I just read your blog and that is really horrible.


I went through something similar (in Oakland, tho) awhile ago, and had PTSD as well. Glad to hear you are getting treatment for that, in addition to your physical wounds.

I work in the Civic Center area (also not a good part of town), and from that experience, I know it is a very common defense mechanism to not get involved, because you don't know what the attacker will do. At least someone did provide you with a license-plate number; hopefully that will be enough for the police.

I am so so sorry this happened to you. I make that walk twice every day. This is just awful. I hope you are getting genuine, personal in-person support in addition to these sad waves hello across the ether. I love our neighborhood and I hope you can love it again too. But beyond city living being tough and random and crazy, this is just too much. I really feel for you and wish you much much comfort and support coming away from this.
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Very best wishes...

thank you all; i really appreciate the support. you are very kind!

Many friends of mine have been robbed in Europe-- in England, Spain, France, Italy, and especially on trains and other public transportation everywhere, and one friend was raped while a tourist in Russia-- so I don't think Europe is particularly free of crime. (I think that some types of petty theft are more common there.) But there is a lot less violence there, and European criminals generally don't have guns.

sorry ya'll hadn't been on here in a while and had not realized this thread was active again.

i followed up regularly with police. i must say i was very disappointed in the da and police follow up. inspector bini in robbery handled my case. he did follow up but it took him a long time; and i even saw my mugger on cesar chavez and reported it to him. he went to see if he could id her and sure enough she had a record and he got a photo for me to identify. i picked her out of a photo lineup with no hints from him. easy, she stood over me beating on me for what felt like 5 minutes so i got a good look at her face.

so the inspector seemed excited that this case would go forward. but NOOOOOOO, even though i made a positve id, even though i totally cooperated with the police, even though apparently inspector bini did his job, the DA's office said they would not prosecute!!!!!!

so folks, we still have a violent mugger on the street who assaulted and robbed at least 3 other people on the same day as me. she lives at cesar chavez in the public housing. avoid there!

i am going to work with the bernal heights neighborhood group to try to get a new da elected. i understand this da has a reputation of never prosecuting cases and leaving LOTS of criminals on the streets. i think that is why crime is so much worse in this city now.

here's the link to the bernal heights neighborhood group:
www.bhnc.org/

if you want to read about the original assault, you can see my blog: people.tribe.net/newbie/bl...a8ca623431

and here's an article about buck bagot, an awesome organizer who got more cops assigned to the dangerous public housing in bernal, and is considering supporting an alternative for the da's office. someone who will actually prosecute criminals!
sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi

The police didn't give you a case #? Okay, if you get that information please post it.

As to the April 27 stuff, that was post was signed by David.