Castro business owners heard about rebooted safety plans at the merchant association's first meeting of the year February 4, and gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman delivered a lightning round of updates on ongoing city issues, including the pandemic. CBD public safety ambassadorsAndrea Aiello, a lesbian who is the executive director of the Castro/Upper Market Community Benefit District, announced the reboot of Castro Cares, its neighborhood public safety initiative.
The Bay Area reported on Castro Cares in 2018, when it was a relaunch of the original 2014 program. As the B.A.R. previously reported, the Castro Cares initiative contains three prongs: SFPD foot and vehicle patrols, the downtown streets team (focused on unhoused