New group wants SFPD to stop sex worker abatement unit, others not so sure

Nov 10, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission, Trouble

Tucked inside the second floor of the Redstone Building on 16th Street, more than 60 Mission...

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City prostitution efforts too slow for SF Mission residents

May 15, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Trouble

Some 60 residents on Monday evening said over and over that prostitution on Shotwell has never...

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Two kidnappings in one night in SF’s Mission

Apr 9, 2018 | Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Trouble

A man and a woman were arrested for taking a 17-year-old girl into a car against her will on 19th...

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Giant battery causes fire, toxic fumes on Shotwell Street

Mar 27, 2018 | Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

A three-foot-tall, three-foot-wide object described by firefighters as a “lithium battery pack”...

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Two shootings, a stabbing, and shots fired in SF Mission over the weekend

Jan 29, 2018 | Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Trouble

Shootings & shots fired  A 22-year-old woman was shot by two men believed to be in their 20s...

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Neighborhood Notes: ‘Hi’ to Scott Wiener and Shotwell improvements

Oct 20, 2017 | Art, Business, Dolores Park, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Parks, Today's Mission, Topics

Shotwell Improvements  The 21st and Shotwell intersection will be getting new streetlights and...

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Witnesses’ lives transformed after SF police shooting

Oct 10, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Mobile, Newsletter, Police Shootings, Today's Mission, Topics

StephanieGrant was getting comfortable living on the streets of the Mission. It was Spring 2016,...

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SF Fix-It team can beautify a park, but sex work resistant to remedies

Sep 22, 2017 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mission Station, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Jose Coronado Playground at 21st and Shotwell streets will soon be getting new trees, signage and...

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Civil Suit Against Police Will Go to Trial in Fall 2018

Mar 14, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

A federal judge on Monday set October 22, 2018 as the trial date for a civil suit brought by the...

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Neighbors Design Signs for a Weekend of Protests

Jan 21, 2017 | Election Coverage, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

At the StoreFrontLab on Shotwell Street Friday, the floor was strewn with protest posters and...

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City Attorney Says Cops Shot Homeless Man in Self Defense

Dec 12, 2016 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

The San Francisco City Attorney’s office said on Thursday that two San Francisco police officers...

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Two Fire Victims End Months of Homelessness, But a Third Remains Unhoused

Oct 27, 2016 | Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Mobile, Newsletter, SROs: Rooms out of View, Today's Mission, Topics

Since a five-alarm fire in June displaced Kimberly Walley and her husband, Henry Texada, from the...

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PG&E Turns the Lights on SF Mission Homeless

Oct 22, 2016 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission, Topics

Pacific Gas and Electric has installed temporary light fixtures at its Shotwell Street yard that...

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Police and Community Address Spike in SF Mission Gang Violence

Oct 18, 2016 | Command Staff, Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Trouble

Mission organizers and police alike are mobilizing to address a spate of violence including...

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Family of Man Shot by Police Files Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit

Oct 7, 2016 | Command Staff, Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

The family of the 45-year-old Mayan homeless man shot by police near a Mission District...

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Shotwell St. Violence Claims Life of Man Gunned Down in June

Oct 5, 2016 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Trouble

For three months, Fidel Amezcua, known to most by the name Happy, fought for his life. But on...

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