LIVING IN THE TENDERLOIN I’ve seen first hand how unaddressed crime can have serious consequences. Robberies and car break-ins can be devastating financially for struggling families, and it is just plain wrong to simply tolerate the violence and open-air drug dealing that is taking place daily on our streets.  

I believe it is the responsibility of a district supervisor to keep our neighborhoods safe. I'll be in the community, with our small businesses and residents, and in our police stations working to make sure that our district is no longer used as a containment zone for crime. Reversing decades of failed, ineffective public safety policy is not going to be easy, but I’m as frustrated as you are, and I want my neighbors to feel safe walking to school and work on our streets. I'm committed to bringing a hands-on, all-in, solutions-driven approach to addressing crime and its root causes.

Here’s what I’ll do:

• Increase support for foot patrols all over D6. We need more in SOMA and the TL, and to add South Beach, Rincon Hill, and Mission Bay, where none exist now.  

• Ensure strong standards around community policing, where officers work closely in collaboration with our neighborhoods and reflect our values and diversity.  

• Activate corners and blocks that have become taken over by drug dealing by bringing in new businesses and economic activity, and empowering community organizations.  

• Increase support for community organizations like Safe Passage to provide “Community Safety Ambassadors” all over the district.  

• Work with the District Attorney to ensure more effective consequences for crime, getting people the help they need to stop committing crime, including support for a Mental Health Justice Center.  

• Provide support for more proactive investigations to stop property crime and drug dealing that prey on vulnerable people.