SF Politics With November’s Prop 36, California Voters Could Effectively Undo the Infamous Prop 47 Property Crime Law California's 2014 law known as Prop 47 is often blamed for unleashing crime, homelessness, and the fentanyl crisis, and voters will have a chance to toughen up its under-$950 misdemeanor theft threshold with the new state measure Prop 36.
SF News State Lawmakers Once Again Going After Prop 47 Amidst Retail Theft Blowback We’re now ten years into the Prop 47 era, and a pair of state Assembly members have introduced new bills to make it more likely accused thieves get charged with felonies under the law’s guidelines.
SF News ‘Pirates’ Pulling Increasingly Brazen Thefts at the Docks of Oakland’s Marinas A recent rash of thefts at the house boats and sailboats at the 13 marinas in Alameda County is overwhelming the small number of maritime law enforcement personnel there, as thieves sometimes commandeer and steal entire boats.
SF News Tahoe Bear Hank the Tank's Reign of Terror Ends In Capture — and a New Home South Lake Tahoe's most wanted fugitive, the massive black bear nicknamed Hank the Tank behind 21 home break-ins, was apprehended Friday and will be relocated to a wildlife refuge in Colorado.
SF News Year-End Stats Show SF Property Crime Down 11.2% Below Pre-Pandemic Levels, Despite ‘Moral Panic’ A detailed analysis of property crime in Bay Area cities shows that San Jose and Berkeley have seen property crime decrease over the last two years, and while many Bay Area cities saw an increase in 2021, thefts are still down double-digit percentages compared to 2019.
SF News Ed Lee Blames Judges, Not Criminals, For Spike In SF Property Crime In a conversation with the Chronicle's editorial board, Mayor Ed Lee expressed an interesting opinion on just who, exactly, is to blame for the fact that San Francisco now has the highest per
SF News Bill O'Reilly Takes On San Francisco And Our Liberal Attitudes Toward Property Crime You knew after this story came out Monday about how SF now has the highest per capita property crime rate of the top 50 cities in the country that Fox News was probably
SF News SF Now Has Highest Per Capita Property Crime Rate In The US We've been talking about the smash-and-grab epidemic in San Francisco for a while now, and now the New York Times has picked up the story of this wealthy city's wave of car burglaries
SF News New Stats Say Gun Violence Down In SF, While Car Break-Ins Continue To Skyrocket The SFPD unleashed their official year-end crime statistics for 2015 today, and not at all surprisingly, property crime has gone up again driven especially by car break-ins which we already learned hit a
SF News As SF's Crime Wave Continues, Police Chief Touts City's Relative Safety We've talked before about how crime is spiking in San Francisco: some blame the income divide, others blame the passage of Prop 47, and still others blame SF's rapid population increase. Today the
SF News Property Crime Up 22%, Violent Crime Up 13% Over Last Year "We've seen an absolute explosion of auto break-ins," said San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener to the Santa Cruz Sentinel, adding that "[t]here are areas in my district where you'll have 10 cars
