San Francisco launched its official "Poop Patrol" under the San Francisco Department of Public Works (SFDPW). The specialized team actively roams high-complaint areas in vehicles equipped with industrial steam cleaners to sanitize feces before residents report it. Also Bakersfield and San Diego
October 8, 2026 at 1:04 AM
San Francisco launched its official "Poop Patrol" under the San Francisco Department of Public Works (SFDPW). The specialized team actively roams high-complaint areas in vehicles equipped with industrial steam cleaners to sanitize feces before residents report it. Also Bakersfield and San Diego
You're looking at roadwork on Sloat at 25th Ave with the Central Pumps station between 22nd and 23rd visible in the distance, March 1915.
[Photo by Horace Chaffee for SFDPW courtesy of a Private Collector & WNP / OpenSFHistory, wnp36.00738] #SFHistory #SanFrancisco #History #Photography
[Photo by Horace Chaffee for SFDPW courtesy of a Private Collector & WNP / OpenSFHistory, wnp36.00738] #SFHistory #SanFrancisco #History #Photography
September 25, 2026 at 10:06 PM
You're looking at roadwork on Sloat at 25th Ave with the Central Pumps station between 22nd and 23rd visible in the distance, March 1915.
[Photo by Horace Chaffee for SFDPW courtesy of a Private Collector & WNP / OpenSFHistory, wnp36.00738] #SFHistory #SanFrancisco #History #Photography
[Photo by Horace Chaffee for SFDPW courtesy of a Private Collector & WNP / OpenSFHistory, wnp36.00738] #SFHistory #SanFrancisco #History #Photography
September 1, 2026 at 4:36 PM
My mayor told me people keep dumping trash in the same spot so I asked how many times he cleans up the same spot without investigating and he said he just brings the trash to the dump each time so I said like it sounds like he's just enshrined this corner as a city dump and then SFDPW started crying
August 11, 2026 at 2:52 AM
My mayor told me people keep dumping trash in the same spot so I asked how many times he cleans up the same spot without investigating and he said he just brings the trash to the dump each time so I said like it sounds like he's just enshrined this corner as a city dump and then SFDPW started crying
I get that and every other DPW I've worked with has generally been fine. SF was just a byzantine nightmare
I wouldn't wish going through a SFDPW approval process on anyone.
I wouldn't wish going through a SFDPW approval process on anyone.
March 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I get that and every other DPW I've worked with has generally been fine. SF was just a byzantine nightmare
I wouldn't wish going through a SFDPW approval process on anyone.
I wouldn't wish going through a SFDPW approval process on anyone.
This is our situation. We had two separate loquats in front of our house and they both died in recent years (naturally, end of life). The first was removed in 2021, the second last summer 2024. Still waiting for SFDPW to remove the stump for the second tree, nearly 9 months later so we can replant.
The couple ignored friends and family who told them to just plant the trees without the city’s permission — they wanted to do it the right way.
But what the Pinzon-Hamiltons thought would be a simple process became a yearslong ordeal navigating San Francisco’s byzantine bureaucracy.
But what the Pinzon-Hamiltons thought would be a simple process became a yearslong ordeal navigating San Francisco’s byzantine bureaucracy.
They wanted two street trees replanted. It turned into a years-long slog through S.F. bureaucracy
San Francisco couple wanted two street trees replanted in the Richmond District. It turned into a years-long slog through city bureaucracy.
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March 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This is our situation. We had two separate loquats in front of our house and they both died in recent years (naturally, end of life). The first was removed in 2021, the second last summer 2024. Still waiting for SFDPW to remove the stump for the second tree, nearly 9 months later so we can replant.
They were the same units deployed in Paris. Plenty tough!
The issue with them in SF was around oversight, more than anything. The company selling ads was responsible for maintenance, and did little of it. SFDPW was too corrupt to care and force compliance with the contact, and they fell apart.
The issue with them in SF was around oversight, more than anything. The company selling ads was responsible for maintenance, and did little of it. SFDPW was too corrupt to care and force compliance with the contact, and they fell apart.
March 9, 2026 at 4:14 AM
They were the same units deployed in Paris. Plenty tough!
The issue with them in SF was around oversight, more than anything. The company selling ads was responsible for maintenance, and did little of it. SFDPW was too corrupt to care and force compliance with the contact, and they fell apart.
The issue with them in SF was around oversight, more than anything. The company selling ads was responsible for maintenance, and did little of it. SFDPW was too corrupt to care and force compliance with the contact, and they fell apart.
You're looking at the 2nd iteration of the Parkside School on 25th Ave and Vicente (now Dianne Feinstein Elementary School) in May 1923.
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[Photo by Horace Chaffee for the SFDPW courtesy of a Private Collector & WNP / OpenSFHistory, wnp36.0321] #SFHistory #SanFrancisco #History #Photography
August 3, 2026 at 10:09 PM
You're looking at the 2nd iteration of the Parkside School on 25th Ave and Vicente (now Dianne Feinstein Elementary School) in May 1923.
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[Photo by Horace Chaffee for the SFDPW courtesy of a Private Collector & WNP / OpenSFHistory, wnp36.0321] #SFHistory #SanFrancisco #History #Photography
Thanks @sfdpw for getting newspapers to replace their gratified & rusty newspaper boxes from Clement Street.
December 27, 2024 at 12:53 AM
Thanks @sfdpw for getting newspapers to replace their gratified & rusty newspaper boxes from Clement Street.
Huge homeless sweep and cleanup taking place on McKinnon near Toland adjacent Amazon PRIME warehouses and delivery depot. Motor homes etc
SFPD and SFDPW. At least it’s not raining. Clean is great but people need solutions not further displacement.
