CRACKING DOWN ON THE "TRASH POACHERS"....

Since I emailed PD (and overall city) about this ridiculous law and its upcoming enforcement in Bayview to further criminalize poor folks who  go into our garbage to collect recyclables, a few responses:

Captain Dillon of the Northern Station, sent an immediate and peremptory reminder that this particular law has been in effect for the past 20 years.... But did not respond to about our inquiry about its enforcement in other parts of the city or his district.

Mayoral candidate Josh Wolf asked us to keep him posted on the issue

Activist Jerry Jarvis  and Pat Monk expressed their  outrage, and humorous comments about appropriate utilization of manpower at SFPD,

Castro Gay Latino & Black Disabled Advocate CAZ shared the same sentiments.

Richard Becker promised to mobilize SF ANSWER by City Hall at the first indictment or fine of a Bayview "poacher".

Bayview Good Cop - Bad KKKop
Chronicle 7-29-07

Yesterday while doing an Altar to Youth Victims of Police Brutality at a DCYF event at Alice Griffith in Double Rock (at a Youth Power event), Housing Complex,
while  2 police cars and 7 cops in full gear swarmed around the basket ball court, one Black cop:

I was approached by one of our Bayview beat cops, right by the Altar, short brown skin dude, 38yr, known in the hood for his "winning smile" (anonymity around our conversation for now, first name "Kevin").

The conversation is strained as his walkie talkie keeps sending out scratchy messages and he tries his best at engaging and staying on the lookout.

"Hey mesha"
"Hey Officer, long time no see, what's shakin'?"
"Oh nothing, just enjoying the day"

We talked about the narcs trying to entrap me into a drug purchase of "Oxycon"  at Bayview Plaza last month :
"Too bad...I was not there, so  I don't know what is going on with the narcs, not my department."
"Is is within policy to entrap citizens into a drug purchase, Kevin ? I thought you could only MAKE purchases undercover?"
"No, not really.... But I don't know, I'm not a Narc"

"Last year at BVHP Foundation Summer Youth Breakfast Program,  I was giving a talk to our kids about their Rights when detained or arrested, and. one of your veteran Bayview officers, scheduled to give his talk before I did, was asked by a little boy:
"Officer, what does RACIAL PROFILING mean?"
Response:
"Well, if you wear a white t-shirt, wear dreads and have fake gold front teeth, and I see you at a certain corner at a certain time, you d... right I will put you against the wall and I'm gonna frisk you".
Kevin, is it legal for you to advocate and practice racial profiling?"
(Laughing) "That is not racial profiling if we're talking T-shirts and dreads. Well, in a way, it is, the way he put it, he was describing racial profiling. It all depends"

"How is your experience as a beat cop in Bayview?"
"It's all right, mostly.... the BAD ONES avoid me"

"Can we talk about the Oakdale Mob gang injunction?"
"Nah... I don't know much about it, not my department"

"Do you want to come and talk about your experience as a beat copat SF_Village_Voice Community Radio station on 3rd?"
(Flashing state of the art laser whitened teeth)
"Why don't you ask LONNY HOLMES? He is the law:  here ! (handing out a pamphlet)  his mayoral campaign material !
Well, I'll ask my partner Arlington if he wants to visit you on Monday. You know him, big dude. He's Black"

"And what are you Kev? How old are you if I may ask?
"Filipino, Black and Latino, I'm old, I'm 38"

Kevin, are you arresting any trash poachers in Bayview yet?
"Not yet, but as for myself,  I sure will !"
"How about concentrating  your efforts on illegal dumping instead?"
"Yeah, Both !"

"Kevin, how come your department arrested Royce Miller for the murder of "Snookie" Danner 3 years ago, whose body was dumped in Menzell Park, when y'all know as we do that Mo' Powell did the job?"
"Hmmmmm, let me bring it back to my captain, I'll get back to you on that"

"Hey Kev, how's Officer Yolanda Williams doing?"
(laughing openly) "She is on extended medical leave, forever"
(Yolanda Williams was originally appointed to do cultural competency training for SFPD. Respected by the hood, the promised job was taken out of her hands before she would start, and she has been on leave for the past 2 years)

4 colleagues are calling him out from the sidewalk at a distance.
" Got to go, see you on Monday maybe mesha"

Good Cop Bad KKKOP Chronicle
To be continued
(if they don't punk out)