explore Archives - Mission Local https://missionlocal.org/tag/explore/ Local news for a global city Wed, 21 Feb 2024 19:40:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://missionloca.s3.amazonaws.com/mission/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/iconlogomap-100x100.jpg explore Archives - Mission Local https://missionlocal.org/tag/explore/ 32 32 Explore: SF crime fell ever so slightly in 2023 https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/explore-sf-crime-fell-ever-so-slightly-in-2023/ https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/explore-sf-crime-fell-ever-so-slightly-in-2023/#comments Mon, 22 Jan 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=580670 Police standing in the street, yellow tape across the street from a flowered medium

Once again, crime is on the agenda in the 2024 mayoral race, as Mayor London Breed asks voters to expand the power of the police department and her opponent Daniel […]

Explore: SF crime fell ever so slightly in 2023

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/explore-sf-crime-fell-ever-so-slightly-in-2023/feed/ 7 The Mission’s response to homelessness: More than 2,000 planters https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/one-sf-neighborhoods-response-to-homelessness-2000-plus-planters/ https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/one-sf-neighborhoods-response-to-homelessness-2000-plus-planters/#comments Mon, 08 Jan 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=579262 A planter on the side of a sidewalk.

If you roam around San Francisco, you’ll likely run into garden planters on sidewalks and in public plazas.  Some are large, shiny and steel, like bathtubs or animal troughs; others […]

The Mission’s response to homelessness: More than 2,000 planters

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/one-sf-neighborhoods-response-to-homelessness-2000-plus-planters/feed/ 50 Explore: San Francisco’s 2023-25 budget https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/explore-san-francisco-budget-2023-2024-2025/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/explore-san-francisco-budget-2023-2024-2025/#comments Thu, 03 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=555548 Graphics exploring the San Francisco two-year budget.

After months of political wrangling and intense number-crunching, the final budget for San Francisco’s coming two years was released by the Controller’s Office yesterday. And it is a whopper. The […]

Explore: San Francisco’s 2023-25 budget

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On July 8, the San Francisco Police Department arrested 117 people in association with the infamous “hill bomb” event at Dolores Park. We used witness statements, police records, social media […]

Explore: The hill bomb heard ’round the Mission, hour by hour

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/hill-bomb-timeline-police-skaters-map-juvenile-policies/feed/ 7 Explore: $70M in SF law enforcement settlements https://missionlocal.org/2023/06/millions-law-enforcement-sfpd-sheriff-lawsuit-settlements/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/06/millions-law-enforcement-sfpd-sheriff-lawsuit-settlements/#comments Tue, 13 Jun 2023 16:31:51 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=549662 illustration of five police officers with their back to us walking down a street

Leer en español Police officers and sheriff’s deputies are almost never charged in criminal court. But when it comes to civil litigation, business is booming. From 2010 to May 2023, […]

Explore: $70M in SF law enforcement settlements

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/06/millions-law-enforcement-sfpd-sheriff-lawsuit-settlements/feed/ 1 Scooter injuries rose 31% in 2022 https://missionlocal.org/2023/05/scooter-injuries-rise-31-percent-2022-infrastructure-lime-spin/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/05/scooter-injuries-rise-31-percent-2022-infrastructure-lime-spin/#comments Tue, 02 May 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=547199 Lime and Spin scooters locked up on Mission Street.

Leer en español According to a Mission Local analysis of city data, injuries from electric scooter collisions rose 31 percent in 2022, making it the fifth year in a row […]

Scooter injuries rose 31% in 2022

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/05/scooter-injuries-rise-31-percent-2022-infrastructure-lime-spin/feed/ 19 Explore: The Mission’s gardens https://missionlocal.org/2023/04/explore-community-sidewalk-garden-park-mission/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/04/explore-community-sidewalk-garden-park-mission/#comments Fri, 28 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=543902 A community garden with planters and orange flowers.

Patches of golden poppies, purple-headed lupine bushes, fields of yellow buttercups: The Mission is filling up with wildflowers, part of the San Francisco superbloom following the city’s third-wettest winter on […]

Explore: The Mission’s gardens

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Updated February, 2024. Our snazzy tool allows you to build a custom area and look at it through a variety of lenses, seeing how it compares to the city at […]

Explore: Your neighborhood in data

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/02/census-custom-area-builder-san-francisco-demographics-data-map/feed/ 9 Explore: How crime changed in 2022 https://missionlocal.org/2023/01/explore-how-crime-changed-in-2022/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/01/explore-how-crime-changed-in-2022/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2023 16:16:26 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=516328 SFPD police officer walks past squad car.

