SF News SFPD Increases Foot Patrols In Tourist Areas, But Will They Help Make People Feel Safe? San Francisco police have begun doing more foot patrols around Union Square, Chinatown, and Fisherman's Wharf, in an effort to deter crime and make locals and tourists feel safer about the city. But is this just safety theater?
SF News App Promises Faster Oakland 911 Service, For A Price According to the FCC, 70 percent of 911 calls are now placed from wireless phones. Understandably, that percentage is only growing. But whereas landlines can provide emergency services dispatchers with quick location details,
SF News Watch Video Showing Man Almost Getting Hit By Caltrain This video, released by Caltrain to promote public safety, reminds us that it's never a good idea to go around train track safety barriers/beat the train. SFGate reports: The video, from the
SF News Cyclist Runs Breed Off Twitter Road Once billed as the Amanda Bynes of S.F. Supervisors, District 5 Supervisor London Breed left Twitter today after battling it out with cycling-rights advocates online. And we're downright crestfallen. The entire brouhaha
SF News How To Make A Right Turn WIth A Bike Lane While riding to work on Thursday, Amelie Le Moullac, 24, died after a truck hit her at the intersection of Folsom and Sixth Streets in SOMA. According to police, the semi-truck was making
SF News The Annotated SFPD Pride Weekend Public Safety Notice From time to time, SFist will, as a public service, lend these pages to copying and pasting from a press release. This is one of those times. Here's the SFPD's official Pride Weekend
SF News S.F. Investigating Nevada Hospital For 'Dumping' Mental Patients Prerequisite lede: by differing standards, there are lots of mental cases in S.F. But San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera's office has opened a formal investigation into allegations that Nevada health officials
SF News Why The King Street Bike Lane Needs To Be Fixed On Saturday morning outside AT&T Park, cyclist Diane Sullivan died while riding her bike westbound on King near Third Street. While exactly what happened remains under investigation, what we do know
SF News Cyclist Killed Near AT&T Park Identified On Saturday morning outside AT&T Park, just as fans were lining up outside for San Francisco Giants Fan Fest 2013, a female cyclist was killed after being hit by a cement
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Up In Arms Over Monster Energy Drinks The City Attorney office's most pressing issue this week is Monster Energy drinks. Of course. (If Dennis Herrera gets bored, SFist would gladly hand him a list of SF ordinance violators he could
SF News Construction Equipment Crashes Down In The Tenderloin Egads! This heavy piece of machinery came tumbling down at Ellis and Leavenworth this morning in San Francisco. The area will be closed down for most of the day, so please avoid it
SF News Artillery Shell Found Near AT&T Park [Updated] [UPDATE II: Suspicious device turned out to be "an old military-grade artillery shell." Egads. SF Appeal reports, "Police contacted Travis Air Force Base, which is sending technicians to determine the exact nature of
Arts & Entertainment Does San Francisco Need A Dutch Urban Cycling Infrastructure? By Alissa de Vogel Amsterdam is frequently and enthusiastically heralded as the best city in the world for cyclists, and for good reason. The entire city and outlying areas are covered with physically
SF News Photo: Tree Falls In The Haight; Crushes Car, Muni Lines [Updated] Yikes: a big tree fell down on Haight Street between Scott and Pierce early Monday evening, resulting in downed power and Muni lines. "Muni has been rerouted in the area, there may be
SF News San Francisco's NYE Sobriety Checkpoint Revealed Billed "Avoid the 8" by SFPD, police will check for lushes behind the wheel this New Year's Eve at 8th and Folsom Streets. It will begin at 8:30 p.m. and end
SF News Attention East Bay Commuters: BART Wants To Walk You Home After taking a lot of crap this year for shutting off cellphones and shooting a guy, the BART Police force is looking to make good this holiday season. In a press release, by
SF News First-Ever Nationwide Emergency Alert Test at 11 AM At 11 a..m. (PST) today, radio broadcasters and TV will take part in the first-ever nationwide emergency alert system test. Although emergency alert system tests have been done at the local level,
Arts & Entertainment Learn How to Ride with, or While Pregnant with, Your Kids at SF Bike Coalition's Family Biking Classes The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition announced today their first-ever Family Biking Series, a three-part series of (free!) classes that will help you and your runny-nosed clan bike city streets better, safer. The three
SF News Child Injured Riding Cable Car Keep your appendages inside the cable car at all times, kids, because a kid riding the Powell-Hyde cable car line was hurt Wednesday afternoon. According to SF Appeal, "a car drifted toward thee
SF News Public Safety Exercise Happening at Civic Center Please be advised that there will be a Public Safety Exercise taking place in the Civic Center area starting at around 10:30am Friday morning. "There will be emergency vehicles in the area
SF News Manhole Cover Explosion at Folsom at Harriet Today at around 1:50 pm, there was a manhole cover explosion on Folsom Street at Harriet Street. Alert SF notes: "Folsom Street is closed between 6th and 7th Streets. Harriet Street is
SF News Pier 38 Businesses, Possibly Pushed Out for America's Cup, Question City's Motives Businesses at Pier 38, the most expensive waterfront Class-A office space in San Francisco, rushed to find new homes after the city red tagged the waterfront space. Notices appeared on Pier 38 businesses
SF News NIMBY Update: Nevius Propogates Happy Results in Tenderloin Cafe's Outdoor Seating Dispute (Fingers Crossed) SFist talked about C.W. Nevius' article a couple of weeks ago regarding Little Bird Coffeehouse's "Kafkaesque journey" to obtain a permit for outdoor seating on the sidewalk, which named Lower Nob Hill
misc Let's Not Get All Nogged Up and Drive, San Francisco We're coming in to the thick of the Holiday season here (or perhaps more accurately: Holiday Party Season) and the authorities in San Francisco will be celebrating accordingly with their traditional 17 day
SF News Beware of Dangerous Pedestrian Countdown Signals Have you come across crosswalk signals that skip countdown numbers? We have. And it's scary. Fortunately, Walk San Francisco, a pedestrian safety advocacy group, can help you take action. "We're hearing reports of
