SF News Tourists' Car Broken Into at Palace of Fine Arts Just as SFPD Holds News Conference On Break-Ins Nearby SF officials held a press conference Thursday morning to discuss a long overdue crackdown on the epidemic of car break-ins in the city. And just as they were about to kick it off, a break-in was occurring a short distance away.
SF News SFPD Investigating After Fatal Shooting Near Mission Soccer Field Friday Officers located the gunshot victim on the 2400 block of Harrison Street, near John O’Connell Tech soccer field, around 3 p.m. Friday, but the victim soon died from injuries. No arrests have been made.
SF News Video Captures Thieves On Bipping Spree Near Fisherman's Wharf Word apparently really hasn't spread, at this late date, about not leaving anything in a parked car in San Francisco. Just watch as a couple of suspects work their way down several blocks in Fisherman's Wharf, finding car after car with stuff to grab inside.
SF News SF Police, Sheriffs Making Bank On Overtime, Some With Take-Home Pay Exceeding $500K The annual salary report on how much money each San Francisco public employee makes has just been released, and SF police and sheriff’s office employees are pulling hundreds of thousands of dollars in overtime pay.
SF News SFPD Arrests Tenderloin Dealer, Seizes Five Pounds of Narcotics and a Ghost Gun As part of the ongoing crackdown on drug sales and use in San Francisco's Tenderloin, an Oakland man was arrested this week and his home was searched, leading to a significant seizure of illegal drugs.
SF News SFPD Scandal Could Cause 132 Drug Cases to be Tossed, Suspect With 11 Pounds of Fentanyl Off the Hook Drug suspects in a stunning 82 SF cases have already received “Get out of jail free” cards courtesy an SFPD officer accused of having an inappropriate relationship with an informant, including one suspect busted with 11 pounds of fentanyl, and more may yet walk.
SF News Video Surfaces of Wednesday's Police Shooting in Bayview, Victim Identified Graphic video of SFPD shooting a man in Bayview Wednesday afternoon has been posted to social media, and it does appear the victim was pointing a gun at officers. He’s since been identified as a 41-year-old San Francisco man.
SF News Twitter's Name Change to 'X' Gets Botched at SF Headquarters, Which Now Has a Sign That Says 'Er' When Elon Musk announced Twitter's name change to "X" Sunday and tried to remove the "@twitter" sign at its Market Street headquarters Monday, he got caught in a classic SF permitting snafu and cops halted work mid-removal.
SF News Parents Fume That Their Kids Were Injured In Dolores Hill Bomb Arrests as SFPD Defends Harsh Tactics The controversial mass-arrest of 81 minors (and 32 adults) at the year's unsanctioned Dolores Park Hill Bomb has some parents alleging brutal treatment of teens, but SFPD and Mayor Breed are doubling down on the need for that heavy response.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Protesters Gather at SFPD's Mission Station Over Hill Bomb Arrests BART was having major issues on its Green Line Monday morning; dozens of protesters marched on SFPD's Mission Station over the police response to Saturday's Dolores Hill Bomb skateboarding event; and the Ruby Princess finally set sail for Alaska with 600 fewer passengers.
SF News Mission District Fireworks Mayhem Leads To Late-Night Riot-Gear Police Skirmish The predictable onslaught of illegal Mission District July 4 fireworks displays turned into a hour-long melee between police and various skateboarders and sideshow aficionados, though the scene did not get as violent as last year’s Independence Day hullabaloo.
SF News SFPD Officer Involved In 'Large-Scale' Busts of Drug Dealers Faces Discipline, Multiple Cases Likely to Be Dropped An SFPD officer is facing internal disciplinary proceedings and has been put on desk duty after it was discovered that she may have had an inappropriate relationship with a confidential informant.
SF News After Two High-Profile Crashes, SF Police Commission Wants Review of Vehicle Pursuit Policy An innocent bystander was killed in a late May SFPD car chase crash, and a child was nearly struck by an SFPD SUV in last week’s Lucca Ravioli crash, so the SF Police Commission thinks it’s high time to review the department’s pursuit policy.
SF News During Police Chase, SFPD Vehicle Crashes Through Storefront of Former Lucca Ravioli in Mission, Injuring Two An SFPD SUV careened into a storefront on Valencia Street in the Mission District Wednesday evening, reportedly as it was in pursuit of another vehicle suspected to be linked to a violent crime.
SF News SFPD Fatally Shoots Man In Richmond District Home Suspected of Killing His Elderly Mother and a Dog San Francisco police officers were called to a home in the Richmond District early Thursday on a report of an aggravated assault in progress, and things soon turned deadly.
SF News SFPD Says 95% of Their Drug Arrests Under Current Crackdown Are People From Out of Town The new SF drug dealing and use crackdown has now yielded 45 arrests according to data presented by SFPD, and of those, police say only three of them live in San Francisco.
SF News SFPD Finds Large Haul of Guns and Drugs While Arresting Suspected Illegal Gun Suppliers In North Beach An SF man was arrested for firing shots at police on two occasions in January, and the ongoing investigation led SFPD to the North Beach home of an alleged gun supplier, and boy did they find guns and drugs while searching his residence.
SF Politics New Multi-Agency 'Command Center' to Open Near UN Plaza to Disrupt Drug-Selling The SF Department of Emergency Management and the Mayor's Office announced Friday that they would be opening a new join "command center" on Market Street near Civic Center, in order to coordinate with the SFPD and public health department to try to shut down open-air drug markets.
SF News Allegedly Armed Suspect Shot By SFPD Officer After Hours-Long Standoff in Glen Park Neighborhood Friday Afternoon Police responded to reports of an armed individual apparently entering the building at 145 Bosworth Street with an open container of alcohol and a handgun and threatening people inside around 2:30 p.m. Friday.
SF Politics SF DA Drops Charges Against Officer In Jamaica Hampton Shooting, Says Grand Jury Was Shown Biased Evidence A 2020 indictment by a grand jury in the December 2019 officer-involved shooting of then-25-year-old Jamaica Hampton was the result of political motivation from former DA Chesa Boudin, and a grand jury that was shown incomplete evidence, says SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.
SF News More Retired SFPD Officers Being Deployed as 'Ambassadors' In a Half Dozen SF Neighborhoods The SFPD's Community Ambassador Program, in which retired, civilian officers are deployed to do foot patrols and deter crime, is expanding by 50 percent, as Mayor London Breed and SFPD Chief Bill Scott announced Friday.
SF News Supervisors Give SFPD Significant Pay Raise, Starting Salary Now $103,000 The SF Board of Supervisors approved a nearly 11% salary increase for SFPD officers over the next three years, which will hopefully do something to encourage new officers to join the department, and encourage existing officers to solve more crimes.
SF Politics SFPD Gets Their $25 Million More In Overtime Approved, Money They’ve Apparently Already Been Dipping Into It’s a good thing the SFPD got their $25 million more in overtime approved by the Board of Supervisors Tuesday, because it seems they had already started spending plenty of that over-budget overtime money.
SF News Fender-Bender On Mission District Alley Leads to Man Being Shot Two cars collided Sunday evening in SF's Mission District, and in an apparent act of road rage, one driver shot the other driver before fleeing the scene.
SF Politics SF DA Brooke Jenkins Has Cut Staff Level of Unit That Investigates Police By More Than Half In further evidence that DA Jenkins may not be as aggressive in her pursuit of police accountability as her predecessors, the Chronicle has found that Jenkins has less than half the number of attorneys and fewer investigators working in the unit responsible for investigating police abuses.
