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Matters to be Discussed at February Valley Meetings
Following is a letter dated Feb. 2, 1999 from Captain Rick Bruce of Ingleside Police Station. Dear Resident or Merchant of Visitacion Valley: Over the past several months, the officers of Ingleside Station have been doing extensive outreach in the Visitacion Valley neighborhood in an effort to make themselves more available and accessible to you. To that end, we intend to sponsor monthly meetings in the Valley, and would like to invite anyone interested in discussing police-related problems to attend these meetings. Our next meeting
will be held on Wednesday, February 24, 1999 at 7 p.m. at 120 Leland Avenue.
This is also the location of a Resource Center that we have established
in the Valley, and this center serves as an office for the officers who
are assigned to this neighborhood.
Attached to this letter is a City Services Directory which lists the phone numbers for a variety of city-related services, including numerous contact persons and phone numbers for police officers assigned to Ingleside Station. Please don't hesitate to phone us if we can be of any assistance to you with a police-related matter. I will be present at the meeting on the 24th, and look forward to meeting you at that time. Sincerely,
Valley Residents Encouraged to Enroll in Southeast Campus Classes Dear Visitacion Valley Neighbors: As the Dean at the Southeast Campus of City College of San Francisco, I want to extend an invitation to you to enroll in our classes. For those of you who are not familiar with the Southeast Campus, we are located at 1800 Oakdale near Phelps. The Southeast Campus is one of the nine campuses within the City College of San Francisco system. The students who attend Southeast represent the entire range of the diversity spectrum. In fact, 70 percent of credit students and 76 percent on non-credit students are members of ethnic minorities. Of the credit students 32 percent are Asian and Pacific Islanders, 14 percent are Latino, 8 percent are African American, 8 percent are Filipino and 1 percent are Native American. In non-credit programs, 40 percent are Asian and Pacific Islander, 21 percent are Latino, 7 percent are African American, 3 percent are Filipino, and less than 1 percent are Native American. Southeast offers a number of courses which will help students get a job or develop needed skills. We offer courses in child development, business (including all levels of word processing, business correspondence, and computer instruction), home health aide, adult basic education (including pre-GED, math skills development, oral/written communication assistance, and vocabulary/spelling enhancement), consumer arts (including fashion sewing and alteration, millinery, lingerie design and construction, and draping design and pattern development). Classes are available
in all levels of ESL at our 1800 Oakdale, 66 Raymond, and 2565 San Bruno
locations. Opportunities are available at our 1800 Oakdale site to learn
computer repair. We also offer a two-semester credit certificate program
in Office Information Processing/Secretarial which helps students to gain
the skills they need to get a job after they complete their training.
A number of buses
get you to Southeast--the 15 Third, the 23 Monterey, the 24 Divisadero,
the 44 O'Shaunessy and the 54 Williams.
Sincerely,
Ingleside Police District Changes in 1998 Following is a letter written Jan. 26, 1999 by Captain Rick Bruce of the Ingleside Police District. Dear Ingleside Resident or Merchant: Another year has come and gone, and I would like to take a moment to reflect back on some of the changes made in the Ingleside District in 1998. We established the first sub-station in San Francisco this past year in the Sunnydale neighborhood in an effort to provide a constant police presence in an area that has experienced an undue amount of violence and other crime for well over a generation. The results have exceeded our most optimistic projections, and today, the Sunnydale community is safer than it has been for the last quarter century. We also pushed for the incorporation of the entire Visitacion Valley neighborhood into the geographical boundaries of the Ingleside District, and this was accomplished in September of 1998. Previously, the Valley was served by officers from two different police districts, and I believe that this was less than ideal in terms of developing close personal ties between the local residents (and merchants) and the officers who are assigned to serve and protect them. Throughout 1998, the officers of Ingleside Station attempted to attend every community and block club meeting that we were aware of, in an ongoing effort to keep abreast of local issues, and to be accessible to our clients (you). Our Graffiti Abatement Program continues to pay dividends in the district, and has become a model for the entire department. To date, hundreds of graffiti vandals have been caught in the act and arrested, and well over 170 youth from throughout San Francisco have been assigned to Ingleside Station to complete their community service. Most of these youth work weekends throughout the district paining over graffiti, and the remainder of them participate in our newly formed IMPACT Program in which the youth participate with police-mentors in a variety of activities that seek to turn the lives of these troubled teens around. I have had one main focus during my assignment to this command, and that is to work closely (and communicate often) with the residents and merchants of this district in order to provide the safest and most liveable neighborhood possible. Our Fax-Tree Crime Alerts have been very well received and allow us to keep you abreast of the crime trends and other information that allow you to feel more informed about your surroundings. Have a safe and prosperous 1999, and I look forward to seeing you at our next community forum. Sincerely,
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