You may recall our presence at a lower Haight neighborhood meeting back in January after a spate of gun violence galvanized the area and turned out hundreds of folks along with news cams and Heather Fong. Well, during that meeting Supervisor Mirkarimi promised that he would somehow find the city funding for a security camera at the corner of Haight and Webster, which is kind of the locus of all things crack-deal in the area.
Well, the camera went up! Neighborhood scuttlebutt is that the dealers have vacated the corner pretty much completely, but it's too soon to tell whether this will make a meaningful difference or if they'll just set up shop down on Laguna. We tried to take a picture of the camera for this blurb, but a guy came up to us and said "no pictures of this corner." This corner. With the camera. Rather than argue, we went photo-less. But...Mirkarimi said it would get done, and it got done. A Supervisor following through on his promises? Wow. We also remember how he promised to have the city take over all public housing by next January if the housing authority couldn't get its act together. Will he keep that one as well? Time will tell...
