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From The Editor's Inbox
We get some interesting stories in the SFist editor's inbox, and here's the latest one we've heard.
I was on Polk and Green yesterday running some errands when I noticed a light blue motorcycle going about 50 miles an hour and popping wheelies. Up and down Polk Street, from about Greenwich to Broadway and back again. What I noticed about this guy second or third time around was that he had a dog on his lap while he was doing all of this. Twice the dog almost fell off the bike as he landed.So I decide to call the police because I'm an animal lover and stuff like this makes me crazy. But not only was he going to kill this dog but most likely end up causing God knows how much havoc and accidents on the street. It wasn't a shootout in the Mission but it was incredibly effed up and I'm sure illegal in many ways.
So I call the non-emergency police number I have stored in my phone, which is disconnected. Then I remember 211 and how it is San Francisco's saving grace and the answer to all our problems. All I get is Verizon telling me the number is not in service. I call again, thinking I did something wrong. Same response. [ed. note: we think our reader meant to call 311, not 211, but 211 should be working!]
Then I call 411, ask for a non-emergency number, and they give me 553.0123, connect me, and I get a recording in 27 different languages, and then what sounded like a fax signal with no end. I call again. Same thing.
So I decide to call 911. I figure I'm allowed at this point. I'm put on hold after another recording in 27 languages. I call again. Same thing.
Did our reader ever get to an actual person to report the situation? Find out, after the jump.
By now I'm sure motorcycle man is long gone but I'm not giving up.I call 411 again, ask for another non-emergency number that isn't the one they gave me before. They connect me to the same 553.0123. Disconnected again.
I call 411 again (You're noticing a pattern here, I'm sure). I get another number, 553.8090, and finally get a hold of someone to report the situation. The woman was, I have to say, great and thorough and I'd like to thank her very much, whoever she is.
My point is, other than the fact that if this really was an emergency I would be completely f***ed, is that maybe, just maybe, if our supervisors would come down off their ego trips and quit their playground tactics long enough to realize that there are serious problems in San Francisco; like mass shootouts on what now seems to be a daily basis, turf wars being fought by gangs from other sides of the bay, an increased homeless population (I don't care what you say, Gavin), tagging on every building and billboard one comes across, psychotic cab drivers, hit and runs, people being mugged on the street and the cops won't even take a report – maybe these things could actually be addressed, and the people of San Francisco won't have to live in quite so much fear for their lives and their City. Maybe we could get a bus to actually run on time, or maybe get a few more so people aren't packed in like sardines, falling and tripping and breathing all over each other.
I've lived here for 8 years now (I grew up in Oakland) and I LOVE this town. I'm a proper Republican hating San Franciscan and I can't imagine living anywhere else. But I'm increasingly disgusted by the recklessness with which the city government is behaving and how little regard they seem to have for the majority of people who live here, no matter what "fighting for the people" flag they wrap themselves in.
You guys rag on MUNI all the time (and I love you for it) – I'm hoping you could bring some attention to the utterly dysfunctional and somewhat useless police department and the supes' lack of interest in anything that doesn't involve a sound bite.