SF News Video: Salinas Cops Shoot, Kill Man Carrying Pair Of Garden Shears On Tuesday, Salinas police answered a 911 call claiming "a man tried to break into a home and threatened to kill the resident." Police later responded by shooting the suspect to death on
SF News Cop Accused Of Domestic Violence Gets Laughably Brief Sentence It's good to know people in powerful places. Take, for example, San Francisco police officer Richard Soares, who received a feather-light sentence after being convicting of charges stemming from an assault on his
Arts & Entertainment Better-Know-A-Cop Website Showcases SFPD Heroics We hear a lot about police officers doing their jobs (or not), but we rarely get to put a face to a name or a name to a heroic achievement. We're guessing that's
SF News Burners Beware: Federal Agents Will Be In Costume As they have in previous years, undercover federal agents are currently roaming Black Rock City, in proper playa garb, trying to bust unsuspecting souls for drugs. The place is not, in fact, the
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Cop Rescues Coach Bag From McCovey Cove Before Tuesday's game against the Reds, Officer Michael Bushnell, the newest member of SFPD's Marine Unit, cruised by McCovey Cove to save a drowning Coach (at least we think it's Coach, maybe Michael
SF News Cop Meets Dog, Dog Bites Cop, Cop Shoots Dog It's long been a personal nightmare to have that mellow-looking dog on Haight Street suddenly lunge for my throat, and it played out for one unlucky cop (and canine) yesterday afternoon. While attempting
SF News Another Hi-Five For SFPD: Assault Rifle Stolen From Cop Car [Update] It was a bad day for cops, San Francisco residents, and a good day for one very violent person(s). According to KTVU News, an AR-15 assault rifle was stolen when a parked,
SF News Bridge-And-Tunnel Loser Fight Ends With Injured Police Officers [Update] Two officers were seriously injured trying to break up a fight that erupted near the Powell Street cable car turnaround on Sunday afternoon last Sunday. (Yes, we are late to the story. Sorry,
SF News The Story Of Adam And The 'Sh*t Head Cop' Tales of police and civilian clashes are at worst harrowing and at best downright fascinating. This recent story of SFPD confusion thrust upon a San Franciscan takes a little from the former and
SF News UC Berkeley Cop Shoots Self In Leg See, this is something we would do if (God save us all) we held a job as a uniformed police officer. Early this morning, A UC Berkeley cop shot himself in the leg
SF News Final San Francisco Occupy Encampment Cleared Facing a protester shouting "fascist pigs!" over a bullhorn, cops cleansed San Francisco's final Occupy encampment a little before midnight last night in front of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco building
SF News Drunk Woman Crashes Into Golden Gate Bridge Toll Plaza, Kicks Cop in Face In a bout of self-destructive behavior that would make a former child star proud, a woman managed to not only crash into the toll plaza on the Golden Gate Bridge on Saturday afternoon,
SF News Congratulations, SFPD Chief Suhr, You're The Highest Paid City Cop In The Nation When his next pay raise kicks in at the end of September, San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr will become the nation's highest paid city cop for his work as the top boss
SF News Top Gay Cop Arrested For Domestic Violence At Gold's Gym An instance of alleged domestic violence occurred between a Sheriff's Deputy and a paramour, this time involving Lt. Vincent Calvarese, one of the city's openly gay cops who was featured in the 2009
SF News Eyewitnesses Claim SFPD Shot Chocolate Factory Stabbing Suspect While He Was Cuffed A heavy allegation has emerged after Wednesday morning's officer-involved shooting of a man who allegedly stabbed a colleague at the TCHO chocolate factory. An estimated 30 minutes after the incident, a video was
SF News Zodiac Killer Is Alive And Living In Solano County, Says Former Cop It seems that each year or so we get another claim about the true identify and/or whereabouts of the Zodiac Killer. Today another claim presents itself for your consideration: According to former
SF News Photo: Oakland Cop Parks In Disabled Parking Spot While Getting Peet's Coffee An SFist tipster, who wishes to remain anonymous, sent us this photo of an Oakland police officer parking in a disabled parking space in Temescal on Monday while sipping some brew inside a
Arts & Entertainment UC Davis Pepper Spraying Cop Turns Into Meme For better or for worse, the UC Davis pepper spraying cop has turned into a white-hot, photoshopped thing folks currently love to blast out over a sundry of social media outlets. Which is
SF News We Need More LGBT Cops, Says SFPD Gay? Need a job? Want a tough job that requires patience, handling weaponry, and dealing with the public at large? Well, the San Francisco Police Department will accept Q2-Entry-Level Police Officer applications beginning
SF News Police Chief Greg Suhr Tries, Fails to Calm Angry Bayview Residents On Wednesday night, Police Chief Greg Suhr headed back to his old neighborhood to discuss Saturday's justifiable shooting death of 19-year-old parolee Kenneth Harding. Instead of answering questions, Suhr received a chilly reception
SF News Taser Use Questioned After Berkeley Fare Evader Gets Zapped SF Appeal reports that a a 35-year-old man was kissed with a BART cop's taser on June 22. On Tuesday, an officer that BART would not name said he saw 35-year-old Jason Johnson
