Safe Passage helps children and elderly people navigate the Tenderloin, which is home to some of the city's most risky streets.
Children from the Tenderloin Community School are escorted to an after school program on Aug. 19, 2024. Photo by Eleni Balakrishnan.
Eight “negative incidents” occurred in the same period, including indecent exposure and a driver running a red light and nearly hitting a staff member. On Monday afternoon, the first day of school, before workers began their trek out to their positions, Safe Passage leaders reminded staff to “have patience” with those in the streets and with each other.
“Hey, folks,” Rozell calls out to a group of people sitting on the sidewalk, leaned up against a building on the shaded side of Jones Street. “School’s going to be letting out in about 30 minutes, so we might have some kids coming through.” From kids’ program to all-around neighborhood guides On Tuesday, before the second day of school, a Safe Passage worker named Jerry Franklin grinned and greeted each child as they passed by Turk and Larkin streets — a whining child hurried along by his mother, another messily eating an ice cream treat. What began as “mothers’ concerns” and “concern for all the dangers,” Mena said in Spanish, has now become much more. The workers are all equipped with overdose-reversing Narcan, and radios to stay in touch throughout each shift.
The Tenderloin police station has two officers dedicated to Safe Passage, and in the program’s early days, Robinson said the captain even paid to paint the “yellow brick road” which once marked the Safe Passage route through the neighborhood.
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