SF News SFPD Investigating City's First Homicide Of 2015 The San Francisco Police Department is investigating its first known homicide of 2015, a shooting near Candlestick Park that claimed the life of a 22-year-old man. According to SFPD spokesperson Officer Albie Esparza,
SF News 'Botox Bandit' Scams SF Plastic Surgeon Out Of Thousands In Cosmetic Improvements You know that ruse where you pretend to be absorbed in your cell phone to avoid talking to someone? Well, apparently that deception also works if you want to get out of paying
SF News SFPD Officer Shoots At Unarmed Man During Union Square Search Sunday's tragic suicide at the hands of Mission Station police officers was not the only officer-involved shooting the San Francisco Police Department was contending with that day — according to a department spokesperson, earlier
SF News Man Shot By Mission Police Left Suicide Note, Tells Cops 'You Did Nothing Wrong' In a totally bizarre twist to the officer-involved shooting that occurred in the parking lot of the SFPD's Mission Station on Sunday evening, the department has just released a suicide note apparently penned
SF News SFPD Complies With Judge's Order, Releases Names Of Officers Who Killed Bernal Heights Man The Friday news release is long-known as "a transparent attempt to evade fallout by burying bad news ahead of the weekend," as Slate put it over a decade ago. Perhaps that's why, after
SF News Local Black Lives Matter Activists Come Up With List Of Demands For SFPD After a Sunday community meeting at City College's Southeast Campus, the local Black Lives Matter movement appears to have officially come up with a list of concrete demands for the SFPD. The meeting,
SF News Man Beaten By Plainclothes Officers For Riding Bike On Sidewalk Is Suing The City A photo posted by Travis Jensen (@travisjensen) on Nov 11, 2013 at 3:35pm PST A man who was viciously beaten over a year ago by three plainclothes San Francisco Police Department officers
SF News [Update] Police Unsure How Long People Were Stepping Over Dead Homeless Person In Front Of Market Street Coffee Shop Unfortunately one of the n'hoods homeless just passed away in front of Peet's coffee just now. Saw him every day on Mkt. St. @Castro_Biscuit— Dennis Richards (@PlnCom_Richards) December 31, 2014 A
SF News Suspect In At Least 10 FiDi Bank Robberies Nabbed By SFPD In Mid Market A man who police say is responsible for at least ten recent bank robberies in San Francisco is behind bars today, after a monthlong investigation into a Thanksgiving-week credit union heist. According to
SF News Federal Judge Allows Nudists' Suit Against City To Move Forward The crusade to retain the right to be naked in the streets of San Francisco marches on as a federal judge has whittled down a lawsuit brought by nudist activists against the City
SF News Arrest Made In Mission Street Shooting Of EMT Who Tried To Stop Fight The San Francisco Police Department has made an arrest in the fatal shooting of an emergency medical technician who was reportedly trying to break up a Mission Street altercation when he was killed.
SF News Have You Seen This Missing Western Addition Man? Police are seeking your help to find Gerald Penn, a 63-year-old Western Addition man who disappeared on Saturday afternoon. According to the San Francisco Police Department, Penn, who suffers from "a severe case
SF News Mugger Critically Injures Woman In SoMa Robbery Gone Wrong A woman is fighting for her life after she was stabbed during a South of Market mugging on Saturday morning, officials say today. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Officer Gordon Shyy,
SF News Attorney For Sheriff's Deputy Involved In SF General Brutality Case Calls Charges 'Political' In a somewhat curious statement, the attorney representing San Francisco sheriff's deputy Michael Lewelling who was arrested on December 19 in connection with some apparent brutality against a man with a cane in
SF News Masked Men Tie Up SF State Students And Steal Their Stuff Two armed men remain at large after a home invasion robbery a few short blocks from San Francisco State University's main campus early Monday morning. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Officer
SF News Judge Rules That Names Of Officers Who Shot Alex Nieto Must Be Revealed Though the SFPD and the City Attorney have been stalling for time in the case of the officer-involved death of Alex Nieto this past March, a federal judge has just ruled that the
SF News Second Sleeping Man Killed In Deadly SoMa Driveway Two years ago, a 55-year-old homeless man named Elvis Presley was sleeping in a SoMa driveway when a driver who was pulling out of her garage ran over and killed him. In a
SF News Police: Clown-Clad Pharmacy Robber, 'Chuck Taylor Bandit' Both Behind Bars Hey, remember that guy who, occasionally dressed as a clown, robbed a bunch of pharmacies in San Francisco this fall? Well, police said Friday that he'd been robbing banks too...and that they
SF News Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus (And He Robbed A Bank Saturday) In an apparent holiday gift to a local news ecosystem that might not have made enough cracks about naughtiness or niceness, watching out and not crying, etc, the San Francisco Police Department has
SF News SFFD, SFPD Stumped By Second Outbreak Of Torched Cars In Past Month Less than a month after three vehicles were damaged in an as-yet-unsolved carson in the Castro, four more cars were torched early Wednesday morning in what one San Francisco official is speculating might
SF News Fight Between Homeless Men Ends In San Francisco's 45th Homicide Of 2014 An early-morning fight between two homeless men in the Mission ended in what the San Francisco Police Department is calling a homicide — San Francisco's 45th of 2014. SFPD spokesperson Officer Grace Gatpandan says
SF News Suspect Remains On The Loose After Shooting At Coit Tower An 18-year-old man continues to fight for his life Tuesday after an early-morning shooting at Coit Tower. Bay City News reports via CBS5 that the victim, who hasn't been identified, flagged down a
SF News Police Officers Pissed Over Board Of Supervisors Resolution Supporting Protests A resolution being voted on today by the Board of Supervisors, sponsored by John Avalos, has got the Police Officers Association riled up because it paints a broad picture of all police as
SF News SF Nearing Last Year's Record As 2014 Homicide Count Rises To 44 55-year-old San Francisco resident Ronnie Hyson was shot and killed in a Tenderloin building last week, in what is reportedly San Francisco's 44th homicide of 2014. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson
SF News SFPD Makes Arrests In Fatal Valencia Street Stabbing, Mysterious SoMa Slaying The San Francisco Police Department sent out a flurry of announcements to press Tuesday, including news that arrests had been made in two recent homicides. According to a release sent by SFPD spokesperson
