After six and a half months of sitting there and trying to look intimidating, the SFPD’s giant, RV-style “mobile command unit” has been removed from the corner of 16th and Mission streets as the SFPD shifts gears on cleaning up that corner.
It has been since March 12, some two months into the Daniel Lurie administration, that Lurie and the SFPD decided to place a gigantic RV-looking police vehicle called the “mobile command unit” at 16th and Mission streets. It was meant as some sort of visual deterrent to the illegal vending, drug use, and myriad forms of blight that had come to characterize the corner, though many argued that the Sixth Street crackdown had moved much of that blight there. And plenty of residents in the area argue the visible police presence just moved the illegal activity a block or two away.
WATCH: SFPD’s Mobile Command Unit No. 2 drove onto the 16th and Mission BART plaza this afternoon, as officers in the rain moved people away to make room for the bus-sized vehicle.It will stay at the BART plaza 24/7, the Mission captain said, as a deterrent. pic.twitter.com/3xtrUnWnz6
— Mission Local (@MLNow) March 12, 2025
But as of last Friday, the mobile command unit has been removed from 16th and Mission, as Mission Local reports…