This was the headline from more than two years ago, when Aubrey Abrakasa was killed at Grove and Baker:
SAN FRANCISCO
High school boy with full life shot dead in Northern Panhandle neighborhood
He was hit by fire from an automatic weapon near home
An SFPD reward annoucement was issued in 2006 and and reissued earlier this year.
It seems that many people haven’t forgotten about Aubrey.
Well, it was before, back in the day, when the military was there. But then the military left and things were wide open.
And then TI became a real community, complete with a store (and without it’s legendary phone booth, which must have been removed over the summer.)
But what’s this? Is it The Man? Is he there all the time? (It seemed to be just a regular day.)
Is Treasure Island just like Presidio Terrace now?
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Do incidents such as this have residents scared?
It’s hard to say…
What we got for our recent $400,000 study of the San Francisco Police Department was a bunch of recommendations. One of which was to train officers in the use of Tasers.
This scene from just yesterday shows the detention of a suspect after multiple SFPD handguns were unholstered and drawn in a parking lot near the Golden Gate Theatre. One false move from this suspect and he’d have been plugged multiple times from three different angles. And then we’d have another officer-involved shooting, such as what we had with Asa Sullivan at the ParkMerced.
Of course Tasers can lethal as well. But it’s nice to have an extra arrow in your quiver, another tool in the law enforcement box.
The only way to find out if Tasers are good for San Francisco is to try it and see, right?
The owner of this car that was spotted in the South of Market Area of San Francisco has multiple signs visible from all angles advertising the futility of breaking in.
Now back in the day, you could go out and buy a simple yellow “NO RADIO” sign to hang in your car. Those signs went out of fashion for whatever reason, so now there’s no excuse to not create your own haiku or senryu.
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PLEASE
DO NOT BREAK
WINDOW
I HAVE NOTHING
INSIDE
MY CAR
NO MONEY, NO
CD
NOTHING
Does this approach work?
Well, it can’t hoit.
AGING TOYOTA
CRASH, ANOTHER WINDOW GONE
SOON, WINTER ARRIVES
Try it yourself. What would you write?
When you’re visiting San Francisco, you should always remember that you shouldn’t commit assault and/or battery on a woman in broad daylight near a busy intersection such as Van Ness and McAllister. Now, maybe you didn’t hit her but you touched her and chased her and she yelled out, so that’s going to start a chain of events that inevitably winds up with you being in the hands of the SFPD in about three minutes.
Passersby don’t really care if you have a domestic dispute, a business dispute, or any other kind of dispute with the woman wearing boots and a sundress. They’re all going to call 911 ASAP. What are you thinking, dude?
The detention and makeshift interrogation begins. “Are you high?” Click to expand:
WHO: You, the dude in the suit.
WHAT: Attempting to detain somebody against her will on the sidewalk.
WHY: Doesn’t matter.
WHERE: Across the street from San Francisco City Hall.
WHEN: The morning of a huge Anti-Prop 8 protest at City Hall.
That’s your lesson for the day.
From the quote of the day over at bluoz. Check it out.
“…is designed to prevent people from going to jail for committing a petty crime. If a person does a carjacking, wouldn’t you rather they get services than be thrown in jail?”
Does the above suggest that carjacking is a minor offense? A petty crime?
Carjacking is straight-up robbery. So if you get a couple convictions of even the pettiest of carjackings, you are just one strike away from the perfecta of the three strikes law.
Once you have two carjackings under your belt in California, a subsequent crime such as stealing four chocolate chip cookies can land you in the hoosegow for 25 years to life.
Carjacking is a felony per se. Something to think about…
Well looky here - a redlined pizza delivery map of Amici’s East Coast Pizzeria. It’s the talk of the town over at Eater SF and kissing cousin Curbed SF. Click on the below to see where they just don’t deliver. Why? Driver safety.
Of course taxi drivers can’t legally refuse to take you to certain areas of San Francisco because of a concern over their personal safety. Non, non, non. ‘Cause that’s a crime called failure to convey, which can land a cabbie in the hoosegow. But isn’t there a law that bans this sort of practice from pizzerias?
