Sheriff Michael Hennessey, who has held the title since 1980, announced Friday that he won't seek re-election. Hennessey's eighth term expires in January.
"I hope to build on the legacy that Sheriff Hennessey built," Mirkarimi told the City Insider.
If elected sheriff, Mirkarimi said a top priority would be to tackle the high recidivism rate among the offenders who cycle through the system, by continuing the programs and services begun under Hennessey.
The issue, he said, is one of public safety and security in the jails and in the city overall. "Eventually, most of the offenders return to the neighborhoods."
The sheriff, who oversees a staff of nearly 1,000, runs San Francisco's jails and provides security in the courts and City Hall.
Prior to his election as supervisor, Mirkarimi worked for nearly a decade as an investigator in the district attorney's office, focusing on white-collar crimes.
He graduated from the San Francisco Police Academy in 1996 and has his Peace Officer Standards and Training certification from the state.
While Mirkarimi has focused a lot of his legislative attention on environmental issues, he also pushed to expand San Francisco's community policing and violence-prevention programs. Four years ago while jogging, he heard gunfire, notified police and jumped into a patrol car with officers to find the suspected culprits.
Co-founder of the California Green Party, Mirkarimi - who has been a solid vote on the board's progressive left flank - switched to a Democrat in March 2010.
- Rachel Gordon
Where is your MVP? The city's MVP, announced last week, has nothing to do with the San Francisco Giants. MVP, in this case, stands for most valuable parking garage, a statistic released as part of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's financial discussion.
According to independent consultants, the three most valuable of the city's 19 garages are (drumroll, please): North Beach, Golden Gateway and Fifth and Mission. Although the North Beach garage on Vallejo Street is small, with just 203 spaces, it's mighty, averaging $4,141 a year per space in revenue. That means it could be worth about $69,020 a space if sold.
For the record, the agency's Board of Directors quickly dismissed the idea of selling off its more profitable parking garages, though it didn't rule out putting the low performers on eBay.
Golden Gateway garage, with 1,095 spaces, on Clay Street comes in second place with average revenue of $3,799 a space and an estimated value of $63,250 per space. In third, the behemoth Fifth and Mission garage with 2,585 spaces, an annual per-space average of $3,496 and a valuation of $58,261 a space.
Most of the city's garages fall into the "mid-value" range and include the Sutter-Stockton, St. Mary's, Portsmouth Square, Vallejo, Moscone Center, Civic Center, Union Square, Ellis-O'Farrell, Japan Center, Performing Arts and Mission-Bartlett garages, which bring in from $3,329 a space each year down to $1,409 a space.
Bringing up the rear are the Seventh and Harrison, Lombard Street, General Hospital, Polk-Bush and Mission-Otis garages, all of which average less than $900 a year per space. The Mission-Otis garage averages just $167 per space.
- Michael Cabanatuan
Unusual tweets: Even venture capitalists who specialize in funding high-tech startups can have social networking mishaps.
Joanna Rees, who is running for mayor in November, is an active tweeter, with blurbs like "I had a wonderful time last night honoring our interim San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee at the Lee Family Association dinner."
But the other day, she sent a series of tweets that read, for example, "Rdwdrrdeererddd ..." well, you get the point. Some of them went on for all 140 allowable characters. And they just kept coming.
We wanted to make sure she hadn't been hacked. Apparently, a new BlackBerry case didn't allow her to lock her phone. "It pursed it," she said. (Should the male version be "butt tweets" because most men carry their phones in their back pocket?)
"I would think a hacker would be way more creative," Rees said.
- Heather Knight
E-mail the City Insider team at cityinsider@sfchronicle.com.
This article appeared on page C - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle
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