SF Politics SF Police Chief and District Attorney Insist They're Not Enemies, Chief Says They Don't Always Agree In a show of unity Wednesday on a live-streamed Zoom session, SF Police Chief Bill Scott and District Attorney Chesa Boudin discussed recent charging decisions implicating SF police officers, and the growing role of the DA's Independent Investigations Bureau.
SF News Burglaries, Arsons, and Car Thefts Are All Up Significantly in SF Over Last Year Crime was expected to go down with shelter-in-place orders back at the beginning of the pandemic, and for a short time, it did. But in San Francisco, the nature of the crimes being committed most often may have shifted, but there's still plenty of bad stuff going on all over town.
SF News SFPD Releases 911 Audio and Body Camera Footage From Fisherman's Wharf Beating Two days after the DA filed charges against an officer for an October 2019 baton beating of a domestic violence suspect, the SFPD has released audio from the 911 call that led to the officers' arrival at the scene, as well as body-worn camera footage from the incident.
SF News Attorney for SFPD Officer Charged In Beating Says DA 'Can't Get His Facts Straight' The attorney representing a San Francisco Police officer whom District Attorney Chesa Boudin charged with assault and battery on Monday has shot back with a statement saying her client acted "lawfully" in the 2019 incident in question.
SF News Grand Jury Indicts Rookie SFPD Officer Over December 2019 Shooting of Jamaica Hampton In the second instance of an SFPD officer facing charges stemming from an officer-involved shooting in just two weeks, District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced Monday that a grand jury has returned an indictment of Officer Christopher Flores for the Dec. 2019 shooting of Jamaica Hampton.
SF News Tenderloin Suspect Racks Up 13th Vehicle Theft Arrest in Just 18 Months In what must be a record run, the SFPD Tenderloin unit this week arrested a suspect for their 13th vehicle theft in a mere year and a half.
SF Politics SF District Attorney Files Manslaughter Charges Against Cop In 2017 Shooting For what's believed to be the first time, a San Francisco district attorney has filed a homicide charge against a police officer for shooting a citizen while in the line of duty.
SF News Video Emerges of Police Shooting Outside Westfield Mall; Suspect Remains In Critical Condition An eyewitness video appeared on Instagram Wednesday showing, at least from one angle, how an incident unfolded on the Market Street sidewalk outside the Westfield shopping center Tuesday evening in which a man was shot by SFPD officers.
Arts & Entertainment SFPD Is Urging People to Narc on Their Neighbors' Halloween Parties The cops would like everyone in SF to know that they will be on the hunt for public-health rule-breakers on Saturday, and you will get in trouble if you get caught throwing an actual Halloween party.
SF News SF Police Find Body Burning in Debris Pile on SoMa Side Street SFPD officers doing rounds in SoMa early Sunday discovered a hellacious scene along a neighborhood side street: a body burning inside a debris pile.
SF News Driver of Stolen U-Haul Dies Following Pursuit in SF, Jump Into Bay The driver of a stolen U-Haul truck died early Thursday morning after trying to evade police and jumping into San Francisco Bay.
SF News SFPD Releases Body-Camera Footage Showing Police Killing of Cesar Vargas; Officers Involved Identified On Monday, the SFPD held a virtual town hall to discuss the Oct. 10 police killing of 21-year-old carjacking suspect Cesar Antonio Vargas, release video of the incident, and name the two officers involved in the shooting.
SF News Two Dead, Three Injured in SF After Separate Friday Night Shootings Two separate shootings last night left two dead and three injured, according to police; the two shootings happened only thirty minutes apart from one another.
SF News [Update] SFPD Officer-Involved Shooting Leaves 21-Year-Old Suspect Dead After Alleged Carjacking Attempt A suspect in an alleged carjacking attempt that transpired late Saturday night in SF has been killed in an officer-involved shooting; the victim was pronounced dead at the scene after officers attempted to medically revive him.
SF News Data Shows Black People Are Pulled Over By SF Cops at an Even Higher Rate Than Three Years Ago Data from a recent KGO/ABC 7 investigation shows that Black people continue to be pulled over by SF police at a much higher rate than white people — and higher than even a few years ago.
SF News Op-Ed: Restructuring Police Department Oversight If the George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests are to have a lasting impact on police practices in this country, they must be accompanied by legislative action.
SF News Victim in South of Market Shooting Dies, SFPD Has Suspect in Custody Wednesday afternoon, a 21-year-old man was shot near Fourth and Mission streets — a particularly busy part of downtown SF — in SoMa. The victim later succumbed to his injuries, passing away yesterday evening.
SF News Eight-Hour Standoff Between SFPD and Vietnam Vet Ends With Suspect Forcibly Detained Around 11:30 a.m. Friday, SFPD officers responded to call that a man — who would later be identified as Vietnam War veteran James Craft — was brandishing a metal pipe near 18th and San Carlos streets. After a lengthy standoff, SFPD managed to push the suspect against a wall to detain him.
SF Politics Of Course the SF Police Union Doesn't Want Those Black Lives Matter Posters In Stations The San Francisco Police Officers Association (POA) can always be counted on to be on the wrong side of history, and to say all the wrong things.
SF News Second Underground Nightclub Shut Down Since April in Bayview-Hunters Point Despite the pandemic’s tightening grip on society, one that's squeezed-out a record-setting jump in national COVID-19 cases this week, people are still enjoying nightlife revelries — illegally. And SF officials this week shut down yet another unlawful nightclub, the second since April.
SF News SF To Pay Nearly Half a Million Dollars to Settle Alleged Police Misconduct Cases It will surely interest the “Defund the Police” movement that San Francisco is paying out a combined $455,000 in settlements to a man SFPD shot in the back, and another they injured during the 2017 skateboard “hill bomb.”
SFist Karen SF 'Ken' Filmed Blocking Latino Man From Entering His Own Apartment Complex Well, it looks like SF "Karen" Lisa Alexander — the skincare CEO filmed scrutinizing a local man for writing "Black Lives Matter" outside his home earlier this month — has a male counterpart: this "Ken" named William Beasley who blocked a Latino man from entering his apartment complex Tuesday.
SF Politics SF Police Union Now In Twitter War With Muni Over Tweet About Not Transporting Officers to Protests Following some negative social media attention about using Muni buses to help transport cops in riot gear to quell protests, the SFMTA pledged to stop doing that in a tweet. Today, the San Francisco Police Officers Association (POA) told the transit agency to "lose our number."
SF News Scenes From Saturday's Golden Gate Bridge and Berkeley Demonstrations Today saw thousands descend on the Golden Gate Bridge — which backed up the roadway for some time — hundreds take a knee at Candlestick Park to honor George Floyd, and the East Bay mobilize to denounce racism and recognize black healthcare workers on the pandemic’s frontlines.
SF News SF Supervisors Seek to Ban Chemical Sprays, Rubber Bullets During Protests Recent reports of peaceful protesters in San Francisco subjected to rubber bullets and inhumane tactics by on-site police have flooded social media. In a bid to stop a repeat of those scenes, three SF supervisors are set to introduce an act banning certain militant crowd control tools.
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