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Board advances foot-patrol pilot ordinance after heated debate; amendment to add Central and Richmond sent to committee
Summary
After extended debate, the Board of Supervisors advanced a one-year pilot ordinance directing the San Francisco Police Department to staff foot patrols in several named districts and to report on the program's effectiveness; a motion to expand the pilot to include Central and Richmond stations passed 6–5 and was sent back to committee.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Oct. 17 advanced an ordinance (first reading) to establish a one-year pilot program requiring foot patrols in specified areas of several police districts and to require reporting on the program's effectiveness.
Supervisor Mercarimi, the ordinance's author, said the measure was intended to "systematize" foot patrols and expand a pilot begun in his district so the city could evaluate whether regular, funded foot patrols reduce crime and increase community confidence. "There is a great craving out there to see this kind of practice put into the kind of systemization that I think needs to happen," he said on the floor.
The ordinance names Northern, Park, Tenderloin, Mission, Ingleside, Southern and…
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