2 weeks Ago By Gustavo Hernandez
Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter , a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere. We have an ambitious goal for 2025: Double the total number of donors from last year to over 5,000! We are already 20 percent of the way there . San Francisco police arrested a man and a woman Wednesday morning on Julian Avenue at 16th Street.
Before being placed in a police van, the woman called out to a man nearby, “Go to my apartment and tell them I’m being arrested. Tell them to feed my cat.” When asked about the arrests, one officer said, “So they are adults.
We can’t tell you what exactly they were arrested for.” We are checking with SFPD on the arrests. All in all, the crackdown continued without any dramatic changes.
People still hang out on the side streets and the plaza – especially the southwest plaza where the mobile unit is parked – remains fairly clean. Want the latest on the Mission and San Francisco? Sign up for our free daily newsletter below. On Caledonia Street, seven people gathered near 15th Street.
One woman sat on the ground beside a foldable cart with a dog and loose items inside. The others stood nearby, some gathering around one of the newly placed orange trash cans. One of the cans had its liner pulled halfway out.
A Gubbio Project employee said the nonprofit is allowed to place items there for DPW to collect. Staff are also responsible for emptying the orange trash cans. The addition of the trash cans on Caledonia Street is recent and so far, it does not seem that people are using them much.
But another trash bin at Julian and 15th Street does appear to be used. It’s unclear how long it has been there. Wiese Street, where there is no trash can, was littered with trash.
A DPW truck turned onto the street from 15th, passing three people — one on a bike, another walking, and one sitting on the curb. The southeast 16th Street plaza, where the mobile command unit sits, was clean and orderly. An SFPD vehicle was parked across the street.
No other officers were visible on the plaza. On the northeast plaza, a police cruiser was parked near the BART station. An officer leaned against the vehicle talking with a DPW worker and one of the plaza’s regulars.
The plazas have long been used by tenants who live in the nearby Single Room Occupancy hotels where rooms are small and there are no communal spaces. Capp Street was mostly clear around 10:00 a.m.
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