SF News Those ‘Anti-Sex Work’ Barriers Have Come to Shotwell Street, Some Residents Say They Create Extra Hassles The barriers hoping to prevent bumper-to-bumper traffic caused by street-level sex workers and their johns just went up on Shotwell Street, but some residents complain they’re causing chaos for Waymo cars and delivery trucks, and have people driving on sidewalks.
SF News Those ‘Anti-Sex Work’ Barriers Are Now Coming to Shotwell Street After street bollards and barriers chased the sex work scene off of Capp Street, but merely moved that activity over to Shotwell Street, the SFMTA has voted to bring the barriers to Shotwell Street too.
SF News New Oakland PD Chief Vows Sex Work Crackdown; In SF, Mission Residents Sue City Over the Scene on Shotwell There’s pushback against the sex worker situation on both sides of the Bay, as the new Oakland Police chief is promising a coming crackdown on International Boulevard, while Shotwell Street residents have sued SF over sex work on that street.
SF News Prankster Adds Sex Workers to Slow Streets Signs on Shotwell A prankster has added some stickers to signs to better represent the range of activities that go on on Shotwell Street, which is a designated Slow Street with city-installed signage.
SF News SFPD Conducts Another Prostitution Sting In the Mission, Busting Johns and Sex Workers San Francisco police are touting a new round of pointless arrests that they made last week during an eight-day operation to discourage sex work in a section of the Mission District where it has basically existed, undeterred, for three decades or more.
SF News Assault on Shotwell Street Caught on Video; Neighbors Complain of Violence Involving Sex Workers A broad daylight assault involving two female suspects and one female victim who may be unhoused has neighbors on Shotwell Street newly complaining about the rampant sex trade happening there.
SF News Family Of Luis Gongora, Homeless Man Killed By SFPD, Files Federal Suit The family of Luis Gongora, the 45-year-old homeless man shot and killed by SFPD in April of this year, followed through this past Friday on its promise to file a federal civil rights
SF News Following Shooting By Police, Mayor Lee Announces Plan To Clear All Homeless Camps Citywide In a move that is certain to anger homeless advocates even further in a year when conspicuous homelessness has become a primary topic of debate in SF Mayor Ed Lee announced this weekend
