SF News Two SFPD Officers Arrested for Destroying Evidence, Ex-Officer Arrested for Swiping Machine Gun From Evidence Room Two separate SFPD scandals hit the fan at the same time, as two current officers were arrested for destroying evidence (including meth, allegedly) and a former officer was arrested for relieving the evidence room of a machine gun.
Business & Tech Jokes and Some Outrage Drive Themselves on Twitter In Wake of Driverless Cruise Cab Pulled Over by Cops It has been a long, inevitable road to get to the point where even law enforcement is visibly flummoxed on what to do with an AV that isn't following the rules of the road.
Business & Tech Video: SF Cops Try to Pull Over Driverless Cruise Taxi, Hilarity Ensues All haters of the ersatz training course for robot cars that San Francisco's streets have become are having a field day with a new video, posted earlier this month, showing an autonomous Cruise taxi in the Richmond District getting pulled over by the SFPD with no driver inside.
SF News San Francisco Police Accused of Racially Profiling, Unlawfully Detaining Black Child Famed local attorney John Burris is suing the City and County of San Francisco over a March incident involving the SFPD and a Black 13-year-old.
SF News Report: SFPD Use-of-Force Cases Down Sharply, But Enormous Racial Disparities Remain Unchanged The SFPD just released an internal report on their stops and use-of-force incidents, and while the SFPD has cut its use-of-force cases in half, the percentages still show overwhelming enforcement disparities against Black and Brown people.
SF News Of Course SFPD Is Doing DUI Checkpoints for St. Patrick’s Day The San Francisco Police Department is very eager to inform that they will be out in force with DUI checkpoints and patrols for St. Patrick’s Day, because well-publicized checkpoints do indeed cut down on drunk driving.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin Speaks After High-Profile Defeat in Prosecution of Officer for Police Beating After losing the trial in the first use-of-force case brought against an on-duty SFPD officer, DA Chesa Boudin says “You can’t be scared to lose,” and is still prosecuting cases against five other officers.
SF Politics Judge In SFPD Use-of-Force Trial Balks at Prosecution's Request for New Court Date, Sends Clear Message to DA The judge in the trial of SFPD Officer Terrance Stangel, a trial which ended Monday in a near complete acquittal, sounded less than patient with the District Attorney's Office on Tuesday when a request was made for a new court date.
SF News [Update] Jury Reaches Verdict, Acquits SFPD Officer on Three Counts for Use of Force, Deadlocked on One Count The jury in the historic trial of a San Francisco police officer for the excessive use of force used to detain a suspect reached verdicts on three of four counts on Monday, acquitting Terrance Stangel of the charges, but they remained deadlocked on a final count.
SF News Jury Enters Deliberations In SFPD Brutality Trial; Prosecution Argues Officers Didn't See Victim 'As Human' Deliberations began Tuesday in the historic trial of SFPD Officer Terrance Stangel, who is charged with excessive use of force in a 2019 beating of a domestic violence suspect who was subsequently not charged with any crime.
SF News SFPD Officer Takes Stand in First Excessive-Force Trial: ‘Every Single Baton Strike at the Time Was Necessary’ Officer Terrance Stangel is on trial for felony assault and battery in the case of a 2019 Fisherman’s Wharf beating, and on Wednesday he became the first SFPD officer to have to testify in his own defense in a trial for an on-duty assault.
SF News SFPD Backtracks, Will No Longer Use Rape Kit DNA to Prosecute Rape Victims for Unrelated Crimes After a week-long public relations disaster over misuse of DNA evidence from rape kits, the SFPD announced Tuesday that it will end the practice, but it makes you wonder how many police departments nationwide are doing this.
SF Politics More Stories Surface of Alleged SFPD Inaction on Crimes, Chief Claims ‘Serious Morale Issues’ After a Chronicle report about police inaction toward a suspect trashing a parklet, crime victims are coming out of the woodwork saying they were blown off too, but Chief Scott blames “serious morale issues.”
SF News State Attorney General Steps In to Help Mediate Battle Between SFPD and Chesa Boudin On Monday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a joint statement with SF Mayor London Breed and City Attorney David Chiu about helping SF's embattled district attorney and the city's police department work out their differences.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink ‘Best Parklet in the City’ Trashed by a Vandal, and Police Reportedly Did Not Intervene When a downtown wine bar's prize-winning parklet was thoroughly vandalized on December 31, security footage indicates SFPD approached the vandal, but then left and allowed him to continue.
SF News DA's Office: SFPD Used Rape Victim's DNA to Link Her to a Property Crime The latest salvo in the public-relations war between the San Francisco Police Department and the office of District Attorney Chesa Boudin is also a highly troubling potential breach of a sexual assault victim's privacy.
SF News In Police Beating Trial, Officer Testifies That Police Declined to Interview Two Eyewitnesses The SFPD says Chesa Boudin buried an interview that would have absolved an officer in a police beating. But it turns out that officer had eyewitnesses asking to be interviewed at the scene, and wouldn’t talk to them.
SF Politics Supervisors OK $700K Settlement for Police Beating Victim, In Case Where SFPD Is Basically at War With Boudin High drama unfolded Tuesday as the SF Board of Supervisors approved a settlement for a police beating victim, but the supervisors’ charged debate shows that major new battle lines are being drawn in the Recall Chesa Boudin campaign.
SF Politics SF's First Excessive-Force Trial Against a Police Officer Kicks Off Under Cloud of Controversy The trial of San Francisco Police Officer Terrance Stangel, the first involving an on-duty SF cop in which District Attorney Chesa Boudin has brought charges of excessive force and the first known trial of its kind in the city, began on Monday morning.
SF Politics DA Chesa Boudin Says SFPD Withdrawl From Investigation Agreement Is Political, Made Under Pressure From Police Union Embattled District Attorney Chesa Boudin continues to push back against his critics and those who want him recalled in an election this spring, and this week he's having to engage in a war of words with the police chief.
SF News Alleged Police Beating Victim Poised for $700K Settlement, Judge Not Buying Cop’s Claim That Boudin Buried Evidence While the city is ready to settle an alleged police brutality claim for $700K, the officer asking a judge to toss his assault case had a bad day in court Thursday.
SF News Violent Crime Rose In SF In 2021, But Burglaries Declined From 2020 San Francisco Mayor London Breed and SFPD Chief Bill Scott gave a joint press conference Wednesday to discuss 2021 crime statistics in the city, and while violent crime is up from 2020, other types of crime decreased.
SF Politics Cop Claims Boudin Withheld Evidence in Fisherman’s Wharf Beating Case, Asks Judge to Dismiss Case The ongoing acrimony between the SFPD and Chesa Boudin is escalating still with an officer facing assault charges saying that the DA’s office lied about and allegedly buried additional evidence that would justify his use of force.
SF News Man Fatally Shot By SFPD at SFO Last Week Has Been Identified, Was Possibly Homeless The man shot and killed by SFPD officers at SFO's International Terminal last Thursday morning has been identified.
SF News 14-Mission Driver Badly Beaten, Eyewitnesses Say Police Let the Attacker Get Away Passengers describe the Muni driver as being dragged on the street and bloodied in the attack, and say police showed little interest in the suspect before merely moving on.
