LETTER TO THE EDITOR
SF Examiner
February 2, 2011

City librarian Luis Herrera's recent letter is understandable in support of our public library, however, the original writer's concerns about the homeless occupying restrooms and seating remain. Of more concern is why it is necessary for the library to use excessively highly-paid SFPD officers in responding to the homeless. Shouldn't the library hire one more social worker to help find decent housing, health and other resources for the homeless while the SFPD attends to gangland warfare, random violent street attacks, and domestic terrorism that is clearly not being talked about? For more serious security matters, why not contract out to the much less expensive private Patrol Special Police whose very model of neighborhood policing is service-oriented, non-authoritarian, non-defensive, and compassionate? The Castro branch library has contracted with Patrol Specials in the past, but I guess it only makes too much sense for the main San Francisco library to follow suit.

Ann Grogan, J.D.
Glen Park Resident