SF News Supervisors Give SFPD Significant Pay Raise, Starting Salary Now $103,000 The SF Board of Supervisors approved a nearly 11% salary increase for SFPD officers over the next three years, which will hopefully do something to encourage new officers to join the department, and encourage existing officers to solve more crimes.
SF News SFPD Touts 60 Arrests In New Retail Shoplifting Crackdown Today in ‘People congratulating themselves for doing their job,’ the San Francisco police announced they’ve been running a secret anti-shoplifting operation since late November, and have nabbed 60 retail theft suspects in the process.
SF News SFPD Officer Named In Celeste Guap Scandal Still Making Full Salary, Relegated to SFPD's Version of a 'Rubber Room' SF taxpayers have paid about $17 million to continue to employ police in desk jobs for largely disciplinary reasons, including one officer implicated in the notorious Celeste Guap scandal who’s pulling up to $240,000 a year.
SF News Supervisors Approve SFPD Use of Killer Robots — What Could Go Wrong? The SF Police Department got Board of Supervisors approval to use robots as a “deadly force option” against suspects Tuesday night. But at least the robots will only have bombs instead of firearms?
SF News Supes Approve Another Payout in Stengel Beating Case, $47,500 to Victim’s Ex-Girlfriend The last loose end appears tied up in the first excessive force case against an on-duty SFPD officer, as the victim’s ex-girlfriend will receive a $47,5000 settlement.
SF News SFPD Catches Catalytic Converter Thief In the Act, Lets Him Go, Then Gives Him Directions Home In today’s SF installment of “Police Did Nothing,” police catch an alleged catalytic converter thief red-handed in the Richmond, learn he is on probation for property theft, then kindly dismiss him while giving him directions so he could get home.
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 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 SF Restaurant Refuses Service to Police Officers, Weapons Made Staff 'Uncomfortable' On Friday, the new brunch spot Hilda and Jesse in North Beach asked three uniformed, armed SF police officers to leave the establishment shortly after they were seated; employees were cited as being "uncomfortable with the presence of their multiple weapons."
SF News There Are 40 SFPD Officers Now On Leave Because They Wouldn't Get Vaccinated You'd think that people who work in the San Francisco Police Department or at SF General who interact with the public all day long would have run to get vaccinated the minute they were eligible last winter. But no!
SF News SF Police Arrest Suspect in Attempted Robbery of Elderly Asian Man In May, a 70-year-old Asian man was attacked in Noe Valley, the assailant also trying to steal a watch off the man's wrist. But San Francisco police have now arrested and detained the twentysomething thought to be responsible for the assault.
SF News Cops Looking Also to Put Damper On Pink Saturday Much like the aforementioned heterosexual pride parade of Bay2Breakers, and the dirtier street fair known as Dore Alley, this year's Gay Pride Eve celebration in the Castro is facing some possible restriction from
