Joseph Ferraro walked with a friend down 16th Street toward the southeast corner of the BART Plaza, dressed head-to-toe in black on a sunny San Francisco Thursday afternoon. He moved slowly, scanning the sidewalk.
“This is San Francisco, man,” he said with a shrug, after being asked whether the recent crackdowns had changed anything. “It has its ups and downs. You just don’t bother nobody, and they won’t bother you.”
Ferraro said he spent a decade living just a few blocks away at 16th and Shotwell, and now lives in SoMa. “I went to Mission High, class of ’92,” he added with a grin. “I’ve been around long enough to see this place change about a hundred different ways.”…