SF News Day Around The Bay: Oakland's Julian Brave NoiseCat's 'Sugarcane' Up For Best Documentary Oakland's Julian Brave NoiseCat's documentary 'Sugarcane' is up for an Oscar; Mayor Lurie picks Mattie Scott, an anti-violence activist for the police commission; and Trump is expected to sign an executive order making English the official language of the US.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Oust Vice President of SF Police Commission, Basically Because Mayor Lurie Told Them To SF Police Commission VP Max Carter-Oberstone was just removed from the commission Tuesday afternoon during a very rowdy hearing, after Carter-Oberstone crossed Mayor Breed who appointed him, and new Mayor Lurie settled the old political score for her.
SF Politics Mayor Lurie Is Determined to Fire Police Commission VP Max Carter-Oberstone SF Police Commission Vice President Max Carter-Oberstone became famous for blowing the whistle on London Breed when she forced commissioners to sign secret resignation letters. Now new Mayor Daniel Lurie wants to fire him outright.
SF Politics Breed and Supervisors Arguing Publicly After Committee Rejects Breed’s Police Commission Pick With two of Mayor Breed’s nominees for the Police Commission up for a vote, a Board of Supervisors committee rejected Breed’s pick Debra Walker, setting off Twitter spats between the mayor and Supervisor Ahsha Safai, but the full board will have the final say on this.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Suspected of Slow-Walking Police Commission Appointments, Causing Meeting Cancellations The SF Police Commission is supposed to meet three times a month, but they’ve canceled five of their last eight meetings, and there is speculation that Mayor London Breed is engineering absences so the commission can’t meet regularly.
SF News San Leandro Police Chief Steps Down Amidst Investigation, So He Likely Won’t Be Oakland Police Chief San Leandro's chief of police Abdul Pridgen was already on administrative leave over some undisclosed, alleged violations of department policies. That made him an odd candidate for Oakland Police Chief, and now he’s officially gone from the San Leandro job.
SF News CHP Drug Crackdown May Involve Low-Level Stops That SF Police Commission Voted To Ban The Chronicle did a ride-along with California Highway Patrol officers on their fentanyl crackdown efforts, and found they may be pulling people over for low-level traffic stops that have been likened to racial profiling.
SF News Police Commission Scales Back Limits on Traffic Stops After Public Pushback The SF Police Commission is scaling back a plan to do away with most traffic stops in San Francisco, after public safety advocates and members of the public expressed concerns about the potential impacts on street safety.
SF Politics Supes Pile On Mayor Breed’s Resignation Letter Scandal in ‘Emergency’ Hearing There was plenty of insider tea spilled about how Mayor Breed allegedly muscled city commissioners in an “emergency” hearing Tuesday that made more political hay over Breed’s undated resignation letters scandal.
SF Politics Breed’s Been Forcing Appointees to Sign Undated Letters of Resignation, Says She’ll Stop Now That She’s Been Busted Apparently being appointed to a city commission by Mayor London Breed required you to sign an advance letter of resignation, should she ever become displeased with you. She says she’ll end the practice, now that it has leaked and investigations are underway.
SF Politics Former SF Supervisor Malia Cohen Becomes President of Police Commission Malia Cohen, who served on SF's Board of Supervisors from 2011 to 2019 and who joined the city's Police Commission last August, has just been elected its new president.
SF News As 60 Applicants Vie To Be Next SFPD Chief, Acting Chief Reveals Details Of His Educational Background Sixty people are in the running to become San Francisco's next chief of police, the Police Commission announced Thursday night, but persistent questions over the acting chief's educational background might end up putting
SF News Jim Hammer Named Police Commissioner Assuming the seat vacated by Theresa Sparks, who stepped down to become human rights commissioner, former Assistant District Attorney Jim Hammer was sworn in yesterday as the City's first second openly gay male
Arts & Entertainment And You Thought the Shooting Was Bad Apparently you can't have a port-o-let unless the street's officially closed, and the DPW wasn't willing to recognize that anything remarkable could happen in the Castro on Halloween. The citizens will be appealing
SF News Day Around The Bay --Gavin's now all pretending he meant for Theresa Sparks to get on the Police Commission after all. --The Merc News names its top five area Venture Capitalists under 40. --The KFOG KaBoom fest
SF News I'm Elected Electric Spy, I'm Protected Electric Eye By a 5-0 vote, the Police Commission last night voted to install twenty five of those anti-crime cameras throughout the Mission, SoMa, and the Tenderloin. As expected, last night's hearing was pretty heated
SF News Shorter Gavin in the Examiner As we all know, Gavin is up for re-election this year (and why 2007? Aren't big elections supposed to be in even-numbered years? Is this one more "only in SF" type of thing?
SF News SFPD's Funniest Home Videos All of this isn't going down with at least some measure of controversy. Police Commissioner Joe Alioto Veronese complained that it took almost a year for the investigation to take place. After all,
SF News Short Coattails Take Doug Chan in District 4, for example. Newsom was the conservative (for SF) Police Commission member Chan's go-to guy -- Newsom showed up at Chan's kickoff rally; he walked the Sunset with
SF News So You Think You Can Dance (Gavin) Well, look who's in imminent danger of violating the curfew for the kids under 13! Here's a picture of Gavin Newsom cutting a rug at District 4 candidate Doug Chan's kickoff event, first
SF News Police Commissioner Peter Keane Quits Last night's Police Commission meeting [RealPlayer] started off with rollicking public comment from officers and the public. Officers were particularly upset over the termination of officer Anthony Nelson. Nelson was terminated after breaking
