SF News SFPD Salaries By The Numbers According to the SF Examiner, the San Francisco Police Department is "the highest paid big city force in the state," a situation former San Francisco Police Officers Association president Gary Delagnes says "is
SF News SF's 32nd Homicide For 2015: Stabbing Near SFPD Substation A 61-year-old San Francisco man was killed Thursday night, when a fight on a notorious SoMa street turned deadly. Officers from the San Francisco Police Department were called to the famously troubled stretch
SF News SFPD Says Driver Of Hit-And-Run Acura Cost Man His Leg In news that should please anyone concerned about the recent wave of hit-and-runs sweeping SF, the San Francisco Police Department says they've made an arrest in a collision so severe that the victim
SF News SF's 31st Homicide For 2015: Shooter In A Silver SUV The San Francisco Police Department is seeking a suspect in a silver SUV, after a man was fatally gunned down on Wednesday morning in the Bayview. SFPD officers found 23-year-old German Blanco suffering
SF News SFPD Seeks Driver Of Hit-And-Run Acura A man was seriously injured Monday when a driver struck him as he was getting into his own parked car. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the victim, a man in his
SF News SFPD Remains Tight-Lipped After Taraval Station Officer Is Accused Of Rape, Fellow Cop Accused Of Cover-Up Though a San Francisco Police Department officer was accused of rape over three weeks ago, the department didn't acknowledge the incident until today — and even then, a department spokesperson refused to disclose any
SF News Mid-Market Muni Bus Struck By Gunfire A Muni bus was damaged by gunfire Friday night, when bullets struck it as it turned onto a busy San Francisco Street. Hoodline reports that a 5-Fulton bus was turning McAllister Street onto
SF News SFPD To Investigate Critical Mass Incident Between Cyclist And Zipcar At last Friday's Critical Mass bike ride, a cyclist stopped in front of a Zipcar after moving in to opposing traffic. His bike was struck by the car when it began to move
SF News [Update] 7 Displaced, 1 Hospitalized After 2-Alarm Ashbury Heights Fire Major fire and structural collapse in Ashbury Heights. cc @breakingsfnews @SFGate @HuffPostSF pic.twitter.com/pWywGB1D4z— Joey Hodges (@joeyhodges) September 1, 2015 Firefighters are currently battling a 2-alarm structure fire in the Ashbury
SF News As SF's Crime Wave Continues, Police Chief Touts City's Relative Safety We've talked before about how crime is spiking in San Francisco: some blame the income divide, others blame the passage of Prop 47, and still others blame SF's rapid population increase. Today the
SF News Mirkarimi's Sheriff's Deputies To Patrol Streets Like Beat Cops San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has always been a fan of foot patrols, which during his time as a Supervisor made him many enemies in the San Francisco Police Department. And, true to
SF News Video: Watch Fillmore Shopper Stumble On, Steal $33,000 A Fillmore produce market that was storing tens of thousands of dollars in an unsecured box got a nasty surprise earlier this month, when a pillaging patron stumbled upon the stash and pocketed
SF News San Francisco Men Identified As Suspects In Russian Hill Tourist Shooting A day after the shooting of a tourist near San Francisco's iconic crooked portion of Lombard Street, police have identified the men they say are responsible for the crime. As previously reported, at
SF News [Update] Tourist Robbed, Shot In Chest Near Crooked Section Of Lombard Street Though the Chronicle originally reported that a man was shot and killed on a touristy Russian Hill block, they now write that the sole shooting victim is injured, not dead. He is now
SF News Hit-And-Run Driver Ditches Dodge Durango, Flees On Foot Saturday's Mission Street hit-and-run wasn't the only such crime last weekend — Sunday night, two more people fell victim to a driver that struck them, then took off. According to an San Francisco Police
SF News Life-Threatening Injuries For Pedestrian Struck By Porsche Driver 6th St closed between Market and Mission after Porsche slams into pedestrian pic.twitter.com/FOWLSwjN1W— Evan Sernoffsky (@EvanSernoffsky) August 25, 2015 A SoMa pedestrian is fighting for his life this morning, after
SF News Hit-And-Run Driver Critically Injures Woman On Mission Street The San Francisco Police Department is seeking witnesses to a Mission Street hit-and-run that critically injured a 24-year-old woman. According to an SFPD spokesperson, the woman was crossing Mission Street at Precita Avenue
SF News Honda Driver Turns SoMa Collision Into Gunpoint Robbery Was it an impromptu crime or a targeted robbery? That's just one of the questions the San Francisco Police Department is mulling after a vehicle collision in SoMa turned into a midday mugging.
SF News Medical Examiner Rules Feather Lynn Death A Homicide, Person Of Interest To Be Pursued Just a week after we were marking the one-year anniversary of the troublesome death of Feather Lynn a.k.a. Bryan Higgins, the Bay Area Reporter reveals that the city medical examiner has
SF News Horrible Couple Beats Man With Razor Scooter, Flees Via Said Weapon Can you escape on a gun? Nope. A knife? Nah. But a multitasking San Francisco criminal appeared to realize that one could use a Razor scooter not only to get to and from
SF News Video: Watch This Guy Plunder An SF Gas Station's Cash Register Stymied in their search for a mysterious hooded gas station bandit, the San Francisco Police Department has released video of the man's crime to the public. According to SFPD spokesperson Officer Carlos Manfredi,
SF News Video Of One-Legged Man Restrained By Police On Mid-Market Prompts Review The cellphone video above that we showed you on Monday via reporter Chaédria LaBouvier has now prompted a wave of media coverage and an incident review by the SFPD and SFFD. Both departments
SF News Police Still Seeking Suspects In January Drive-By In Bayview, Release Video Of Vehicle Two people were killed and one injured in a January 27 drive-by shooting, and seven months later that double-homicide has yet to be solved. One of the victims in the shooting, 32-year-old Maria
SF News Property Crime Up 22%, Violent Crime Up 13% Over Last Year "We've seen an absolute explosion of auto break-ins," said San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener to the Santa Cruz Sentinel, adding that "[t]here are areas in my district where you'll have 10 cars
SF News Video: Homeless Amputee Taken Down By 14 Cops At Seventh And Market An incident occurred on mid-Market two weeks ago in which a one-legged man with crutches was reported, possibly by a nearby business owner, for waving some "sticks" around in the vicinity. Though we