SF News Street Ambassador Shot In Tenderloin Near 'Safe Sleeping' Site An employee of the nonprofit Urban Alchemy, which the City of San Francisco contracts with to manage some homeless services like the "safe sleeping village" tent encampments, was shot and injured Tuesday afternoon.
SF Politics More Stories Surface of Alleged SFPD Inaction on Crimes, Chief Claims ‘Serious Morale Issues’ After a Chronicle report about police inaction toward a suspect trashing a parklet, crime victims are coming out of the woodwork saying they were blown off too, but Chief Scott blames “serious morale issues.”
SF News There Is a Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in California Native American women in California are being kidnapped and murdered at an alarming rate, and tribes are beginning to speak out against it more and more loudly.
SF News Shooting In Castro Safeway Parking Lot Injured 85-Year-Old Woman Sitting In Nearby Restaurant A Tuesday afternoon fight, reportedly among a group of juveniles, in the parking lot of the Castro Safeway, led to shots fired and two minor injuries — including one bullet that went through the glass of a restaurant window across the street.
SF News Arrest Made In Marina Dog Theft Rosie the French bulldog puppy was returned to her humans not long after a violent robbery on New Year's Day, and six weeks later police say they have arrested a suspect.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink ‘Best Parklet in the City’ Trashed by a Vandal, and Police Reportedly Did Not Intervene When a downtown wine bar's prize-winning parklet was thoroughly vandalized on December 31, security footage indicates SFPD approached the vandal, but then left and allowed him to continue.
SF News Authorities Seize $7 Million Worth of Black-Market Marijuana In Lake County Bust Lake County Sheriff's deputies this week busted a large pot growing and processing operation that spanned three residential buildings.
SF News One Man Shot and Killed On Civic Center BART Platform, Suspect Immediately Apprehended One individual was fatally wounded in a shooting Thursday night on the train platform at BART's Civic Center Station, and BART Police officers who happened to be in the station immediately arrested the suspected shooter.
SF News Shootout In Outer Sunset Leaves One Dead, One Hospitalized A man was found dead in an SUV on the Great Highway early Thursday morning following a shootout nearby on Irving Street.
SF News Appeal Begins Thursday In Case of Bay Area Men Convicted of Killing Roman Police Officer The sordid and sad tale of Bay Area teens Gabriel Natale-Hjorth and Finnegan Lee Elder — now in their early 20s and in prison in Rome — will enter a new chapter Thursday as their 2021 murder conviction comes up for appeal.
SF News Now SF Has a Graffiti Flash Mob; More Than 100 Taggers Coated Mission and 18th Streets Friday Night It may be an isolated incident gone wrong, or could be yet another new form of emerging petty crime, that “more than 100 people" thoroughly tagged a Mission District corner’s storefronts and vacant buildings Friday night.
SF News Milpitas Woman Goes Missing, and Neighbor Is Arrested After Her Body Is Discovered In His Backyard A Milpitas man is now in jail after police say he killed a woman and then buried her in a backyard.
SF News East Bay Man Pleads Guilty to Impersonating Mailman to Steal Identities Mail theft has been an increasingly severe problem in San Francisco and the wider Bay Area since the start of the pandemic, and in one recent case, a mail thief based in the East Bay has pleaded guilty in federal court.
SF News Right-Wing Nutjob Couple Who Painted Over BLM Mural In Martinez Arrested For Burglary, Meth Possession Well well well. A couple hailed as heroes by Tucker Carlson for their brave work expressing the fears of ignorant white people back in 2020 has just been arrested for allegedly burglarizing a dead man's home and possessing meth.
SF News Atherton and Hillsborough Mansions Hit With 'Burglary Tourism' By Chilean Gangs Out of L.A. Police say the MO of the thieves matches what's been seen in Southern California and elsewhere, where organized groups of Chileans have been methodically breaking into the homes of the wealthy.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Downtown Restaurant Boulevard Has Windows Smashed, Suspect Has Caused Trouble There Before Someone in San Francisco seems to have an issue with recently reopened Parisian-themed restaurant Boulevard, smashing its windows with a wine bottle, and on another occasion assaulting a manager.
SF News SoMa Sandwich Shop Deli Board Vandalized and Robbed, But Quickly Crowdfunds $13,000 For Repairs Popular Folsom Street sandwich shop Deli Board found itself broken into and robbed Thursday morning, but a GoFundMe campaign has raised close to $14,000, despite (or perhaps because) how donors have politicized it.
SF News Violent Crime Rose In SF In 2021, But Burglaries Declined From 2020 San Francisco Mayor London Breed and SFPD Chief Bill Scott gave a joint press conference Wednesday to discuss 2021 crime statistics in the city, and while violent crime is up from 2020, other types of crime decreased.
SF News Mission District Homicide, Stemming From Bar Fight, Is San Francisco's Third of the New Year A 40-year-old man was killed in the Mission District Friday morning, and the SFPD is investigating it as a homicide.
SF News 14-Mission Driver Badly Beaten, Eyewitnesses Say Police Let the Attacker Get Away Passengers describe the Muni driver as being dragged on the street and bloodied in the attack, and say police showed little interest in the suspect before merely moving on.
SF News License Plate Theft Victim Uncovers Elaborate Criminal Scheme After Getting Hit With Massive Parking Tickets After getting her license plates stolen, a local woman started getting mystery parking tickets, and then she unraveled a complex ring of stolen license plates being slapped on stolen cars.
SF News Latest French Bulldog Theft Adds Insult to Injury, as Suspects Return to Steal Victim’s Car A grandmother attempted to battle off armed suspects with her cane, but they stole a purse and a French bulldog anyway, and then found her daughter's house and stole her Mercedes-Benz.
SF News Shot Fired at Resident of Golden Gate Heights Who Tried to Photograph License Plate of Thieves A pair of thieves who were seen stealing tools out of the back of a construction worker's pickup truck in San Francisco's Golden Gate Heights neighborhood fired a parting gunshot as they fled the area, after a neighbor tried to get video of their license plate.
SF News Los Gatos ‘Cool Mom' Faces More Uncool Problems, Hit With Defamation Suit From Kid She Called a ‘Rapist’ An unnamed teen boy has a defamation lawsuit against the notorious mom who allegedly threw boozy teenage parties, for spreading the rumors that the teen was a “rapist” and a “predator.”
SF News Year-End Stats Show SF Property Crime Down 11.2% Below Pre-Pandemic Levels, Despite ‘Moral Panic’ A detailed analysis of property crime in Bay Area cities shows that San Jose and Berkeley have seen property crime decrease over the last two years, and while many Bay Area cities saw an increase in 2021, thefts are still down double-digit percentages compared to 2019.