Well, yes and no. Check out the law, the part that covers delivery redlining, below. (”You must know ze code,” as Professor Stefan Reisenfeld used to say, back in the day.)
People in the Western Addition, Tenderloin (including it’s Sixth Street Annex, also known as The Flank, in view of the fact that it’s just south of the ’Loin) and the projects on the southern slope of Potrero Hill all might have trouble getting a pie delivered in James Crow San Francisco:
Back in 1996, then Supervisor Willie Kennedy gave us a law (that became national news), but then it got watered down such that a “reasonable good faith belief” that a driver would be in danger in a particular nabe is enough to allow the brazen publication of the map shown above.
And let’s not forget flower and newspaper delivery people - they’re off the hook as well. (Note also that there doesn’t seem to be any designated punishment for violation anyway.) To review, cabbies are on the hook, delivery people not.
NB: Dominoes appears to use a different map, or maybe none at all, as it seems they’ll delivery just about anywhere in our seven square.
The More You Know…
SEC. 3305.1. HOME DELIVERY SERVICES.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person or business entity to refuse to provide home delivery services to any residential address within the City and County of San Francisco falling within that person’s or business entity’s normal service range. A person or business entity may not set its normal service range to exclude a neighborhood or location based upon the race, color, ancestry, national origin, place of birth, sex, age, religion, creed, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, weight or height, of the residents of that neighborhood or location. Where a person or business entity regularly advertises home delivery services to the entire City and County, that person or business entity’s “normal service range” shall be defined by the geographic boundaries of the City and County.
(b) For purposes of this Section, “home delivery services” shall mean the delivery of merchandise to residential addresses, when such services are regularly advertised or provided by any person or business entity.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, it shall not be unlawful for a person or business entity to refuse to provide home delivery services to a residential address if (i) the occupants at that address have previously refused to pay in full for services provided to them by that person or business entity; or (ii) such refusal is necessary for the employer to comply with any applicable State or federal occupational safety and health requirements or existing union contract; or (iii) the person or business entity has a reasonable good faith belief that providing delivery services to that address would expose delivery personnel to an unreasonable risk of harm.
(Added by Ord. 217-96, App. 5/30/96; amended by Ord. 295-96, App. 7/17/96; Ord. 222-02, File No. 021462, App. 11/15/2002)
This fellow standing near Fillmore Street just had a physical altercation with another fellow sitting at a bus stop. Hard to say what happened, but the person shown appeared to make a beeline from a position of safety, threw a punch or two, and then took this position here about a half-block away.
Now here’s his appearance a minute later after a quick removal of clothes.
This appears to be a good technique to confuse law enforcement, should the need ever arise.
The next time we have an “America’s Missing: Broadcasting Emergency Response” (aka AMBER Alert), we might want to fix our sign. This is how it looked in the SOMA on Friday.
Seems this is good enough for government work, as it’s been this way since at least May 2008:
“Driving home the other day there was an Amber Alert. But, the freeway sign was broken so there was, apparently, a Chili Abduction. I wonder how many alarms?”
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The missing dots in the matrix affect legibility - like what does “TCY P/U” mean?
Of course we can figure it out, but we’re not applying for a job at Google (famous for harassing prospective employees with brain teasers), we’re driving down the superslab trying to talk on the phone, drink coffee and clear the jams on the mobile fax machine.
So please CalTrans, or CHP, or whomever, fix our sign!
Or, in other words, ¿Quién mató a Brian Márquez? That’s the question people are still asking in the Mission District, especially these days, when homicides in the area are up, up up. So much so, that hundreds of marchers, including Supervisor Tom Ammiano and Police Commissioner David Campos had to hold a vigil in an attempt to draw more attention to the situation.
The link to the website with information about Brian’s murder from 2005 is here.
A scene from 24th Street. Click to expand:
The Anonymous Tip Line for Violent Crime in San Francisco is (415) 575-4444. There are rewards.
