SF News SF And LA District Attorneys: 'Some Uber Drivers Are Murderers And Felons' According to a new amended complaint by the district attorneys of San Francisco and Los Angeles, Uber's background-check method is inferior to that of regular taxi companies, and it failed to catch the
SF News Shrimp Boy Fallout: DA's Office Investigating... Someone The fallout from Tuesday's court filing on behalf of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow continues as reporters have swarmed City Hall, Mayor Lee has issued multiple denials and outright dismissals of the allegations, and
SF News Police Union Vows To 'Go After' San Francisco's District Attorney “We need to go after this guy hard...Every allegation he is claiming to investigate actually occurred during his watch...It’s kind of like Bush blaming Obama for invading Iraq.” -- Gary
SF News SF Man Charged With Felony Animal Cruelty For Starving Dog To Death A necropsy performed by a Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA veterinarian has shown that a young Bichon Frise died of starvation before it was stuffed in a shoe box with a small plush
SF News SF, LA District Attorneys Suing Uber Uber, recently embroiled in a scandal involving not-so-veiled threats against unfriendly journalists, accused of operating illegally by the city of Portland, banned in Delhi, and ordered to halt operations in Spain and Thailand,
SF News District Attorneys Call Uber, Lyft, And Sidecar 'A Continuing Threat To Consumers' [Updated] Bad news hit the desks of ride-share company execs this week: The district attorneys of S.F. and L.A. have teamed up to investigate Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar for a handful of
SF News UberX Driver With Priors Facing Battery Charges A complaint that began on Twitter, in which an UberX customer claims he was verbally and physically assaulted by a driver in November, has now been escalated to the District Attorney's office. George
SF News San Francisco's Elected Officials Get Raises In July, Here's What They'll Be Making This summer, several of San Francisco's elected officials will get a 2.6 percent raise! Here's what some of the folks you see in the news will be making starting July 1, in
SF News Sup. London Breed Launches New Push For Cell Phone Kill Switch Though it would be far more meaningful at the state level, Supervisor London Breed has a backup plan for some cell phone kill switch legislation in San Francisco. State Senator Mark Leno has
SF News Apple, Top Prosecutors Finally Make An Effort To Curb Smartphone Theft While you were oohing and ahhing (or hemming and hawing) over the slick visual redesign coming in Apple's next iOS software update, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón and New York State Attorney
SF News D.A.'s Office Spending $25K to Tell You 'Slow the Hell Down' After witnessing numerous accidents caused by pedestrians and bicyclists crossing against red lights and motorists mowing down said pedestrians and bicyclists, George Gascón and the folks at the D.A.'s office have
SF News George Gascon, Mark Leno Want To Downgrade Drug Possession to Misdemeanor District Attorney George Gascon spoke yesterday at a drug reform panel and said that after years working in law enforcement and public policy, he believes "the war on drugs has been a failure.
SF News Gascon Is Not Going to Let Mirkarimi Off Without a Fight Chomping at the bit to get Ross Mirkarimi to stand trial for domestic abuse, apparently, District Attorney George Gascon has some more fighting words for the sheriff, who pleaded guilty Monday to a
SF News This Week in Willie Brown: A Coronation After our too-brief encounter with Willie Brown at the Palace Hotel the other night, Willie asked us to remind him to "never host another sit-down dinner for a mayor." Apparently, dealing with the
SF News Gascón Holds Clear Lead in District Attorney's Race, Still Lacks Majority As with the Mayoral and Sheriff's races, yesterday's contest for the District Attorney's office left a clear frontrunner but not a clear majority. Current interim DA George Gascón leads the contest after the
SF News Political Posters Defiled Day Before Election Day On the day before Election Day, posters for Mayor Ed Lee (who, according to Bay Citizen, has a more-than-decent shot of winning), Chris Cunnie, and George Gascon are defaced with Occupy Wall Street-esque
SF News District Attorney's Office Launches Anti-Truancy Program Police chief-turned-District Attorney Gascón hasn't done a whole lot worth mentioning since our dreamy former Mayor put him in the DA's office. (Actually, up until this point, it's what he hasn't done that
SF News DA Gascón Backs off of 'Run, Ed, Run' Investigation George Gascón won't be pursuing a criminal investigation in to the Rose Pak-backed Run, Ed, Run campaign, the appointed District Attorney said in a statement on Friday. Gascón had previously sent the case
SF News Alameda County Prosecutor Steps Up to Challenge Gascón in District Attorney's Race In election year news, the race for the District Attorney's office just got a tiny bit more interesting as Alameda County Prosecutor Sharmin Bock throws her hat in to the ring today. (We
SF News Updated: Nine Months Later, SFPD to Announce Arrests in Shooting of German Tourist Last August, Mechthild Schröer was shot near Union Square while visiting San Francisco from Germany with her husband and family. The story was some teenagers, spilling out of an overcrowded under-18 party at
SF News <em>You're Recused</em>: Gascón Lets the FBI Take Over Police Misconduct Case In a statement to the media, reprinted on the Appeal, the nicely coifed District Attorney explained that "new information has come to light" in the investigation of alleged police misconduct at the Henry
SF News Gascon Already Accused Of Conflict Of Interest Just ten days after former Police Chief George Gascon was sworn in as the interim District Attorney, a lawyer at the Public Defenders Office is considering asking him to step aside from the
SF News BREAKING: George Gascon's Republican Past Exposed Although now registered as “decline-to-state,” former SFPD Police Chief / interim District Attorney George Gascon was once registered as a Republican. Believe it. SF Bay Guardian, who reports on the gruesome details, says, "a
SF News Newsom Appoints SFPD Chief Gascon District Attorney In a surprise move, Gavin Newsom appointed SFPD Police Chief George Gascon to District Attorney on Sunday after Board of Supervisors President David Chiu rejected the left vacant by Attorney General Kamala Harris.
SF News Police Chief George Gascón Apologizes to Middle Eastern Communities As we predicted this morning, San Francisco Police Chief George Gascón made his official apology today regarding statements he made about our local Middle Eastern ilk possibly parking a van outside the Hall
