SF Politics Mayor London Breed Announces Ballot Measure to Reduce Police Paperwork, Allow Car Chases For Petty Crimes "Right now [SFPD] officers spend too much time on paperwork, which keeps them off our streets where they're needed most," says San Francisco Mayor London Breed.
SF Politics ‘Bad Officers’ Bill Fails in Legislature, Police Won’t Be Stripped of Badges for Misconduct California remains one of five states that won’t strip badges from officers who commit crimes or misconduct, after an attempt to reform that failed to make the Assembly floor.
SF Politics Breed Announces Plan to Remove Police From All Non-Criminal Calls in San Francisco Neighbor disputes, mental health crises, and complaints about the homeless will no longer be part of the purview of the San Francisco Police Department under a new four-point plan unveiled by the mayor on Thursday.
SF News Police Groups Pay $15K For Full Page Chronicle Ad Basically Opposing Mario Woods Day The name Mario Woods has become a rallying cry for local Black Lives Matter activists. A Bayview resident suspected in a stabbing who was shot and killed by police in December, Woods' death
SF News Officer Named In Fatal Shooting Of Luis Gongora Assigned To Bureau Handling Police Reforms Within 30 seconds of their arrival at Shotwell Street near 19th Street on April 7, SFPD officers had shot 45-year-old Luis Gongora multiple times. He later died at SF General Hospital. As many
SF News Could An App Stop Racist Policing? It's difficult to overstate technology's importance in the Black Lives Matter movement. Bystander cell phone video has made it harder, if somehow still not impossible, to ignore the seemingly endless killings of African
SF News Firm That Recruited Ousted Oakland Police Chief Charging SF $49K To Find New SFPD Chief The national search process is beginning for a new chief of police for San Francisco, following a season of high tension and high drama on both sides of the bay for both the
SF News Police Commission Invites Public To Discuss SFPD's Draft Use Of Force Policy A photo posted by Steve Rhodes (@tigerbeat) on May 3, 2016 at 1:43pm PDT There's only one item on the agenda for tonight's meeting of the San Francisco Police Commission: The draft
SF News SFPD's Acting Chief Suspends Community Meetings On Police Shootings, Declaring Them 'Unproductive And Disruptive' "Can Toney Chaplin Change the Culture of SF Police?" asked SF Weekly earlier this week, and now we know the answer: Yes, if you're talking about the way they engage with the community
SF News From Rodney King To Oscar Grant To Mario Woods, Oakland Attorney John Burris On Taking Cases That Change Police Departments John Burris isn't a political activist. "Making speeches? Nobody can win that," he says ruefully over tea in his Oakland law offices. "You can say what you want, I can say what I
