The San Francisco mayor recalled the SFPD of the 1980s and attendant violent crime. 'It was a scary, scary, scary time.'
Mayor London Breed at the Mission Playground on Aug. 6, 2024, as part of National Night Out, reading off raffle winners. Photo by Joe Rivano BarrosMission Local is publishing campaign dispatches for each of the major contenders in the mayor’s race, alternating among candidates weekly until November. This week: London Breed. Read earlier dispatches on Tuesday: The annual police community-building event that arms officers with stickers and raffle prizes to bond with neighborhood families.
“When I was a kid, we didn’t talk to the police. I mean, we just didn’t,” Breed said later, speaking to this reporter in Golden Gate Park during her third National Night Out event of the evening. “And there was a really intense relationship between the police and our community.”reads a Dec. 12, 1984, headline about two same-night murders that included the killing of a clerk at Gilmore’s liquor store on Fillmore Street.
“We got to a point in our neighborhood where violent crime was, you know, escalating and people were dying. We wanted to be protected, and we wanted to feel safe. And we wanted these crimes to be investigated and dealt with appropriately to get murderers off the streets of San Francisco,” she said. “It was personally devastating … there were a lot of people who were being killed who I grew up with, and I was just coming home too often for funerals. It was scary.
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