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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