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Mayor outlines summer violence-prevention staffing and outreach for Bayview and southeast neighborhoods
Summary
The mayor described a summer coverage plan led by the Community Response Network for Bayview and Southeast neighborhoods, including street outreach teams, crisis response staffing and dedicated police patrols focused on afternoons and nights.
Responding to questions from Supervisor Cohen about a recent rise in shootings and homicides in District 10, the mayor detailed an interagency summer plan focused on street outreach, crisis response and increased police presence in Bayview and other southeast neighborhoods.
The mayor praised Captain Paul Signell's community leadership in Bayview and said the Community Response Network 26mdash; a collaboration of city departments and community groups such as Ariba Juntos and the Bayview Hunters Point Foundation 26mdash; has developed a "summer coverage plan" with street violence intervention and crisis response strategies. The Southeast Community Response Network plans include summer-school transportation support, staffing in several neighborhood sites (Potrero Hill, West Point, Harbor, Alice Griffith and Sunnydale), two street outreach teams and an on-call crisis response outreach team with evening priority coverage in areas such as Double Rock and West Point.
The mayor said the police department would dedicate officers to the Bayview District from 2 p.m. to midnight on weekdays and 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. on weekends. He added that a lateral academy class graduating in two weeks will complete 14-week field training in Bayview during the summer to bolster enforcement capacity. The mayor emphasized the administration's broader approach to preventing violence: providing summer jobs and internships through the "Summer Jobs Plus" program (target of 5,000 jobs), alternative activities such as a Midnight Basketball League, Camp Mather for court-involved youth, and empowering community-driven solutions.
"The best way to prevent someone from committing violence is to engage that young person," the mayor said, noting a mix of enforcement and programming. He asked supervisors to work alongside community organizations and the administration during the summer interventions.
Why it matters: The mayor outlined operational steps for violence prevention targeted at neighborhoods experiencing recent spikes in serious crime; the plan combines street outreach, crisis response, dedicated policing and expanded youth programming.
What27s next: The Community Response Network will implement its summer coverage plan and the police department will deploy officers according to the schedule described; the mayor and supervisors said they will monitor the effort and promote summer jobs and youth programs as part of prevention strategies.
