A 2016 trash fire provides a fitting analogy for Recology’s 2021 settlement with the city. Photo by George Lipp

Hello Readers:

Recology says that after gouging residents with trash fees it will now reimburse us. But is $100 million enough?

In other news:

  • Mission Station police officers are flagged more than elsewhere for potential misconduct.
  • The tracker shows vaccinations continue to rise.

Stay safe and enjoy the weather,

— Lydia

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Recology to reimburse San Franciscans some $100M following City Attorney investigation

Recology, the company city voters in 1932 awarded a monopoly on hauling waste in San Francisco, has agreed to a settlement reimbursing city customers some $94.5 million. This comes after a City Attorney investigation revealed the company in 2017 applied for and received a rate that gouged San Francisco customers.

Covid Tracker: 34,207 cases, 423 deaths

As of March 2,  22 percent (172,843) of San Francisco residents over 16 had received one dose, while over 10 percent (76,006) had received two. On March 2, only 2111 shots were delivered to San Franciso residents, bringing the seven day rolling average of shots per day to 7248.7. The DPH goal remains 10,000 shots per day.

Mission District police are flagged for potential misconduct more than other officers. SFPD can’t explain why.

In 2020, the system that tracks potential misconduct and allows higher-ups to intervene, flagged officers at Mission Station 103 times for repeatedly using force, being the subject of citizen complaints, getting sued, or being investigated by the internal affairs department. 

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I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. 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 here.

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.

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