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SF Releases City Employees’ Salary Data, One SFPD Officer Made $465,000 In Overtime Alone Last Year

SF city employees’ salary data for the 2023-24 fiscal year just became available, and Mayor Breed London Breed is nowhere near the top of the list. But the top of that list does have an SFPD officer who made $180,000 in salary pay, but $465,000 in overtime pay.

SFPD Officers Shoot and Kill Armed Robbery Suspect Near the Tenderloin

In an incident that occurred just before midnight last night, San Francisco police officers shot and killed a man who was a suspect in an armed robbery on McAllister Street.

SFPD Officer Accused of Flashing His Badge and Gun While Intoxicated at a Bar

An off-duty San Francisco police officer was the subject of a complaint that was filed with the city's Department of Police Accountability about an incident that occurred last fall, and is just now coming to light.

[Update] Missing Australian Businessman Turns Up In SF Hospital, In Coma, After Fall?

An Australian grain executive on a business trip in San Francisco appears to have been violently robbed and injured, and was put into an induced coma after arriving in a local hospital without identification.

Suspect Arrested In Fatal Shooting of Dacari Spiers, Victim In Notorious 2019 SFPD Brutality Case

One man has been arrested for killing the central figure in a high-profile 2019 police brutality case that dominated SF headlines during the Chesa Boudin days, as SFPD has arrested a 43-year-old man for the June fatal shooting of Dacari Spiers.

Two SFPD Motorcycle Officers Hospitalized After Collision With Car in Potrero Hill

A pair of SFPD officers on motorcycles were struck head-on by a car at around 5 pm Tuesday afternoon, with the car reportedly being that of an Uber driver, and both officers and the driver are hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.

SFPD Will Try Out New Device That Drug Tests People's Saliva for Fentanyl

The San Francisco Police Department will be the first department in the nation to pilot-test a new device that checks suspects’ saliva to see if they’ve been using fentanyl.

San Leandro Police Chase Causes Another Dangerous, Fiery Crash In Oakland

We have another story of a police chase that could have led to deadly consequences, only this time it appears everyone escaped uninjured.

Cops Bust Mission District Van Packed With Cocaine, Magic Mushrooms, $600,000 in Cash

Is it a good idea to have three kilos of cocaine and 600 grand in cash sitting in your van at 17th and Shotwell streets? Probably not, and two people learned that the hard way in a recent Mission District drug bust.

SFPD Says New License Plate Readers Have Already Nabbed Numerous Carjacking, Sexual Assault Suspects

Some 100 of the eventual 400 law-endorsement license-plate readers coming to San Francisco are already up and running, and SFPD says they're making arrests on the daily with the data these are bringing in.

Standoff Between SWAT Team and Possibly Armed Suspect Ongoing In SF's Mission District

A standoff has been going on for much of Thursday forcing the closure of a block of 24th Street in San Francisco's Mission District, and it involves a possibly armed suspect.

SFPD Will Place Its New Surveillance Cameras at 24th and Mission, 19th and Mission Streets

After SF voters allowed cops to put more surveillance cameras all over the streets of San Francisco, the SFPD has decided where they will place the first two of them: 24th and Mission streets, and 19th and Mission streets.

Homicides Were Down So Far This Year In SF, But We May Have Just Had Three In One Week

Three deaths are being investigated as homicides in San Francisco, all of which occurred since last Friday.

SFPD Conducts Another Prostitution Sting In the Mission, Busting Johns and Sex Workers

San Francisco police are touting a new round of pointless arrests that they made last week during an eight-day operation to discourage sex work in a section of the Mission District where it has basically existed, undeterred, for three decades or more.

Report: SFPD Skirting SF’s Facial Recognition Ban by Just Farming Requests Out to Other Police Departments

A new report in the Washington Post says the SFPD is still using the facial recognition tools that it was banned from using five years ago, by just sending requests to other cities' police departments that are still allowed to use those tools.

[Update] Swarm of Cops on SF's Sixth Street Looking for Shooting Suspect, Who Is Still at Large

Some sort of raid or major police action was happening Monday afternoon at a residential building on Sixth Street between Market and Mission streets.

Expect to See More Traffic Cops At Major SF Intersections As SFPD Cracks Down on Speeding

After a drop in traffic tickets in San Francisco in the last decade, SFPD is amping up traffic enforcement at intersections notorious for speeders.

SF Police Vow DUI Patrols Will Be Out in Force for 4/20

The “DUI Saturation Patrols” we normally associate with Saint Patrick’s Day and Super Bowl Sunday will be rolling out for this Saturday’s 4/20 observances, as SFPD hopes to discourage people from driving while stoned.

SFPD Boasts 42 Arrests Made in Wednesday’s One-Day Tenderloin Sweep

A one-day operation targeting Tenderloin drug dealers resulted in 42 arrests on Wednesday, and 30 of those suspects had outstanding warrants.

[Update] SFPD Takes Barricaded Individual at Parkmerced Into Custody After Standoff

Hostage/crisis negotiators were on the scene at Parkmerced in San Francisco Monday morning, after a man barricaded himself inside an apartment after allegedly making threats.

Civic Center Walgreens Ransacked by Shoplifters Sunday, Police Didn’t Respond for Four Hours

Another brazen Walgreens shoplifting heist was captured on video Sunday, as burglars emptied the shelves of the Ninth and Market street store, but police did not respond to the incident until four hours later.

SFPD Cop Found Guilty of Sexual Battery Over Marina Bar Groping Incident

A jury just found a five-year veteran of the SFPD guilty of sexual battery, over a 2021 incident where he groped a woman at a Marina bar, and brazenly did so with her husband right there.

SFPD Touts Drug Bust That Seized Eight Pounds of Fentanyl, 32 Pounds of Meth

A very heavy drug bust, as SFPD says they arrested four people for having 44 pounds of illegal drugs, and all were East Bay residents who allegedly supplied “street-level dealers who frequent the Tenderloin.”

Scandal-Plagued SFPD Partner Nonprofit SF SAFE Now Accused of Stiffing Local Florist Out of $17k

The SFPD-affiliated nonprofit SF SAFE was already awash in allegations of forged checks and millions in funds missing. Add to their troubles that they allegedly ran up a $17,000 bill at a Mission District floral shop that the nonprofit never paid.

Separate Shootings In SF Hospitalized Two People on Friday Night

Police are investigating two unrelated shootings that took place in Cow Hollow and Potrero Hill Friday night, but they haven't arrested any suspects yet.