Mission Mission » rat-tat-tat-tat http://www.missionmission.org Saluting San Francisco's Mission District Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:47:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 Bullet Proof Vests Make the Mission Safe For Journalists http://www.missionmission.org/2009/07/16/bullet-proof-vests-make-the-mission-safe-for-journalists/ http://www.missionmission.org/2009/07/16/bullet-proof-vests-make-the-mission-safe-for-journalists/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:33:06 +0000 Kevin Montgomery http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=5464 Immune to teh bullets

Yesterday, Mission Loc@l published a photo of Chronicle crime reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken wearing a bullet proof vest while on an embed assignment with SFPD:

Yeah, we know the Mission is one of the more trigger-happy neighborhoods in the city, but we didn’t think the cops considered it Baghdad dangerous. But apparently the police made Chron crime reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken don a bullet-proof vest while embedding with an officer on the Mission streets yesterday, as caught on the neighborhood news Web site, Mission Loc@l. (link)

According to Van Derbeken, “the police provided [the vest] and required I wear it.”  My question: can you keep it as a souvenir afterwards?  That would be hot–sign me up for an embed.

(photo / Mission Loc@l – Reporting / The Snitch)

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