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
SF News Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's Suspended Driver's License Nightmare Is Over, But Big Questions Remain According to a statement from the San Francisco Sheriff's Department, the Ross-Mirkarimi's-suspended-driver's-license saga has ended, not with a bang but with a whimper (and a call to California's Department of Motor Vehicles). Still,
SF News Outside Lands 2015 Arrests, Citations, And Crimes By The Numbers Nearly everyone had a great time at Outside Lands, right? Especially this guy. But some folks had a little too much fun (or tried to) and the numerous San Francisco Police Department officers
SF News Two Critically Injured In 24th Street Drive-By Shooting Two men are fighting for their lives after a shooting just steps from the 24th Street/Mission BART station Monday night. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Sergeant Michael Andraychak, at 10:
SF News Sheriff Mirkarimi Says No One Told Him His Driver's License Was Suspended The odd story broke late Monday: embattled first-term San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has been driving on an expired license since February, after an October collision, and didn't even realize it until a
SF News Not Guilty Plea For 43-Year-Old SF Woman Accused Of Killing Teenaged Lover The 43-year-old woman accused of shooting and killing an 18-year-old student at Balboa High School cohabited with the youth prior to the slaying, her attorney says. As previously reported, 43-year-old Silvia Lorena Montoya
SF News SFPD Investigates 'Suspicious' Mission District Death After a young woman died near San Francisco General Hospital, police say they are investigating her death as "suspicious." Police say that the body of 23-year-old San Francisco resident Melanie Oliveri was found
SF News With Thursday Death, SF Is On Track For Its Highest Homicide Rate In Years A man found dead in a Tenderloin residence appears to be a victim of San Francisco's 30th recorded homicide for 2015, putting the city on track to hit its highest number of annual
SF News Report: 42-Year-Old Woman Might Have Been Dating SF Teen She Allegedly Killed A 42-year-old woman arrested in the shooting death of a San Francisco teenager might have been dating the high-schooler, according to a local newspaper's report. According to a press release sent by San
SF News Wednesday Morning High-Speed Chase Sends SFPD Across SF A man and two women are in custody Wednesday following a high-speed chase that sent San Francisco Police Department officers through Hayes Valley, Russian Hill, the Tenderloin and the Mission. It all started
