Blueprint Briefing: Week of 9/29/2025

Two decades of crimes and two homicides later - it's time for accountability.

Five years ago, on New Year’s Eve 2020, Troy McAlister—a man with multiple felonies and misdemeanors to his name—got behind the wheel of a stolen car while intoxicated, ran a red light, and killed 27-year-old Hanako Abe and 60-year-old Elizabeth Platt. Their deaths weren’t random. They were the tragic, predictable outcome of a system that refused to draw the line with a career criminal. And now he may walk free again. Read More Here.

From Dream(keeper) to Nightmare.

The Dream Keeper Initiative (DKI) was supposed to be a promise. Instead, it became a scheme involving high-profile bureaucrats, non-profit executives, and elected officials that resulted in one of San Francisco’s biggest corruption scandals of this decade. What was billed as a generational investment became a case study in how San Francisco’s tangled web of City Hall and politically connected nonprofits can turn dollars earmarked for equity into grift. Read More Here.

We’re finally arresting the dirtbike gangs. And that’s a good thing.

Whether you’ve been on the Embarcadero, in Chinatown, SoMa, or elsewhere on a weekend night, you’ve maybe seen it: dirt bikes and ATVs roaring through intersections, swarming streets (at times in the hundreds), ignoring traffic laws, terrifying pedestrians, and leaving merchants exasperated. These street takeovers have become one of those very visible quality of life problems that make San Franciscans feel disorderly - like the city has lost control of our public spaces. But we are starting to see how voter-approved tools are starting to work exactly as we’d hoped to address this chaos. Read More Here.