Strengthening Public Safety Staffing
 

• Staff up all first responders, emergency services and healthcare workers by prioritizing the hiring of San Francisco residents at sustainable wages. We close funding gaps by identifying progressive income sources and ceasing to subcontract easily fillable city positions.

• Diversion & Deployment of Calls: Many law enforcement officers have agreed that the SFPD is currently holding more than is reasonable for any single City department to hold under their purview. We must continue to invest in allocating funding toward public health approaches to mental health, homelessness, and substance use based calls that officers are being deployed toward.

  • This includes more comprehensive training for collaborating departments such as the DEM, DPH, and DPW whose workers have been put in danger when deployed without adequate training or protection

  • Advocate for more comprehensive DEIA training and reform within the SFPD to better attract those who wish to serve our community as public safety officers but wish to do so in an environment that can truly protect and serve our diverse and vulnerable communities.

    • Advocate for reframing of first responder training to emphasize person-first methods of crisis intervention and overdose prevention, just as they would do in instances of DV.

• Require SFPD to follow through and pursue violent crimes and offenders and create a resolution code ensuring that anyone who has filed a report and is the victim of a violent crime is regularly updated and has access to their case. Push for alignment with SB 233.

• Push for coordinated and accountable response with state law enforcement to respond to unauthorized vehicles and safety violations in public rights-of-way. Hold SFPD accountable for lack of response or plan despite access to surveillance and presence at events such as “sideshows”.

• Streamlining and definition of Public Safety Monitors: It is a better allocation of resources and capacity to have safety monitors from the community to help ensure that our public spaces and transit remain safe, clean, and accessible. These are also positions that should be well-paid, in-house city positions. Outsourcing security has led to gaps in safety and security. 

  • Reinstating transit conductors on all MTA transit. Fare enforcement should be deprioritized and these roles should be expanded to include transit oversight to ensure safety and security for riders. Advocate for collection of data reviewing fare inspector / SFPD overtime vs. fare evasion loss of revenue. 

• Increasing protected and affordable housing for city workers through site acquisition and development.

 

Reducing Drug Overdoses and Saving Lives
 

• Robust public education campaign on fentanyl and other substance use and substance dependence challenges.

• Implementation of supervised consumption sites and navigation centers providing access to harm reduction and other mitigation resources. Coordinate with public health and state processes to inform data-driven solutions

  • Continue to advocate for decriminalization and regulation measures to mitigate and prevent fatalities and health impacts of the unregulated drug market.

  • Improve access to and stockpile of Buprenorphine 

• Invest in the full continuum of substance use disorder treatment, from low threshold drop-in services to residential or secure facilities. 

 

Bolstering Public Health Resources
 

• Re-implementation of the public Urgent Clinic system / Opening of a Second Trauma Center.  

  • San Francisco once had a robust system of triage sites that provided immediate and free medical access while diverting less-emergent cases away from Emergency care. Although urgent care has somewhat filled this role it is not low-barrier or without cost. Reinitiating service at the old Emergency Hospital site on Tom Waddell Place alone would help meet the needs of our most desperate as well as providing onsite medical for a corridor that regularly sees major civic activations. 

  • ZSFGH is our region's only trauma center since the closure of Letterman. In addition to the daily inundation that takes up beds, we are catastrophically unprepared for a major disaster event. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that strategic resource centers can help avert disaster and that the need for more than one trauma center is critical.

• Push for permanent 24-hour public safety and wellness kiosks at every BART and major transportation hub to be staffed by one law enforcement officer and one public information / health officer to create a presence at these locations as well as an easily identifiable place of resource instead of parked empty SFPD patrol cars or massive security lights.

• Working with and adequately funding community orgs to provide comprehensive and culturally competent sexual health and HIV/AIDS engagement. That the Latine/x community has experienced a rise in transmission rates and other vulnerable communities continue to find barriers to access is unacceptable. 

  • comprehensive / culturally appropriate prevention among HIV negative latinx community.

  • treatment as prevention (TasP) to prevent future transmission from seropositive individuals + achieving undetectable status among latinx people

• Advocate for decriminalization and regulation of sex work at a state level. Street-based sex workers continue to experience egregious violations and exploitation due to a lack of regulatory protections.

 

Supporting Our Youth
 

• Invest in youth civic engagement programs to assert ownership and personal investment in community spaces by the creation of civic works and conservation programs and increased investment in legacy community organizations.

 

Investing in Disaster Preparedness
 

• Expand and re-invest in disaster preparedness infrastructure, including the DEM. Reinitiate and expand early warning systems to include earthquakes, fire, and hazardous weather conditions. Provide subsidies for residents to build disaster preparedness at home in partnership with state and federal agencies. Cost of emergency preparedness far outweighs costs of mitigating post-disaster impacts.

  • Implement cooling and heating centers.

  • Temperature stabilization and disaster mitigation through climate action response.

 

Making Our Streets Safer
 

• Push for legislation requiring all motorized transport vehicles to be registered with identification plates and requiring a valid driver’s license for operation. 

• Increase fines for use of sidewalks and public rights-of-way for motorized recreational vehicles and hold operators accountable as well as app-based companies who employ operators.

• Advocate for expansion of rider protections and oversight of private car services and registration of drivers to curb false driver profiles and abuses.

 

Supporting Workers, Vendors and Communities
 

• Initiate investigation into reported trafficking of undocumented workers in employ of large-scale vending companies.

• Create comprehensive and regulated vending program in major corridors and transportation hubs with oversight from city agencies.

• Promotion and subsidization of spaces that currently or formerly provided a 24-hour presence in neighborhoods, including diners and supermarkets. Advocate for activations in parking lots of formerly 24-hour markets to create an overnight, neighborhood-beneficial presence such as food trucks or night markets.

• Push for pilot mom & pop pharmacy program to encourage the opening and stabilization of current independent neighborhood pharmacies to wean the city off collapsing and extractive corporate models.