SF News Mayor Ed Lee Reportedly Describes SFPD Shooting Of Mario Woods As 'Horrifying' 'Firing Squad' According to an interview in a local print newspaper, Mayor Ed Lee has gone from terming the video of Mario Woods' shooting by five officers with the San Francisco Police Department as "upsetting"
SF News DOJ Review Of SFPD Won't Examine Mario Woods Killing Specifically, Recommendations Not Enforceable #SF mayor Ed Lee on federal voluntary review of #SFPD pic.twitter.com/XeKvUOS6hT— Jonah Owen Lamb (@jonahowenlamb) February 1, 2016 News broke on Sunday that the Department of Justice would conduct "[a]
SF News Nevius Paints Chief Suhr As Victim Amid the ongoing outcry over the SFPD's actions in the shooting of Mario Woods last month, and the subsequent attempted justification of those actions by police chief Greg Suhr, Chronicle columnist C.W.
SF News Early Morning Protests Wake Up Mayor Lee And Chief Suhr #96Hours to Reclaim King's #Radical #Legacy #APTP #Last3Pecent #ReclaimSF #BlackBrownUnity Good Morning, #GregSuhr! pic.twitter.com/B95YfuCqGP— Smedley Butler (@Smedley_Butler) January 17, 2016 A pair of dramatic protest events occurred in the
SF News After Rape Kit Goes Untested For Years, Survivor Brings Federal Lawsuit Against SF May 2010, Bay to Breakers. As Heather Marlowe recalls telling first a friend, then the police, and eventually ABC 7, "I think something really bad happened to me today. I think that I
SF News Mayor Ed Lee's Inauguration Drowned Out By 'Nonstop Chants And Protests' No one expected Ed Lee's third inauguration today to go perfectly smoothly, and we already heard this week that protesters of the December death of Mario Woods at the hands of SF Police
SF News Justice For Mario Woods Coalition To 'Crash' Ed Lee Inauguration The second — or, including his interim term, the third, but who's counting — inauguration of Mayor Ed Lee at City Hall tomorrow may also usher in a new era of protest in San Francisco.
SF News SFPD Chief Seeks Review Of Force By US Department Of Justice San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr has asked the United States Department of Justice to review his department's training, policy, and procedure in a "Collaborative Reform Review," a direct response to public outcry
SF News SFPD Canceled Forum On Black Community Relations Due To Planned Protest I guess they found out we were coming and they're scared! #justice4mariowoods #BlackLivesMatter #firechiefsuhr pic.twitter.com/yEIsqiKdKO— Justice4MarioWoods (@Justice4MWNow) December 30, 2015 In an apparent bid to forestall engaging with a planned
SF News Those Hate-Texting Police Officers Just Get Off Scot-Free It's not the complete, dismal conclusion of the so-called SFPD racist text scandal, because Chief Greg Suhr has vowed to appeal the decision, but police officers who texted racist and homophobic slurs and
SF News Gascon On Mario Woods Shooting: 'This Is Not A Conversation About Tasers' As District Attorney George Gascon prepares to potentially file criminal charges against the five SFPD officers involved in the shooting of Mario Woods, he's assured protesters that the investigation into the incident will
SF News Police Commission Meeting About Mario Woods Shooting Erupts In Chaos Healthy showing of protesters outside #SF city hall calling for consequences to killing of #mariowoods pic.twitter.com/SF4yINHJqs— Jonah Owen Lamb (@jonahowenlamb) December 10, 2015 A meeting of the police commission Wednesday
SF News SFPD Struggles To Keep Track Of Crime Statistics On their website, the San Francisco Police Department writes proudly of their CompStat crime tracking program, which they say "has an established and proven track record in reducing crimes and improving the overall
SF News Town Hall Meeting Over Fatal SFPD Shooting Erupts In Protest Crowd members shouting down speakers at SFPD townHall Mtg. #abc7now pic.twitter.com/vt7lzJEacw— Cbarnard (@CornellBarnard) December 5, 2015 The fatal police shooting of 26-year-old Mario Woods in Bayview on Wednesday, which was
SF News SFPD Still Trying To Justify Killing Knife-Wielding Mario Woods As Community Outrage Grows Gwendolyn Woods said SFPD executed her son, the youngest of three boys. Here's a picture of mom and #MarioWoods pic.twitter.com/vyniRQsgGn— Michael Barba (@mdbarba) December 4, 2015 Tensions are rising and
SF News 32-Year SFPD Veteran Accused Of Stealing Car Has Alleged History Of Vehicle Theft The former San Francisco Police Department officer who was arrested last week on charges of theft and embezzlement after "misuse of a City vehicle, City gas and City automotive services" apparently made a
SF News Cops In Viral Video Not Behaving With 'Class', Says SFPD Chief Chief Greg Suhr says the two officers caught on video joking about police shootings did not behave with the "class" expected of SFPD officers. The two officers shown in the video have already
SF News SFPD Salaries By The Numbers According to the SF Examiner, the San Francisco Police Department is "the highest paid big city force in the state," a situation former San Francisco Police Officers Association president Gary Delagnes says "is
SF News As SF's Crime Wave Continues, Police Chief Touts City's Relative Safety We've talked before about how crime is spiking in San Francisco: some blame the income divide, others blame the passage of Prop 47, and still others blame SF's rapid population increase. Today the
SF News Video: A Timeline Of SFPD Body Camera Delays As KQED reports, it's been a long, not very transparent struggle to equip the San Francisco Police Department with body cameras. A pilot program made little headway, and eventually Mayor Lee proposed a
SF News Car Burglaries And Thefts Are Way Up Over Last Year “It’s rare that you see no broken glass on any block in San Francisco,” said Police Chief Greg Suhr during a special Board of Supervisors meeting this past Thursday. As The Examiner
SF News Did SFPD Brass Know About Their Cops' Racist Texting Tendencies In 2012? When were higher-ups at the San Francisco Police Department notified that their officers were sending one another bigoted text messages? Though SFPD Chief Greg Suhr has said that he was unaware of the
SF News More Officers Named In SFPD Racist Text Scandal As Chief Moves To Fire 8 The names of three more SFPD officers implicated in the racist texts scandal were revealed as Chief Greg Suhr looked to terminate a total of eight cops for their conduct. The other three
SF News [Updated] SFPD Chief On Racist Texting Scandal: 'Everybody Has Bias' "I have bias, everybody has bias." -- San Francisco Police Department Chief Greg Suhr speaking before SF's Public Safety Committee, Thursday, April 2 SFPD Chief Greg Suhr hasn't had an easy time of
SF News Fallout From SFPD's Racist And Homophobic Text Scandal Continues It was late Friday when the news broke: four current San Francisco Police Department officers are "under investigation" after court filings alleged that they'd participated in racist and homophobic text conversations with a
