SF News Woman Says SFFD Sedated Her Against Her Will During Abortion Protest, She Just Served the City a John Burris Lawsuit A protest stunt at a June Warriors game meant to stand up for abortion rights, but allegedly ended with the spiking of a protester with a sedative, and that protester has enlisted famed civil rights attorney John Burris in a lawsuit against the city.
SF News SFPD Officer Arrested, Charged With Grand Theft, Fraud, and Forgery Over a Wrecked Ford Mustang Chesa Boudin gets to charge one more SFPD officer on his way out! One SF cop who once had a GoFundMe so he could stay unvaccinated now faces multiple fraud charges involving a pricey Ford Mustang, which ended up getting totaled.
SF Politics Report: SFPD Refused to Participate in Quickly Burglary Ring Bust, Boudin Had to Rent His Own U-Haul New reporting on the DA's Office raid on a Tenderloin Quickly shop earlier this month alleges that police said “they were too busy” to assist in the bust, and that DA Boudin had to rent his own U-Haul to carry out the operation.
SF Politics ‘Ice Cream With A Cop’ Event In SF Melts Down Amidst Raucous Anti-Police Protest A late April “Ice Cream With a Cop” event in the Inner Richmond turned into a hostile confrontation, with video now surfacing of protesters with a megaphone swarming officers and making the event a rocky road.
SF News SF Father Solves His Own Luggage Theft Case, Despite Lack of Action From ‘Do-Little Cops’ In another iteration of a San Francisco crime victim complaining that the police did nothing to help, and made no attempt to arrest the suspects, one SF dad successfully took matters into his own hands to recover his belongings.
SF News Two SFPD Officers Arrested for Destroying Evidence, Ex-Officer Arrested for Swiping Machine Gun From Evidence Room Two separate SFPD scandals hit the fan at the same time, as two current officers were arrested for destroying evidence (including meth, allegedly) and a former officer was arrested for relieving the evidence room of a machine gun.
SF News Report: SFPD Use-of-Force Cases Down Sharply, But Enormous Racial Disparities Remain Unchanged The SFPD just released an internal report on their stops and use-of-force incidents, and while the SFPD has cut its use-of-force cases in half, the percentages still show overwhelming enforcement disparities against Black and Brown people.
SF News SFPD Officer Takes Stand in First Excessive-Force Trial: ‘Every Single Baton Strike at the Time Was Necessary’ Officer Terrance Stangel is on trial for felony assault and battery in the case of a 2019 Fisherman’s Wharf beating, and on Wednesday he became the first SFPD officer to have to testify in his own defense in a trial for an on-duty assault.
SF News SFPD Backtracks, Will No Longer Use Rape Kit DNA to Prosecute Rape Victims for Unrelated Crimes After a week-long public relations disaster over misuse of DNA evidence from rape kits, the SFPD announced Tuesday that it will end the practice, but it makes you wonder how many police departments nationwide are doing this.
SF News Video: Woman Sets Police Truck on Fire in the Tenderloin, Remains at Large After a woman successfully managed to torch an SFPD pickup truck Wednesday afternoon, police have a description of her, but don't know her name or have her in custody.
SF News Bay Area Police Observed Using Excessive Force, Rubber Bullets Against Nonviolent Protesters Episodes of police force used against protesters across the country have been documented across social media — driving debate, outrage, and dialogue on the topic. Though not as common as in other U.S. metros, Bay Area police were seen using tear gas and firing rubber bullets at protesters Saturday.
misc Today in San Francisco History - "Miss Goldie Griffin Wants to Become Cop" Timecapsule: December 9, 1912 Another item culled directly from the pages of our historical newspapers, this one from the period in which California women had just won the right to vote -- something
misc Today in San Francisco History - The Black Cat Café Timecapsule: October 31, 1963 On Halloween night, the "Black Cat Cafe" -- that notorious, flamboyant and most historically significant of San Francisco's gay nightspots, held a final celebration before closing down for good.
SF News Brief, Brutal Footage of Mini-Protest at Market Street Bob Brigham sent SFist the above footage from today's small protest on Market Street, which prefaces tonight's massive anti-war rally at Civic Center. The photographer getting manhandled at around 20-25 seconds in is
SF News Did You Hear It? After their American Idol hour was unforgivably interrupted by the San Francisco Police Department making an announcement last night, a reader writes to SFist asking: At about 8:55pm tonight, my viewing of
SF News Clift Hotel Employee Sexually Assaults Guest Over at the five-star Clift Hotel, home to the (in)famous Redwood Room, hotel employee Christian Rojas was arrested after he allegedly raped a hotel guest in her room. According to officials, the
SF News SFist Blotter What a care- and crime-free life SF is living right now,right? And we don't believe any of it. According to local media outlets, SF is safe and sound. But according to a
SF News SFPD Puts a Stop to CashTomato's Giveaway Inside Dolores Park Huh. The San Francisco Police Department has put the kibosh on tomorrow's Dolores Park free cash giveaway care of Cash Tomato. Check it: This Saturday 23rd February at 10am, we had planned to
SF News Broadway Community Meeting to Open Soon This is most exciting news, folks. The theater scene here sucks so hard now that even the San Francisco Police Department is working on the problem. Check it: Subject: Broadway Community Meeting with
SF News A Very Special Wednesday SFist Blotter 47-year-old Antonia Vargas was found lying dead on her porch in Richmond today. Her body was found on the "2400 block of Andrade Avenue by a colleague who normally drives her to work,
SF News San Francisco's Big Brother Cinéma Vérité Sucks, Claim Critics And speaking of cameras... While Chicago has seen crime rates plummet to their lowest numbers in over four decades due to the windy city's Big Brother program, San Francisco's attempt at panopticon-ish camera
SF News Dame Fires Gun in Holding Area After SFPD Botch Search This is rich. The San Francisco Police Department are now having to investigate their own brethren. It appears that last Saturday morning, SFPD missed finding a firearm on a female suspect being booked
misc Tiger Attack Update: No Slingshots? Oh my God, you guys, no way. Get this: the New York Post was wrong. What's next: Intelligent Design? Celebrity weddings? Our meth-induced epiphanies that the CIA, in cahoots with the Norteños, are
misc 9X Strikes, Kills Pedestrian A few hours later after a car hit a man at the same intersection in Portola, a Muni bus stuck and killed a pedestrian on Thursday night at around 8:30 p.m.
SF News Smash-and-Grabs Slowed Perhaps in an effort to appease the masses for screwing them over on insane parking ticket allocations, the San Francisco Police Department, the Mayor's Office, and city prosecutors are working together to stop
