"Jobs/ and schools/ not drugs/ and guns." Repeat x2 "Hope/ alive/ keep hope/ alive. Let me hear your scream!"

CLAER Project representative and SFSU student Kevin Bard was on hand to remind people that during one recent weekend there were more people killed in the Bay Area than coalition servicemembers killed in all of Iraq. The stepped up SFPD patrols called for by District 5 Supervisor Mirkarimi seem to have cooled things down for now. How long will this relative calm last?