Crime was at the forefront of many San Franciscans’ minds in 2022. With the successful District Attorney recall in June and supervisorial elections in November, several politicians found success campaigning […]

Explore: How crime changed in 2022

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San Francisco’s final election of the year is upon us. Check back here throughout the day and night for live updates, graphics, and analysis from our reporters. Updates | Races […]

New election results: Thursday, Nov. 17

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Updated November 5, 2022. If it’s true that money talks, San Francisco figures to be an extremely noisy place over the next few days. Campaign contributions to the roughly 50 […]

Explore: Nearly $14 million poured into SF races

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Illustrations by Molly Oleson. First published October 2022; updated August 2023. On May 19, 2022, San Francisco police officers killed Michael MacFhionghain and Rafael Mendoza in the dirt beneath the […]

Explore: Every person killed in SF police shootings since 2000

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Update, August 4: Some eviction notices recorded in city data do not appear to match records of eviction notices held by property managers. Some “eviction notices” may have been erroneously […]

Explore: Thousands of eviction notices served in SF subsidized housing over 5 years

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Two weeks ago, San Francisco police officers shot and killed Michael MacFhionghain, 57, and Rafael Mendoza, 49, while the former appeared to attack the latter with a knife. MacFhionghain and […]

Explore: Two decades of SFPD shootings

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Say what you like about the campaign to recall District Attorney Chesa Boudin; it has been a costly affair, especially for those hoping to get rid of the progressive prosecutor. […]

Explore: $6M poured into Boudin recall

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2022/05/explore-almost-9-million-donated-for-and-against-boudin-recall/feed/ 13 Explore the Redistricting Task Force’s most up-to-date map https://missionlocal.org/2022/04/explore-the-redistricting-task-forces-most-up-to-date-map/ https://missionlocal.org/2022/04/explore-the-redistricting-task-forces-most-up-to-date-map/#comments Fri, 15 Apr 2022 16:42:17 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=482539

On April 21, the Redistricting Task Force will reconvene to have another go at creating a finalized map that all task force members can live with. In its last meeting, […]

Explore the Redistricting Task Force’s most up-to-date map

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2022/04/explore-the-redistricting-task-forces-most-up-to-date-map/feed/ 1 Explore: How crime rates changed in San Francisco last year https://missionlocal.org/2022/01/explore-how-crime-rates-changed-in-san-francisco-last-year/ https://missionlocal.org/2022/01/explore-how-crime-rates-changed-in-san-francisco-last-year/#comments Sun, 30 Jan 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=474352

On Wednesday, Mayor London Breed and Police Chief Bill Scott gave a press conference outlining the 2021 crime figures in San Francisco. So, what was the headline? Did crime go […]

Explore: How crime rates changed in San Francisco last year

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Early this summer, the campaign to recall San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin was lagging behind the anti-recall camp in its funding, according to Ethics Commission data. On June 18, […]

Explore: See who is funding the Boudin recall

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Last updated: March 25, 2022 From Zeitgeist in the north all the way down to Coco’s Ramen in the south, the Mission is a smörgåsbord of culinary temptations. No matter […]

Explore over 100 restaurants all across the Mission

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Last updated: February 2024 In January, 2020, the first domino fell. Mohammad Nuru, then the director of the San Francisco Department of Public Works, was hit with a raft of […]

Web of corruption: Explore the cronyism, lies, and federal crimes at the heart of San Francisco’s government

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2021/11/web-of-corruption-explore-the-cronyism-lies-and-federal-crimes-at-the-heart-of-san-franciscos-government/feed/ 49 Explore 100 years of film history in your neighborhood https://missionlocal.org/2021/10/explore-100-years-of-film-history-in-your-neighborhood/ https://missionlocal.org/2021/10/explore-100-years-of-film-history-in-your-neighborhood/#comments Wed, 13 Oct 2021 18:06:58 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=465272

When comparing San Francisco to its brash cousin to the south, Los Angeles, the latter tends to win in terms of movie history. Grease, Thelma and Louise, La La Land […]

Explore 100 years of film history in your neighborhood

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