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It’s been 200 days since the Lurie Administration decided to make cleaning up the area at and around 16th and Mission Streets a priority. That day, March 12, the San Francisco Police Department drove a “mobile command unit” — a large white vehicle with police branding on it — onto the southwest BART Plaza.

“We are just getting started,” Mayor Daniel Lurie said at the time , promising to be “relentless” in clearing Mission Street and the side alleyways and streets of unpermitted vendors, drug dealing and drug use.

Since then, the city has been relentless a

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