December Muna Meeting

Crimes and Police:

Mission Station Contact Info:

• www.missionstation.org
• 630 Valencia Street
• 415-558-5400
• Twitter: @SFPD_Mission

Mission Station Representatives attending meeting:

• Sergeant Pete Shields
• Officer Matt Friedman (webmaster)
• Inspector Matt Lee

SF SAFE Representative attending meeting:

• Rob Mackenzie

Passing Calls:

• A way to ask for more cruisers to pass through (415-558-5400)
• There is a clipboard that holds the queue of requests
• Call and ask for “Passing calls on Utah St @ 2:00 am for prostitution/suspicious car or camper”
• Call and ask for “72 hour tow sticker for camper on the street”
• Sargent Pete Shields recommends calling approximately every two weeks

www.missionstation.org

• Easy access to contact numbers, district map
• Captain’s newsletter (current events in district)
• Mission Reach:
• Chronic problem outreach program at Mission Station
• Officer Alex Medina receives comments posted on website
• She has experience dealing with CalTrans and DPW
• E.g. re-planning and redesigning new Dolores Park with safety in mind
• Request passing calls through this avenue as well
• Email officer Medina directly if you want
• Safety information, how to protect yourself from common crimes
• Online reporting system for low level crimes (get a report number)
• Twitter account for local closures, immediate information for ongoing crimes
• Program for identifying recovered stolen bicycle has been very successful

Recent Robberies:

• 4-5 recent robberies reported in neighborhood via email
• 1:00 AM, agile burglar or group
• Mission Station response:
• We have not matched any prints to any particular person
• Not sure if prints are the same in recent robberies
• Sergeant Shields will request this in the future
• No idea who is behind these robberies
• If someone can get a camera with face shots WE CATCH THEM
• Buy an expensive camera with better resolution

Mini-Park Committee Report: 

• Improvement objectives are to increase positive use of park and increase visibility in park to increase safety.
• Committee has met 4 times this year
• Working with Jeff Miller Company to create Activity Court extending stone wall motif
• Planning to apply for funding from Community Challenge Grant program and from Eastern Neighborhoods Fund.
• Have met with RPD, SFParks Alliance and have sent drawings to Caltrans
• Members: Isabelle, Paul, JD, Juan, David, Molly, Jean

San Bruno & 17th street Committee Report:

Problems:

• Homelessness on corner of Mariposa and San Bruno
• Illegal dumping along San Bruno
• Fence barring access to overpass vandalized
• Blind curve at Mariposa/San Bruno
• Traffic calming project to slow cars
• Remove some parking at corner and add some perpendicular parking near 17th?

Mission Station response:

• Units dedicated to moving homeless into shelters
• Sue Lavin from Bayview, DPW, Caltrans are working on this, too
• Homeless Outreach Team (HOT) dedicated to this
• Caltrans has jurisdiction under freeway, SFPD on street
• Homeless services in the neighborhood (soup kitchens, etc) increase local homeless population

Committees Plans:

• Committee has met 4 times, one of these wiht Sup. Malia Cohen and one with StreetParks heads, Julia Brashares and Sandra Zuniga.
• Dec 6 meeting scheduled w/ Caltrans, DPW and Sue Lavin (Police Homeless Outreach)
• Reaching out to UCB Landscape Department to see if there is interest in student project to improve area
• Work with DPW StreeParks and with District 10 Supervisor (Malia Cohen)
• Members: Sheldon, Maria, Karin, JR, Jean

Persistent Problems: 

Homelessness Cycle:

• Police make contact, ID, issue citations
• Homeless coalition represents homeless person
• If eventually they miss a court date, PD can get a warrant
• Some refuse city services such as shelters, mental health services

Crime Priority and restructuring of Police Stations:

• General investigations used to be in 850 Bryant, now moved to individual stations
• Formerly the triage was more removed from the neighborhood
• Now triage is at neighborhood station level, should be more hands-on

School Kids:

• Graffiti problems on overpass, walls, and windows
• Jaywalking is dangerous due to speeding on Utah
• Can we make contact with those schools?
• Nearby schools may be in Bayview District

 Safety:

Smart phones:

• Mission stations gets 5 phone snatch-n-grabs per day
• Stay aware, keep your phone in your pocket
• Article in SFGATE about cell phone thefts:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/01/MNDN1M67G8.DTL

Software for Computers which will help with recovery:

Hot prowls:

• Many burglaries happen during the day and burglar rings the doorbell
• Let caller know that you are home but don’t answer
• Recently this has been happening at night
• Burglars are generally calculated
• Lock doors and windows
• Burglar break-ins are not loud, even when forcing doors
• Many Burglaries are second and third story windows on back of building
• Install tracking software on your laptop

Radio Shack alarm:

• This can be used in addition to system alarms
• Less effective

Home Security:

• Rob Mackenzie of  SF SAFE (http://www.sfsafe.org/) will do a free security analysis of your home or business as part of the Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) program.  See Services->Home Security on their website.