See, it’s a Bounder in the Financh.
Scary:
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Man, the cops are all over the place in and around Union Square these days, the better to protect the all-important holiday shopper.
So that means SFPD vehicles parked all over, as a show of force for newly-arrived felons, including your Mobile Command Centers One, Two, and/or Three, and beat cops just standing around the corner of Fifth and Market answering tourists’ requests about which direction is the Metreon, that kind of thing.
And if you’re a drug dealer, the SFPD will literally tell you to conduct your business a few blocks up Market near Turk, you know, in the Twitterloin containment / enterprise zone, where you belong.
A half-dozen cops, one felon, Market Street betwixt Fifth and Sixth:
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Look for things to get back to normal starting the morning of January 1, 2013…
I’ll tell you, anyplace what has a neighborhood association named after it is no place for your Bounder RV.
Driving 3 MPH on Ewing Terrace, looking for a place for the night:
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I mean, these NIMBYs have the local police station captain’s phone number on speed-dial, so why not instead try the Panhandle or Post Street (near Scott) or SoMA or someplace else where nobody cares that much about you?
Didn’t know Dodge made RVs:
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[UPDATE: Or maybe it's a pre-Travco, just a regular old Dodge. See Cooments.]
It goes back and forth, but lately, RPD has been in the game.
(Perhaps local real estate interests have the ear of the powers that be these days.)
Here’s what 2011, 2010, 2010, and 2010 looked like.
And this here is the sitch a third of the way through 2012:
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Looks fine to me.
That’s the update.
Leaving you will a gallery of older graffiti:
Here it is, Mobile Command One, guarding a Bank of America branch at 49 Market betwixt OccupySF’s former Justin Herman Plaza location and OccupySF’s former annex location at 101 Market in front of our Federal Reserve Building:
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This thing is big, just like Mobile Command Two, which, once again, is parked up Market these days in Union Square, you know, to catch the seasonal shoplifters.
However, Mobile Command Three is less impressive – it gets spray painted by taggers on Sixth Street sometimes, no respect at all.
Now you better know your SFPD Mobile Commands.
Eventually, NIMBY homeowners, who, you know, have nothing against you personally but they just want you gone gone gone, will contact the authoritahs and here’s what they’ll do. They’ll send somebody over to knock on your door to see what you’re up to.
And here’s what you’ll do: NOTHING. And then the cops will leave. Easy peasy.
Eventually, you’ll get a colony going, you’ll be trading tips and laughing at the uptight NIMBY homeowners, you know, those impotent people.
You’ll be there for years, saving all kinds of money on rent, utilities and whatnot.
Baker, recently:
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Post, a while back:
Hurray?
First up, Know Your SFPD Command Posts:
San Francisco Police Mobile Command One is huge, as you can see…
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…as is Mobile Command Two:
As for Mobile Command Three, well, not so much:
But here it is, stationed on Sixth Street , as it’s been, ’cause there’s a new sheriff in town, or something – there’s a police crackdown going on Sixth Street, the southern extension of the world-famous crime-ridden Tenderloin.
Now, let’s hear from local resident Bluoz to see what’s been going on the past couple weeks:
“It’s the 2nd week now It’s not there all the time, and now it’s mobile unit 3, but all accounts say it’s made 6th street much more civil lately, even if it is just for show.”
So it appears that the recent crackdown on the upper stretches of 6th Street, instigated by this incident one might think, continues.
For how long, who knows?