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Demece writes:

• We were highly impressed with our new Ingleside Commanding Officer David Lazar and with Mike Farrah from the Mayor’s Office. We also want to thank Adam Gubser, Northwest Bernal Traffic Calming Planner at the SF Metropolitan Transit Agency for his update.
  Just a short background on Captain Lazar: He used to be an officer at Ingleside and wash the Police Departments’ Liaison with Homeless Connect: he is fully experienced in the social service deliveries of the city, and how the Police Department actively engages with people in need.  He also fought for and won a Crime Analyst for the Ingleside – our 5th Lieutenant who is in charge of the overall analysis of crime occurrence.  No other station has the combination of social services and crime analysis, and we have the second largest precinct in the city.  Here is the summary of the Ingleside Staffing:
  
  There are now 122 police officers, 17 Sergeants, and 5 Lieutenants.
  
  This is more staffing than at any other time of the Ingleside Station.  Ingleside Station is now fully staffed.
   


• Ingleside Station is now implementing its strategic plan.  In Phase I Implementation, Ingleside is considering 3 major factors in working with the community: Efficiency of Response, Problem Solving of Crime Issues, and Community Engagement.  In the Community Engagement section, as of April 18th, Ingleside Station is starting an infrastructure and community implementation plan.  Simply put, the station is focused on 1) creating community engagement and problem solving 2) crime analysis which can guide enforcement strategy 3) real-time crime descriptions 4) implementation of a 5th Lieutenant as Crime Analyst who serves who directs the Resource Unit, which is made up of the School, Foot patrols, and Park Patrol sectors. Captain Lazar holds problem-solving meetings with the Resource Unit and his 5 Lieutenants weekly.
  


• Please fill out the community survey attached.  This will clearly give the Station Lieutenants feedback on what type of hot spots we have typically encountered and they can better proactively deploy resource forces. The attached pdf file text is in English, Spanish, and Chinese.
  


• Precita Valley Neighbors Meeting representative from Ingleside Station will be Sergeant Michael Redmond until he gets promoted.!:)  He or is delegate will report to all our meetings and work with us directly.
  


• Captain Lazatta coordinates the Neighborhood Watch Groups.
  


• Precita Valley Neighbors requested and received a Bike Beat: The Bike Beat officers are Officers Preston, Wilson Lewis, and Cvetovac.  Give a big shout out to them, they are community resource officers equipped to handle and provide a wide range of community service information. 
  


• Operations Outreach Officers Najarro and McCarthy are actively working with the few homeless in Precita Park to link them into housing and services.
  


• Commanding Officer David Lazar asks all residents who walk and listen to music to swap their white earplugs with a different color earplug.  This way your mp3s or ipods won’t be as easily stolen and you wont be an easy target for a minor robbery.
  


• Precita Valley Neighbors will put up a sign in the Children’s’ Playground with a complete list of playground safety rules (No Loitering, No Smoking, Adults must be Accompanied with Children, etc. similar to the McKinley School Playground sign) this month.
  


• Precita Valley Neighbors has formally requested the soon to reopen Rite Way Market to not sell alcohol after midnight.
  


• Northwest Bernal Traffic Calming Update:
  
  Adam Gubser submitted a work order to re-stripe the intersection of Coso, Bonview, and Stoneman.  Stoneman/Manchester/Shotwell neighbors may want to discuss how to configure parking and/or median tree planting at Stoneman/Folsom to calm traffic.  Please email Adam Gubser directly at Adam.Gubser@sfmta.org to set up a meeting.  Thank you Adam!
  


Labels: crime, gangs, Neighborhood Watch, Precita Valley Neighbors, pvn, traffic calming



# posted by Editor @ 6/20/2009 02:50:00 PM 0 comments

One resident of 1575 Treat was arrested this morning as part of a regional series of raids by the ATF.

According to Special Agent Kim Riddell of the ATF Public Information Office, details of the raids were under seal and would only say those arrested were scheduled to be arraigned today at 1:30 p.m. in the U.S. Federal Court building in San Francisco.

A tipster to Precita.org said the arrested man was known as "Moe". Someone else described the scene: "there were about 6 or 8 guys with shotguns wearing ATF windbreakers standing around outside".

[UPDATE] KRON has coverage of the arrests this morning on Treat.

U.S. Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello announced the arrests today, and said the arrest on Treat was one of 14 alleged "mid-level" drug and gun traffickers in Northern California with Mexico, and that the suspects were involved in trafficking since at least 2006. They are considered to be the "king men" or "managers" in drug and gun trafficking communities in Northern California.



(video and article from KRON)

SF Examiner had brief coverage, as did CBS 5 / bay Cities News Service which said "Authorities did not release specifics about the raids, but said they involved searches related to guns and drugs."

San Jose Mercury had an article about the regional raids but no details on the San Francisco arrest.

Labels: crime, drugs, gang, gangs, Neighborhood Watch, Precita Valley Neighbors

Ingleside Station will host its monthly Police Community Relations Meeting on Tuesday, January 20th at 7 p.m. in the Station's Community Room.

Guest Speaker: Sergeant Mario Molina, renowned expert on gangs.

Map to Ingleside station below:

Labels: gangs, Neighborhood Watch

There were 7 (SEVEN!) killings last week in the Mission, all within 10 blocks of Precita Valley. There is a community meeting tonight you may want to attend:

Mission Community Council, SFPD meeting of residents, nonprofits and religious groups on Tuesday at 5 p.m. at the Mission Recreation Center. Mission Recreation Center 2450 Harrison St @ 20th & 21st . Please use the 745 Treat St entrance (between 20th & 21st).

Labels: crime, gangs

Please join us for a candle light peace march on 24th St.
Sunday Sept 07, 2008.

