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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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SFPD Hosts Town Hall on Last Weekend’s Police Shooting on Shotwell Street

The police department is still not exactly saying who shot first in an August 6 shootout between officers and a suspected bike thief, but it turns out the suspect did not have a real gun.

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Woman Says SFFD Sedated Her Against Her Will During Abortion Protest, She Just Served the City a John Burris Lawsuit

A protest stunt at a June Warriors game meant to stand up for abortion rights, but allegedly ended with the spiking of a protester with a sedative, and that protester has enlisted famed civil rights attorney John Burris in a lawsuit against the city.

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SFPD Mission Station Doubles Down on Seemingly Pointless Barricades, Wants Permanent New Ones

Those baffling barricades have been in front of the SFPD Mission Station for more than two years, and now we learn the department wants to erect permanent new barriers in front of the whole station.

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SFPD Seizes $200,000 of Allegedly Stolen CVS and Walgreens-Looking Items From SF Man’s Home

What looks to be a brazen stolen goods fencing operation, with items that sure appear straight lifted from shelves of Walgreens and CVS, was allegedly netting one San Francisco man $500,000 a year as he just resold the stolen loot online.

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SFPD Offering $100,000 for Information In 21-Year-Old SoMa Cold Case Homicide

Paula Brien was last seen alive outside a SoMa bar in June 2001. Now SFPD is reopening the cold case of her killing, and offering $100,000 for information leading to the arrest of her killer.

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SFPD Says 12 Officers Injured Amid Hostile July 4th Crowd In Mission

In an echo of an incident reported after the Warriors' NBA Championship celebrations in the Mission District three weeks ago, the SFPD says that a dozen officers sustained injuries from a hostile crowd shooting off fireworks and continuing to party after midnight Tuesday morning.

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SFPD Officer Arrested, Charged With Grand Theft, Fraud, and Forgery Over a Wrecked Ford Mustang

Chesa Boudin gets to charge one more SFPD officer on his way out! One SF cop who once had a GoFundMe so he could stay unvaccinated now faces multiple fraud charges involving a pricey Ford Mustang, which ended up getting totaled.

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SFPD Now Says That 'About 17 Officers Were Injured' During Thursday's Warriors Celebrations In the Mission

Without specifying any details about the injuries — and oddly we're only hearing about them five days later — the SFPD's Mission Station tweeted about multiple officers being injured during the hoopla in the Mission on June 16.

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SF Pride Hired a Crisis PR Firm to Broker Compromise Deal With Police Over Parade Boycott

Turns out that recent compromise deal for police to march in the SF Pride parade was drawn up by a tech industry public relations firm SF Pride hired for $4,000 a month, hoping to tell, in their words, a “fun and urgent story.”

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Breed Got Her Compromise With SF Pride, Small Number of SFPD Officers Will March in Uniform in Parade

SF Pride relented and Mayor London Breed and the SFPD were able to reach an acceptable compromise Thursday about the banning of police uniforms in the Pride Parade — just in time for the Pride Flag raising at City Hall.

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SFPD Releases Body-Cam Footage of Police Shooting That Killed Two Men In Mission Bay

The SFPD fulfilled its transparency obligation to hold a virtual town-hall meeting Friday — late in the afternoon before a holiday weekend — to discuss the events of May 19 that led to police fatally shooting two men who had been engaged in a fight with each other.

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Day Around the Bay: SFPD Schedules Town Hall On Fatal Shootings For Late Friday of Holiday Weekend

The SFPD is holding its town-hall meeting on the May 19 Mariposa Park shooting at 3 p.m. Friday, former Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick has won her wrongful termination suit, acclaimed local sushi master Ken Tominaga has died.

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SF Transgender District to Boycott City-Sponsored Pride Events In Response to Mayor's Support of Police

"The mayor’s decision — her seat of power, and her role and leadership in one of the most progressive cities in the world creates a domino effect," the district says in a statement.

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Oakland Man Arrested for Assaulting Three SF Women in a 10-Hour Period

Three San Francisco women, including a 75-year-old, were allegedly all assaulted by the same man in a 10-hour spree that covered Visitacion Valley and the Tenderloin.

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Report: SFPD Refused to Participate in Quickly Burglary Ring Bust, Boudin Had to Rent His Own U-Haul

New reporting on the DA's Office raid on a Tenderloin Quickly shop earlier this month alleges that police said “they were too busy” to assist in the bust, and that DA Boudin had to rent his own U-Haul to carry out the operation.

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[Update] Breed Joins Police, Fire Department in Boycotting Pride Parade Over Ban on Police Marching in Uniform

Mayor Breed, the SF Police Officers Association, and the fire department all say they’ll refuse to appear in the SF Pride Parade, in response to a 2020 decision that barred police from marching in uniform at the event.

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Police Shooting at Mission Bay: Two Men Dead After Altercation With Each Other and Police, SFPD Not Clear Who Shot Who

Two men died from gunshot wounds Thursday night in Mission Bay, a block away from UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, and while police were present and the SFPD says that some "officer-involved shooting occurred," it's not clear yet whether either man, or both, were shot by an officer's bullet.

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Grisly Weekend In SF With Homicide on Balmy Alley, Three Stabbings Saturday, Human Remains Found Near Vis Valley

SF police are seeking information on a number of violent crimes from over the weekend, including an early Saturday morning homicide on Balmy Alley, and a set of human remains found on rail tracks near Visitacion Valley.

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Report: SFPD Already Using Surveillance Video From Self-Driving Cars

An internal SFPD document obtained by VICE News shows that not only can the SF Police Department pull the camera video from autonomous Waymo and Cruise cars, but more chillingly, that they have “already done this several times.”

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Matt Dorsey’s Appointment to D6 Supervisor Throws More Gas On Blazing Debate Over Crime and Cops

Mayor Breed’s appointment of SFPD PR guy Matt Dorsey is being seen as a favor to the police department and Recall Chesa Boudin movement, but while Dorsey is well-respected at City Hall, the oppo research on him is already starting to emerge.