SF News Tenderloin Cell Phone Thief Uses Beer As Weapon When forced to choose between a beer and a stolen cell phone, one Tenderloin-area thief chose the latter, tossing his brew in an effort to escape with the purloined device. According to a
SF News SFPD Gets Its First Body Cameras, Pledges Full Deployment By Thanksgiving Acting police chief Toney Chaplin announced at a Police Commission meeting Wednesday night that officers at all 10 of San Francisco's police stations would be equipped with body cameras by Thanksgiving. Mayor Lee
SF News Police Commission Releases Some Info On SFPD Chief Applicants Sixty-one people want the job of chief of the San Francisco Police Department. Those 61, a number which includes current acting chief Toney Chaplin, have all applied for the role — submitting detailed applications
SF News Man Allegedly Bites Woman In SoMa Attack, Then Causes Hours Of Chaos On Bay Bridge A Wednesday night aggravated assault in SoMa turned even more bizarre by Thursday morning, as the suspect in the attack fled to the Bay Bridge, allegedly wandered into traffic while throwing cones and
SF News SF Car Break-Ins Down 18 Percent As Of July The scourge of car burglaries which have been noticeably on the rise in the last two years in various neighborhoods, hitting a five-year high last summer may finally be slowing down thanks to
SF News On Occasion Of Third Birthday, Family Of Missing Toddler Holds Out Hope For Her Safe Return It's been a little more than seven months since Bay Area toddler Arianna Fitts was seen last. Though a search for the child began in April, the whereabouts of the toddler, whose third
SF News Violent Bike Thieves Menace Teens At Pier 28, Mid-Market Having your bike stolen is an unpleasant San Francisco rite of passage, like stepping in feces of undetermined origin or having the 5 Fulton pass you by as you wait at the bus
SF News Dog Reportedly Stolen From SoMa Whole Foods Woman reports 6-year-old Dachsund mix is stolen outside Whole Foods market in San Francisco. https://t.co/sDGoGRBnsA— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) September 7, 2016 A tiny Dachshund mix named Goose is missing
SF News Bike-Riding Gunman Opens Fire On Parked Motorist A cyclist opened fire on a man seated in a parked car in San Francisco this weekend, causing a chain reaction of destruction and injury. Police say that it all began at 8:
SF News Driver Loses Control Of Vehicle, Critically Injures Pedestrian A pedestrian was seriously injured Thursday morning, after he was struck by a driver near San Francisco's Cow Palace. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the collision occurred at 10 a.m.
SF News SF Woman Says She Was Menaced By Lafayette Park Attacker, Got Little Help From SFPD Nearly two weeks after a woman was brutally attacked by a stranger during a walk in Pacific Heights, the San Francisco Police Department appears no closer to finding the man responsible. But though
SF News As 60 Applicants Vie To Be Next SFPD Chief, Acting Chief Reveals Details Of His Educational Background Sixty people are in the running to become San Francisco's next chief of police, the Police Commission announced Thursday night, but persistent questions over the acting chief's educational background might end up putting
SF News [Update] Abducted Infant Found In San Mateo Following Amber Alert The phones of Bay Area residents buzzed in unison Thursday morning, as an Amber Alert was issued for San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa and Solano counties in the case
SF News Iconic Downtown Wells Fargo Robbed By (Possibly?) Armed Man A possibly armed bank robber remains on the loose Thursday, following a brazen mid-afternoon heist at one of San Francisco's most prominent banks. It was 3:20 Wednesday afternoon, police say, when a
SF News Jail Sentence For Former SFPD Officer Who Illegally Searched SRO The former San Francisco police officer convicted of illegally entering and searching a SRO in 2010 has been sentenced to over a year in jail. Bay City News reports that Arshad Razzak claimed
SF News Families Of Boys Struck By Alleged Drunk Driving Debutante Sue Driver, San Francisco Readers eager for an update (yes, we've gotten your tweets, Facebook messages, and emails) on the case of Kirsten Andereck, the allegedly drunk Seacliff resident who witnesses say slammed into two kids as
SF News One Injured In Muni Bus Bottle Bashing A Muni bus rider was left with wounds to the face Tuesday, when a mugging team assaulted him and stole his cell phone. It was a brazen mid-morning attack, police say, at 10:
SF News Thieves Got A USPS Master Key And Are Pilfering Mail Across The City Police are on the lookout for two thieves they say have gone on a mail-stealing spree across San Francisco. According to Fox 2, the man and the woman appear to have obtained a
SF News Questions Raised As Interim Police Chief Refuses To Say Where He Went To College As San Francisco nears the end of its search for a police chief to replace ousted Greg Suhr, an interesting wrinkle has developed in current interim chief Toney Chaplin's attempt to get the
SF News Violent Group Of Deplorable Teens Pulls Laptop Theft Scam At Westfield Centre Though located on San Francisco's "most criminal block," the Westfield Centre shopping mall has long presented itself as a tony oasis in the fraught melee that can be Market Street between Fourth and
SF News San Francisco's City Worker Salaries, By The Numbers You already know that San Francisco has a $9.6 billion budget — "more than the budgets of 13 states and scores of countries around the world," the Chron notes. As reported earlier this
SF News Gang Of Ten Chase Man Through Dolores Park, Attack Him On Church Street A man was critically injured early Sunday evening, after a large group of men chased him through Dolores Park then beat and stabbed him in a nearby intersection. According to the San Francisco
SF News Woman Awakes To Find Her Home Ransacked, Face Scratched A San Francisco woman awoke Wednesday to a terrifying scene: A mysterious stranger had torn apart her home, and left her with injuries to the face. The San Francisco Police Department reports that
SF News Antique Heist Leads To $50K Loss Of Rare Greek And Japanese Artifacts A low-profile antiquities heist earlier this month in San Francisco netted thieves valuable Greek and Japanese artifacts that officials estimate to be worth at least $50,000. According to The Examiner, this is
SF News Unable To Identify Suspect, SFPD Releases Video Of Brutal Pacific Heights Beating Four days after a random attack on a San Francisco pedestrian, police have released video of the brutal beating in hopes that it might help them track down the suspect. According to the