September 4, 2007
SFist Blotter
...And that's not even the curviest part! A car chase that started in Marin County around 3:00 a.m. Monday morning ended abruptly when the driver, speeding at around 75 mph over the Golden Gate Bridge, overshot the turn from Doyle Drive onto Lombard Street and flipped over. A open fifth of Hennessey was found in the car, and the passengers are in SF General with non-fatal injuries.
Your SF Labor Day weekend homicide count: 3. One person shot in the Bayview early Sunday morning, one person in Visitacion Valley shot dead mid-Sunday morning (after being chased into a garage by two teenagers on bikes), and one found dead early Monday morning near the Balboa Park station. You can keep up with the year to date homicide count (77) at the SF Crime Blog, like we're doing. Also: a man was shot in the back this afternoon, also in Visitacion Valley. He's expected to survive. (It's not much better in Oakland either, with four shootings over the weekend. They're at 91 for the year.)
A woman in Burlingame was charged with felony child endangerment last Thursday afternoon, after bystanders freed her crying unattended 2-year-old from her car. On the bright side, the child was fine, but it was 92 degrees outside and the temperature inside the car was measured about about 125 degrees. The mother said she'd just run to the grocery store for about 20 minutes. This is the second baby in a hot car scare in the South Bay this week, with a Mountain View nanny arrested after leaving a crying baby in a car with a small gap in the window for about 30 minutes on Tuesday.
Picture of the crooked part of Lombard Street by kasei, off flickr.
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Did you actually write "not much better in Oakland"? How on earth is 4 dead for the weekend and 91 for the year in any sense better than SF's 3 and 77? Can you even count? Oakland has half the population as SF, and it has a higher murder count(according to one site I checked).
I don't mean to be snarky, but the problem with SF crime is clearly not SF or Newsom or Daly or anything 7x7-centric. Even safe-old San Jose has had more crime problems. I know this site is SF-ist, but if you're going to care about the recent crime wave (and I know you do), we need to think beyond the borders of the City.
Oh, I totally agree with you, cashba, especially given how a lot of the crime throughout the Bay Area recently seems to involve people traveling between cities. I hope our various city police departments are working together well and all that.
In terms of the phrase "not much better," I was using that colloquially, to mean "just as bad." Sorry for the mixup, obviously no slighting of murders in any area of the Bay intended.
i wonder how much crime fell off in the city while the bridge was closed?
"not much better" meaning you'd expect worse in Oakland - I guess.
There was 1 more man shot to death in Vis Valley on Monday, making the total 78.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/04/BANLRUGM7.DTL
And that makes 7 murders in SF, Friday through Monday. 3 on Friday, 2 on Sunday, 2 on Monday.
So that would be 4 murders while the bridge was closed...If you really want to argue about its effect on crime.
That second man killed in Visitacion Valley, appears to be the man who was shot in the back.
i guess that shows you how much they use bart. i wonder if they are actually paying for their tix to commute in and kill folks in our city?
Yeah, I'm sure those two teenagers rode their BICYCLES from Oakland, all the way to Sunnydale, before murdering a SAN FRANCISCO resident.
i wasn't commenting on that case rah, but i get your point. as usual, a relative of the victim has chimed in for what portends to be a lively discussion over on sfgate. i love their comments section now, btw. and guess what sfist, no guests allowed.
by the end of the day, i'm sure we'll have enough admission by the relative that his dead family member was pretty much asking for it by his actions.
yeah, well, unlike sfist, signing into sfgate is simple and hassle free.
I've tried to sign in numerous times. I get "bad password" or it signs me in but then doesn't post my comments, etc., etc., etc.
Who needs that kind of hassle when trying to clandestinely post comments while at work?
The population of residents doesn't quite correlate to the population of folks who come into the City from all corners of the Bay Area and then some. Folks saying statistics are high for the City's population aren't quite what they're painted to be.
sfist folks, can you please put a link for crime on top of the page so we can all play along at home?