The Bay Area's favorite finger-wagging scold of the local news, Stanley Roberts, will be back on the air on KRON4 starting next week, with his first "People Behaving Badly" segment in seven years.

Longtime SFist favorite local character Stanley Roberts, he of the annual segments scolding Bay to Breakers public urinators and weekly screeds against red light-blowing bicyclists, and disabled parking scofflaws, is back!

KRON4 announced Thursday that old Stanley has been rehired at the station that he left in 2018, and his first new "People Behaving Badly" segment will be airing next week, on December 11. In the meantime, if you get KRON4's smart TV app (available on Roku, Amazon Fire Stick, Samsung TV, and Apple TV), you can see several new segments already posted there, including one tackling the scourge of scofflaw delivery-bike and deliver-motorcyle riders making illegal turns and blowing through crosswalks, and one catching single drivers with no passengers using the carpool-only Fremont Street onramp to the Bay Bridge during rush hour.

"'People Behaving Badly' not only puts a spotlight on the actions that make us shake our head, but it also gives the people who follow the rules some vindication,” says Stanley Roberts, in a statement on his return. "You can’t just do what you want with no consequence — in this case that consequence is getting exposed on KRON4."

"Whether it’s a carpool cheater or bicyclist running a red light, people in the Bay Area deserve some accountability for the small things that affect our quality of life," says KRON4 News Director Josh Palefsky. “With the relaunch of ‘People Behaving Badly’ and the return of Stanley Roberts — the Bay Area is on notice — think twice before you break the rules.”

Love him or hate him, Roberts was a fixture on the local airwaves for two decades, starting work as a photographer at KRON4 in 1998, and doing his "People Behaving Badly" segments from 2006 to 2018.

Roberts left the station to take a job in the local news in Phoenix seven years ago — he told SFGate in 2021 that this was because KRON4 wouldn't meet his salary demands and he could not longer support his family in the Bay Area. But the sometimes 113-degree Arizona heat got to him and he was already announcing plans to return to the Bay Area four years ago. (He also still has a daughter who lives here.) Ever since, his primary outlet has been his Xitter account, and he also has an online store selling his own Mr. Badly brand coffee.

Below, for those unfamiliar, here's a "People Behaving Badly" segment from 2013 in which Roberts focused on drivers blowing through crosswalks on a busy road in Castro Valley. And he gets to shove a camera in the face of a woman who he says "nearly killed me" after she blew through a crosswalk he was walking in. She replies, "Are you going to put me on the TV?" laughing as she recognized him.