as a metric to gauge effectiveness.
It’s definitely improved and the glass-pipe-and-foil crowds don’t seem to be gathering in such large numbers as they were for a while.
The recessed areas on Wiese are still a magnet for misuse and should be fenced off, that would make the alley less attractive for hanging out.
Now I wonder where did they go?
They move to Caledonia.
OMG so many of them hanging out, tucked beyond the sidewalks.
I can’t help but wonder if many of these are due to the high numbers of SRO’s? We need the police to screen everyone hanging out in the alleys- where is this population coming from.
So sick of non-profits getting free dollars and making our streets a mess. Zero tolerance.
WHERE ARE THE POLICE SWEEPS HERE? Get to it. It’s happening a block from the command center. Arrest, fine, prosecute, & cite all the vendors.
Please Scott Weiner make vending illegal asap.