The time was up for these thugs long ago.  They should get permits like every other group in the city and should obey all traffic laws.  If not they should be arrested.  The time has long passed to allow a group of thugs to take over the city once a month. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Dear Gavin, I think one solution for the Tenderloin would be to make it hard for people to deal/do drugs on the street.  Start busting people, start a police presence in the area, use undercover cops.  Don't make a huge deal out of it, just do it.  The cops can work in teams of 2-4 and systematically jail people.  Make it hard for people to smoke crack on the street.  Make them scared of jail again.  Might I remind you that plenty of children are in the area.  Another idea for improving the TL is to paint the street lines again.  Read This Posty »

Here's an idea.. make sure the police actually do their job.  I just came from watching an all-out brawl at Hallidie Plaza/Powell Street BART/MUNI station.  I viewed this out of my apartment window which overlooks the plaza. I didn't call the police because I saw 2-3 BART police (or some other type of uniformed officer) come out of the BART station and watch the fighting.  I assumed they were just calling the police or for backup and waiting for them to arrive.  But they just stood there and did nothing.  Half an hour later, the police have finally arrived and Read This Posty »

Kudos to your efforts to foster biotech companies in SF and to establish a quality-of-life court. Here is something SFPD should really do something about. I live at 4th and Harrison right near the City Nights club. I always see police outside of the club on Friday and Saturday nights to keep the peace. But when I'm trying to sleep at 1AM and some clubgoer pulls up to the intersection with a car stereo that shakes my ENTIRE apartment building, that also qualifies as disturbing the peace. Those people should be arrested for such blatant disrespect and prosecuted, maybe in this Read This Posty »

I know the police have more important things to do than catch minor traffic violators, but why not have an S.F. Highway Patrol Motorcycle Division, whose only purpose is to maintain the rules of the road/sidewalk. Enough hired could easily pay for their job. Don't just nab drivers, but pedestrians, cyclists, and sidewalk skateboarders. I get the feeling that non-enforcement has crept to the point of most not even knowing the rules. Brian Grieb Read This Posty »

I watched police last night yelling at car drivers just trying to go when their light was green.  The message we're sending is that just because there are a lot of people breaking the law, it's ok.  This is OUTRAGEOUS.  THEY ARE PURPOSELY BREAKING THE LAW AND PURPOSELY ANNOYING LAW ABIDING CITIZENS.  Put a stop to this or control it.  Arrest them all.  All those cops descending on motorists trying to cross the street on the green light could've instead stopped all the bicyclists running the red light.  STOP ALLOWING ANARCHY. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Make them organize and assume responsibilities for approved courses, permit and police costs, a marked course- this is ony fair in a city ruled by law. parades need permits and have to cover costs, Races and walks , often to benefit non profit charities, pay thousands of $$ to cover city costs, money that woulkd otherwise go to non profits. And because of all of this, the city residents and those working here are made aware of traffic issues and threats to their normal traffic. Critical Mass is given a pass, the city pays, the citizens except the few hundred Read This Posty »

Dear Mr. Newson, I live on Eddy Street between Laguna and Gough and in the past year our block has been terrorized by a number of daylight murders. Back in February, I wrote to your office to express my anger at your apparent refusal to bring foot patrols to our neighborhood. My letter, as well as my request, remains without a response. Many in our neighborhood, which has a clear view of City Hall, feel very much ignored and neglected by you. I realize that police resources might be quite strained in our city, but I just don't see you, the honorable Mayor Read This Posty »

Bicycle theft is a big quality of life issue for many in this city! I suggest one police officer be assigned to coordinate efforts to reduce bike theft, including a voluntary bicycle ID system. I also suggest more stings, and frequent crackdowns on bicycle "chop shops." Name Withheld Read This Posty »

1. Raise money by issuing tickets to commuters who instead of stopping before red lights, stop after the lights on the pedestrian crosswalks. Worst offenders are found on the corner of Folsom and Fremont after 5PM. Pull the ones on the sidewalk aside and issue $100 tickets. Easy money and you save the lives of pedestrians who have to dodge traffic because their cross walks have cars on them. 2. For the last year I've seen broken glass  from people breaking into cars all along Folsom street especially before and after 2nd street. Why isn't the police preventing this? Why don't Read This Posty »

Dear Mr. Newsom,                         As people come over the Bay Bridge they see the wonderful views and must think WOW, what a GREAT city.  Then they get off at 5th Street and Harrison and reality sets in. They see 1-3 people begging at this corner.  They see trash cans that have ravaged and their contents dumped by scavengers. Is this the first real impression we want to give visitors? Much has been done at this corner.  The street sweepers come every night and clean one side and then the other Read This Posty »

Newly hired police need inexpensive housing, especially in the city.  SF is landlord to a vast criminal element in the Projects. Without law and order in these areas, nothing else matters.  Give police officers free apartments in the projects and: 1. They will enhance community policing.  2.  They live in the city.  3. Crime will be prevented.  In Atlanta, landlords give law enforcement officers free apartments which keeps criminals at bay.  Try it! Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Undercover enforcement especially during afternoon weekday hours. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Choose a random series of days for cops (on foot or bicycles) to show up at locations where homeless people are a nuisance.   Not every day, not every other day, but at a random interval so that homeless people don't get into the habit of going to specific places. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Dear Mr. Mayor: While I support all the wonderful development deals, the biotech, the SOMA developments, etc. I can't help but feel the quality of life is deteriorating in many of our neighborhoods due to out of control graffiti and dumping of trash on the streets and sidewalks. I for one am tired of living in filth whenever I'm outside my home in the Mission. I'm old enough to remember as time when peer pressure would work. A gentle reminder to someone throwing away a drink cup in a doorway was enough to get that person to stop, think, and dispose of Read This Posty »

Start policing the people who are always shooting up (on hyde, e.g.) in the loin.  Also, arrest all the crack dealers that deal at the corner of Golden Gate and Hyde. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

I live in Russian Hill, but wind up farther down Polk quite a bit to go out to eat, drink, etc.  I love this area and the fact that there seems to be an eclectic mix of people who inhabit it.  My issue is that drugs and prostitution seem to be running rampant, and each weekend I see police officers driving by and watching, but doing nothing about it.  I assume this is because the arrests take time, and these people just get funneled through a system that is overloaded as it is.  Let's all vote to put the Community Read This Posty »

Require SFPD officers to actually take complaints from pedestrians and bicyclists (and motorists) who have been hit or near-missed by auto drivers.  As a pediatrician, I have treated two different children who suffered severe injuries as a result of being hit by cars--and the police either refused to take a report from the child's family or myself, or they took the report and did nothing with it.  Feedback on a weekly basis as to the status of the investigation might help to keep injured citizens confident that law enforcement is taking their plight seriously. Michael Treece Read This Posty »