
Eleni Balakrishnan
Police and Courts Reporter at Mission Local
police & courts reporter @MLNow • desi-habesha siempre pensando en méxico • @RiceUniversity, @LJJProject alum • tips: [email protected]
Articles
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4 days ago |
missionlocal.org | Eleni Balakrishnan
Cryptocurrency company Ripple Labs is seeking to donate nearly $9.4 million to the San Francisco Police Department’s Real Time Investigation Center, a fledgling branch of the department that uses surveillance technology to monitor crimes in progress. The gift will fund equipment purchases, including 12 new police drones, and will also cover a year and a half of a sublease for 14,000 square feet of downtown office space that Ripple is no longer using.
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1 week ago |
missionlocal.org | Eleni Balakrishnan
Ryan Palmer bounced around for years: He spent about a decade on the streets, then lived in two residential hotels that he had to leave under duress – first someone pulled a gun on him, and then a neighbor busted a hole through his wall with a sledgehammer. When he landed two years ago at 835 Turk St. — the former Gotham Hotel, which was converted to permanent supportive housing under the name Vantaggio Suites — Palmer thought at last he was somewhere he could call home.
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2 weeks ago |
missionlocal.org | Eleni Balakrishnan
Payment processing company Square will next week launch a business and community hub called “The Corner Store” at the long-shuttered Lucca Ravioli Co. location on Valencia Street.
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4 weeks ago |
missionlocal.org | Eleni Balakrishnan
People who are addicted to fentanyl, says Dorothy Dean, “don’t listen to nobody.” For that reason, Dean is proud of every person she has talked into seeking medical help. But in late March, Vanguard Lab, an art and activist space on Sixth Street, where Dean did harm reduction work, found out that it was caught up in federal cuts made by the Department of Government Efficiency. Its $250,000 federal grant was cut off abruptly. Vanguard Lab closed its doors a few weeks later.
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1 month ago |
missionlocal.org | Eleni Balakrishnan
Chief Bill Scott took over the San Francisco Police Department more than eight years ago amid chaos and upheaval: a series of fatal police shootings, a hunger strike to oust the former chief, and federal government intervention to reform the department’s issues. Today, as upheaval continues in San Francisco — a shift back toward more law-and-order policing, a new mayor at the helm — Scott announced on Wednesday he will be leaving in June.
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