SF News Allegedly Bleach-Drinking Man Arrested Following 22-Hour Standoff With SFPD An allegedly suicidal San Francisco man is in custody, after a dramatic standoff that went on for 22 hours. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Sergeant Michael Andraychak, 51-year-old Magnom F. Carolino
SF News Officer Named In Fatal Shooting Of Luis Gongora Assigned To Bureau Handling Police Reforms Within 30 seconds of their arrival at Shotwell Street near 19th Street on April 7, SFPD officers had shot 45-year-old Luis Gongora multiple times. He later died at SF General Hospital. As many
SF News Pokemon Go Claims First San Francisco Mugging Victims A photo posted by Jessica Scorpio (@jessicascorpio) on Jul 11, 2016 at 1:40pm PDT Despite the best efforts of the San Francisco Police Department to encourage safety for Pokemon Go players, the
SF News Union Street Bank Vault Raided By Robber A bank robbery on San Francisco's Union Street went beyond the typical "hand note to teller" scenario Monday, when the solo thief stormed the financial institution's vault. According to the San Francisco Police
SF News Man Mugged For Rollerblades In Potrero Hill A San Francisco man is getting around town a little more slowly today, after a gang of muggers callously pulled his mode of transportation from his feet. It was 1:15 Monday morning
SF News DA Issues Blue Ribbon Report On SFPD, Cites Racial Bias And Lack Of Oversight A year-long probe by the district attorney into the conduct of the San Francisco Police Department is now complete and its results paint a portrait of a department that disproportionately targets racial minorities
SF News SF Shoot For <i>Sense8</i> Hit With Sanctions Over Public Park Nudity Other than the occasional nude march and rally, most San Franciscans have settled into Supervisor Scott Wiener's three-year-old ban on exposed flesh without too much grumbling, but now a location scout who's worked
SF News SFPD Forced To Issue Pokémon Go Safety Tips Riding BART and catching Pokemon at every stop. There are at least six other people in my car doing this. #pokemongo pic.twitter.com/4SULdIDIR0— Leah Weitz (@Leah_Weitz) July 10, 2016 With
SF News Hundreds Of Black Lives Matter Protesters March Through Downtown SF, Attempt To Get On Freeway A group of several hundred Black Lives Matter protesters attempted all Saturday afternoon and into the early evening to get onto several freeway on-ramps and disrupt traffic going to and from the Bay
SF News Peaceful March Against Police Killings Culminates In Rally At City Hall At least 1000 people (the Chronicle put it at 500) gathered Friday evening at the foot of Market Street to protest this week's deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile at the hands
SF News Suspect From Market Street Standoff In Critical Condition The suspect at the center of the near four-hour standoff with police at Market and Jones Street on Wednesday remains hospitalized in critical condition and requires surgery for some of the injuries he
SF News In Wake Of Dallas Attack, Bay Area Police Patrolling In Pairs Following a sniper attack in Dallas Thursday night that left five police officers dead, police in the Bay Area are reportedly taking precautions to prevent any copycat shootings. The Dallas shootings, which began
SF News Could An App Stop Racist Policing? It's difficult to overstate technology's importance in the Black Lives Matter movement. Bystander cell phone video has made it harder, if somehow still not impossible, to ignore the seemingly endless killings of African
SF News Errant Gun Cleaner Shoots Neighbor Near SF State A San Francisco man's quiet evening at home was abruptly shattered Wednesday, when a bullet tore through his ceiling and struck him in the leg. According to the San Francisco Police Department, a
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Police Take Allegedly Armed, Mentally Ill Man Into Custody, Ending Four-Hour Mid-Market Standoff Officers on tank pointing rifles at suspect with a gun near Market/Jones #breaking pic.twitter.com/Y1Prc7isR2— Jessica Christian (@jachristian) July 6, 2016 Reports of a possibly armed man outside the Hibernia
SF News Phone Tracker Leads SFPD To Teenage Mugging Team The victims of a Fillmore District mugging got a happy ending Tuesday, when the tracker in their stolen phone led police to their robbers...and reunited them with their stuff. It was 7:
SF News Firm That Recruited Ousted Oakland Police Chief Charging SF $49K To Find New SFPD Chief The national search process is beginning for a new chief of police for San Francisco, following a season of high tension and high drama on both sides of the bay for both the
SF News Shootings In Mission, Tenderloin Claim Two Lives Walking on the scene of a shooting in the mission is heartbreaking. Thankful to all those risking their life on the front line of #gunviolence for our collective safety #sanfrancisco A video posted
SF News Federal Judge: SFPD Shows 'Substantial Evidence Of Racially Selective Enforcement' An SFPD drug sting operation that resulted in the arrests of 37 people, all of whom are African American, shows "substantial evidence" of racially biased law enforcement according to a federal judge. The
SF News Crime On The Decline In 2016, Says SFPD Opera-goer muggings aside, crime is actually down this year according to new stats from the SFPD. As the Examiner reports, new data from May shows a downward trend in the frequency of robberies,
SF News Teen Jumped On Market Street, Beaten By Bat-Wielding Gang Of Seven A 19-year-old man was left bruised and unconscious Thursday afternoon, following a violent altercation with a group of men and woman on Market Street. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the youth
SF News Wicked Woman Violently Robs San Francisco Opera-Goer A patron of the San Francisco Opera is recovering today, after she was violently mugged last night as she was leaving the performance venue. It was 10:45 p.m. Thursday evening when
SF News Mission Street M&M's Sale Transforms Into Armed Robbery At first, it seemed like the man who entered a Bernal Heights convenience store just wanted a candy-coated treat. But the snack run was a mere ruse, as a corner store confection buyer
SF News Streetsblog Editor Confronts City Employee Parked In Bike Lane With last week's two separate hit-and-run deaths of cyclists still very much on his mind, Streetsblog editor Roger Rudick writes yesterday that on Saturday he decided to talk a walk down Market Street
SF News Inept Criminals Nabbed By SFPD After West Side Heists Turn Into Multi-Car Collisions The San Francisco Police Department nabbed multiple suspects this weekend, after a pair of attempted robberies went down on the oft-sleepy west side of the city. at 10:05 Saturday night, two men
