An influential neighborhood group serving one of San Francisco's
most crime-ridden districts has thrown its weight behind San Mateo
Police Chief Susan Manheimer as successor to San Francisco Police Chief
Heather Fong, who announced her retirement last month.
In a statement released Saturday, the Community Leadership Alliance
(CLA), a group active in the Tenderloin that has strong ties to the
mayor's office, said picking Manheimer "is an opportunity for our
police commission-mayor to make hist
Activists in the Tenderloin are trying to jumpstart a program of citizen patrols to help combat crime in the troubled inner-city neighborhood. Despite increased foot patrols from San Francisco Police officers, the 'Loin is still struggling with rampant drug dealing and related violence.
The Community Leadership Alliance (CLA), a Tenderloin organization, began a Community on Patrol program in 2007. (A similar program exists in the Castro.) But the project has been hindered by poor organization
Drugs? Violence? Crime? We're there. Following an announcement last week that the Tenderloin plans to step up a neighborhood program of citizen patrols, the Guardian Angels -- a national outfit that sends its members into the streets to deter crime -- is now trying to establish a beachhead in the neighborhood, according to local activist David Villa-Lobos.
Villa-Lobos said in an interview that his Community Leadership Alliance (CLA) group has been contacted by officials from the Nevada office o
Community Leadership Alliance director David Villa-LobosIn this week's cover story, we reported on how an overload of social-service outlets in the Tenderloin has galvanized community organizers who say the needs of homeless adults are being met at the expense of the neighborhood's families and businesses. As that fight continues, it appears that cohesiveness is not necessarily these activists' strong suit.
David Villa-Lobos, director of the Community Leadership Alliance and a declared candidat
Pose with the mayor and he'll support your run for higher office. It's the law. Anyone who ever languished through a Rhetoric 1A course in college knows the joys of syllogisms: We won't delve into the ins and outs, but we do recall a few examples of spectacularly bad logic, along the lines of: A. My father is bald; B. Ben Franklin was bald; C. Therefore, my father was Ben Franklin. This manner of thinking was jarringly brought to mind when I read an article on the San Francisco Bay Guardian's po
Janine KahnAn artist's rendition of Jeff Adachi's dump truckAnswers are trickling in from our elected officials on how they plan on cruising at this weekend's Pride Parade. Starting at the top, Mayor Gavin Newsom takes the same approach with vehicles as he does with spokesmen -- if one is good, then more is great! A letter from staunch Newsom supporter and District 6 supervisor candidate David Villa-Lobos disseminates info from the mayor's office to the hundreds of folks expected to march in the
Rob BlackRob Black -- the preferred District 6 candidate of Mayor Gavin Newsom who was pipped at the post by Chris Daly in the 2006 supervisorial race -- told SF Weekly he has no plans to run again. In fact, if things go his way, he won't even be living in the district much longer. "My wife and I are looking for a house and odds are we aren't going to be able to buy one in District 6," says Black, the vice president for public policy at the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. "We've been renters
David Villa-Lobos -- now you see him, now you don't?If you send a mixed message -- but send it consistently -- are you really sending a mixed message? That's the koan followers of local politics can ponder when it comes to longshot District 6 Supervisorial candidate David Villa-Lobos. The Tenderloin activist -- who was once hospitalized by thugs who objected to his Gavin Newsom shirt and later underwent a six-day hunger strike after Newsom blew off a community forum he organized -- yesterday
Theresa SparksAfter weeks of speculation about whether Human Rights Commission director Theresa Sparks is about to move to District 6 and run for supervisor, Sparks tells us she signed a lease on an apartment at Turk and Van Ness last week. She says she is moving from her current Nob Hill flat this weekend.
Does this mean she'll definitely be competing to replace Chris Daly next year? "I'm leaning heavily towards doing it," Sparks says. "I've been having a lot of meetings wi
Police Chief George Gascon (left) dropped by District 6 Supe candidate David Villa-Lobos' campaign kickoff last nightDistrict 6 Supervisorial candidate David Villa-Lobos thought we were giving him a hard time when we described him as "mercurial" last week. That wasn't our intention. But, really, how much more mercurial can you get than when you announce a fete at which you may be officially kicking off your campaign or may be withdrawing altogether? On this matter, it seems, Villa-Lobos is me
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