SF News Stats Show SFPD Very Effective at Solving Murders, But Worst in the State at Solving Most Other Crimes The good news is that the SFPD solved 94% of all homicides committed in SF last year. The bad news is that SFPD ranks worst of all major California police departments in solving nearly every other form of crime.
SF News The Only In-N-Out in Oakland Is Closing ‘Due to Ongoing Issues With Crime’ The Oakland In-N-Out at 8300 Oakport Street has stunningly reported more crimes than any address in the entire city of Oakland over the last five years, so In-N-Out corporate has decided to just shut the place down entirely, even though the location is profitable.
SF News First Suspect Arrested In SFPD’s ‘Bait Car’ Campaign Has Prolific History of Car Break-Ins The SFPD’s ballyhooed bait-car campaign yielded its first arrest a week into the effort, and a KGO I-Team report found the suspect has a doozie of history of car break-ins — and of walking free after previous arrests.
SF News Oakland Police Claim Early Success In Car Break-In Crackdown, Tout Seven Arrests in One Day With smash-and-grab auto burglaries up a stunning 40% over the last year in Oakland, police claim their new crackdown is getting results, with seven car break-in suspects arrested in three separate incidents last Thursday.
SF News SF Sees More Than 20,000 Car Break-Ins a Year, Arrests Made Around 1% of the Time An SF Board of Supervisors committee broke down the car break-in problem Thursday, hoping to craft legislation to lower the approximate 23,000 auto burglaries SF sees every year — only about 1% of which result in arrests.
SF News Viral ‘Police Sit Back & Watch’ Alamo Square Video Was Edited, SFPD Did Pursue Suspect A viral video has racked up nearly a million views claiming “Police Sit Back & Watch” in an Alamo Square theft case, but the video edits out the part where police gave chase, and the stolen items were all recovered.
SF News Yet Again, CNN Reporter Gets Car Broken Into While Covering Crime in Oakland It’s the third car break-in suffered by CNN reporter Kyung Lah in the Bay Area, though the smash-and-grab her rental car endured Wednesday was just a smash, as there was nothing in the car to grab.
SF News Fisherman’s Wharf Masked Vigilante ‘Boots’ Arrested For Allegedly Brandishing Imitation Gun Someone took the San Francisco “Batman” analogy to its full fruition, with a mask and everything in an attempt to deter car break-in culprits, but was arrested for allegedly brandishing a non-lethal firearm.
SF News Man Shot and Killed Attempting to Thwart Car Burglary Near Lake Merritt Pergola It’s unclear whether he tried to disrupt the burglary of his own car, or someone else’s, but an unidentified man was killed Sunday afternoon trying to stop a car burglary around Lake Merritt.
SF News Tourists Thwart Smash-and-Grab Near Baker Beach By Throwing Rocks Minutes after a group visiting from Tennessee and Kentucky had their car broken into and robbed, they managed to disrupt the burglary of another vehicle and even get their items returned.
SF News Breed Announces Cash Rewards of Up to $100,000 for Info on Car Break-In Rings In a new take on trying to get rid of SF's reputation as a car break-in hot spot, business groups are offering six-figure sums for information leading to arrests of a suspected smash-and-grab syndicate.
SF News Viral Fleetwood Mac Skateboarder Guy Visits SF, Promptly Has His Cars Broken Into The fellow who gained fame for a TikTok Fleetwood Mac video was in SF last week, and players didn’t love him but instead broke into his family’s two rental cars.
SF News Crooked Lombard Street Thieves Turn Attraction Into Car Burglary Hotbed San Francisco tourists and locals alike have long suffered the slings, arrows, and shattered glass piles that come with car break-ins, with the thieves often smashing windows over items of negligible value. But
SF News Woman Confronts Japantown-Area Car Robbers, Gets Punched A woman who returned to her vehicle as it was being robbed was beaten by the thieves, police say, and lost a laptop in the process. According to the San Francisco Police Department,
SF News Will A Set Of $300 Signs Stop SF's Car Break-In Epidemic? With a jaw-dropping $9.6 billion budget, $300 feels like a fart in San Francisco's financial tornado. But one SF Supe is hoping that a couple $300 expenditures might curb one of the
SF News Enterprising SF Car Burglars Branch Out Into Ransom Scam Car break-ins are at an all-time high in San Francisco, we've all heard again and again and again. And, sure, that stinks for the victims, but won't someone think of the poor burglars,
SF News $15,000 Violin Stolen Out Of Car Parked On Webster Street Yet another high-priced instrument has been stolen out of a parked car, as the San Francisco Police Department today issued a report noting the theft of a valuable violin, bow, and case from
SF News Spike In Car Break-Ins Has Many Blaming Prop 47 Since last summer we've been talking about the recent spike in petty crime, in particular car burglaries and car thefts, and new numbers out of the SFPD suggest that car break-ins in particular
SF News Car Stolen In SF With Man's Wife's Ashes In Trunk 68-year-old Phil Hollenbeck was passing through San Francisco in his 1997 light blue Honda Civic on the way to the Oregon Coast from his home in Taos, New Mexico. In the trunk: The
SF News Video: Dastardly Couple Swipes Teen's $8500 Instrument From Car Parked In Union Square Garage It's a typical Union Square story — a 16-year-old girl and her mom park in the Ellis-O'Farrell garage while they shop for a special outfit, in this case duds for the teen's upcoming cello
