San Francisco is failing the Mission District and its less privileged, mainly BIPOC constituents. The City has no consistent plan in place to prevent rampant and brutal sex trafficking infiltrating and degrading the neighborhood.  The situation is further exacerbated by reckless driving by the Johns which has resulted in countless hit and run accidents and violent traffickers who have vandalized homes and cars in the neighborhood.The overall impact  is immeasurable harm for trafficked women and girls and for the Central Mission neighborhood, families and businesses. The city of San Francisco, due to its decades long neglect of the situation, is responsible.

The city of San Francisco has recently approved plans to install 400 license plate readers. We, the undersigned, request that at least 16 license plates are installed as soon as possible between 15th and 25th on Shotwell, Capp, Folsom, South Van Ness, Treat and Harrison and any surrounding areas where sex trafficking occurs nightly. Our hope is that the license plate readers will send a signal to the criminals engaging in the trafficking of women and girls that they are no longer safe to operate freely in our residential neighborhood. In addition to sex trafficking, the aforementioned locations cover areas of known drug dealing.

I, THE UNDERSIGNED, SUPPORT THIS PETITION