It’s a familiar story in San Francisco: A person living on the streets of a neighborhood spirals, bringing chaos while neighbors vent their frustration at how the city deals with those in crisis.
In a small pocket of the Mission District, one unhoused man has been arrested at least four times over two months for allegedly assaulting people, damaging vehicles, vandalizing a bar and repeatedly violating restraining orders, according to jail and court records.
In most of those instances, he spent a handful of days in jail before being released on the condition that he appear at a future court date. But he has remained in custody since his last arrest on Aug. 9. As a condition of his previous releases, he was enrolled in a program that required him to check in with staff from the San Francisco Pretrial Diversion Project several times a week and engage in some form of treatment. It’s unclear whether he cooperated…