At a Tenderloin community meeting this past November, Captain Matt Sullivan said that, in the previous four months, more than 27 percent of the department’s dog-bite reports took place in the Tenderloin police district.
He wasn’t surprised. Just walking down the sidewalk, Sullivan told the 20 or so attendees, he often thought, “I got to be prepared to jump out of the way for some of these dogs.’”
Eric Rozell, a deputy director at the Tenderloin Community Benefit District, shared a similar story at another recent community meeting. In the past year and a half, he said, four of his colleagues at the nonprofit have been bitten by neighborhood dogs…