SF News SFPD Has Issued Zero Citations to People Violating Shelter-In-Place Order Five days into the shelter-in-place order, San Francisco police have yet to cite a single person for violating the command, opting to educate the public about the order rather than issue tickets.
SF News Adachi-Chasing Journalist Gets $369,000 SFPD Settlement Over Sledgehammer Raid Freelance journalist Bryan Carmody sold details of Jeff Adachi’s death report for $2,500 a pop, and now he’s sledgehammered out a $369,000 settlement with SFPD over the raid of his home.
SF News Boudin to Stop Prosecuting for Contraband Seized at Traffic Stops, End Sentence Enhancements SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin launched a bevy of new policy directives — among them the end of charging defendants for contraband procured during "pretextual" traffic stops — yesterday, aimed at reducing racial imbalances in our criminal justice system and mass incarceration.
SF News San Francisco Dog Owner Pays $1K Ransom To Get His Best Friend Back After Car Break-In Nothing nowadays seems safe from prying vehicle vigilantes — not even three-year-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. Though, at least one belonging to Dave Ford was returned to its owner Saturday afternoon... after the SF dog owner paid a $1K ransom.
SF News Chesa Boudin Withdraws Charges Against Man Who Allegedly Attacked SF Police Officer In December In a move bound to ruffle some feathers — one coming after Boudin effectively ended cash bails in San Francisco on Wednesday — the newly elected DA has chosen to hold off on the charges against a 24-year-old man accused of attacking an SF police officer in December.
SF News Car Break-Ins Still Frequent In SF, But Down 3 Percent Over Last Year As we await final crime stats from the SFPD for 2019, the department is touting the fact that burglaries from vehicles in the city — while still high — were down slightly year over year through November.
SF News Body Cam Footage Shows Chaotic Scuffle Before SF Officers Shot Jamaica Hampton The SFPD held a town hall meeting Tuesday night in the Mission to review what happened prior to an officer-involved shooting on December 7 that left a 26-year-old man in critical condition. Both
SF News Today's Bay Area-Wide Gun Buy-Backs Aim To Curb Gun Violence By Getting Firearms Off The Streets In an attempt to rid SF streets of firearms, the San Francisco Police Department and nonprofit United Playaz are hosting a gun buy-back event today in the city, with other like-minded events happening throughout the Bay Area till later this afternoon.
SF News SF Authorities Want To Reunite Burglary Victims With $2.5 Million In Recovered Property If you recently lost a laptop, camera, purse, cellphone, or other item to a thief in the Bay Area, you might be able to get it back following the bust of a major fencing operation.
SF News Man Threatening to Jump From Building at Market and Gough Causes Major Traffic A man has reportedly climbed to the top of a building at Market and Gough Streets in San Francisco and refuses to come down. Police are warning people to avoid the area.
SF News Jamaica Hampton, Shot By SFPD, Remains In Critical Condition As Family Seeks Answers We're learning more about the 24-year-old man who was shot and critically wounded in an altercation with San Francisco police on Saturday morning. And the SFPD continues to be cagey about the situation as the man remains in critical condition at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital.
SF News SF Police Shoot Homeless Man After Alleged Attack On Officer Early Saturday morning, SFPD officers shot and critically injured an assumed homeless man in the Mission District after he allegedly struck one of two on-duty officers.
SF News Now the Police Are Suing the Hunters Point Shipyard Consultant Too Hundreds of police claim in a lawsuit that the alleged fake soil samples led to cases of lung cancer, and possibly even two fatalities.
SF Politics FBI Report Suggests SFPD Was Lying About Possible Civil Rights Violations In its cooperation with the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), the SFPD has potentially been misleading the public for years about its own violations of local law with regard to the investigation of "First Amendment activities," including those relating to religion and political affiliation.
SF Politics SFPD Says It Wants To Do Better Responding To Racially Biased, 'BBQ Becky'-Style Calls The SFPD brass, along with community members and policy makers, convened a meeting on Tuesday to come up with a policy statement concerning non-emergency police calls that could result in "bias by proxy."
SF News SFPD to Host LGBTQ 'Listening Session' Tonight at GLIDE on the 53rd Anniversary of the Compton's Cafeteria Riot The SFPD will join Glide in hosting a "Reflection and Reconciliation Session" tonight. The first in a series of communal forums, these two-plus-hour conversations will offer the city’s police force the chance to hear from the LGBTQ+ folk they serve.
SF News Man Who Struck SFPD Bicycle Officer In 2017 Receives Maximum Sentence The man convicted in the October 2017 hit-and-run collision that gravely injured SFPD officer Elia Lewin-Tankel was sentenced Thursday to the maximum possible term of 12 years and 8 months in prison.
SF News Two More SFPD Officer-Involved Shootings Result In No Charges In a pattern familiar to anyone following the Gascón-led DA's office, officers will not be charged in a fatal 2017 shooting, and a non-fatal shooting that followed the 2018 Warriors championship celebrations.
SF Politics Judge Slams Police, Rules In Favor Of Journalist Bryan Carmody A Superior Court judge has ruled that a search warrant issued to police in May for the phone records of journalist Bryan Carmody was improper, and that police must destroy any evidence they obtained through it.
SF News SFPD Touts Fewer Use-Of-Force Incidents In Mental Health Calls Mental health crises and 5150s are resulting in use of force only 0.2% of the time, according to an extremely detailed report just presented to the Police Commission.
SF News Day Around The Bay: SFPD Unveils Rainbow-Covered 'Pride Patrol' Vehicles 600 animal-rights protesters showed up at a Petaluma duck farm today, FAANG stocks got battered on news of antitrust probes, and a Bay Area tech entrepreneur just paid $4.5 million to have lunch with Warren Buffett.
SF News Racist-Texting Former Cop To Be Sentenced For Bank Robberies Back in February we learned that suspended SFPD officer Rain Daugherty, who earlier was part of that 2015 racist-texting scandal, had pleaded guilty to two counts of bank robbery. Today he's getting sentenced, and he may get up to three years.
SF News SFPD Chief Bill Scott Gives Extraordinary Late-Friday Press Conference to Apologize For Raid on Journalist Was it Kamala saying she was concerned? Was it pressure from the mayor to take the fall? Was it finally realizing his department exchanged one political drama for another and dug itself into a deeper a hole?
SF News Reporter Bryan Carmody Sues SFPD For Return Of His Property; DA Condemns Raid The freelance news videographer at the center of the Jeff Adachi death report scandal is filing a complaint Tuesday in San Francisco Superior Court following a controversial May 10 raid at his home by the SFPD.
SF News SFPD Trumpets Drop in Use-of-Force, Shooting Incidents It’s been nearly a full year since the San Francisco Police Department shot anyone, which they say shows a successful implementation of new use-of-force policies.
