Nine months into a two-year pilot curfew on certain stores in the Tenderloin, San Francisco police officials said today it has been effective in its goal to reduce street loitering and crime in areas of the neighborhood.
And they want it to keep going: Commander Derrick Lew, speaking today before the Board of Supervisors’ Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee, presented a heat map showing a decrease in incidents of crime in the 20-square-block area where the curfew has been in effect for nearly a year.
“My recommendation would be to absolutely keep it going,” Lew said. “Of course, we would like to get to the point where we can lift this type of legislation, but I don’t think we’re there yet.”…