SF News Crime Declined Overall in '09, Despite Crap Economy Bucking conventional wisdom about how crime rises as incomes fall and unemployment rises, the FBI's latest report on nationwide crime statistics for 2009 shows an overall decline in both violent and non-violent crime.
SF News Murderer Convicted Despite Witnesses Saying They Were Completely Eff'd Up That Night Anyone who thinks SF isn't tough enough on violent crime, listen up: Silas Byers, 44, was convicted of first-degree murder on Tuesday in San Francisco court for the June 2009 slaying of Douglas
SF News One Dead in Fisherman's Wharf Nightclub Shooting Early Sunday morning a 20-year-old Richmond man allegedly shot three people outside Suede nightclub, at 383 Bay Street, near Fisherman's Wharf. One of those shot, 19-year-old Richmond man Lawson Hall, is dead, and
SF News Suspects in Home Invasion Caught on Tape You'll recall the home invasion robbery we mentioned last week, which happened in a Sunset district home, and in which one 40-year-old man ended up dead. As SFist commenter Joel was quick to
SF News Man Shot, Killed In Sunset Home Invasion An entire familyA possibly unrelated group of people was tied up and one man was murdered in a home invasion robbery on Moraga Street last evening. As the Appeal reports, two suspects, both
SF News SF Sees First Homicide of the New Decade With little fanfare and even fewer leads, the city marked its first homicide early Sunday morning. The unidentified victim was found dead of a gunshot wound on the 500 block of Naples Street