Neighborhood anti-crime surveillance effort prompts privacy, equity concerns

On several streets in the Mission, you can spot sticky notes in the windows of some homes. They’re blank, but they’re sending a message: The residents would like to signal their interest in participating in a neighborhood effort to address crime, trash and visible homelessness in the neighborhood. Nuala Bishari reported on the somewhat secretive initiative for the San Francisco Public Press and talks with “Civic” about what she found and how she learned it.

Civic · Laura Wenus, Mel Baker