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Residents press police commission on auto burglaries, tasers and homelessness
Summary
During public comment, residents and advocates linked rising theft and robberies in tourist corridors to poverty and homelessness and debated the department’s proposed use of CEDs/tasers; speakers offered both personal accounts and policy arguments, and commissioners pledged follow‑up.
An extended public‑comment segment of the Police Commission meeting brought sharply divergent views on electroshock devices (CEDs, commonly called Tasers), rising auto burglaries and the role of poverty and homelessness in local crime.
"My people in this area are starving," said Ashley Bell of the Young Women’s Freedom Center, describing economic precarity in SoMa and the Tenderloin as a root cause of some robberies and thefts. Residents from the Crooked/Lombard Street area…
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