Arts & Entertainment SFPD Sergeant’s Crime Novel Just Got Picked Up to Be Developed As a TV Series San Francisco police sergeant Adam Plantinga’s new novel ‘The Ascent’ is in some ways autobiographical, with one major exception — the protagonist cop is forced to break out of a maximum security prison.
SF News SFPD Touts 23 Arrests Last Week in U.N. Plaza Drug Crackdown ‘Night Operations’ The SF Police Department says they arrested 23 people in two nights during “night operations” last week in Civic Center’s long-beleaguered UN Plaza, as they continue their uphill battle to clean up that area.
SF News SF SAFE Scandal Gets Way Bigger, With Allegations of Check Forgery, and Millions of Dollars Missing An SFPD-funded “crime prevention” nonprofit is now itself under investigation for crime, with an untold amount of money missing, a criminal investigation for check forgery, and a suddenly fired executive director.
SF News Nonprofit ‘SF Safe’ Improperly Spent Tens of Thousands of SFPD Money on Limo Rides, Tahoe Trips A new report from the City Controller says that a long-standing “public safety services” nonprofit has been improperly billing the police department nearly $10,000 a month on limo rides, Vegas and Tahoe trips, and curiously pricey gift boxes.
SF News Charges Dropped Against Man Shot By Police While Holding Knife In Tenderloin A man who was shot five times by the SFPD in August in a widely covered incident in the Tenderloin is going free after being jailed for the last four months, after the cops in the case declined to testify.
SF News Fleeing Suspect, Police Chase Tuesday Evening Causes Multiple Injuries In SF A hit-and-run suspect who was fleeing from San Francisco police on Tuesday allegedly struck a car and a pedestrian as he tried to escape arrest, leading to multiple injuries.
SF News SFPD Hit With the Inevitable Lawsuit Over ‘Dolores Hill Bomb’ Mass Arrest of 81 Minors Parents said they would sue over July’s draconian mass arrest of 117 people (83 of them minors) during this year’s Dolores Hill Bomb skateboarding meetup, and that lawsuit against the SFPD has now arrived.
SF News SFPD Says It Has Made Over 900 Arrests for Narcotics Sales Since May The mayor's office and the SFPD put out new numbers this week documenting the success, they say, of efforts to crack down on open-air drug sales in and around the Tenderloin and SoMa.
SF News Multiple Data Sources Say Retail Theft Is Declining In San Francisco SFPD is hailing it as proof that their crackdown is working that both internal and external data show a decline in San Francisco retail theft, though it’s not yet a long-term trend, and the findings could just be statistical noise.
SF Politics Supervisor Safai’s ‘Cop Tax’ Headed for the March 5 Ballot, But Would Fund More Than Just Cops SF Supervisor and mayoral candidate Ahsha Safai may have won the first battle in the war of the 2024 SF elections with a new ballot measure tying police staffing to tax revenue, though a colleague called it “the worst-written piece of legislation I think I’ve seen.”
SF News Predictably, SFPD Bringing In Tons of Officers From Other Jurisdictions for APEC With a who’s-who of global leaders about to converge on San Francisco for the APEC summit, the Secret Service will be blanketing the city, along with officers from at least eight other outside law enforcement agencies to beef up the number of cops in town for the event.
SF News Muslim Ex-SFPD Officer Gets $455,000 In Discrimination Settlement An Afghan-born former SF police officer who allegedly endured more than a year of racial slurs, and says he was fired for speaking up about it, has been awarded a $455,000 settlement from the city.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Dorsey and Safai In Twitter Spat Over Funding Dorsey’s Police Staffing Plan Supervisor Matt Dorsey is dumping his own plan to bolster SFPD staffing after Supervisor Ahsha Safai inserted a so-called “poison pill” to the measure, so the two supes duked it out on Twitter and at a supervisors’ committee meeting that got personal.
SF News Thieves Swipe ATM From Clooney’s Pub, Then Crash Into SFPD Car A brazen Monday morning robbery at Clooney’s Pub at Valencia and 25th streets ripped off their ATM and some liquor from the establishment, then the suspects crashed into an SFPD patrol car. They’re still at large, but the SFPD has a vehicle description.
SF News SFPD Releases Bodycam Footage of Shooting of Man Who Drove Into Chinese Consulate We still don’t know the motive of the man who was shot and killed after driving into the SF Chinese consulate last week, but at a town hall meeting showing the officers’ bodycam videos, we see that the suspect was indeed swinging a knife.
SF News Three More Arrests Made In June's Rolling Gun Battle Down Embarcadero The SFPD announced three more arrests — two adults and one juvenile — in connection with a wild rolling gun battle in June down the Embarcadero from Fisherman's Wharf that left a young girl injured.
SF Politics Mayor London Breed Announces Ballot Measure to Reduce Police Paperwork, Allow Car Chases For Petty Crimes "Right now [SFPD] officers spend too much time on paperwork, which keeps them off our streets where they're needed most," says San Francisco Mayor London Breed.
SF News Sunset District Police Officer Injured While Trying To Stop Car Break-In An SFPD officer responding to a report of a car break-in was injured Wednesday night when the suspects' getaway car dragged him down the street.
SF News First Suspect Arrested In SFPD’s ‘Bait Car’ Campaign Has Prolific History of Car Break-Ins The SFPD’s ballyhooed bait-car campaign yielded its first arrest a week into the effort, and a KGO I-Team report found the suspect has a doozie of history of car break-ins — and of walking free after previous arrests.
SF News SFMTA Ticketing Stolen Cars, Not Checking Whether They’re Stolen Nearly 100 obviously stolen cars are just sitting in plain sight collecting tickets in San Francisco right now, and could be recovered today, but the SFMTA and police department are simply not sharing information with each other.
SF News SFPD Arrests Two For String of Recent Armed Robberies In the Mission District San Francisco police announced the arrest of two individuals, both men in their 30s, for a series of armed robberies in recent weeks that targeted businesses in the Mission District.
SF News Car Crashing Into Chinese Consulate In SF Considered an International Incident, Just Weeks Before APEC Information about the suspect shot and killed by police and his motivations are not being released quickly, the SFPD says, because Monday's crash is being treated as an international incident.
SF News SF Police Arrest Man For Spree of Violent Assaults Downtown on Sunday San Francisco police announced the arrest of a man in connection with four separate, unprovoked attacks on other people in downtown early Sunday morning.
SF News Police Pursuit Ends In Fatality and Injury Following Armed Robbery A police pursuit of suspects in an armed robbery and multiple auto burglaries took a deadly turn in San Francisco on Saturday, resulting in one fatality and another individual sustaining injuries.
SF News A Known Fencing Operation For Stolen Goods In the Tenderloin Isn't Being Shut Down For Some Reason ABC 7 stumbled on a curious story Friday involving a San Francisco man who had tracked his own stolen camera equipment to a spot on Leavenworth Street that is apparently already known to police.
