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Outgoing SFPD Chief Bill Scott Already Has Next Gig, as LA Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Chief

We’re now learning that SFPD Chief Bill Scott already had his next job lined up when he resigned Wednesday, and he’s heading back to LA to head the newly formed LA Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Department.

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SFPD Chief Bill Scott Is Stepping Down — Did Lurie Push Him Out?

San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott is stepping down after an eight-year tenure at the SFPD, following months of rumors that Mayor Daniel Lurie might be looking to make a change at the top of the department.

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Thursday Morning What's Up: SFPD Chief Denies Retirement Rumors

SFPD Chief Bill Scott says rumors of his retirement are "not coming from me."; the San Mateo County Sheriff spoke defiantly at a county board of supervisors meeting about not stepping down; and the UC system has a major budget shortfall.

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Woman Whose Rape Kit DNA Was Used to Prosecute Her Sues the City and Chief of Police

The fallout continues from a February revelation that SFPD was keeping rape victims’ DNA and using it to potentially prosecute the victims for other crimes, as the Jane Doe in that case has sued the city in a U.S. District Court.

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San Francisco Police Make Four Arrests in Three Different Homicide Cases This Week

In a rare Saturday press conference, SFPD Chief Bill Scott announced that the department had made four arrests in three different homicides this week — "this is a big deal to arrest four individuals who took three lives," Scott emphasized during the weekend briefing.

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Breed Says '10 Groups' Responsible for 1,000 Burglaries and Car Break-Ins Each Month, and Arrests Have Been Made

San Francisco Mayor London Breed and SFPD Chief Bill Scott gave their first "CompStat" press conference of the year Monday and they took the opportunity to try to counter the much-repeated narrative about how much crime has been plaguing San Francisco.

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Sunday Links: Police Union Calls For SFPD Chief To Resign

Neil Young's set got cut off by BottleRock's strict curfew Saturday night, three teens including two from SF were arrested following a head-on collision and multiple thefts in San Mateo County, and Warriors will be facing the Raptors starting Thursday.

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SFPD Chief Bill Scott Gives Extraordinary Late-Friday Press Conference to Apologize For Raid on Journalist

Was it Kamala saying she was concerned? Was it pressure from the mayor to take the fall? Was it finally realizing his department exchanged one political drama for another and dug itself into a deeper a hole?

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So, Wait, Are We Supposed To Call The Cops For 'Quality Of Life' Violations Or Not?

Attendees at a community meeting on Upper Haight crime got a mixed message Tuesday night, as police told those assembled that they should report all crimes they observed, then said that certain crime

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SFPD's 'Top Heavy And Expensive' Command Staff Salaries, By The Numbers

When San Francisco Police Department Chief Bill Scott was sworn in last month, law-watchers assumed that (like any other new boss), we'd see a shakeup and departures in the current

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Bay Area Department Heads Pull Down Admirable Pension Pay While Still Collecting Salaries

As far back as the 70s, one expert says, heads of first-responder agencies (think police and fire) have been the recipients of pension pay from a previous position even as they pull

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New SFPD Chief Bill Scott Sworn In Amidst Small Protest

A swearing-in ceremony for SF's new police chief Monday at the City Hall rotunda was interrupted briefly by a small group of protesters affiliated with the Frisco Five the hunger

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In First Interview, New SFPD Chief Acknowledges Officers' Apprehension

Alluding to calls she'd made to vet incoming SFPD chief Bill Scott, who comes from 27 years with the LAPD, Board of Supervisors President London Breed said yesterday that ''