Wow, sorry all the news we're posting today is such a downer, but San Jose is reeling from the news of the brutal sexual assault and murder of Sany San, a recent Cambodian immigrant who had survived the Khmer Rouge. Last Sunday, San had walked a mile from her home in East San Jose at 6 a.m. to catch the bus to her job as a janitor at a doughnut shop in Palo Alto when......

This is all Ed Jew's fault. We were so distracted by updating you on the latest in his woes that we totally missed the news that we just got from a favorite reader that previous SFist obsession District 6 Supe Chris Daly threw one of his famous fits at the Board of Supes meeting today! NO! How did we miss this? Over what, though? Over what?? All we've got is a news item from......

Sherman, set the way-back machine to when the Cops Gone Wild video came out. Seems like the issue has reared it's ugly head again and another twist in the story has appeared. Dan Noyes is reporting that for some strange reason, out of all the cops who got in trouble for appearing in it, none of the Asian cops who appeared got in trouble. And by none, we mean nada, zilch, zip, As a result, say hello to a $20 million dollar lawsuit. ...

Courtesy of the Bay Guardian's politics blog, we get the latest word from Chris Daly's second favorite organization, the Police Officer's Association. In an online posting to fellow Police Officers, Union President Gary Delagnes discussed the reasons why it's been difficult these past few years recruiting new cops. He lists a bunch of the usual reasons: the coast of living in SF, the occasional danger involved in the job, unappealing working conditions, but then finds the ultimate culprit for the lack of new recruits: Gen X sucks. ...

Man, the San Francisco Police Officers' Association president Gary Delagnes is all over the news these days! We're setting up a Google News Alert for Delagnes even as we speak! --On Heather Fong's leadership style, Delagnes told the Chron today, "The cops in this department feel as though they are under siege.... [Fong] has a quiet, understated style. She believes diplomacy is the way to go. The cops on the street feel that diplomacy isn't......

It's a mishmash of random news items about -- the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates Odds And Ends. Okay, most of these items are about Chris Daly -- because none of you Rob Black, Matt Drake, Manuel Jimenez, or anyone else supporters are sending us items. Rob Black hasn't even bothered to update his blog since August 25. Help us help you, Everybody But Chris candidates! --Daly's bought a bunch of ginormous......

By an 8-3 vote, the Board of Supervisors approved a plan to establish foot patrols for eight of the city's ten police district stations. The vote was in reaction to the increased violence in the city and gun-related murders. The Board said foot patrols would go a long ways to helping fight the violence in the city while members of the Police Officers Association said that foot patrols would mean slower response times to 911 calls. We had hoped that the debate would go forward in a restrained, honest, and intelligent way as befitting such an important decision, but that didn't quite happen. So much so, it took us a day just to figure out all the incessant craziness that occurred because of the debate. Let's just say we don't think Chris Daly will be attending any POA fundraisers in the near future. Not that they'd invite him anyways. ...

-Bad weekend in Oakland as there were at least four shootings and illegal car rallies that lead to more shootings. -And speaking of crime, Matier & Ross detail some guy who's been arrested at least fifty times in San Francisco yet keeps on being released to do more crime. -Candidate in San Jose Mayoral race who pledged to clean up city hall caught doing unethical things with campaign funds. -Alix Rosenthal gets endorsement of Burning......

The District 6 supervisor race just keeps heating up! This week's episode: Everybody Hates Diet Coke. Incumbent Chris Daly was just endorsed by the San Francisco firefighters' union. We can't wait for the picture of Chris wearing a firefighter's hat and carrying a ladder! BUT -- when the head of the Police Officers' Association, Gary Delagnes, heard the news, he hit the roof. He promptly fired off a note to the firefighters' union, reminding them......

Last night's Police Commission meeting [RealPlayer] started off with rollicking public comment from officers and the public. Officers were particularly upset over the termination of officer Anthony Nelson. Nelson was terminated after breaking the arm of an anti-war protestor and then filing a report with erroneous information about the circumstances. One of the two commissioners who voted against his termination was Peter Keane, who is also the dean of the law school at Golden......

We've been a bit remiss in keeping up with all our blog reading, or we would have caught this story on BoingBoing ourselves. But it was big enough to have been forwarded to us by friends of SFist Ross and Jeff. Seems local freelance photographer Steve Malik was taking Muni from Montgomery Station to the Castro. "While we were on the platform waiting for our train I figured I’d grab a few photos of......