Monthly Archives: January 2025

Join Our Neighborhood Safety Groups

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Please be careful and be on alert. These neighborhood safety groups provide ways to protect your property. The best defense are eyes on the streets. Join your block safety email lists and be alert and notify neighbors of suspicious activity. Always call 911 if you believe a crime is in progress – or if you see people “casing” a house, garage, or parked car on the street.

Connect with your neighbors via DHIC’s Block Safety Aliases. 

  • 19th Street from Church to Noe (including 700 block of Noe)
  • “Lower” 20th Street from Church to Sanchez (including 600 & 700 blocks of Sanchez)
  • “Upper” 20th Street from Sanchez (top of stairs) to Noe
  • Liberty Street Safety from Dolores to Noe
  •  21st Street Safety from Church to Noe

To join one of these block safety group emails, or if you have an alias that we haven’t listed or want to help, please email info@doloresheights.org

SF Safe is a citywide organization seeking to work with San Franciscans to build safer neighborhoods.  They offer safety checks and other services.

D8 Town Hall: Focus on Safety

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On Monday, January 13, Supervisor Rafael Mandelman hosted a District 8 (D8) Town Hall at the Noe Valley Ministry.  The topic was Public Safety and Street Conditions.  Appearing with him were  Brooke Jenkins, SF District Attorney; Liza Johansen, Captain of Mission Station; Amy Hurwitz, Captain of Ingleside Station; and Sam Dodge, Director of Healthy Streets Operations Center (HSOC.)

The SFPD Captains are focusing on top priority safety issues in their districts.  For Mission Station, that includes property crimes, violent crimes, and motor vehicle violations.  They stressed calling 911 if you see a crime in progress or see a possible crime or violence.  From mobile phones, call 415-553-8090 to avoid the call being routed to CHP.  If the call is non-emergency, dial 415-553-0123.  Captain Johansen holds a monthly Mission Station community meeting at 5pm on the last Tuesday of every month.  The next one is on February 25 at Mission Station.  It’s your opportunity to hear the Captain’s report and more importantly, raise concerns/questions with her about safety and criminal activity in our neighborhoods.   

During the Q&A session, Carolyn Kenady, chair of DHIC, urged neighbors to do our part by being aware and joining or starting block safety groups.  Both SFPD Captains underscored the importance of block safety groups.

Crime in Dolores Heights

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With the New Year, we’re hearing of more crime in Dolores Heights.  Be alert and review your property’s security.  Consider installing an alarm/security system and/or video cameras.  And be an active member of your block safety group. 

On January 6 at 4:10 am, two men attempted to break into a home on the 3600 block of 21st Street.  They entered the side door where Recology carts are kept and attempted to open the door to the garage but were thwarted by a 2×4 barricade on the garage side of the door.  Be on the lookout for people “casing” properties, trying to open doors, etc.  That same night burglars broke into the construction site on 21st Street.  

On Tuesday, January 14 at approximately 8:15 pm a neighbor walking his dog on the 400 block of Hill Street spotted a woman closing a garage door.  He smelled smoke and called 911.  SFFD and SFPD both responded to the call.  The fire was put out, and the woman was arrested.  According to SFPD, she appeared to be “out of it” and has an arrest record – so is currently in jail.  A big “thank you” to the alert resident who called 911.   

We are also hearing about thefts from neighbors’ home mail boxes. One mail-box thief also spent time with a flashlight looking inside a car parked on the north side of Liberty Street as well as the locked gate of a home on the north side of the street.

DHIC has block safety groups covering 19th Street to 21st Street and from Church to Castro Streets.  We urge all neighbors to join their block safety group.  To get connected, email info@doloresheights.org.  Be alert and call 911 if you see suspicious activity.  Let us know about safety issues via your block safety group alias and/or via info@doloresheights.org.