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 Another Smash-and-Grab Caught On Video, This Time in Golden Gate Park, and Victim Chased Down Thief If you want a sense of the sheer volume of petty crime going on in San Francisco, you need only look at Twitter or Reddit, basically, because there's so much that some of it is getting caught on video in broad daylight.
SF News San Francisco Dog Owner Pays $1K Ransom To Get His Best Friend Back After Car Break-In Nothing nowadays seems safe from prying vehicle vigilantes — not even three-year-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. Though, at least one belonging to Dave Ford was returned to its owner Saturday afternoon... after the SF dog owner paid a $1K ransom.
SF News Bay Area Criminals Are Reportedly Driving to SoCal to Break Into More Cars In what is perhaps a sign that local law enforcement is doing an OK job at deterring and catching auto burglars for a change, police in Southern California have noted a trend in Bay Area gangs traveling down there to target tourist vehicles.
SF News Car Break-Ins Still Frequent In SF, But Down 3 Percent Over Last Year As we await final crime stats from the SFPD for 2019, the department is touting the fact that burglaries from vehicles in the city — while still high — were down slightly year over year through November.
SF News Woman Catches Guy Breaking Into Her Car In Hayes Valley, SFPD Makes Arrest It's a rare story when somebody actually catches a car burglar in the act, but that's what happened Saturday night near Civic Center.
SF News SF Authorities Want To Reunite Burglary Victims With $2.5 Million In Recovered Property If you recently lost a laptop, camera, purse, cellphone, or other item to a thief in the Bay Area, you might be able to get it back following the bust of a major fencing operation.
SF Politics DA Loftus Announces Car Break-In Task Force, Less Than A Week Before the Election A mere five days before the election, Suzy Loftus tries to bolster her standing by unveiling an automobile break-in prevention strategy that sounds much like an idea one of her rivals already introduced.
SF News Alex Rodriguez Says Some Items Stolen From His Car In SoMa Were 'Irreplaceable' Retired baseball star and J.Lo fiancé Alex Rodriguez, a.k.a. A-Rod, says that among the electronics and jewelry stolen out of his car in SF on Sunday were items that were "irreplaceable," but a rep says their monetary value has been exaggerated (so, not $500K).
SF News Tourist Mowed Down By Car While Trying to Thwart A Break-In Of His Own Car A trip to the Legion of Honor went from bad to worse Tuesday afternoon, as a 46-year-old man noticed his car being broken into, and was promptly run down by the thieves’ getaway vehicle.
SF News Duboce Park Area Resident Detained For Chasing Down, Allegedly Assaulting Car Burglar In the heat of Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning, one SF resident near Duboce Park decided to take justice into his own hands after seeing a man outside his apartment breaking into his car.
SF News SF Car Break-Ins Decline To Slightly-Less-Than Epidemic Levels San Francisco has put a dent in the car break-in rate, and break-ins at city-owned parking are actually down pretty significantly.
SF News SFPD To Beef Up Foot Patrols, Launch 'Education' Campaign For Tourists Re: Car Break-Ins The SFPD is shifting some resources to address the alarming rise in property crime citywide, and you can expect to see more cops out on the street on foot and on bicycles in
SF News Massive Jump In San Francisco Car Break-Ins, As Thousands More Reported This Year Over Last If you feel like more and more cars are being broken into on SF streets, you're not wrong: According to data from the San Francisco Police Department, there's been a 28 percent jump
SF News With Newly Reopened Alamo Square Park Comes New Wave Of Broad Daylight Car Break-Ins All around Alamo Square, in the plain light of day, you can likely hear the sound of glass shattering. The problem is heightening, perhaps just with the summer tourism rush, near the crooked
SF News Photo Du Jour: Car Owner Leaves Ultimate Anti-Theft Note San Francisco, as you may have noticed from your own unfortunate experience or merely the trail of shattered glass on our sidewalks, is a godforsaken town where petty thieves and criminals will stop
SF News SF Car Break-Ins Down 18 Percent As Of July The scourge of car burglaries which have been noticeably on the rise in the last two years in various neighborhoods, hitting a five-year high last summer may finally be slowing down thanks to
SF News 944: The Number Of CA Law Enforcement Guns Lost Since 2010 While widely acknowledged to be a serious problem, until now the scale at which California law enforcement agents have misplaced, lost, or had their weapons stolen from them has remained mostly unknown to
SF News Lower Pac Heights Car Burglar Runs Over Victim A serial car burglar added another crime to his resume Thursday, when he ran over a woman who tried to stop his thieving ways. According to the San Francisco Police Department, a man
SF News Suspect In Theft Of FBI Agent's Gun Out On Bail The man accused of breaking into the car of an FBI agent parked near Alamo Square Park and stealing a gun, badge, and FBI credentials has been released on bail. KRON4 reports that
SF News [Update] Yet Another Law Enforcement Gun Theft, This Time In Alamo Square It's a refrain that we hear again and again in San Francisco: Don't leave anything of value in your car, or it will be stolen. So, yes, it's irritating when everyday civilians ignore
SF News Cops Balk At New SFPD Mandate To Dust All Car Break-Ins For Prints With car break-ins hitting a five-year high this past summer in San Francisco, and our fair city having the highest per capita property crime rate in the US (something even the New York
SF News New Stats Say Gun Violence Down In SF, While Car Break-Ins Continue To Skyrocket The SFPD unleashed their official year-end crime statistics for 2015 today, and not at all surprisingly, property crime has gone up again driven especially by car break-ins which we already learned hit a
SF News Car Break-Ins Are Up, Hit 5-Year High Last Summer Yes, you haven't been just imaging it — there are actually more car break-ins happening these days. In fact, data from the police department shows that we hit a 5-year high in the smash-and-grab
SF News $35K Violin Used To Record 'Star Wars' Soundtrack Stolen In SF A rare violin stolen last week out of a parked car is the latest in a string of high-priced instrument thefts to hit San Francisco. The instrument, as is often the case, caries