Hosted by Mission Education Project Inc. and the Lower 24th St.
Merchant & Neighborhood Association

We will meet at 24th and Treat at 6:30 PM. The March will begin at 7 PM and head down 24th towards Potrero Ave to Utah and head back up to Treat and 24th, walk down Treat to 23rd and back~and head towards Mission and 24th and back ending at 24th and Treat.

Please bring candles, some will be provided.

Everyone is welcomed, bring your family, friends, and neighbors.

We are asking all merchants along 24th St. to close business from
7 to 8 PM

Labels: crime, gang, gangs

From the Police Blotter:

August 11, 2008 Precita Ave. & Harrison St. Attempted Armed Robbery: Gun

A 21 year old Oakland man found himself surrounded by four men as he walked to his car [update: which was parked just west of the Leonard Flynn School on the north side of Precita -in the dark area under the trees]. One of the men demanded his cell phone and the man refused to surrender it. The victim was knocked to the ground and struck over the head with a handgun. The four fled without taking anything from the victim. The victim heard a shot fired as the perpetrators ran away.

It sounds like there is far more story to this "event" than is being posted in the police blotter. Anyone know more about what's going on here? It's also unclear of which side of the park this was on. If you noticed a group of four men loitering around the park, can you describe them? Please post a comment if you can.

Labels: crime, gangs, Neighborhood Watch, police blotter, Precita Park

From the police blotter: good news: they caught the guys. Bad news, some innocent bystander's van got shot up.

4:15 pm Cesar Chavez and Bryant Streets

Ingleside and Mission Station officers responded to the neighborhood on the call of shots fired. Citizens reported seeing a gunman firing shots from an SUV. The investigation brought officers to the first block of Gold Mine Drive in the Diamond Heights neighborhood. There the officers found a handgun and ammunition. Three males: a 19 year old from the Mission District, another 19 year from Diamond Heights, and a 17 year old from the mid-Market Street neighborhood, were arrested for aggravated assault and gang charges.

Labels: crime, gang, gangs, police blotter, precita, Precita Park, Precita Valley Neighbors, pvn

San Francisco Crime: Two Mission District shootings kill 1, injure 3: "A 16 year-old boy was shot in the arm and leg at 26th and Shotwell Streets at 7:30 p.m. He was transported to SFGH with non-life-threatening injuries."

(Via the excellent San Francisco Crime Blog and tipster Marijane.)

SF Gate also has this:

A teen was transported to a local hospital after being shot in the arm and leg while in the Mission District Saturday, according to a San Francisco Police Department spokesman.
The 16-year-old victim was standing at the corner of 26th and Shotwell streets around 7:30 p.m. when the suspect allegedly approached him and fired shots for no reason, spokesman Neville Gittens said.
The victim sustained gunshot wounds to one arm and one leg and was transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries, said Gittens.
Police suspect the incident may have been gang-related.

So that accounts for the sound of gunfire and the tons of sirens shortly thereafter.

There was another fatal shooting at this same location in December of 2006. Because of that, several cameras were installed at that intersection. Apparently, the cameras had no deterrent effect on this crime.







We wonder if the cameras recorded anything useful, or if they help expedite the arrivals of police and ambulances? Or were they useful at all?

Labels: crime, gang, gangs, Neighborhood Watch, police blotter, Precita Park

Please attend a Special Precita Valley/Mission Chavez Traffic Calming Update on Tuesday, December 11th, 7pm – 8:30pm at the Park Bench Cafe, 3214 Folsom Street (at Bessie/Precita)

AGENDA:

Traffic Calming Plan of Northwest Bernal Heights 7pm - 8pm

A. Balloting Precita for speed humps

B. Next phase of existing Traffic Calming Plan

C. Installing diamond yellow caution signs of children playing along specific Precita, Stoneman, and Manchester Streets as requested by neighbors. Mission neighbors have raised the same requests.

D. Cesear Chavez Traffic Calming updates and the possibility of forming a regional (Mission, Bernal, BVHP) Transportation Planning Committee which all groups (Si Si Puede, Precita Valley Neighbors, NWBA, Mission Neighbors, Rolph Park Neighbors all agree to form).

E. Any possibility of slowing down the ramp traffic on Caesar Chavez to 101/280 by any other federally funded means.

II. A. Mission Area traffic calming updates regarding 26th Street neighborhood group concerns 8pm –8:20

III. Precita Park Area Gang Activity 8:20 – 8:30

A. Gang and criminal activity along Precita/Alabama

Questions?

David Robinson (285-5957) and Demece Garepis (641-0507) Co-Chairs.

Labels: gangs, Precita Valley Neighbors, traffic calming

07/21/07 10:39 pm Ripley and Harrison

Officers Ernest Wilberg and Robin Odum responded to a report of four people drinking in public and being intoxicated. When they arrived, the subjects were getting into a car nearby. The officers stopped the subjects and arrested one from Hayward for being drunk and possessing suspected methamphetamine and cited two others, from Oakland and Daly City for possession of alcohol under age. Case #070738128

Labels: drugs, gangs, police blotter

We were talking with some neighboars who live up near the end of the stairway on Harrison (above Rutlidge) and they were commenting on all the gang activity that takes place after dark on those stairs.

But the thing that shocked us was hearing that several times in the last six months, they've walked down Harrison and seen a string of car break-ins, smashed windows, cars burglarized.

If you notice gang activity or tagging in that area, please call Ingleside Police Station at 404-4000 immediately. The community really needs to make sure that the gang activity on the stairway and surrounding streets stops as soon as possible.

Also, if you car does get broken into, please file a police report. We are not seeing these break-ins reported in the police log, and if they cops don't know about it they won't be looking out for it as much.

Labels: car breakings, gang, gangs, graffiti, Precita Valley Neighbors