We made it a personal mission to check out the sitch in Dolores Park this past Friday afternoon, following on reports of a police crackdown on "illegal" drinking in the park, and we returned yesterday, wine safely contained in a hard plastic water bottle, to continue our investigation. Here's what we found: police presence on Friday, which was the best weather day of the weekend, was not visible in the several hours we were there. A police van and truck were both stationed, mid-park most of the day on Sunday (and presumably Saturday -- see photo), and much of their attention was focused on the more densely crowded shitshow on Hipster Hill / Fixie Flats.

We observed one incident in which a middle-aged woman (possibly NIMBY neighbor) was emphatically pointing police to the bedraggled hippie perpetrator of some alleged crime, and multiple police moved in to arrest/cite the kid. No patrolling officers were seen moving around the playground, dog park, or gay beach/fruit shelf regions (see semi-accurate map with non-colloquial region names here), and the pot brownie/truffle/cold beer purveyors were all making their rounds unabated. Any word from readers regarding citations issued would be appreciated.

And just a note: Why only the citations for drinking? Is this even a legal off-leash dog park? We believe this has to do with neighbors on Dolores Street between 18th & 19th getting fed up with the never-ending party outside their windows and police responding (hopefully temporarily), to turn down the volume a bit. Our continuing coverage as the weather improves...