That Huge, Bulky SFPD Cop Bus Is No Longer Sitting at 16th and Mission Streets

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/09/30/that-huge-bulky-sfpd-cop-bus-is-no-longer-sitting-at-16th-and-mission-streets/After six and a half months of sitting there and trying to look intimidating, the SFPD’s giant, RV-style “mobile command unit” has been removed from the corner of 16th and Mission streets as the SFPD shifts gears on cleaning up that corner. It has been since March 12, some two months into the Daniel Lurie administration, that Lurie and the SFPD decided to place a gigantic RV-looking police vehicle called the “mobile command unit” at 16th and Mission streets. It was meant as some sort of visual deterrent to the illegal vending, drug use, and myriad forms of blight that had come to characterize the corner, though many argued that the Sixth Street