SFPD and SFDPW. At least it’s not raining. Clean is great but people need solutions not further displacement.
January 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Huge homeless sweep and cleanup taking place on McKinnon near Toland adjacent Amazon PRIME warehouses and delivery depot. Motor homes etc
SFPD and SFDPW. At least it’s not raining. Clean is great but people need solutions not further displacement.
SFPD and SFDPW. At least it’s not raining. Clean is great but people need solutions not further displacement.
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DNA Lounge: Wherein we have once again angered Poseidon, or possibly SFDPW.
Last weekend we had that great thing happen again where suddenly there was sewage all over the floor of the main bar and the bathrooms. We snaked it and sand came out, which is a very bad sign! The la...
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February 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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anyway would be nice to ride along the water from Yosemite Slough to Hunters Point — you can go behind the SFDPW yard for quite a ways but can’t get through. wish we had access to the blue paths — probably wouldn’t get you too radioactive. the trail through the field looks surprisingly fresh
February 28, 2026 at 10:34 PM
anyway would be nice to ride along the water from Yosemite Slough to Hunters Point — you can go behind the SFDPW yard for quite a ways but can’t get through. wish we had access to the blue paths — probably wouldn’t get you too radioactive. the trail through the field looks surprisingly fresh
#sfmta, #sfdpw: yes we need bike racks. We also need to locate them so they don't interfere with the ramps needed for wheelchair boarding (or, for that matter, in the path of embarking/disembarking passengers of all mobility levels)
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December 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
#sfmta, #sfdpw: yes we need bike racks. We also need to locate them so they don't interfere with the ramps needed for wheelchair boarding (or, for that matter, in the path of embarking/disembarking passengers of all mobility levels)
Can we keep the necessary […]
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@sfdpw there's a small manhole at the intersection of 24th and Guererro that clanks very loudly as cars pass over it. Please fix!
February 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
@sfdpw there's a small manhole at the intersection of 24th and Guererro that clanks very loudly as cars pass over it. Please fix!
Context for why this is funny: SF infamously struggled with managing street litter in the 2010s after Gavin Newsom did this at the behest of convicted racketeer and former SFDPW head Mohammed Nuru. Every other city in the Bay Area just bought off-the-shelf Big Belly units.
June 2007: “Mayor Gavin Newsom announced last week that hundreds of city-owned garbage cans are being taken off city streets because, he says, there are just too many out there.”
“I’m still pro-garbage can”, said Newsom, who is campaigning for re-election
“I’m still pro-garbage can”, said Newsom, who is campaigning for re-election
SAN FRANCISCO / Trash cans cut back on city streets / Mayor defends policy but supervisors, residents complain
On Tuesday, Richmond District Supervisor Jake McGoldrick lashed out at Newsom's trash can...
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August 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Context for why this is funny: SF infamously struggled with managing street litter in the 2010s after Gavin Newsom did this at the behest of convicted racketeer and former SFDPW head Mohammed Nuru. Every other city in the Bay Area just bought off-the-shelf Big Belly units.
the absurdly corrupt head of SFDPW convinced him to get rid of a huge number of public trash cans, haunting the city to this very day.
June 2007: “Mayor Gavin Newsom announced last week that hundreds of city-owned garbage cans are being taken off city streets because, he says, there are just too many out there.”
“I’m still pro-garbage can”, said Newsom, who is campaigning for re-election
“I’m still pro-garbage can”, said Newsom, who is campaigning for re-election
SAN FRANCISCO / Trash cans cut back on city streets / Mayor defends policy but supervisors, residents complain
On Tuesday, Richmond District Supervisor Jake McGoldrick lashed out at Newsom's trash can...
www.sfgate.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
the absurdly corrupt head of SFDPW convinced him to get rid of a huge number of public trash cans, haunting the city to this very day.
The SFDPW corruption scandal is like a skeleton key for everything holding back the Democratic Coalition’s ability to govern effectively.
I say this as a proud Democrat who wants my party to govern more effectively.
I say this as a proud Democrat who wants my party to govern more effectively.
July 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The SFDPW corruption scandal is like a skeleton key for everything holding back the Democratic Coalition’s ability to govern effectively.
I say this as a proud Democrat who wants my party to govern more effectively.
I say this as a proud Democrat who wants my party to govern more effectively.
Has anyone done an authoritative write-up of Gavin Newsom’s War On Trash Cans and the long shadow of the SFDPW corruption scandal?
July 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Has anyone done an authoritative write-up of Gavin Newsom’s War On Trash Cans and the long shadow of the SFDPW corruption scandal?
My benchmark for local public corruption cases out here is the SFDPW case involving Mohammed Nuru, four consecutive mayors, and the intentional removal of public trash cans from city streets.
San Francisco Department of Public Works corruption scandal - Wikipedia
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June 25, 2024 at 6:46 PM
My benchmark for local public corruption cases out here is the SFDPW case involving Mohammed Nuru, four consecutive mayors, and the intentional removal of public trash cans from city streets.
You may have already heard that Mohammed Nuru, the former SFDPW director who was a central figure in a major city corruption scandal, is back in town, and “was seen at City Hall.” As it turns out, he wasn’t there on business. His niece was getting married.
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August 7, 2026 at 4:15 PM
You may have already heard that Mohammed Nuru, the former SFDPW director who was a central figure in a major city corruption scandal, is back in town, and “was seen at City Hall.” As it turns out, he wasn’t there on business. His niece was getting married.
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Thank you, @SFAC and @sfdpw , for transport art at SF's Central Freeway/McCoppin stub/hub park http://t.co/RjU4DXwt0d
December 6, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Thank you, @SFAC and @sfdpw , for transport art at SF's Central Freeway/McCoppin stub/hub park http://t.co/RjU4DXwt0d