SF News SF Police Shoot and Kill Man Identified as Union Square Security Guard A hit-and-run incident on a sidewalk in Union Square Thursday evening was followed, hours later, by a confrontation with San Francisco police that left the driver in the alleged hit-and-run dead.
SF News Scathing SFPD Audit Finds Rampant Abuse of Police Overtime Charges The SF Police Department is now spending $108 million a year on overtime pay alone, with wild and potentially fraudulent abuse of paid sick leave, officers approving their own overtime, and some taking paid time off to moonlight as security guards.
SF News SF Robbery Suspect Crashes Car Evading Police, Leaps 40 Feet From Overpass, Suffers Life-Threatening Injuries After an alleged three-robbery bender, a suspect evading SFPD totaled his car in a crash, lept 40 feet from a 101 overpass, and injured himself severely before being arrested and hospitalized.
SF News [Update] Dogs on the Loose Create Chaos In Fillmore District After Biting Two People An apparently vicious dog was shot by police in the Fillmore District and led to an alert from the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management Friday morning due to other dogs on the loose.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SFPD Seizes Four Pounds of Fentanyl In Bust As part of a bust Tuesday, SFPD made three arrests and seized a pile of suspected fentanyl; the fight over Oakland Airport's new name heads to court today; and Elon Musk got $26 billion richer yesterday thanks to the stock rally.
SF News Bay Area Law Enforcement Gearing Up for Possible Election Night, Post-Election Mayhem Whether it's celebratory riots, large-scale protests, or opportunistic criminals looking to loot because police might otherwise be distracted, Bay Area police departments are bracing for possible crime and bedlam on Election Night or later this week.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SFPD Touts Drone Success In Catching Thieves The SFPD shared videos of arrests made with drone assistance; a bicyclist died in a solo crash in Oakland; and the Strava running app is giving away the location of Biden, Harris, and Trump via their security staffs.
SF Politics JD Vance’s Excuse For His ‘I Hate the Police’ Remark Falls Apart Once Reporters Look Into It When the NY Times confronted JD Vance over an old email where Vance said “I hate the police,” Vance claimed he was venting his frustration with SFPD over a car break-in. But the Chronicle found that the break-in happened several months after Vance sent the email.
SF News SFPD Arrests 17-Year-Old Suspect In Shooting of Teen Outside Galileo High School A Galileo High School student was shot next to the school's football field just as the new school year began, and on Tuesday, police arrested a 17-year-old suspect for the crime.
SF News SFPD Arrests High-Volume Drug Dealer In Tenderloin Following Four-Month Investigation San Francisco police announced the Tuesday arrest of a "high-volume" dealer of fentanyl, meth, cocaine, and prescription pills, and they say they uncovered much evidence of his drug dealing at his Oakland home.
SF News Stats Show SFPD Very Effective at Solving Murders, But Worst in the State at Solving Most Other Crimes The good news is that the SFPD solved 94% of all homicides committed in SF last year. The bad news is that SFPD ranks worst of all major California police departments in solving nearly every other form of crime.
SF News Multiple SFPD Plainclothes Officers Shot at in SoMa, Suspect in Custody Several blocks of Market and Mission streets were roped off Thursday night, after a suspect opened fire on multiple plainclothes officers. No one was hit by any bullets, and the suspect was taken into custody.
SF News SFPD on the Defensive, Releases Bodycam Video of Controversially Physical Hot Dog Vendor Arrest An early September arrest of a hot dog cart vendor at the Embarcadero is still in the news because of the very rough physical tactics used, but the SFPD just released body cam video they claim shows the woman assaulted a city employee, and coerced a little girl to cry.
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 More Details Emerge About Officer-Involved Shooting at Powell Street BART Station We're now learning a bit more about what led to the police shooting of an allegedly armed man at Powell Street Station two Fridays ago, and it was actually some proactive policing.
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 Update: Powell Street BART Station Closed After Police Shooting A major police situation was happening in or near Powell Street Station Friday morning after an armed suspect apparently fired a gun, and then was shot by police.
SF News SF Man and Juvenile Arrested for Auto Burglaries After Pursuit In Oakland A San Francisco man and a juvenile accomplice were arrested last week in connection with a possibly wide-ranging auto burglary "operation" that included at least two burglaries in Alamo Square and near the Palace of Fine Arts.
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 Arrest Made In Alleged Hate-Crime Attack on Netflix Chef In Downtown SF A San Francisco woman who was allegedly attacked by a man who she says called her the N-word as he passed her on the street in the Financial District Monday says she no longer feels safe walking on her own in the city.
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 Retail Theft Crackdown Targeting Safeway Stores, Walgreens In SF Yields 61 Arrests San Francisco police have just announced dozens of arrests of retail-theft suspects in what they're calling a "blitz" operation aimed at curbing shoplifting in the city from several stores where they say it is rampant.
SF News Special SFPD Unit Seizes Multiple Cars Linked to June Sideshow In San Francisco This spring and summer have been part of a very active season for sideshows on both sides of the Bay. And while some communities are passing new laws to crack down on these stunt-driving events, SF police have just seized several vehicles they say took part in one particularly wild sideshow in June.
