Taraval Station, situated in a red-brick building on 24th Avenue in the Sunset, covers the most populous and largest geographic area in San Francisco.
The sprawling police district runs from Golden Gate Park in the north to San Mateo County in the south, and from Ocean Beach to Seventh Avenue. It is home to over 153,000 residents, or 17.5 percent of San Francisco’s population. At 10.8 square miles, it is 1.5 times bigger than the next largest police district, Ingleside.
But it has 43 fewer officers than Ingleside, and residents are complaining. It has more property crimes than the Ingleside and Bayview Districts, and the longest response times to high-priority 911 calls…