SF News Gov. Newsom Sends 120 Extra State Police Officers to Oakland in Crime Crackdown Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he's increasing state police presence in Oakland and the East Bay by a whopping 900% in response to a crime surge.
SF News March Ballot Measure Proposes Giving SF Cops Drones, More Surveillance Tools Mayor London Breed’s priorities are all over your March 5 primary ballot, including one measure that proposes to give San Francisco police expanded use of drones and surveillance cameras.
SF News Antioch Police Chief Abruptly Announces Retirement Amid Racist Text Scandal Ahead of legal proceedings set to begin this Friday over the Antioch Police Department’s racist texting scandal, Antioch Police Chief Steven Ford unexpectedly announced his retirement on Wednesday.
SF News $10,000 Tip Reward Offered for Richmond Murder Arrests Even if a tip doesn't lead to the conviction of a murder suspect, the Richmond Police Department just started offering $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of homicide suspects. While
SF News Did You Hear It? After their American Idol hour was unforgivably interrupted by the San Francisco Police Department making an announcement last night, a reader writes to SFist asking: At about 8:55pm tonight, my viewing of
SF News Clift Hotel Employee Sexually Assaults Guest Over at the five-star Clift Hotel, home to the (in)famous Redwood Room, hotel employee Christian Rojas was arrested after he allegedly raped a hotel guest in her room. According to officials, the
SF News To Help Curb Violence, Newsom Proposes Nightclub Reform With nightclubs like Jelly's, Whisper, and 715 Harrison playing host to fatal mischief over the past few months, yesterday Mayor Newsom and Police Chief Heather Fong went on the offense against SF nightlife.
SF News SFist Blotter What a care- and crime-free life SF is living right now,right? And we don't believe any of it. According to local media outlets, SF is safe and sound. But according to a
SF News SFPD Puts a Stop to CashTomato's Giveaway Inside Dolores Park Huh. The San Francisco Police Department has put the kibosh on tomorrow's Dolores Park free cash giveaway care of Cash Tomato. Check it: This Saturday 23rd February at 10am, we had planned to
SF News Broadway Community Meeting to Open Soon This is most exciting news, folks. The theater scene here sucks so hard now that even the San Francisco Police Department is working on the problem. Check it: Subject: Broadway Community Meeting with
SF News A Very Special Wednesday SFist Blotter 47-year-old Antonia Vargas was found lying dead on her porch in Richmond today. Her body was found on the "2400 block of Andrade Avenue by a colleague who normally drives her to work,
SF News San Francisco's Big Brother Cinéma Vérité Sucks, Claim Critics And speaking of cameras... While Chicago has seen crime rates plummet to their lowest numbers in over four decades due to the windy city's Big Brother program, San Francisco's attempt at panopticon-ish camera
SF News Dame Fires Gun in Holding Area After SFPD Botch Search This is rich. The San Francisco Police Department are now having to investigate their own brethren. It appears that last Saturday morning, SFPD missed finding a firearm on a female suspect being booked
SF News TGI Friday's Body Mystery The body of the TGI Friday's manager--whose was found earlier this week by an employee inside the restaurant, making this San Mateo's first homicide since 2006--was identified as Douglas Castello, 36, "a mild-mannered
misc Tiger Attack Update: No Slingshots? Oh my God, you guys, no way. Get this: the New York Post was wrong. What's next: Intelligent Design? Celebrity weddings? Our meth-induced epiphanies that the CIA, in cahoots with the Norteños, are
misc 9X Strikes, Kills Pedestrian A few hours later after a car hit a man at the same intersection in Portola, a Muni bus stuck and killed a pedestrian on Thursday night at around 8:30 p.m.
SF News Pittsburg Sexual-Assault Suspects' Sketch Unveiled Pittsburg police -- you know, that place at the end-of-the-line BART station that also happens to be a city -- released a composite sketch of the man suspected of abducting and sexually assaulting
SF News Have You Seen This "Person of Interest?" Well, have you? (And just what's on his hoodie?) The owner of this visage is wanted for questioning related to the shooting death of Jose Rivas, 20, of Antioch. His bullet-riddled body was
Arts & Entertainment Vandalism Report Card: Los Gatos Church We're not one to laugh at church vandalism. Ever. But the following story in today's Mercury News is goddamn hilarious. And hilariously bad. Los Gatos police believe the suspects who scrawled swastikas and
SF News Smash-and-Grabs Slowed Perhaps in an effort to appease the masses for screwing them over on insane parking ticket allocations, the San Francisco Police Department, the Mayor's Office, and city prosecutors are working together to stop
SF News Update: East Contra Costa County Residents Evacuated According to CBS 5 (interrupting us right in the middle of The People's Court, no less!) "East Contra Costa County residents are being evacuated from an area near the unincorporated town of Knightsen
SF News Oakland: Early Morning Hit-And-Run Kills Woman So far there is no description of the car or person that killed the woman. Of course, if any of you were up at that hour, kicking it in Oakland and might have
SF News Kidnapped, Raped Teen Escapes Attacker A Palo Alto high school girl survived a kidnapping and sexual assault yesterday afternoon, an ordeal that went on for 90 minutes. At 3 p.m. yesterday, a teen was on the "500
SF News Ex-SFPD Earl Sanders Rejected By U.S. Supreme Court Yes, "fajitagate" is back. Briefly. Like a pesky gnat, the U.S. Supreme Court swatted away an appeal by former San Francisco Police Department Chief Earl Sanders yesterday. He claimed to have been
SF News Have You Seen These Cars? More to the point, can you see these cars? Yeah, hard for us, too. (Go here to see the shocking! riveting! scandalous! footage that borders on tepid here.) But these two American-made automobiles
