SF News SFPD Says It Has Made Over 900 Arrests for Narcotics Sales Since May The mayor's office and the SFPD put out new numbers this week documenting the success, they say, of efforts to crack down on open-air drug sales in and around the Tenderloin and SoMa.
SF News Multiple Data Sources Say Retail Theft Is Declining In San Francisco SFPD is hailing it as proof that their crackdown is working that both internal and external data show a decline in San Francisco retail theft, though it’s not yet a long-term trend, and the findings could just be statistical noise.
SF Politics Supervisor Safai’s ‘Cop Tax’ Headed for the March 5 Ballot, But Would Fund More Than Just Cops SF Supervisor and mayoral candidate Ahsha Safai may have won the first battle in the war of the 2024 SF elections with a new ballot measure tying police staffing to tax revenue, though a colleague called it “the worst-written piece of legislation I think I’ve seen.”
SF News Predictably, SFPD Bringing In Tons of Officers From Other Jurisdictions for APEC With a who’s-who of global leaders about to converge on San Francisco for the APEC summit, the Secret Service will be blanketing the city, along with officers from at least eight other outside law enforcement agencies to beef up the number of cops in town for the event.
SF News Muslim Ex-SFPD Officer Gets $455,000 In Discrimination Settlement An Afghan-born former SF police officer who allegedly endured more than a year of racial slurs, and says he was fired for speaking up about it, has been awarded a $455,000 settlement from the city.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Dorsey and Safai In Twitter Spat Over Funding Dorsey’s Police Staffing Plan Supervisor Matt Dorsey is dumping his own plan to bolster SFPD staffing after Supervisor Ahsha Safai inserted a so-called “poison pill” to the measure, so the two supes duked it out on Twitter and at a supervisors’ committee meeting that got personal.
SF News Thieves Swipe ATM From Clooney’s Pub, Then Crash Into SFPD Car A brazen Monday morning robbery at Clooney’s Pub at Valencia and 25th streets ripped off their ATM and some liquor from the establishment, then the suspects crashed into an SFPD patrol car. They’re still at large, but the SFPD has a vehicle description.
SF News SFPD Releases Bodycam Footage of Shooting of Man Who Drove Into Chinese Consulate We still don’t know the motive of the man who was shot and killed after driving into the SF Chinese consulate last week, but at a town hall meeting showing the officers’ bodycam videos, we see that the suspect was indeed swinging a knife.
SF News Three More Arrests Made In June's Rolling Gun Battle Down Embarcadero The SFPD announced three more arrests — two adults and one juvenile — in connection with a wild rolling gun battle in June down the Embarcadero from Fisherman's Wharf that left a young girl injured.
SF Politics Mayor London Breed Announces Ballot Measure to Reduce Police Paperwork, Allow Car Chases For Petty Crimes "Right now [SFPD] officers spend too much time on paperwork, which keeps them off our streets where they're needed most," says San Francisco Mayor London Breed.
SF News Sunset District Police Officer Injured While Trying To Stop Car Break-In An SFPD officer responding to a report of a car break-in was injured Wednesday night when the suspects' getaway car dragged him down the street.
SF News First Suspect Arrested In SFPD’s ‘Bait Car’ Campaign Has Prolific History of Car Break-Ins The SFPD’s ballyhooed bait-car campaign yielded its first arrest a week into the effort, and a KGO I-Team report found the suspect has a doozie of history of car break-ins — and of walking free after previous arrests.
SF News SFMTA Ticketing Stolen Cars, Not Checking Whether They’re Stolen Nearly 100 obviously stolen cars are just sitting in plain sight collecting tickets in San Francisco right now, and could be recovered today, but the SFMTA and police department are simply not sharing information with each other.
SF News SFPD Arrests Two For String of Recent Armed Robberies In the Mission District San Francisco police announced the arrest of two individuals, both men in their 30s, for a series of armed robberies in recent weeks that targeted businesses in the Mission District.
SF News Car Crashing Into Chinese Consulate In SF Considered an International Incident, Just Weeks Before APEC Information about the suspect shot and killed by police and his motivations are not being released quickly, the SFPD says, because Monday's crash is being treated as an international incident.
SF News SF Police Arrest Man For Spree of Violent Assaults Downtown on Sunday San Francisco police announced the arrest of a man in connection with four separate, unprovoked attacks on other people in downtown early Sunday morning.
SF News Police Pursuit Ends In Fatality and Injury Following Armed Robbery A police pursuit of suspects in an armed robbery and multiple auto burglaries took a deadly turn in San Francisco on Saturday, resulting in one fatality and another individual sustaining injuries.
SF News A Known Fencing Operation For Stolen Goods In the Tenderloin Isn't Being Shut Down For Some Reason ABC 7 stumbled on a curious story Friday involving a San Francisco man who had tracked his own stolen camera equipment to a spot on Leavenworth Street that is apparently already known to police.
SF News There Was a Homicide on Twin Peaks Saturday Night San Francisco police are investigating a homicide that occurred late Saturday night/early Sunday on Twin Peaks, which took the life of a 19-year-old man.
SF News City Hall May Revive Gold Rush-Era SF Patrol Special Police, Who Look Like Cops But Technically Aren’t Cops The SF Patrol Special Police look like police officers, but they’re not, and there’s only one of them left. Now Supervisor Aaron Peskin wants to beef up the 176-year-old program.
SF News Police and Crisis Negotiators In Standoff With Armed Man In Car on Cathedral Hill San Francisco residents were being advised to avoid the area of Eddy and Franklin streets Wednesday afternoon, due to a standoff with an armed suspect.
SF News Knife-Wielding Man In Tenderloin Shot and Gravely Wounded By SFPD A man with what appeared to be a machete or long knife was shot by San Francisco police Monday night on Jones Street in the Tenderloin, and the incident was widely captured on cellphone video by bystanders.
SF News Man Arrested After Standoff in SF Mission Bay Sunday Morning An armed gunman who fired a shot at SFPD officers during a chase surrendered after a 5-hour-long standoff, authorities say.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Police Union Calls Out Reem's In the Mission for Refusing to Serve Uniformed Cops We've got another one of these controversies in which a Bay Area restaurant has made it a policy not to serve armed and uniformed police officers, and the SF Police Union is again up in arms.
SF News Viral ‘Police Sit Back & Watch’ Alamo Square Video Was Edited, SFPD Did Pursue Suspect A viral video has racked up nearly a million views claiming “Police Sit Back & Watch” in an Alamo Square theft case, but the video edits out the part where police gave chase, and the stolen items were all recovered.
