SF Politics Former Investigator Sues SF District Attorney In Whistleblower Complaint The embattled San Francisco District Attorney's Office has one more headache to add to the pile this week as a wrongful termination suit has arrived from a former investigator.
SF Politics CA Attorney General Says His Office Will Now Decide Charges In Officer-Involved Shootings of Unarmed Civilians Newly installed California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Wednesday laid out how he plans to enforce a law that he helped put on the books as an Assemblymember, which requires the AG's Office to get involved with all police shootings of unarmed civilians in the state.
SF News SFPD Releases Body-Camera Footage Showing Police Killing of Cesar Vargas; Officers Involved Identified On Monday, the SFPD held a virtual town hall to discuss the Oct. 10 police killing of 21-year-old carjacking suspect Cesar Antonio Vargas, release video of the incident, and name the two officers involved in the shooting.
SF News Vallejo Approves Largest-Ever Settlement for a Police Shooting, $5.7 Million, for the Family of Ronell Foster A Vallejo Police officer is on paid administrative leave after killing two people in less than a year, as police misconduct settlements are piling up in Vallejo.
SF News SFPD Trumpets Drop in Use-of-Force, Shooting Incidents It’s been nearly a full year since the San Francisco Police Department shot anyone, which they say shows a successful implementation of new use-of-force policies.
SF News No Charges in Stephon Clark Shooting, Family Seeks State Prosecution Wounds are reopened in the case of an unarmed Sacramento man who police shot six times in the back.
SF News SFPD Officers Reportedly On Edge Following Police Shootings Elsewhere Officers with the San Francisco Police Department have their "eyes on a swivel," a spokesperson says, braced for action following a day in which at least four cops were shot in
SF News 50 Fatal Shootings By CA Police Went Unreported To Department Of Justice In 2015 Police fatally shot six people in San Francisco last year, but you wouldn't know that from looking at Open Justice, a website created at the behest of California Attorney General Kamala
SF News Unarmed Fresno Teen Killed By Police Had Drugs, Alcohol In System Officials yesterday released the autopsy of 19-year-old Dylan Noble, who, on June 25, was shot dead by Fresno police. According to ABC 7, the teen had alcohol and a substance associated
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.
SF News In Wake Of Dallas Attack, Bay Area Police Patrolling In Pairs Following a sniper attack in Dallas Thursday night that left five police officers dead, police in the Bay Area are reportedly taking precautions to prevent any copycat shootings. The Dallas shootings, which began
SF News Interstate 880 In Oakland Blocked Overnight By Massive Protest Against Police Violence A massive crowd of demonstrators have blocked Interstate Highway 880 in Oakland this evening, completely shutting it down in both directions. According to SFist assistant editor Caleb Pershan, who is at the scene,
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
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,
SF News 15 Years Of Officer-Involved Shootings In SF, By The Numbers Greg Suhr, who resigned his position as the Chief of Police at the mayor's request last week, never fired his gun while on duty. That's common. The "vast
