SF News East Bay Law Enforcement Promotes '#ZeroBailFail' On Twitter; Federal Courts May Step In to Hold Suspects In Jail The Alameda County Sheriff's Office released four side-by-side booking photos of one suspect they've had to arrest four times since late March on suspicion of a variety of charges, promoting the hashtag #ZeroBailFail.
SF News 'Operation Cold Day' Sting By SFPD And ATF Nets 75 Arrests For Guns And Drugs A massive Bay Area law enforcement sting operation that's been two years in the making had it's D-Day on Tuesday, and now the public is learning what it was all about. Operation Cold
SF News Bodycam Footage Analysis Shows Cops Are Nicer To White People Bodycam footage from police officers is typically used only to determine innocence or guilt in high-profile use-of-force incidents. But a new Stanford study puts big-data analysis to bodycam footage, analyzing 981 routine Oakland
SF News Off-Duty Sheriff's Deputy Shoots, Kills Alleged Home Burglar In Alameda Off-duty officer shoots & critically wounds burglary suspect on Buena Vista, per @AlamedaPD. @SanLeandroPD brought K-9. Officer OK pic.twitter.com/T9JsGiAJej— Henry K. Lee (@henrykleeKTVU) February 1, 2017 A Contra Costa County
SF News New Sheriff Overseeing Burning Man Playa Might Be More Hardassed About Drugs There's a new sheriff in town at Black Rock City well, Pershing County, Nevada to be precise. Former sheriff's deputy Jerry Allen was elected to replace former sheriff Richard Machado, and he took
SF News Yahoo! (Allegedly) Profiting From Compromising Your Privacy Despite efforts to get it removed from the internet, Yahoo!'s 2006 "Law Enforcement Investigators Guide" details the various fees that government and police officers would need to pay in order to obtain
SF News Huge Bay Area Meth Ring Bust Your weekend just got a little sleepier. Ten locations, including two in San Francisco, were busted today in connection with a methamphetamine distribution setup that went from San Francisco and the Bay Area
SF News SHAC7 Claims No Responsibility for UCSC Researcher Attack We just made contacted with a member of the reportedly elusive SHAC7. They told us the following: No--we are not responsible. In fact, the only knowledge we have of the whole ordeal is
SF News Emergency 911 Tapes of SF Zoo Tiger Attacks Released Less than a week after the fatal tiger mauling at the SF Zoo, much of the news that has (slowly) unraveled from the Christmas Day tiger attacks has been disheartening. From the downplayed
misc Losing the Fuzz Via Gender Reassignment: John Mark Karr God bless the Bay Area Reporter. In this week's issue, Ed Walsh reports that former JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect and one-time possible kiddie porn connoisseur, John Mark Karr, "had sought gender reassignment surgery,
SF News SFist Blotter [sorry we're late today!] Close call! A truck driver careened off the San Mateo Bridge yesterday afternoon, but managed to miss both the bay and a shed full of explosive material right by
misc Week Around The -Ists From the tallest skyscraper in the City of Brotherly Love to Canadian tourism copywriting brilliance, here's what you should know from our -ist cities: This week, Phillyist took a gleeful listen to the
SF News SFist Blotter Yuck. A SFPD cop was arrested for soliciting a 14-year-old prostitute in Oakland. The cop's a motorcycle squad supervisor and is a 37-year veteran of the force. The 14-year-old said it was her
SF News People try to Put Us D-down, Just Because We Get Around And we quote: "… Quite simply, this appears to be a generation that has little interest in working nights, weekends, or for that matter a 40-hour work week. It cuts into their leisure time
SF News James Kim Found Dead Law enforcement officials have confirmed that James Kim has died. Friends of the family have set up an unofficial PayPal donation page, though they warn you that they haven't talked to the Kim
SF News Everybody Must Get Stoned Actually, it's not calling for decriminalizing but something almost along the lines-- declaring it "the lowest law enforcement priority." This would put it on the same level as other non-enforced crimes such public
Arts & Entertainment The Legal Reader Takes A Bite Out Of Crime Bay Blogger alum The Legal Reader's got quite a claim to fame now -- he helped capture Darren Mack, that guy in Reno who stabbed his wife, shot the family court judge that
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Le Petit Lieutenant</i> We woke up again today with a strange kink in our neck, which we immediately recognized as the curse of our height challenge. Ahhhh . . . . It must be those darned subtitles we were straining
SF News Suspect in Fat Tone Murder Captured Andre "Mac Minister, Choppa, Chop" Dow, the prime suspect in the Fat Tone's murder was captured yesterday in a San Francisco apartment, by SFPD SWAT and FBI agents. There was a standoff for
SF News Breaking: Federales Raid Another Pot Club In addition to marijuana plants, agents confiscated growing equipment, bulbs, utility bills, tax documents, financial records and photographs from the Smiths' home, the couple said. Steve Smith said he suspected the agents had
SF News Sunset Residents Contine to Bury Head in (Smoking) Sand It seems like just yesterday that we were sniggering over Sunset residents' concerns about illegal bonfires, but it was actually a few weeks ago. Since then, we've attended a (legal -- we were
SF News Our Pot Plants Bring All The Boys To The Yard -- Damn Right, They're Better Than Yours In the "it would be funny and surprising if you didn't live here" department, the Mendocino County assistant agricultural commissioner, Tony Linegar, is asking the state to regulate Marijuana cultivation so that the
Arts & Entertainment Muni Photography Ban: Update To follow up on our previous story, we're not sure whether the Muni photography ban is the biggest threat to our personal freedom, but we have a feeling that if we don't blow
SF News Pepper Spray or Power Tools? A federal retrial began in San Francisco today over police use of pepper spray on nonviolent demonstrators. In the fall of 1997, images were broadcast nationwide of Humboldt County sheriff's deputies and Eureka
Arts & Entertainment Photo-Friendly, Photo-Averse Thomas Hawk, local San Francisco photo/blogger, posted an interesting essay on his experiences taking pictures at different private cultural venues around town. SFist found the link on Boing Boing, which often covers
