SF News Mentally Ill Man Who Barricaded Himself Inside Glide Last Year Is Killed In Bayview Shooting A deeply mentally ill man who was implicated in a violent spree in the Tenderloin last spring that ended in a 15-hour standoff with police was killed Tuesday afternoon in a shooting in the Bayview neighborhood.
SF News Mentally Ill Man Acquitted In Feb. 2020 Attacks On Two Women on the Embarcadero A man who stabbed a female jogger on the Embarcadero last February and then assaulted a second woman with a tool all in a matter of minutes has been acquitted of assault charges for reasons of insanity.
SF News Castro Merchants Have Filed Restraining Orders Against Two Harassing Individuals Two presumably homeless individuals who frequent the Castro neighborhood have been ordered to stay away from two area businesses in the last several months, and those orders last for four years.
SF News Disturbed Man Detained By SFPD After Leaping Across Roofs In Four-Hour Standoff in the Mission A shirtless, shoeless man with what appeared to be white hospital ID bands on his wrist and ankle spent about four hours Sunday morning jumping from roof to roof in the Mission District as police tried to get him to come down.
SF Politics Protesters Shut Down Health Commission Meeting Over Empty Bed Fiasco Nearly 100 demonstrators bring the ruckus over dozens empty beds at San Francisco General Hospital, at a time when homelessness is running rampant.
SF News Assault Suspect Austin Vincent Ordered To Remain In Jail Despite Second Set of Charges Being Dropped There was some bizarre hot-potato action at the Hall of Justice Thursday morning as a herd of reporters followed along as a hearing in the case of Austin Vincent got bounced to three different courtrooms in less than an hour.
SF News Mayor’s Bed Cuts to Residential Mental Health Program Draws Outrage Even though it’s a trade-off that adds temporary shelter beds for the mentally ill, the mayor’s plan also includes moving many patients out of their permanent facilities.
SF News Judge 'Alarmed' After Seeing Footage of Homeless Man Attacking Woman, Backlash Mounting Prior to releasing James Austin Vincent — the homeless man who, unprovoked, attacked SF resident Paneez Kosarian outside her building — presiding Judge Christine Van Aken had not seen the video footage of the incident. And now that she has, Van Aken is “alarmed.”
SF Politics Number of Mentally Ill Homeless In SF Involuntarily Committed For Long-Term Stays Sank 50% In Last Six Years A new report by the city's Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office finds that the city has been involuntarily committing about half the number of mentally ill individuals as it did half a decade ago, partly due to a lack of inpatient beds.
SF News SF Likely To Have ‘Universal Mental Health Care’ On The November Ballot You’ve heard of Healthy SF, now get ready to vote on Mental Health SF — guaranteed mental illness and addiction treatment for anyone who wants it.
SF News City Opens Small Homeless Navigation Center For Mentally Ill At SF General Navigation Center is a respite from the streets for mentally ill, addicted. via @DominicFracassa https://t.co/ggrHMsEWrg pic.twitter.com/Yygv0I3BRI— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) August 30, 2017 The latest homeless Navigation Center to
SF News Outer Sunset Man Known For Offensive Signs Arrested Again For Threats An Outer Sunset man who was arrested last year for making threats on Twitter against Acting Police Chief Toney Chaplin has been arrested again, this time for making in-person threats against a neighbor
SF News The Election of Donald Trump Has Caused A Spike In Crisis Hotline Use In SF Following the Democalypse of last week, some parts of the country i.e. every city are going through major anxiety crises and deep depressions while other parts of the country basically everywhere that
SF News New Law Will Allow Courts To Compel Treatment Of Mentally Ill San Franciscans Thirteen years after passage at the state level, a law allowing for the compelled treatment of certain mentally ill individuals will take effect in San Francisco next Monday. Implementation of Laura's Law, as
SF News Nevada To Cough Up $400K For Dumping Its Mentally Ill Patients On Us A case that was brought back in 2013 by City Attorney Dennis Herrera, complaining that a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital had systematically put mentally ill people on Greyhound busses to Los Angeles and
SF News Three Santa Clara Corrections Deputies Charged With Murder After Inmate Is Found Dead In what the New York Times is calling "a rare step," Santa Clara County sheriff Laurie Smith arrested and filed murder charges against three of her corrections deputies following the discovery last week
SF News Man Accused Of Knocking Cop Unconscious During Struggle For Shotgun Has Troubled Past With SFPD A homeless man who said he was beaten by police after a July, 2014 altercation in the Panhandle is back in custody today, this time for allegedly knocking a cop unconscious as he
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Jump Survivor To Lead Suicide Prevention Walk Only 33 people have survived the leap off of the Golden Gate Bridge since it opened in 1937, compared to over 1,500 who have died from the fall. Kevin Hines of San
SF News Naked Guy Brandishing Samurai Sword Busted After Two-Hour Standoff Well, it sounds like at least one person had a fun time on New Year's morning down in San Jose, Calif. See, 29-year-old Coco Bennett was arrested after a two-hour standoff that began
SF News Anti-Capitalist Dude Charged In Corte Madera Bank Takeover The mentally unstable guy who stormed a Corte Madera Bank of America on Monday, waving around a pellet gun, raving about unfair bank practices, and holding nine people hostage for six hours, has
SF News Should the Mentally Ill Homeless Be Forced to Take Their Medication? Laura's Law so named after a mentally ill man shot college student Laura Wilcox in Nevada County in 2001 allows a judge more quickly to put a severely mentally ill person under supervised
SF News Target Stabbing Suspect Lost Custody of Son A recent divorce and losing custody of a child are a couple of reasons that might have exacerbating Antioch resident Layla Trawick's bipolarism and schizophrenia, prompting her to go on a stabbing spree
SF News Target Stabbing Suspect Sanity-Estranged, Says Mom Yesterday, Antioch resident Layla Trawick, 34, went on a stabbing spree at a Target store in Southern California. She sliced four customers, including a woman holding a baby, before being subdued and arrested.
SF News UC-Santa Cruz Grad Shot, Killed at Pentagon Hollister resident John Patrick Bedell, 36, was shot and killed last night after pulling a handgun at the Pentagon entrance and firing at guards. Bedell held a bachelor’s degree in physics from
misc I Lost Me to the Russian Consolate's Spying Tactics This sign was found at Geary and 21st Ave. See what meth can do, kids?
