SF News Neighbors Fight Back After Tourist Hotspot Becomes Car Break-In Zone The flight of tiled steps at 16th Avenue and Moraga Street is well-known as a tourist attraction, a great non-gym workout, and a staycation sight to see. But now it's getting far more
SF News Officers Fired On Alex Nieto As Many As 59 Times; Nieto Allegedly Fired Taser At Them Three Times As the civil trial begins in a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of San Francisco following the 2014 death of Alejandro "Alex" Nieto at the hands of SF police, some fresh details
SF News Civil Rights Trial Against City In Alex Nieto Shooting Begins Today A federal trial in the civil rights lawsuit against the City of San Francisco regarding the March 2014 shooting death of 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto is set to begin today, as the Examiner reports,
SF News New Evidence Emerges In SFPD Shootings As Complaints Office Seeks More Authority A proposal authored by Supervisor Malia Cohen to give the Office of Citizen Complaints complete authority to investigate all police shootings is moving forward, the Examiner reports, with the Board's Rules Committee sending
SF News Mid-Market Gang Jumps Man For Toiletries A man walking down Market Street had a scary encounter this morning, when a gang of miscreants chased him down and stole his stuff. According to the San Francisco Police Department, a 32-year-old
SF News Soccer Hooligan Leaves SF Ref With Traumatic Brain Injury The SFPD is seeking an adult — and apparently quite aggro — soccer player who brutally beat the referee who ejected him from a game. The Chron reports that the fateful adult-league game was played
SF News DA Gascon Denounces 'Old Boys' Club' In SFPD As Department Announces New Community-Oriented Bureau In an effort to restore trust in the San Francisco Police Department in the wake of the killing of Mario Woods, Police Chief Greg Suhr and Mayor Ed Lee announced Monday that some
SF News Have You Seen This Missing SF Woman? The San Francisco Police Department is asking for the public's help to find an elderly area woman who lost touch with her family over a week ago. According to SFPD spokesperson Officer Albie
SF News Man Shot To Death In Front Of Fillmore Street Restaurant Passenger in white car dies after being shot multiple times leaving McDonald's drive thru on Fillmore/Golden Gate. pic.twitter.com/sfkpgbVlPr— Lilian Kim (@liliankim7) February 22, 2016 A man is dead after
SF News Tourist Fights For Life After Knife Attack A British tourist walking with his niece near Post Street and Franklin was robbed at knifepoint and then stabbed in the head. His condition is described as "grave." The 44-year old tourist and
SF News Report: Alcohol And Disrespect Sparked Twin Peaks Double Homicide According to prosecutors with the San Francisco District Attorney's office, a simple verbal dispute might have sparked the shooting death of two men and the critical injury of a third at a popular
SF News Peet's Barista Allegedly Performed Autopsies At Backlogged Medical Examiner's Office When one pictures a doctor performing an autopsy of a murder victim, the image of an inadequately trained, unsupervised, part-time Peet's barista doesn't usually come to mind. And yet that is exactly who
SF News Man Beaten For Books At Site Of Earlier Cookie Mugging Just steps from the site of a brazen cookie theft, we hear tell of another strange and dastardly crime — but this time, a box of books was the target. Yes, books, the items
SF News Suspect In Twin Peaks Double Homicide Has Violent History The suspect in the Twin Peaks Valentine's Day double murder is a Richmond man with a violent past, and police say the alleged car jacking he engaged in after the shooting was not
SF News Following Yet Another Pedestrian Death, SFPD Takes Drivers To Twitter Task Days after the San Francisco Police Department published a clearly frustrated tweet regarding yet another pedestrian death on city streets, details on the fatality have been released. "So another pedestrian struck and killed
SF News Cookie Bandits Menace Mission Street You've heard about muggers who are after your cell phone, your bag, your camera, or even your jewelry. But now even your cookies might be at risk as you walk on San Francisco's
SF News Mission Resident Shot Fighting Off Home Invader A man was shot Monday morning in his own home while attempting to fight off a robber. Details are light, but what we do know is pretty frightening and a bit bizarre. At
SF News Richmond Man Arrested For Valentine's Day Double-Homicide At Twin Peaks A Richmond man has been arrested in the high-profile shooting of three men at the Twin Peaks lookout on Valentine's Day, after a "heavily armed" SWAT team raided a San Pablo Avenue residence
SF News Police Seeking Carjacked Yukon Denali Involved In Twin Peaks Shooting The SFPD is on the hunt for a dark gray GMC Yukon Denali with the license plate 5PJU851 which was carjacked at the scene of the Sunday morning's double homicide on Twin Peaks
SF News Two Shot And Killed At Twin Peaks Lookout; Scott Wiener Blames SFPD Under-Staffing Two men are dead and a third fights for his life after an early-morning shooting at one of San Francisco's most popular tourist spots, and a San Francisco Supervisor is blaming the deaths
SF News [Updated] Man Attacked By Vicious Dog Near Golden Gate Park Polo Fields Please scroll to the bottom for an update from the daughter of the victim Rumors of a man violently attacked by a dog in Golden Gate Park have roiled social-media-using San Francisco dog
SF News Autopsy: Mario Woods Shot 17 Times From Behind, Had Drugs In System Mario Woods was shot by SFPD officers 20 times on December 2, with an autopsy describing the trajectory of 17 of his gunshots wounds as "back to front." The medical examiner's report was
SF News SFPD To Finally Get Body Cameras Via Taser Contract It's been two years since SFPD chief Greg Suhr said that the beginning of the department's body camera program was just two weeks away, as KQED reports in the 2015 explantory video above.
SF News Taxpayers May Foot The Legal Bill For Those Hate-Texting SFPD Officers As you surely remember, the 17 SFPD officers investigated for sending scores of racist and homophobic text messages amongst themselves were allowed to remain on the force after a judge ruled the statute
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: Is Saving Parking Spaces By Standing In Them Kosher In The 415? Dear Rain, I've lived a couple places before I moved to SF, but nowhere else have I seen people "save" parking spaces the way they do here. I'm talking about how someone will
