Two months ago, San Francisco police drove a bus-sized “mobile command unit” onto a 16th Street BART plaza, and they’ve been regularly patrolling the corner and its alleyways ever since.
And every day for the past two months, Mission Local has filed dispatches on the plaza and the streets around it, to document what the mayor’s promise to rid the area of drug dealing, drug using, and the fencing of stolen goods looks like in action.
While locals say the BART plazas have remained consistently cleaner, the ebbs and flows of one alley tell a different story…