SF News San Francisco Saw Two Separate Homicides Within 12 Hours Last Night Just before 10 p.m. Monday night, a man was found stabbed to death near 16th and Capp Streets in the Mission. Barely 12 hours later, on Tuesday morning a man was found
SF News Farewell, Captain Corrales: SFPD's Colorful Weed Busting Cop Retires Well, it's over, guys. Captain Greg Corrales, the SFPD stalwart known for his colorful turns of phrase and his obsession with pot busts, has left the building. Corrales, who retired from the force
SF News Sidewalk Cyclist Busted With A Backpack Full Of Meth Early Tuesday morning two cops working the Mission Street beat just south of Cesar Chavez stopped a man for riding his bicycle on the sidewalk. Knowing he was a scofflaw, the man immediately
SF News Ambulance For Toddler Killed By Toppling Statue Was Significantly Delayed When a statue in front of a Fisherman's Wharf business toppled onto vacationing toddler Kayson Shelton, SFPD officers and San Francisco firefighters arrived on the scene almost immediately. However, perhaps the most important
SF News Mustang Driver Allegedly Responsible For SF Hit-And-Run Rampage Out On Bail Watch out! The man who allegedly struck (in this order) the Parc 55 hotel, a Muni bus, and two pedestrians before fleeing to his Hayward home is out on bail, and has yet
SF News Hit-And-Run Driver Strikes Pedestrian Near Powell Street BART, Leaves Car Behind Last night around 10:45 p.m. a driver turning left onto Cyril Magnin Street from Eddy Street struck a pedestrian in the crosswalk while SFPD officers who happened to be walking the
SF News Hit-and-Run Driver Arrested After Allegedly Plowing Mustang Into Two Pedestrians, A Muni Bus, And One Hotel A crazed Hayward man took his red Ford Mustang on a quick tour of downtown San Francisco on Sunday evening that involved crashing into the Parc 55 Hotel, plowing into a Muni bus,
SF News SFPD's Most Wanted Bike Thief Caught In The Act, Leaves Behind Hilarious Mugshot The San Francisco Police Department's anti-bike theft unit continued their great work on social media this week. Professional and recidivist bike thief Sean Sixta, wanted by the SFPD since last year, was spotted
SF News Hippie Hill Pot Sting Ends In Buzzkill For SFPD An attempted pot bust on Hippie Hill back in February was snuffed out this week after a jury decided the alleged pot dealer was actually just a chill dude trying to smoke somebody
SF News Serial Panty Pilferer Allowed To Walk Free Despite His Urge For Undergarments Anthony Robinson, the man accused of stealing ladies' underthings from the Union Square Victoria's Secret on no fewer than five separate occasions, has been allowed to walk free on the streets of San
SF News Man Shot At SF Pride Sues For $10 Million Should past violent incidents at events like Halloween, Pink Saturday, and previous SF Pride celebrations have spurred Pride organizers to increase the level of security for their 2013 event? "Absolutely," says the attorney
SF News Are SFPD's Bait Bikes Entrapment? The San Francisco Police Department's bait bike program has been applauded by the local bike community and subsequently profiled by the New York Times (much to the envy of our colleagues in New
SF News Cop Accused Of Domestic Violence Gets Laughably Brief Sentence It's good to know people in powerful places. Take, for example, San Francisco police officer Richard Soares, who received a feather-light sentence after being convicting of charges stemming from an assault on his
SF News SFPD Officer Sued For Spitting On, Nearly Running Over Traffic Cop A 31-year veteran of the San Francisco Police Department is the target of a federal civil rights lawsuit this week. Officer Thomas Lovrin is accused of spitting on and nearly running down Department
SF News [Updated] SWAT Raids San Francisco Hells Angels Outpost, Nabs Suspect In Assault At least one person was arrested during an early morning raid of the San Francisco headquarters of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, SF police say. At 5 AM, SFPD officers served a search
SF News City's New 911 System Is 'A Nightmare,' Say Dispatchers The City of San Francisco's brand-new, multi-million dollar 911 dispatch system is reportedly full of software glitches that have longtime dispatchers worried about the safety of police officers, firefighters and regular citizens who
SF News Loud Noise At SF General Freaks UCSF's Twitter Account Out An erroneous report of gunfire at SF General sent an estimated 100 cops to rushing the hospital, in an panic that a spokesperson has described as "a false alarm in the Internet age.
SF News 4/20 Cleanup Costs Were Incredibly High This Year Due to extra police staffing, Muni re-routing, and trash cleanup, the cost of cleaning up after the annual April 20th smoke-out/celebration in Golden Gate Park soared to over $100,000 this year.
SF News San Francisco's Murder Rate Is Way Down, Says Chief Suhr According to SFPD chief Greg Suhr, the city's murder rate has been way, way down for the first part of 2014. To date, San Francisco has seen only four homicides. "This could very
SF News Food Not Bombs Marchers Arrested At S.F. May Day Rally Thursday's May Day rally in San Francisco overlapped with Food Not Bombs' weekly food share at 16th and Mission, resulting in the arrests of both marchers and FNB workers. Police even allegedly flipped
SF News Evil Elmo Returns With Anti-Semitic Rant On Muni Fisherman's Wharf fixture Dan Sandler, a.k.a. Evil Elmo, is back! He's making headlines again just six weeks after a pair of Chronicle pieces in which we learned of a recent scuffle
SF News Bait Bikes Ready To Nab S.F. Bike Thieves A heads-up to all active and would-be bike thieves: SFPD will plant the city with bait bikes ready to tempt scheming ne'er-do-wells. "We have bait bikes deployed all over the city. Our bikes
SF News Park Station Police Captain Greg Corrales Still Very Anti-Weed While simultaneously touting the impending crackdown by city leaders on this year's 4/20 craziness, Park Station police captain Greg Corrales included in his typically amusing Park Station Newsletter this week an Associated
SF News It's Just A Drill: BART Conducting Security Exercises Friday If you see cops, TSA agents, and other law enforcement officers scrambling during your morning commute Friday, don't worry, it's (probably) not a disaster. According to BART spokesperson Luna Salaver, on Friday morning,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Egg Sale At Allegedly Vermin Infested Walgreens Prompts Riot Not since the blessing scam tote bag riot of 2013 has San Francisco's Chinatown seen such a melee! According to the SF Examiner, the Walgreens at Stockton near Vallejo was the scene of
