SF News SFPD’s Non-Lethal ‘Lasso’ Tool Failed Three Times In Lead-Up to Union Square Police Shooting Just-released bodycam video shows that a September 13 Powell Street BART station police shooting was preceded by three attempts to use a sort of “lasso gun” called a BolaWrap, but that tool failed to subdue the suspect three times.
SF News SFPD Busts Illegal Gambling Den in Cayuga Terrace, One Day After Busting Tenderloin Gambling Den It’s been a jackpot for SFPD efforts to crack down on illegal gambling operations this week, as after a Tuesday raid on an underground Tenderloin casino operation, police on Wednesday popped a Cayuga Avenue home that also had an apparent illegal gambling den.
SF News Both SFPD and Hot Dog Vendor Speak Out After Viral Video of Rough, Physical Arrest The SFPD arrest of a hot dog vendor who was slammed to the ground and held down made a splash in the local news. But both sides are now going public with their own versions of events, which unsurprisingly, do not quite match.
SF News SF Police Slam Down and Handcuff a Sidewalk Hot Dog Vendor, In Front of Her Screaming, Crying Daughter In the latest case of bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors being more harshly persecuted than other illegal street vendors, video has emerged of a Sunday incident where a woman was tackled and detained for selling hot dogs, in front of her terrified toddler daughter.
SF News SFPD Touts That Their New License Plate Readers Nabbed an Accused $3,400 Lululemon Thief Those new automated license plate readers about town just popped another retail theft suspect, as the cameras’ use led to the arrest of a woman accused of stealing $3,400 worth of Lululemon gear.
SF News Meet the New Drones the SFPD Will Be Using (and Is Actually Already Using) SFPD now has six drones in their fleet after voters approved the department's use of drones this past March. Here's what those six drones look like, and how they will be deployed.
SF News Woman Vows to Sue SFPD For Violent Jaywalking Arrest That Left Her With a Concussion, Separated Shoulder A mother of five was roughed up in a recent jaywalking arrest, and now there’s video of the incident, so she says she's going to sue SFPD for leaving her with a concussion and a separated shoulder.
SF News SFPD Busts Suspects With Two Pounds of Drugs In an RV In the Tenderloin An RV happened to have nearly 1,000 grams worth of fentanyl, meth, and cocaine inside when the SF Police Department entered it with a search warrant Thursday, and two suspects have been detained for narcotics trafficking.
SF Politics Former SFPD-Affiliated Nonprofit Director Arrested for Fraud, Theft, Misuse of $700,000 in Public Money The former director of the SFPD’s now-dissolved nonprofit SF SAFE was arrested Tuesday on 34 felony counts, after reports of profligate misspending of public money on lavish parties, forged checks, and possibly her own rent. But did city officials get some of these gifts too?
SF News SF Releases City Employees’ Salary Data, One SFPD Officer Made $465,000 In Overtime Alone Last Year SF city employees’ salary data for the 2023-24 fiscal year just became available, and Mayor Breed London Breed is nowhere near the top of the list. But the top of that list does have an SFPD officer who made $180,000 in salary pay, but $465,000 in overtime pay.
SF News SFPD Officers Shoot and Kill Armed Robbery Suspect Near the Tenderloin In an incident that occurred just before midnight last night, San Francisco police officers shot and killed a man who was a suspect in an armed robbery on McAllister Street.
SF News SFPD Might Expand Their Police Chase Policies to Allow Chases of Nonviolent Felony Suspects The Prop E measure that SF voters approved in March is coming home to roost, as the SF Police Commission is about to consider new rules that expand the types of cases where SFPD officers can engage in car chases.
SF News Two SFPD Motorcycle Officers Hospitalized After Collision With Car in Potrero Hill A pair of SFPD officers on motorcycles were struck head-on by a car at around 5 pm Tuesday afternoon, with the car reportedly being that of an Uber driver, and both officers and the driver are hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
SF News SFPD Will Try Out New Device That Drug Tests People's Saliva for Fentanyl The San Francisco Police Department will be the first department in the nation to pilot-test a new device that checks suspects’ saliva to see if they’ve been using fentanyl.
SF News Cops Bust Mission District Van Packed With Cocaine, Magic Mushrooms, $600,000 in Cash Is it a good idea to have three kilos of cocaine and 600 grand in cash sitting in your van at 17th and Shotwell streets? Probably not, and two people learned that the hard way in a recent Mission District drug bust.
SF News SFPD Says New License Plate Readers Have Already Nabbed Numerous Carjacking, Sexual Assault Suspects Some 100 of the eventual 400 law-endorsement license-plate readers coming to San Francisco are already up and running, and SFPD says they're making arrests on the daily with the data these are bringing in.
SF News SFPD Will Place Its New Surveillance Cameras at 24th and Mission, 19th and Mission Streets After SF voters allowed cops to put more surveillance cameras all over the streets of San Francisco, the SFPD has decided where they will place the first two of them: 24th and Mission streets, and 19th and Mission streets.
SF News Report: SFPD Skirting SF’s Facial Recognition Ban by Just Farming Requests Out to Other Police Departments A new report in the Washington Post says the SFPD is still using the facial recognition tools that it was banned from using five years ago, by just sending requests to other cities' police departments that are still allowed to use those tools.
SF News SF Police Vow DUI Patrols Will Be Out in Force for 4/20 The “DUI Saturation Patrols” we normally associate with Saint Patrick’s Day and Super Bowl Sunday will be rolling out for this Saturday’s 4/20 observances, as SFPD hopes to discourage people from driving while stoned.
SF News SFPD Boasts 42 Arrests Made in Wednesday’s One-Day Tenderloin Sweep A one-day operation targeting Tenderloin drug dealers resulted in 42 arrests on Wednesday, and 30 of those suspects had outstanding warrants.
SF News Civic Center Walgreens Ransacked by Shoplifters Sunday, Police Didn’t Respond for Four Hours Another brazen Walgreens shoplifting heist was captured on video Sunday, as burglars emptied the shelves of the Ninth and Market street store, but police did not respond to the incident until four hours later.
SF News SFPD Cop Found Guilty of Sexual Battery Over Marina Bar Groping Incident A jury just found a five-year veteran of the SFPD guilty of sexual battery, over a 2021 incident where he groped a woman at a Marina bar, and brazenly did so with her husband right there.
SF News SFPD Touts Drug Bust That Seized Eight Pounds of Fentanyl, 32 Pounds of Meth A very heavy drug bust, as SFPD says they arrested four people for having 44 pounds of illegal drugs, and all were East Bay residents who allegedly supplied “street-level dealers who frequent the Tenderloin.”
SF News Scandal-Plagued SFPD Partner Nonprofit SF SAFE Now Accused of Stiffing Local Florist Out of $17k The SFPD-affiliated nonprofit SF SAFE was already awash in allegations of forged checks and millions in funds missing. Add to their troubles that they allegedly ran up a $17,000 bill at a Mission District floral shop that the nonprofit never paid.
Arts & Entertainment SFPD Sergeant’s Crime Novel Just Got Picked Up to Be Developed As a TV Series San Francisco police sergeant Adam Plantinga’s new novel ‘The Ascent’ is in some ways autobiographical, with one major exception — the protagonist cop is forced to break out of a maximum security prison.
