SF News EBX: Oakland Police Are the Worst The public outrage about the mismanagement and misconduct of the Oakland Police Department is getting louder as a judge considers initiating an unprecedented federal takeover of the department. Today the East Bay Express's
SF News Top Gay Cop Arrested For Domestic Violence At Gold's Gym An instance of alleged domestic violence occurred between a Sheriff's Deputy and a paramour, this time involving Lt. Vincent Calvarese, one of the city's openly gay cops who was featured in the 2009
SF News Photo: Cop Doused With Paint During Oakland May Day Melee Jeez. According to @abc7newsbayarea, this officer (one of several) was drenched in a substance believed to be yellow paint during today's May Day protest in Oakland. As SFist reported earlier that paint was
SF News Live: Oakland Cops Prepare For General Strike Showdown [Updated] Justin Beck's live coverage of today's May Day occupation continues. Right now, at around 3 p.m., cops have arrived in Oakland near Broadway and 14th, demanded protesters to leave or face "removal
SF News New 49er Brandon Jacobs Like To Drive Really Fast New 49er Brandon Jacobs is caught up in a scandal involving New Jersey state troopers who escorted caravans of luxury cars at extraordinarily high speeds (100-120 mph). According to the Star-Ledger, the police
SF News Family Of Murdered Berkeley Man Still Pissed At Police The sons of murdered Berkeley Hills resident Peter Cukor, who was 67 when he died on February 18 of a bludgeoning with a flower pot at the hands of a mentally ill man,
SF News Report: Police Called To Jackson And Davis Police have been called to Jackson and Davis in San Francisco, which is currently blocked off. One SFist tipster suggested that a man has "jumped to his death...from one of the high-rise
SF News SFPD Releases 'It Gets Better' Film "I'm sure there's a Shit Someone Says video out there you haven't seen yet, but why not skip it and watch this surprisingly moving It Gets Better video from the SFPD," notes SF
Arts & Entertainment Merits Of SFPD, NYPD Patrol Cars Debated In the latest New York vs. San Francisco pissing contest, noted New York startup wunderkind David Karp fired the first shot taking our fair city's choice of police patrol vehicles, "the most busted
SF News Oakland Cops Demoted, Suspended For Covering Name Tags During Occupy Oakland Protest Do you remember this footage of an OPD officer covering his name tag with black tape (which is a no-no) during the Occupy Oakland general strike? Viemo user BLK PXLS (AKA Terrence Jerod
SF News Allegations Of Police Brutality Mar Occupy Oakland 'F**k OPD' Protest Six people were arrested during Saturday night's "Fuck OPD" march after protesters allegedly turned surly with riot officers. According to The Chronicle, "The showdown Saturday night happened at the corner of Ninth and
SF News Police Sweep Out Nascent Occupy Oakland Encampment Just as soon as it came—on Tuesday, to be exact—last night police evicted residents of the new Occupy Oakland encampment on the 2000 block of Peralta Street near Mandela Parkway. Set
SF News Thoughtless San Jose Mom Tosses Toddler Out Second-Story Window Down in San Jose on Christmas morning, a mother dropped her young son out of a second-floor apartment window. Why? Well, according to reports, police had been called to her abode that morning
SF News SF Police Chief Talks Occupy SF Response [UPDATED] Compared to OPD and the city of Oakland's reaction, the San Francisco Police Department's response to cleansing out the encampment at Justin Herman Plaza was a gentlemen's affair. No serious injures were reported,
SF News UC President Yudof 'Appalled' By UC Davis Pepper Spraying Students After UC Davis police pepper sprayed students peacefully protesting the Occupy movement on Saturday, University of California President Mark Yudof announced plans to take immediate action against yesterday's aggressive, misguided dust-up. If you
SF News Quan's Top Legal Aide Quits Over Occupy Oakland Raid Furious over this morning's police raid of the Occupy Oakland encampment, Mayor Jean Quan's top legal advisor quit this morning. Dan Siegel, noted for being a critic of Oakland police, wished that the
SF News Video: Police Beat UC Berkeley Students at Occupy Cal Rally [UPDATED] During a budding Occupy Berkeley demonstration Wednesday at the UC Berkeley campus, police charged at a group of protesting students before retreating. As the cops attacked the kids, the group chanted, "Stop beating
SF News Police Officer Busted for Covering Name Tag During Occupy Oakland Strike BLK PXLS captured this superb footage of an Oakland policer officer covering up his name tag during Wednesday's chaotic, tear gas-filled Occupy Oakland general strike. When asked about the black tap over his
SF News Occupy Oakland "Not Finished" After this morning's temporary disembowelment of Occupy Oakland by the city of Oakland, the group sent out a strongly worded message in which they claim a) "it's not finished" and b) that they
SF News SFPD in Search of Missing Lower Haight Man San Francisco police investigators are searching for Mark Marvin, 39, who was last seen leaving his home near Divisadero and Waller at around 4 p.m. on October 6th. He has not been
SF News Shooting Suspect Shareff Allman Shot, Killed by Police The manhunt for Shareff Allman, the man suspected of killing three of his colleagues on Wednesday morning at the Lehigh Cement Plant, ended this morning after authorities shot and killed the 45-year-old man.
SF News Controversy Erupts After Children Handle Guns at Santa Rosa Fair Members of the Santa Rosa SWAT team were at the South Park Day and Night Festival on Saturday. They were there to demonstrate to attendees what they do and, most notably, to show
SF News Oakland Musician Allegedly Gay Bashed Speaking of hate crimes, local musician Brontez alleges that he was gay bashed last night while leaving Club Paradiso (2272 Telegraph) in Oakland. Via his Facebook page, he writes: Got gay bashed last
SF News 35 Arrested Following (Misguided) Protest In Dolores Park "They can't shoot us all -- fuck the police," reads a banner carried by a smattering of people following yesterday's protest in Dolores Park. The protest was over the unfortunate yet justifiable shooting
SF News The Public Reacts to Yesterday's Officer-Involved Fatal Shooting in Bayview [Updated] Indy Bay posted a link to the below YouTube video of the crowd at the scene (updated link, via SFist commenter snapshotist) immediately after yesterday's fatal shooting of a 19-year-old, allegedly armed fare-evader
