Whale of a Tale: SF's Police Activities League Turns 60

On a recent day, a couple dozen students from San Francisco’s Visitacion Valley Elementary School stood on a quiet edge of Pier 39 near the boat docks — away from the hoards of tourists — sizing up a row of fishing poles. Dressed in the crips blues of the San Francisco Police Department, officer Mazi Sadiki instructed the restless young crowd on the finer points of the reel, how to bait a hook and the telltale signs of a fish on the line. Joe Rosato Jr. reports