A New Face Set To Join The Police Commission

San Francisco CA

15 December, 2021

3:04 PM

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By Eleni Balakrishnan, Mission Local December 13, 2021 After taking a week to deliberate, the Board of Supervisors' Rules Committee today recommended Jesús Gabriel Yáñez as the newest addition to the Police Commission. He will fill Petra DeJesus' vacant seat, which sat empty for most of 2021. A longtime advocate for juvenile justice reform, Yáñez is currently working as a consultant with the Mission community organizations on the "Vision Zero: LatinX Safety Plan," with the goal to reduce youth violence in the neighborhood. "I'm being ambitious just because that's the way I get down," Yáñez told Mission Local today, referring to the safety plan. He seems to have a similarly ambitious approach to the Police Commission. To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.