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Supervisors Give SFPD Significant Pay Raise, Starting Salary Now $103,000

The SF Board of Supervisors approved a nearly 11% salary increase for SFPD officers over the next three years, which will hopefully do something to encourage new officers to join the department, and encourage existing officers to solve more crimes.

SFPD Gets Their $25 Million More In Overtime Approved, Money They’ve Apparently Already Been Dipping Into

It’s a good thing the SFPD got their $25 million more in overtime approved by the Board of Supervisors Tuesday, because it seems they had already started spending plenty of that over-budget overtime money.

Fender-Bender On Mission District Alley Leads to Man Being Shot

Two cars collided Sunday evening in SF's Mission District, and in an apparent act of road rage, one driver shot the other driver before fleeing the scene.

SF DA Brooke Jenkins Has Cut Staff Level of Unit That Investigates Police By More Than Half

In further evidence that DA Jenkins may not be as aggressive in her pursuit of police accountability as her predecessors, the Chronicle has found that Jenkins has less than half the number of attorneys and fewer investigators working in the unit responsible for investigating police abuses.

Mayor Seeks Extra $27.6M to Cover SFPD Overtime Costs Amid Crackdown on Drug Dealing, Petty Crime

A week after her State of the City address, SF Mayor London Breed is asking the Board of Supervisors to approve a new chunk of money in the budget for police overtime costs — and she stresses this is about improving street safety across the city.

SFPD Arrests Two Peninsula Men for August Mission District Quadruple-Shooting That Left One Dead

Four people were shot and one of them killed in an early-morning shooting last summer at 19th and Mission Streets, but police have finally arrested a Daly City man and a Colma man who they think are responsible.

SF Police Commission Bans Pretextual Stops for Minor Traffic Violations, After Months of Controversy

After a five-hour debate at Wednesday night’s Police Commission meeting, the commission did finally adopt a policy to bar SFPD from making stops for nine specific traffic infractions that supporters of the ban say are ticky-tack offenses meant to search, incarcerate, and prosecute people of color.

SF Sees Exact Same Number of Homicides In 2022 As Previous Year, While Burglaries Are Down

According to the preliminary numbers from the SFPD, San Francisco looks to have had the exact same number of homicides in 2022 as in 2021 — a total of 55 — as of the end of the calendar year.

SFPD Touts 60 Arrests In New Retail Shoplifting Crackdown

Today in ‘People congratulating themselves for doing their job,’ the San Francisco police announced they’ve been running a secret anti-shoplifting operation since late November, and have nabbed 60 retail theft suspects in the process.

SFPD Officer Named In Celeste Guap Scandal Still Making Full Salary, Relegated to SFPD's Version of a 'Rubber Room'

SF taxpayers have paid about $17 million to continue to employ police in desk jobs for largely disciplinary reasons, including one officer implicated in the notorious Celeste Guap scandal who’s pulling up to $240,000 a year.

Police Commission Scales Back Limits on Traffic Stops After Public Pushback

The SF Police Commission is scaling back a plan to do away with most traffic stops in San Francisco, after public safety advocates and members of the public expressed concerns about the potential impacts on street safety.

Supervisors Approve SFPD Use of Killer Robots — What Could Go Wrong?

The SF Police Department got Board of Supervisors approval to use robots as a “deadly force option” against suspects Tuesday night. But at least the robots will only have bombs instead of firearms?

Humpday Headlines: SFPD Appears to Be Making More Stops and Arrests Under New DA

A study of the first three months since Brooke Jenkins was appointed DA finds that SFPD officers are making more stops and arrests, Washington High teachers are staging a sickout, and the break-in at the Pelosis' was caught on camera but no one was watching.

[Update] Well-Known Alleged Serial Sexual Predator Arrested Following Warrant

Alleged SF serial predator Bill Gene Hobbs has spent plenty more time in the headlines lately than in custody, though he was arrested Friday not long after a warrant was issued for him Friday morning.

Three Arrested Following Standoff, Including 15-Year-Old, In Armed Robbery Outside Mission Bar

The SFPD apprehended three suspects believed to be responsible for an armed robbery outside of a Mission District bar earlier this week, following a Wednesday standoff in SoMa.

‘Police Did Nothing Vol. XXIV’: Local Man Tracks Down His Own Tools Being Sold on Mission Street

A Vis Valley man had video of an intruder robbing his shed, followed the man to an encampment where his tools were sold, and then tracked the tools down being sold on Mission Street. But he says SFPD would not aid the investigation that he took into his own hands.

Mission District Attack Victims Can Identify Their Attackers, Denounce Police Inaction on Cases

Two recent assault victims in the Mission District say they can point out or even name their attackers, yet both attackers continue to roam the neighborhood without consequences.

Supes Approve Another Payout in Stengel Beating Case, $47,500 to Victim’s Ex-Girlfriend

The last loose end appears tied up in the first excessive force case against an on-duty SFPD officer, as the victim’s ex-girlfriend will receive a $47,5000 settlement.

Woman Whose Rape Kit DNA Was Used to Prosecute Her Sues the City and Chief of Police

The fallout continues from a February revelation that SFPD was keeping rape victims’ DNA and using it to potentially prosecute the victims for other crimes, as the Jane Doe in that case has sued the city in a U.S. District Court.

SFPD Offers $25K Reward For Information In Case of Homeless Man Whose Sleeping Bag Was Set On Fire

San Francisco police are offering a $25,000 reward in the hopes of solving a cold case from last fall — a homicide in which a homeless man's sleeping bag was set on fire in the Mission District.

SF Police Chief Releases Statement In Support of Officers' Decision to Not Arrest Alleged Catalytic Converter Thief

After catching an enormous amount of flak for releasing an alleged catalytic converter villain, SF Police Chief William Scott released a statement just before the weekend in support of the officers who didn't arrest the man.

GPS Trackers Are Turning SF Petty Crime Victims Into Vigilantes

The prevalence of GPS-tracking devices on cars, in cellphones, and attached to various objects including car keys and wallets, means that victims of petty crime don't have to rely on the police to find out where a thief has gone off to with their belongings. But that's not necessarily a good thing.

Outer Sunset Meth Dealer Busted, Seven Pounds of Drugs Seized

Officers from the SFPD's Taraval Station raided the home of a suspected meth dealer this week, arresting two individuals and seizing seven pounds of assorted narcotics and pills.

SFPD Catches Catalytic Converter Thief In the Act, Lets Him Go, Then Gives Him Directions Home

In today’s SF installment of “Police Did Nothing,” police catch an alleged catalytic converter thief red-handed in the Richmond, learn he is on probation for property theft, then kindly dismiss him while giving him directions so he could get home.

SFPD Offers $50K Reward, Releases Suspect Vehicle Photo In April Basketball Court Shooting

Four men were shot, two of them fatally, at a Crocker-Amazon playground basketball court in April, and the SFPD is now seeking the public's help in finding the shooter.